Fishing Notes 2017

• Moni bought a house
• the year of the uprooted trees
• the year of talk of Nicole and religion and anus love
• the year Savannah became an intern at Paramount
• the year Shannon needed permission to see her family at Big Bear and she said Moni's kids and mom couldn't come - Honor Thy Mother and Father
• a mostly rainy week
• no Dish TV - no Fox News
• the raft was floating around
• we didn't go to Record Lake
• the Octagon house was for sale
• Tommy caught a 25 inch walleye, an 18 1/2 inch small mouth bass
• I caught a 32 inch Musky and a 12 inch crappie
• I was too tired to fish much by the end of the week; only caught 22 fish
• lures that worked for me were the Mepps #4 and the Rapala jointed shad craw
• Adam had good luck with a white square bill
• Tommy had good luck with a Rapala Rattlin' Rap that was red with a yellow belly
• no boat problems
• use less than a tank of gas
• need rod protectors to keep rods from tangling
• need #4 Mepps and small tail dancers
• Wilderness Bay opened by a couple from Iowa
• need a different brand of 6# test, no #8
• two hats and a cooler were floating in the lake
• the largest fish, maybe 60 inches, musky or lake trout, came up on my Spro Little John lure
• Sat rain - no fish
• Sun rain
• Mon rain
• Tues rain, wind, cold 40's
• Wed sunny, windy
• Thurs partly cloudy
• Fri sunny, hot 80's
• Sat rain coming, didn't fish
• need snack bars for boat
• two meals a day
• need Pringles; more orange zero water
• no more ham
• no bacon with meatloaf
• set the hook - lost two or three fish
• lost lures, line broke, snags, line fouled
• after lure lands, lift rod to take up slack and prevent lure from fouling
• lure in tree by dock, difficult to retrieve because I'm old, overweight and out of shape
• bring street shoes for cabin
• lures that work for Tommy I don't seem to have: bleeding hot olive, tail dancer, shallow rap perch, rattlin' rap
• chair on perch saved my back
• need hand towels
• only need two or three rods in boat
• Jack's pizza excellent
• saw stars and satellite
• rids chewy
• Wed/Thurs caught nothing after breakfast
• license went from $68 to $76
• cab $80, Uber $28
• no coffee mug
• the sunkin island on thousand Island Lake was productive; I should try a Mepps #4 there
• need a pizza cutter
• tommy's leg slipped off the trailer hitch, scrapped the side, and his feet went into the water. He said iy hurts like hell.
• use only three rods in boat; don't need to buy any more