Dan, Darrin finally found a good spot. They did really well wednesday night with Mel catching fish all day thursday.
Jake and Laken fished in our utah house not 30 yards away and caught one big walleye and a little scuffit. Jake is obsessed with the elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappie and landed on the mother load, catching 26 during the day using the cheating live scope. He did only keep 4 for a family meal. He did not want to go home.
We moved utah for spence and his buddy and I will be checking on them in a bit.
with everyone staying down at the lake keeping track of names is almost impossible. I know that none have been skunked with some doing better then others.
We still have some lodging on shore for this weekend. Our two biggest house the new ice castle Texas and North Dakota.
I did travel on the lake again yesterday with dan. We toured around so I could get a lay of the lake. Alot of portables out there for sure Dan and Darin shuttled a couple of our guest out the last two days, one couple staying somewhere else had trouble getting the outfit to come get them. After calling 5 times they gave up and started walking when another fishermen gave them a ride in. Let’s just say we have a new customer, and these people were not happy.
Darrinn had to take his cousin home but plans on coming back to celebrate new year’s here on the shores of upper red lake.
My back has gotten to the point where some kind of surgery could be in the near future as being on my feet more then 15 minutes create extreme pain that causes me to have to sit down to get the pressure off my back.
With mother nature slowly starting to add a little ice we might start seeing 13 possibly 14 by the tenth of January.
we have been finding 11 inches almost everywhere. There have been some of the potholes that froze around 8 or 9. There was also a healed crack less than a foot wide that was 3 inches.
You want to go over them at a 90-degree angle. I have not been down to the lake this morning to see what kind of room we have left. we may be able to start parking a few on the ice edge just over the sandbars. There is a chance that utah will be open tonight and tomorrow on the lake in a fishy area. Having a side by side or wheeler would be a plus to get to the house. A ride could possibly be arranged.
Jonny boy finally got to come home from working out of town. Its driving him crazy not being here. He should at least get his fishing fix the next few days.
I sure would like to go over the lake in a airplane to get a better prospective of the crack and how its shaped and moving around. It will be a while before we start seeing vehicles’ om the lake as once you open that fishermen think they can go anywhere. If you try and tell them where not to go it’s like it goes right out their ears as they are so excited to be here.
Everyone have a happy new year I believe we will on a grand lake that owes us nothing but just keeps on giving..