Go here and read the story of a river guide in Texas using a rattlesnake as bait for bass fishing.

So I think this makes the 16th consecutive year I’ve been to this lake. We’ve dealt with 3 owners and about 10 different arrangements of transportation and management. This year’s adventure included landing a small private plane on this abandoned airstrip so we could get picked up by the float plane. Beavers had apparently decided to build a dam that backed up water on one end of the runway… not good…

Fortunately our two expert pilots managed to make yet another wonderful landing and within a couple of hours we were fishing.

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I ran across this moose swimming the lake I’m currently fishing at in 2006.

I ran across these loons with their baby chick that couldn’t have been more than a few hours old:

The chick was actually hidden in the grass near where we were fishing. We could hear something chirping so we investigated and found him hidden there:

The parents were nervous so we cleared out and let the family reunite and swim off. The Wife wanted to keep him for a pet…

My passport was getting rusty just sitting in my desk drawer since the bear hunt so I’m headed back to Canada again. Today. This time it’s for fishing. The Wife, myself and 14 friends and family take over a small fly-in place every year in early June. This will be about the 15th consecutive year we’ve been to the same place. The lake is in the Poplar river chain to the East of the North part of Lake Winnipeg. No TV, no internet, no news, no guides, no people at all. Just us. It’s wonderful.

I got in this plane about 8:00 am today and if the weather holds I’ll end up in Pine Dock, Manitoba in the early afternoon.

The group will meet up in Pine Dock for dinner. Half will fly in private plane, several will fly commercial, and a few will drive with all the food, supplies and luggage. The next morning we’ll fly a mixture of small planes to a small gravel runway and then onto a float plane. Hopefully we’ll be fishing by 10:00 am Friday.

The goal is these:

And these:

I’ll have a report with plenty of pictures when I get back in the middle of next week, but don’t forget to check back while I’m gone.

I spent all weekend either doing legal work or yard work. No fun at all. Since my POS lawnmower never recovered from it’s inherent POSness I had to run out South to borrow a good mower this afternoon. I did spend about 45 minutes flipping a crankbait while I was there. I caught one bass around 2 pounds and one nice hybrid bluegill. Then it was back to work.