Summertime, and the fishing is easy. Michael and I ventured out on an afternoon when Irene had other places to be, freeing us from dinner prep obligations. (Not that I didn’t make dinner, but we did eat after 7 pm and it did involve a slook of green beans. It’s what goes from garden to plate these days!)

New dock at the public landing at our favorite lake.

This is an afternoon lake, so we didn’t get on the water until about 2 pm. We were off by 5, and caught 44 fish. It was a good day.

We had an osprey buzz us a few times, and then saw a bald eagle swoop over and land in a tree. He’s the smaller of these two birds. We think the larger bird was a golden eagle. If so, he was well outside his usual territory.

Our luck catching fish meant we had fish to clean the next morning. Our chickens love the fish livers.

Ten meals ready to be bagged and frozen.

The eleventh meal we had immediately! My beer batter has been improved with the addition of Wimbi (millet) flour…a delicacy we find in the Cities.

Having a freezer full of fish allows us to explore some lakes we haven’t fished yet.

We did find a lake full of yellow bullheads. We caught a fish nearly every time we cast, but they were all 5-6”…not worth cleaning so they went back to grow some more.

We would like to find a lake with eelpout, a type of freshwater cod.