Fishing, Outdoors

Autumn Mississippi River Walleye

For the last decade or so, mid-October has meant heading up to Minneapolis for the annual Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) in Minneapolis. The last couple years, I have traveled up to Minnesota the weekend before the conference, to do some late-autumn fishing with my father-in-law.

Even though JNUC was pushed back to mid-November this year, I still made the trip up north for a couple days of fishing on the Mississippi River…and my son was able to come along as well.

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Fishing, Ice Fishing, Outdoors

First Fish Through The Ice

Yellow Perch Caught Ice Fishing

So I have taken up ice fishing…which I suppose was inevitable. I have gone ice fishing at least a dozen or so times with my father-in-law the past few years, and I caught a few things here and there, but I decided I needed to give it a go myself. Of course, since receiving new ice fishing equipment for Christmas, we’ve had what seems like a string of record warmth…and no ice.

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Fishing, Outdoors

Autumn Fishing on the Mississippi River

Mississippi River Smallmouth, 2.32 lbs.

A couple weekends ago, I headed up to Wabasha, Minnesota, to do some autumn fishing on the Mississippi River with my father-in-law. Before leaving on Saturday morning, I got word from my in-laws it was snowing in Wabasha. Oh, and there were 40+ mph wind gusts. Awesome.

Sunday morning, the weather did an about-face. It was a beautiful, cool, crisp October morning like you’d expect in Minnesota. So we headed out to put the boat in the water, and hopefully catch some dinner.

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Fishing, MINI, Motoring, Outdoors

MINI Kayak Transport

GhostPepper, Kayak Transporter

When motoring and kayak fishing life collide…you turn your MINI Clubman into a kayak hauler.

Hey, sometime you want to fish at 6am, and carve canyons on the way home.