What a great fun Iowa trip spending the last couple days fishing for big chunky bass with these awesome guys! Biggest was around 21 inches. It was nice to breakaway from the long cold winter and catch some fish. Definitely a memorable trip!

Here is a video compilation of our adventure to Iowa for early season bass fishing this past weekend. Video is a little long but the ending is worth it. Enjoy the journey!

A fun family outing to the Northwest Sportshow this past Saturday! We stopped at the Hi Tempo Snowsports & Watersports booth first checking out the latest Hobie Outback model and catching up with my friends Jay Suhsen and Grant Carston.

Brrr… It’s a cold morning when every few casts the rod guides/eyelets freeze over. Bass were still chomping though. This one on a jig and an Adrenaline Bug!

One word to describe today’s fishing…JIGS!! Except for one lone small bass caught on a spinnerbait earlier in the morning, the bass were stacked up shallow in the trees and deep in the pads. The only thing they seemed to want was a brown flipping jig rigged with an X Zone Lures Adrenaline Bug applied with Baitmate Fish Attractant BiteStick Max. Chilly day but well worth the effort on this fine fall day.

Fishing a small bass lake, this chunky channel cat was a surprise catch! This one slammed a squarebill crank not too far from my canoe.

A bit of an hiatus from fishing but it felt great to be back on the water! The bass bit well all day.

Swapped the canoe out for an outing this evening on my buddy Daniel’s boat. We caught a few bass, all on jigs and a live bait rig in deeper water. Bass were schooled together around 15 feet on the perimeter of a hump. They wanted a jig dropped vertically or live bait dangling on their nose for them to bite. They wouldn’t take any kind of horizontal presentation. Fun evening!

Today I decided to take my lunch hour and headed down to the river behind my building and fished the rocky shoreline. Caught a couple small bass and lost a slab black crappie that was well over a pound when he flipped off a rock and back in the river it went.

A short productive morning turned out to be an expensive outing. Both my GoPro cam and my cousin Binh’s phone are at the bottom of the lake. I was removing the case to wipe off the moisture that built up on the lens and the GoPro slipped off my finger tips and plopped it went in about 15 feet of water. A half hour later my cousin’s phone slipped out of his pocket and down it went. It wasn’t so much losing the old GoPro that hurts, it’s the new catch and release footages I got from today and the past few weeks that bites. Oh well, I’m going to spend some time looking at the new GoPro Hero 6. Anyone have experience or feedback on the new Hero 6?

I took Stacey and Joshua up for the first time to Spring Bay Resort in Cook, Minnesota for our first family outing together on Lake Vermilion from June 23-30, 2018. I had visited there on four previous occasions and always felt at home there. The weather was great for the most part. Sunny and windy the first couple days. We had a couple strong thunderstorms mid-week and towards the end of our stay.

We stayed in the Keenan cabin for the week and the cabin was spacious and nice!

We caught lots of smallmouth bass around the islands and chunk rocks. All of them caught on a 3″ Ned Zone and the Clackin’ Crank. We caught some nice northerns in the Partridge River using big curly tail grubs, crankbaits, and a black Pike Enthraller. In the back of Woody’s Cove I found a few chunky largemouth on topwater frogs, wacky worm, and the old Dance ‘N Eel. The key was to keep moving from spot to spot and planning to catch a couple of fish at a spot.

The highlights of the trip was walking down to Moosebirds for ice cream and playing at the beach. We drove a golf cart for fun around the resort. We visited The Landing for a big bacon cheeseburger on our first night and that was delicious!

Another fun memorable trip in the books! We will be coming back next year.