Double Dippin'

Date: May 25, 2008
Location: Great Lawn
Air temp: 70s
Water temp: ?
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 0

Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QuickDraw
Timbo

well as we were heading out the radio was blaring about the storm of the century. the skies were stirring up a big ol' mess of shit stew. we were trying to figure out when we would be hit, how much time we'd have on the river before things got messy. our best guess was an hour and a half.

as we pulled up to the great lawn there were 3 cars there. we headed up river in search of uninhabited water, as we got up around the first bend and got ready to cross the river, the skies opened up on us and started raining. yay, "I guess we're fishing here". Which really wasn't a bad spot except for the fact that we were sandwiched between 2 anglers that probably weren't happy with us for fishing there, but oh frickin well.

we fished for a while and tim caught a decent brown who was really colorful, with bright red spots and a red belly, sweet fish. The weather wouldn't stop acting weird and I was really paranoid so we called it a day early.

Date: May 24, 2008
Location: Cannon
Air temp: 70s
Water temp: ?
Hatches: worms and leeches
Fish landed: 3 Walleye
2 Smallmouth Bass
2 White Bass
2 Freshwater Drum
1 Sauger
1 Goldeye

Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QuickDraw
Marker(non F.A.G.)

This was my first Excursion to the Cannon, It was a pretty interesting day, just fun to get out on a float trip, we were do float about 5-6 miles. We were quickly fishing and although the first spot was fruitless, we were fishing and the day was young.

we soon moved down river to the next spot, we were fishing off an island which was pretty cool, and I saw a ton of big suckers, we tried to catch the suckers but they didn't seem to be interested, we moved down river again, the third spot was kinda interesting, we were soon catching walleyes just a foot or two off shore. it was a fun spot, caught the majority of my fish here. We were having lunch in this spot when a canoe rolled by and it was my good friend Patrick, WTF? what a weird coincidence. cool nonetheless. also some girls asked us to "show us your tits" which was funny, as me and mark were just discussing the finer points of this phrase. another coincidence.

we moved down river and caught some more fish and also caught a goldeye, which was the first time I've ever seen or heard of this fish which was really cool, caught my first silver bass and first goldeye on this trip. on the way home we stopped off at the creamery and had some $1 shakes(use to be $.50 shakes, damn arabs and their oil).