Archive for July, 2006

The summer swimming hole

July 16, 2006

When the temperature reaches 94 degrees in Baudette the boat landing becomes a popular spot to take a swim. The temperature has exceeded 90 degrees for the past few days; that’s warm for Lake of the Woods.

On Saturday morning, Mike called and an hour later we were on our way to spend a day on the lake. We put his boat in at the Zipple Bay Park and went out three or four miles to get to the 32-33 foot depth of water. One successful method of late has been to anchor up or drift in that deep water. We didn’t have to anchor because there was hardly a breath of air. It was a good thing his boat had a top so that we could get out of the sun. We drifted around for quite a while using leeches and crawlers and caught two walleyes; one was 26″, the other about 12″. We released them both. We then set up the down riggers and pulled some crank baits. The action wasn’t fast, but we did catch about a dozen walleyes and sauger. We kept seven walleye and three sauger and released a 25″ walleye and a couple of little ones. It was a good day on the lake.


The boat landing becomes the swimming hole


A hot summer day 26″ walleye

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Senior Boating and Fishing

July 12, 2006

A Senior Boating and Fishing Program is being organized in Baudette to provide boating and fishing opportunities to Lake of the Woods County seniors age 55 and over. The program will operate two or three days a week during the summer and fall boating season. The program will be offered at no charge to the seniors. Our goal is to purchase a ADA accessible pontoon boat, motor and trailer and be operational by June 1, 2007. We are very optimistic that we can reach our goal as we have already raised over $10,000. Until we can purchase our own boat we have been given the use of a private pontoon. On Tuesday evening, Mike Larson and I took a group of senior ladies for a three hour ride from Baudette to Wheeler’s Point and back to Baudette. From all indications they really enjoyed the ride.


Seniors enjoying an evening ride


Sunset on the Rainy River

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The Wrong Bait??

July 9, 2006

Our former neighbor, Betty, had her family home for the July 4th, Baudette Centennial celebration. Her son-in-law, John, and I went to the Lake for a while on Friday. We have had a lot of windy days lately and Friday was no exception; strong and gusty out of the southwest. About the only thing we could do was drift fish. There were a few fish being caught in the 17-18 ft. of water, but we couldn’t get them to bite. I don’t think that we had the right bait for the day. We had crawlers and leeches along, but I think we should have had minnows. There were two young boys that were doing well and I found out later that they were using minnows. We ended up with two fish to bring home and John caught them both.


John with a nice walleye

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Knee high by the 4th

July 5, 2006

The garden is a little early this year and doing quite well. We could use a little rain, but folks learned long ago that you don’t pray for rain up here because you’ll get more than you ask for. A good measurement of how the corn is doing is to have it knee high by the 4th of July. Grandson, Scott, is standing by the corn on July 3rd and I’d say we’re are ahead of schedule.


Scott standing by the corn on July 3rd


Grandma’s helper

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Another Great Day

July 1, 2006

Friday afternoon Steve, Scott and I launched the boat at the Wheeler’s Point access about 4:00 p.m. We were back at the dock before 6:30 with a limit of eight nice walleyes between 14″ & 17″. The only thing different from the day before is that the fish were a little deeper. We caught most of the fish in 12-13 ft. of water and used crawlers for bait. It’s good fishing for this time of the year on this end of the lake.


Papa Arvid with Scott & Steve

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