Fishing

Typical of a clear day in the BWC

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I love to fish. Every other year I try to take a week-long trip to the Boundry Waters. Most years I'm able to get a few folk to come along, but once I took a one-week solo trip. Maybe some day I'll post my trip journals of these trips.

Don't hold your breath.

I also fish in various places around home. I've got a canoe and a kayak. I don't use the kayak much anymore now that my son's too big to sit in my lap without putting my legs to sleep. Ever try to exit a kayak with both legs COMPLETELY numb? I'm sure it was hilarious to others who have seen my do it.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ~Henry David Thoreau

Boundry Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

For my BWCA trips I use Canoe Country Outfitters.

From the stream to the grill

it doesn't get fresher than this!

The boundary water area allows one to get as completely away from civilization as one can get unless they go to the desert. But in the desert you won't see beaver, moose, and bear. Accidents happen in the wilderness. Two trips ago we found the remains of an aluminum canoe that evidently capsized and was ripped in two by the current in a river between lakes. One end made a great chimney flue and heat reflector.

Boundry Water Area Map

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This is not me. I rarely fish for catfish. But THIS I would fish for.

Profanity Alert! LOTS of profanity!

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Here is a clip from a YouTube playlist of 30 short Bill Dance Blooper Clips. If you like it click the link below to see the other ones. This first one is a shortened compilation of several longer ones elsewhere in the playlist and some of them will have you rolling on the floor! Just skip the couple clips that get repeated within the playlist.

Among other things Bill dances with snakes, hooks himself in the hand, foot, nose, groin. He falls into the water several times. His cameraman (with $2000 camera) goes into the drink a couple times. Multiple boat launching incedents - including launching the boat AND trailer. Another time he gets knocked silly with a camera boom. He breaks rods in ceiling fans, truck tailgates and trolling motor props. Trolling motor have their own problems. Check it out!

(Before clicking on any of the videos you might want to scroll back up to the music playlist shut off the fishing tunes.)

Click here to see the whole playlist!

Fishing for smallmouth bass has a lot of similarities to other types of fishing you can do in the boundary waters. And as this fishing video from Field and Stream shows, when fishing for smallmouth, you can catch just about anything.

Here's some incredible footage of bass up close. At about 2:47 the guy drops a crawfish. They ignore it - till it moves!

Fish ON!

Here's the downside to fly fishing. On the other

hand ,as a piercing, this is COOL! Click for details.

This video predates ESPN and the Outdoor Channel by a few decades, I'd say.

I KNOW dolphins aren't fish, but they EAT FISH. Here's the opening musical selection of the movie version of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galazy.