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.
Read More…My luck fishing the hard water in northeast Illinois this year has been pretty much non-existent. I’ve pulled a few fish through the ice…but nothing bigger than this dinky perch.
That finally changed in Minnesota this weekend.
Read More…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.
Read More…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.
Read More…On Memorial Day, I was able to get my Vibe Sea Ghost out onto the water, and do some fishing for a few hours. The combination of baseball, and the cold, crappy spring weather has meant this is only the second time I’ve been able to get my kayak on the water. The second time must be a charm, because I hooked this lovely 30 inch Northern Pike, for both my first Northern and my first fish from my new kayak.
