Just like that its thursday.
Monday Fred and melissa packed up. They had action all 3 nights. I headed out later in the day to clean houses. Old minnesota was my first house. I decided since there were minnows in there, I should drop a rattle wheel line down. There must have been a pike resting under the house. The next thing you know I’m battling a pike hand over hand. After the third time she made a run taking all the line. I decided to quickly strip the line off another rattle wheel and tie that line on. The forth time I got to see her before she took another run. She peeled out the line again this time taking some of the extra line I had just tied on. I then laid the line down to get the gaff. No go the gaff was missing. I jumped into the car and drove over to north dakota to borrow the gaff in there. Arriving back to the shack I again started pulling her in. After one more short run I got here. I expected the state record? Nope just a nice 38 39 inch pike. Snapped two quick pic and released her to fight another day. Yesterday when we moved the house there was the missing gaff under the house.
Glen arrived Sunday afternoon with Margreet. They fished in montana and took home 5 walleyes monday morning. Bingo fished the same house after glen left. He landed his 4 before dark and headed home. Perfect with the snow and wind coming we would have no one on the lake for the next 3 nights. First time since the house hit the lake.
Jonny boy was putting new shocks on rusty trusty and giving her a oil change, The rear shocks looked quite rusty so jonny boy decided we should leave that can of worms alone for now.
We also got blue thunder oil changed.
Tuesday the winds were howling out there. I was so thankful we did not have to go out there.
Yesterday we paid for the day off as all the roads going north were completely blown in, with the drifts rock hard.
New roads had to be made to even get to the houses. Old minnesota was the worst of the bunch as there was only one way to even get to her. Alot of hand shoveling, ice chisel chipping followed by a repair on the runner we were able to pull her out of the hole she was sitting in from all the weight of the drifted snow. If the heat would not have been on she might have been frozen in.
Darrin also arrived to drop off another 3-person house. We now have two houses open for the remaining weekends.
I nick named the first one Alabama. I have not even had time to really look over the second house.
Today we will be setting up north dakota and Alaska for guest. Then get all the other houses ready for tomorrow.
I got bad news on my generator. They said I need to send it too dewalt, I bragged about how nice they were, I even purchased a third one this year.
We had to replace a broken cable on utah.
Darrin spent the night in Alabama last night, they had 3 crappie and one smaller walleye last night when I talked to them.
Mother nature decided she is not done. Waking up to minus 31 this morning. We will have another somewhat brutal day on the lake. It’s still amazes me you can work up a sweat when its that cold out there.
Gotta go someones regulator quit so I need to see if we can help him.