Fishing the Minnesota River...

It was three years ago, after I graduated from high school, I would constantly take trips back and forth from Litchfield to New Ulm. Was a good 120 mile drive for the day, but I had some excellent times down there. My best friend, charlie, used to live there. He and I may seem we wouldn't be good friends, since we have different music interest, and not a whole lot in common. I don't know what it is but he's a good guy, wouldn't know what to do without him. Sitting in front of the campfire having a few barley pop that we'd steal from our parents back in the day..oh it was fun! Would always be Bud Light or Busch Light! Anyway, Sometimes we'd take the fishing poles out and cast away at the river. There wasn't much for variety...just some Gar mostly. Ugly fish! However, this would be the place where I caught my biggest fish.

I was using a cray-fish lure...soemthing that my dad gave to me when I was younger. I never thought lures worked that well catching fish...I did it all the amateur way with the bait. The cray fish lure did the job to get me a 11 lb, bottom feeding, catfish! I took the poor guy home and thought i'd clean it. It's weird cleaning a catfish...you actually peel of the skin and go on from there. Very meaty. Little did I know, like I said, it was a bottom feeder so the nutrients it took in would make the fish taste rotten!

Damn, so I got into the middle of cleaning it, and it just struck me that it was going to taste rancid. I should have took pictures, and I should have perhaps mounted it. Oh well, since I do live in Bemidji, plenty of great spots to catch me a muskie or a walleye to take home. Fishing's fun..haven't gone out since last summer. Was on Lake Plantangenet (??) south of town here and brought home a dozen fish (mixture of walleye and perch.) The ol' place I used to live we took out the boat only a couple times. Never took out a boat before but I did pretty good circling around Lake Irvine and Bemidji, going underneath the Mississippi bridge there. There's a hot spot at the east end I would want to hit. Going to get my fishing gear back before too long, and yes a liscence as well!

Peace

J2K