First Walleye

[powderburn]

It's been an extremely busy summer at work so far and one of my boys said he'd like to go fishing at the river bottom in town about a 5 minute drive from the house. Well with a niece getting married, a family reunion and a sick mother-inlaw there hasn't been much free time. I told him to load the rods and a few lures and we'd go for an hour or so. His first cast he gets hung up in some weeds. I'm still not finished setting up so I proceed to pull it out for him. I take a couple minutes to work it free and hand him the rod back and tell him to crank a little faster to keep it off the bottom. He makes about 3 cranks and the rod tip hits the water and after a few minutes he's got his first walleye. We no sooner land and release his walleye and we spot 2 cow moose crossing the river down aways from us. Turned out to be a pretty good time with 6 walleye caught and released.

 

[mtmiller]

Wow, sweet fish, tremendous creek-crossers and an amazing sunset shot.

Life looks pretty good up there.

 

[Oak]

That's a great sunset shot. Nice walleye, too.

 

[cornfed]

nice pictures and some nice walleye to.Got me hungry for some fish,I better get done putting the new floor in the kitchen so I can cook some up.

 

[TheTone]

Good looking fish. I finally ate a walleye for the first time this summer and was so impressed that I'm hoping to make a trip next year to catch some of my own. They are some of the best tasting fish I've ever had.

 

[JohnSWA]

Great pics and thanks for keeping the boy intereseted in the outdoors!
Attaboy, Dad!

 

[GFHunter]

Nice Walleye, I am jealous. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[powderburn]

Second day of our long week-end up here and we tackled the river again. This time we lost all but one before we could land them. I managed to land 1 Goldeye and the boys lost about a dozen mixed bag of Goldeye and Walleye. Another great end to the day. I am truly blessed to have 4 kids that would rather spend a couple days off with the old man than hang at 7/11 raising crap.

 

[Nut]

Looks like a grand time had by all



errr....the walleye would have hit my frying pan

Unless there was a slot limit

 

[Hiker]

Great Photos! Thanks

 

[Bambistew]

Who releases walleyes... they'd have been released right to the ice in my cooler! Man I love to eath those things.

Powderburn... you call those goldeneyes? I coudn't remember what they were called. I remember when I was little we went and visited my grandpa in BC and we boated a pile of those suckers.... I mean one right after another they were sure fun. I think I was probalby 10-12. That was a fun trip. I miss going to the Great White North!!!

 

[Wyodeerhunter]

sweet pics powderburn.... keep 'em coming