Good morning Looney Toons.
Grab a Pop-Tart and a Hug Jug of sugar water and get ready for the show!

You better grab a blanket too since it's only 41° outside and foggy. We may see 61° later today if we're lucky. Speaking of luck, it looks like the rain will be back with us by noon through the rest of the weekend.

I'll run to the local greenhouse and pick up some flowers for Mom and the Wifey this morning and then try to stay out of trouble for the rest of the day. Wish me luck with that one!

*****

A fisherman began to drill a hole in the ice to fish when a voice called out, "You can't fish there."

He moved the drill a few feet and began to drill again and the voice repeated, "You can't fish there either."

After three more attempts he yelled, "Why can't I fish here?"

"You can't fish anywhere here, this is an ice rink."

**Bonus groan...**

Giant Pronouns

What are a giant's pronouns?

Fe/Fi/Fo/Fum


Have a great day kids! 🤪

Different captains today, but same locations with the exception of a couple of different spots. The whole bait operation went much more smoothly and fast today, but I timed the actual trip to the fishing grounds - 1 1/2 hours. But you can’t go wrong fishing sea mounts, it’s a natural fish attraction, so if they’re there and biting……..

Like yesterday the first rod down and we’re bit, only difference is we all reeled in because what bit was a blue marlin. To make a long story short, 45 minutes later and the 100”, 100lb. Marlin was in the boat. The captain (different one than yesterday) handled the boat very well, kept up with the fish as it ran and wore the fish down while Joe kept the line tight and gained line when he could. He was wiped afterwards……

That was the only keeper our boat landed, had numerous hits but all came unbuttoned or cut the line. I did manage to pull a 6-7’ gray shark up to the boat that we cut loose and the other boat landed 3 nice yellow tail, also with missed opportunities. All in all an exciting day. We did take some of the yellow tail and marlin back to the hotel restaurant and had them prepare dinner for us- yellow tail sashimi and ceviche with grilled marlin steaks. Fantastic meal……………….

Looking forward to the rest of the week!

Hello stagers! Spring has arrived in Northern Michigan.. was a beautiful day yesterday without hurricane force winds we have had of late.. chores be damned!
Prepped my rods and picked a lake and went fishing!
Took me a few hrs to locate them, but finally found them! Tried a few known locations and caught a dink on a crankbait.. went exploring and found a bunch of Smallies that wanted to play…caught them all on a Zoom superfluke, cream and chartreuse color.. I missed several, could not get a hook in them.. so I downsized hook and game on. Ended up with 9-10 caught and released, biggest just a tad over 4lbs…nothing like smallies!

Well it’s been springtime in Montana, which is just an extension of winter, lol. Example, last 48 hrs winds been blowing steady 20-25, with gusts 50-70 in some parts of the state, then this morning woke up with 2-3 inches covering the ground and mountains with much more.
Anyway I found a day last week with relatively little wind and high of 60, and finally got the boat out. I trolled up and down the river with bottom bouncers and crankbaits, and threw crankbaits and jigs to no avail. I finally got a bite but it just stole the night crawler. This kept me out there for at least another hour.
Eventually I relented to that ‘smell’ in the boat.
Well as I got closer to the ramp I see three guys that pulled up in there boat and with fly rods started fishing from the docks. They were just killing the rainbows that were stacked up in spawn mode. I got in there and docked my boat, and those guys were really nice and shared with me what they were biting on.
After getting my boat out of the water, I said to myself that I got skunked in the boat but darned if I’m getting skunked for the day! Of course I didn’t have my fly rod with me, nor any flies. The guys said the trout were eating small black leeches or woolly buggers. So I matched the hatch with what I had with me and tied on a little black maribou jig. Walked down to the docks and first cast, bam a nice fat 20” probably 3 lb rainbow.
I don’t know if the smell is out of the boat, but I sure got it off my clothes!