Picture of the Year

Wow!

Jadon swear in

Jadon swore in to the Air Force at the Duluth Air Show.  

Wild Rice Festival

 Fun to see kids being kids

Someone needs a pack of wet wipes

Catching up

Every four days off we've gotten out on the water.  We have spent alot of time on Chase as it is never crowded, a great swimming and snorkeling lake and you can catch endless bass and sunnies there.  We have brought the tube out a couple times as well.  On a 85 degree Saturday in late July we had the lake to ourselves. This I think beats fighting traffic on some of the more popular lakes.   We took a couple trips to Trout lake through the Wabana way.  What a fun trip that is.  Julianne really liked it and so did the kids.  A very popular route however.  Water is some of the clearest around.  Joyce estates is a fun place to spend some time as well.  Kids ran around and explored.  We got to host our nephew Danny.  Fun to see a kid from the driftless area enjoying some of the thousands of lakes his dad grew up on.  Took this kids and mom up the Meche for the first time.  A great trip.  Water still very high. Caught five walleyes (4 under 11" and 1 - 18").  The 18" was one of the tastiest walleyes I've ever eaten.  Took Sunny on the excel boat and she took to the big deck in the front.

Dab Cat

 Dr. Pepper

Yes, those are frog legs

 Mom is a determined fisher person

 Reminding us of Marwin Gonzalez

 Danny Tubing with 65 horse rocket!

 Joyce Estate

 Ultra blue water of Trout lake

 Fishing with Danny boy on Chase

 Big bank bend on the Mech

 You see pics like this and realize how you look as old as you sometimes feel.  This walleye absolutely destroyed a crawler on a spinner on the best spot south of the bridge.  

A proud moment for Shane.  He requested we send this picture to Grandma Lin.

 Danny boy 

Queen Munchie.  Looks like her dad in this picture.

Day on LBC

Farted around on LBC.  Caught lots of perch in 10' of water on south weed line and some gills.  Fun.  Access very nice.  

Good opportunity to fish without a bobber...just a jig and worm and let them feel a bite with the aggressive perch.  

 Shane took this picture of Josie mid-jump.  We swam half the time.  The float pods on back of boat make it easy to get back in.  

Shane geared up.

Day on Chase

Took out kids, picked up mom.  Kids were catching sunnies with the net, up to several at a time.  Just a couple nice gills, but couldn't really find the big ones.  Really nice day.  

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