Arvid’s Fishing Report

The second weekend of deer season has come and gone. I had hunted most mornings and evenings after the first weekend without seeing a deer. Wally and Terry were here for the weekend and both saw deer on Saturday. Then on Sunday afternoon Wally got the deer he’s been waiting for, a beautiful ten-pointer.

While Wally was doing his thing on Sunday afternoon, Terry and I went fishing. We should have stayed hunting, because fishing was not good. We fished the river by the airport. Terry’s only bite produced a 20-1/4″ walleye; I caught two 16″ walleyes and lost a couple others. There were two other boats fishing near us; one didn’t catch a fish, the other only caught a perch. That’s not good for this time of the year.

Wally with his ten-pointer

Terry with a deer season walleye

It was a good weekend for the deer season opener. The weather was great and deer numbers are good. Saturday morning we did a good job towards filling the bonus antlerless tags we have. Terry got two, Wally got two and I got one. Eric didn’t see any and Gerry didn’t hunt that morning, he was holding down the cabin. Sunday, Eric made a great free standing shot on a forkhorn in excess of 250 yards. Terry saw deer, but none he wanted to shoot. Wally and I didn’t see a deer on Sunday. Monday, it was just Wally and I hunting. Wally didn’t see any deer. I saw seven; three had horns, but I wasn’t ready to take another one yet, so I tried taking pictures and that didn’t go very well.

Terry and I didn’t hunt on Saturday afternoon; we went fishing and fishing was a little slow. Terry caught three nice walleyes to keep and I caught a 27-1/2″ walleye. It was a nice fish; no camera, forgot it at the house.

Reports are that the fish bite was really good on Sunday, both on the river and at the Lighthouse and Morris Point Gaps. That seems to be the way it’s been all fall, good one day and not so good the next.

Eric with his Forkhorn

Terry with two nice deer season walleyes