Well, that was f'n fun! We stand around at the landing for about a half hour waiting for a never ending slow moving storm to move through...which it appeared had...and then went fishing at 6:30. Everyone took off, and as soon as everyone got out of sight, storm clouds started re-forming and closing in behind us (insert doomed music here). Jim and I were the first ones to call it quits. We were on the other side of Lower Hay, and all of a sudden realized we couldn't see the side of the lake where the landing was. After a quick lighting bolt that was followed up by thunder which sounded like Gordon Lightfoot singing, we headed in at 8:00. I could make a whole blog post about trying to get the boat on the trailer, but not today. About 40 minutes later, Sam came to his senses and joined us after a brief attempt at re-starting his night from when he cam in earlier, followed by Steve thanking God for bilge pumps and boat lifts in a text he sent me at 8:43. Everyone else found their way back safe and sound by 9:30, and we called it a night. Oh, except for Brent and Derrick who decided to catch two 12 inch bass at the Wharf. Needless to say it was a miserable night of fishing. Mark and Craig even found themselves huddled together in the women's outhouse on Clamshell at one point in the evening, after helping someone with a triple decker cabin cruiser that has no business being on the chain, get their boat on the trailer at the same aforementioned lake. I had assumed they told that fictional story to gloss over the fact they sought shelter in a women's outhouse, but it turned out to be true when said stupid decker cabin cruiser showed up at our landing with a bent axle. You just had to feel for those poor cold and wet bastards huddled in the women's outhouse at that point. For me personally, I'd have to put last Thursday in my top five fishing excursions I wish I had never started, with number one still being the frog box incident of 1964. That should also be a blog post, but maybe later.
Thursday night we posted 69 points and reached the half way point of the season with a total of 694 points. Last year the Whitefish Chain gave up 147 points, and we stood at 651 points half way through last year. Remember, we had 9 boats last year, this year we have 11. As far as individual points go on Thursday, Paul and Simon won the night with 23 points followed by a strong showing from Chris & Riley with 20 after posting a tri-fecta, coupled with bonus points for the biggest walleye and a share of the big pike. The biggest fish of the night was the pike Chris & his wife caught at a whopping 22.5 five inches that they shared with Troy and Ryan.
For the standings click HERE.
For the event detail click HERE.
Next up is Ten Mile on 7/21. Should be fun because most of us have never been on it. I'll see you then.
