Heaven

I had forgotten how much I love fishing.Or maybe it's the outdoors and the serenity of it all. Or how much I enjoy my husband's company. It all came together today on a lake that's name will remain a secret to protect the few who know about it.

We headed out in the morning later than planned due to rain. Purchased our fishing licenses and leeches (my personel favorite for Walleye and they are not as messy as nightcrawlers) and headed for a lake Rob had carefully picked out. We arrived at the lake to see that the posted signs said no Walleyes kept under 28 inches and limit,one. Yeah right. So we went into the DNR office that was right there and visited with the gentleman about where to go. He sent to us over to a lake that the 'locals' frequent.

There was no boat landing so we carried the canoe down to the water and put in. There was a strong breeze and the sky was dark and gloomy but we did not get a drop of rain all day. The temperature was an ideal 72 degrees. We went just a short distance and dropped our lines in. Instantly we started catching fish, primarilly small mouth bass with a few sunfish thrown in. We changed spots about a half a dozen times and had the same experience no matter where we dropped our lines. Since our limit on the Bass was 5 each, we kept exchanging our fish on the stringer for bigger ones. I ran out of leeches so I moved on to Rob's Canadian nightcrawlers. Those were BIG suckers of which we only used one half at a time. While fishing we were entertained by a Loon who kept swimming near our boat and kept singing to us. She acted like she didn't see people very often. We stopped off on a small island and relieved ourselves. There were signs of previous campfires and would have been a perfect spot to spend a night. The wind was just whipping through there and it was a very romantic break in our day. With our butts very sore and bellys growling with hunger we reluctantly left the lake around 4:00. I can't think of how it could have been more perfect.( Except maybe if we had been catching Walleyes, but let's not get greedy)

We ended our day with our bellys full of fried fish and fried potatos and five packages of frozen fish for a later date. Today was a slice of heaven, we were blessed this day.