Went to Eau Claire with a freind to hear Corky Seigal work with his Chamber Blues Group, as well as with local violinist Randy Sabien.
Patrick is working hard at keeping the nets free from soccer balls. I think he rather enjoys the mosh pit type activities that seem to occur in front of the goal...
From my brother Brian, a dedicated bass fisherman...I'm minding my own business skipping my bass worms under docks and having relatively good success. I skip a worm under a dock but over a set of stabilizing chains, and I'm thinking that's not a big deal, the bass usually have a tendency to jump a bit or at least work their way around objects like that. The line starts moving away from the dock so I make my usual hookset and the business end of my line erupts with an unusually large splash and shows no intention of coming back towards the dock. The trickiest part of landing this monster was handing my rod to myself under the dock to free the line from the chain that it was wrapped around. I proceed to do so and then take the fish for an extended "walk" while trying to figure out what to do with him once he's done walking. A nearby couple comes to my rescue with a borrowed net and we scoop him up and put him in my much too small livewell - he barely fit. At any rate after a run to the other end of the lake for the photo op, I spend the next fifteen minutes reviving him and releasing him.
Pretty cool huh?
The muskie experts at work tell me that it was easily a 45" - 22 to 24 pound fish.
