Hello again from Loon Lake, hope you had a nice weekend.
Saturday I spent setting up our local Trout Unlimited Banquet. The banquet was Saturday night and we had an excellent turnout and time. The numbers are not in as far as how much we raised but I do know we had almost 50 more people this year versus last and they were spending money. If the economy is bad you would not have guessed it by the people who came out to support our banquet or by our sales here at Loon Lake Monday and today. We had a number of our dealers call in their spring orders and in talking with them they seemed excited to be getting ready for the first spring and early summer sales. Guess it goes to show you that you can’t believe all the negative stuff some of the press constantly tries to feed us.
On Sunday I spent much of the day fly fishing for trout with three buddies, while the weather was not the best, cold and windy the fish were biting and we all managed to catch some nice fish and enjoy the day. I even got to fish an unbelievably nice Bamboo rod by a young rod maker named Donahue. A buddy let we give it try it for a few casts and it is an excellent casting bamboo rod. I even managed to catch a nice Brown Trout on the second cast which got me several cat calls from my friends, what are friends for if not to give you a bad time.
Speaking of nature make sure you check out this cool web site, it a live streaming video of a Bald Eagle pair on their nest. The estimated hatch date is April 8th, 2009. The site also has links to other Eagle, Falcon and Osprey cam links. http://www.raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html
As far as the river goes it is now coming up in flow and water temps are dropping with the snow runoff from up north. That has slowed the spring bite down for almost every specie of fish right now, especially Walleyes which had a good bite going for a few days before the water temps dropped. As far as Panfish my sources on the river said last Saturday was real slow with a somewhat better bite on Sunday. Waxies and worms where the bait of choice for Bluegills with very few Crappies and Perch being caught. I was also was told there must be quite a bit of pent up spring fever because there where a lot of people out fishing.
Lastly our hearts and thoughts go out to all the folks in North Dakota and northern Minnesota who are battling the record flood waters in that part of the country. Everyone keep your fingers crossed the dikes hold and life returns to normal as soon as possible. Volunteers have filled and used more than 3 million sand bags so far in just the Fargo-Moorhead area. That is a stifling number to me especially thinking about filling, transporting and placing them on the dikes under terrible freezing outdoor conditions. Then you have to think about once the flood waters recede, where do they go with all of them. At 35 pounds average per bag that is 105 million pounds of sand which will need to be removed from neighborhoods and around homes just in the Fargo-Moorhead area. When you think about the rest of the area the numbers get truly staggering.
That is it for today, make sure you check back again for more updates.
Gary
That is it for today, make sure you check back again for more updates.
Gary
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