It’s a little early for Morel’s, but spring is a little early in Minnesota’s north country. I checked one of my favorite spots and found only one. Another couple of weeks and a warm rain should bring them up.
Lake of the Woods Morel Mushroom
Archive for April, 2006
Morel Season
April 24, 2006It was Gerry’s Day
April 16, 2006With the walleye season now closed for a month, a getting to be popular option is to fish for sturgeon on a catch and release basis. The preferred choice of spots seem to be the deeper channel areas in Four Mile Bay; depths of 20-25 ft. The water clarity has improved considerably and the sturgeon bite has been quite good for the past several days with reports of 10-12 fish per boat for the day being common.
Saturday morning, Gerry and Wally fished for three hours and caught four sturgeon. Gerry caught two; 51 & 53 inches. Wally caught two; neither one big enough to bend the rod. They invited me along to fish the evening and we only caught two sturgeon. Wally caught one about the same size as his morning ones, but Gerry caught one 57 inches that the chart indicates would weigh 45 lbs. I caught a little, I mean small, burbot. Gerry, with three over 50″, definitely had his day.
Gerry with his 57″ Sturgeon
Camping Weather?
April 15, 2006The middle of April is a little early in northern Minnesota to think about camping, but the nice weather we’ve been having gets one in the mood. Our snow is gone; the ice is out of the river and bays and will soon be out of the lake.
April Sunset
Fishing Shutdown
April 4, 2006After about 1″ of rain last Thursday and a rapid snow-melt the river got dirty and the fishing went from pretty good to a complete shut down on Friday. Today there is a lot of ice coming down river and I would guess that is from one of the tributaries up river opening up. With only ten days left until the season closes it’s questionable whether the river will clean up enough for fishing to improve.
Spring Harvest Season
April 4, 2006There is nothing like a meal of fresh parsnips from the garden as soon as you can get a fork in the ground to pry them out. We didn’t seem to have as much frost as normal years so the harvest is a little earlier. It’s a good crop and an eight foot row will give us and some friends a few meals.
Digging Parsnips
Spring Parsnips
