Arvid's Fishing Report

Our deer season wrapped up over the weekend.  Terry got a spike buck on Friday afternoon and Nolan  got a nice 6-pointer on Saturday morning. We are all done and since then, it’s been doing a little fishing and putting “stuff” away before winter arrives this coming weekend.

We did some fishing over the weekend along with a lot of others. The weather was good and so was fishing. It didn’t make much difference whether you fished in twelve or twenty-foot; there was a bite off and on through out the day. There were a lot of one and two-year old walleyes biting so you needed to have plenty of bait. Every now and then a nice slot fish would come along and enough eaters for a big fish fry at the cabin. I’ve said more than once over the past couple of weeks that it “just doesn’t get any better than this”.

Nolan with his six pointer

Terry with a nice slot fish

Jeff with a nice 25″ slot fish

Nice eaters

We have had a really good first weekend to the deer season. The weather has just about been to nice with a high Sunday of 69. Our deer camp has now grown to seven with Wally’s daughter, Aviana, hunting with the group. Aviana got in on her first deer, a nice doe on Saturday morning. A highlight was Sunday morning when Gerry and his grandson, Nolan, each got their buck. There was a friendly wager on who had the largest deer and it wasn’t close; Aviana beat them both. We are four for seven; Nolan got a spike buck during the youth hunt a couple weeks ago. Terry and I hunted the mornings and fished the afternoons. With all the activity on the river, one would think it’s the walleye opener, not deer season. Saturday afternoon, we fished the middle of the river in 19 feet of water. Fishing was steady with numerous little fish. We kept a limit of nice eaters. Sunday was slower with lots of little ones and missed bites, but not much to keep. The weather forecast for this week is good and we are looking forward to doing it again.

Aviana with her first deer

Gerry and Nolan with their bucks

Terry with a November walleye

Diane and I spent most of this week in ND visiting some of her family. We picked up her Mom in Mandan and took her with us to her sister, Karen and brother-in-law, Gordon’s home. Gordon and I spent the most part of the next four days hunting pheasants while the gals worked on some sewing projects. Gordon has hunting access to a number of properties and they all had birds. It was just the two of us hunting and without a dog, it was a little challenging. You hit some, miss some and lost some. It was a great time and wonderful weather for doing a lot of walking and enjoying western ND.

We returned home on Thursday and on Friday, Jeff and I fished the river the last hour or so before dark. I understand that fishing has been a little slow this past week, particularly during the middle of the day. We were satisfied with the action we had. We kept 5 walleyes, 4 saugers and released at least that many little ones.

Gordon with a mornings pheasants 

Grandson, Scott is a freshman on his high school golf team in Phoenix. The golf team is doing quite well and this past weekend they were in a tournament in Flagstaff (they won the tournament). Jodi sent the pictures below and when I first looked at them, I wondered if the two bucks sparing was real. It was!

On Jonathan’s second day here, we looked for a bird in the morning; flushed one and didn’t get a shot. Fished the evening in three different depths of water. Ended up in 15 feet and caught quite a few fish; both walleyes and sauger, keeping three walleye and a sauger. It was great spending a couple days with him.

Grandson Scott with the wildlife nearby

Scott’s Golf Team. He’s second from left