I'm back from Lake Buckatabon

Hey! I'm back from my trip! Had a great time. Of course it's never long enough that you can be gone fishing.

The first half of the week was warm and beautiful. The second half of the week was cold and rainy.We did catch fish every time we went out. But they were on the small side. Caught mostly bass. I think we got one or two snakes.
My mother caught the biggest bass of the week at 17" and 3 lbs! Yay, mommie! My biggest bass of the week was 16" and 1.5lbs. It's interesting the weight difference in only a 1/2" from our two fish.

We talked to a guide in Eagle River later in the week which was about 10 miles from where we were staying. He said the fish are weirded out this week because of the weather they were having. He said that water temps kept going up and down. While we were there a big cold front moved through. I think Wednesday we fished all day in the rain and it was very tough fishing that day.

While we were all out pan fishing, we saw a guy and his son take his boat into the weeds and watched him use his oar to push himself through this channel. So we thought the next day we would check it out ourselves and see where it went.

My step-dad, hubby and I went out and found the channel. We were able to get in a little ways and then it started bending and curving and it was very narrow. We had a 16ft fishing boat. This channel was not more than two feet across. My step-dad was like, no way, get out of here, we ain't never gonna make it. He just had back surgery 7 weeks ago so he couldn't do much to help us through there. I had an oar and my hubby had an oar. I said, just sit down and don't worry about it, we will get through. My hubby looked again and said he could see the other lake.
So we are trying to manuever (sp?) this big fishing boat with 3 people in it through this tiny windy channel. It was very tiring using oars to push off of. We had to use an oar to pick up a log and move it so we could keep going through, we got stuck on the bottom once. My hubby decided to stand up on the deck at one point to help push us through. We were finally about two feet from the opening to get into this hidden lake when my hubby pushed off and fell of the deck and landed in the channel! I turned and looked and he was on his left side with total shock on his face. I was shocked too because I was pushing from the other side of the boat and I turn and see him laying in the lake. He landed on a log. I asked him if he was alright. He said ya. I asked him if I could laugh. He said, you can laugh it was funny and I just busted out, once I knew he was ok. Poor guy!

So it took us like a half an hour or so to get through this and all we kept saying was I hope it was worth it. It was. My hubby threw the first cast since he was in the front of the boat and he caught a huge crappie! But it got off. So we started fishing for bass. My step-dad caught two bass and hubby caught two bass back there. I was using a spinnerbait and caught a nice slab crappie. So they stopped bass fishing and we all crappie fished. We ended up getting like 5 or 6 nice ones. But we had to head back for supper or we would have stayed to catch more.

So that was the big highlight of the trip was going through this channel and having my hubby fall overboard and not getting hurt. No one could believe we made it through there. Good news is, it only took us about 15 minutes to get back out. It took alot of heave-ho to get through there pushing off bottom and the sides of the weeds but we did it! That's what I call being adventurous!

I added several pics on the website www.CustomFishingSkirts.com/fishingpictures.html feel free to check them out!