Mother’s Day hosted our first fishing foray. We had no fish to show. Father’s Day came after a spate of warm weather and our luck improved immensely.

We shared the lake with other fishers.

Loons, osprey, eagles, swans, kingfishers…and us. A friend put us onto this lake, which is closed to any motorized boats. We often are the only humans enjoying this gem.

Black crappie, sunfish, and Northern Pike is what we took home. We caught a few largemouth bass and yellow perch, but too small to keep.

Michael caught more sunnies than I did, but I caught all the pike. The biggest was 23”. I hooked a bigger one, but it bit through my line as I wasn’t using a leader. I hope to share some fishing adventures with my brothers sometime soon.