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[GeoFisher]

Pretty bad Bugs..............

GREAT fishing though.......Here is a video I put together.

[peter]

Great video. Really gives me an idea what you are doing up there and what the boundary waters are like. Thanks for posting it.

[know1]

Great video!

[peter]

[QUOTE=peter;533940]Great video. Really gives me an idea what you are doing up there and what the boundary waters are like. Thanks for posting it.[/QUOT

Forgot to mention that if that is you narrating on the video you do a fine job of it.

[GeoFisher]

[QUOTE=peter;533964]

Great video. Really gives me an idea what you are doing up there and what the boundary waters are like. Thanks for posting it.[/QUOT

Forgot to mention that if that is you narrating on the video you do a fine job of it.

Yea, it is me

[kygorski]

'm surprised all you guys didn't wear the mosquito head covers. Last time I was there, was with the brother in law and our wives. We lasted less than 2 days with the bugs. Enjoy your youth, te memories will last a long time.

[Moveon]

When I graduated from High School my dad and I went on a fishing trip to Eagle Lake Ontario Canada. My Godfather accompanied us with his step son and one of my HS Classmates and his family went along too. We lived for a week or two in a huge log cabin that belonged to a Doctor who was friends with my HS Classmates Dad.

All the way up there we were filled with stories of 20 lb Northern Pike and 12 Lb. Walleyes. So I was more than excited to hit the lake and start fishing.

We took a trip down a River ( their rivers are narrower that our Pigeon Creek) and ended up on some secluded lake where we caught a lot of Walleyes and enjoyed shore lunches of baked fish over a camp fire.

I lost one of my contact lens as it dropped down into the Pine needles. I spent 30 minutes trying to find it but to no avail. I had to wear my eye glass for the rest of the trip which sucked. Back in those days contacts were the hard type and lasted for years with proper care. Mine were tinted brown which helped me find them one time when I lost them in the diving well at Purdue Universities Outdoor Diving Pool. The pool was 15 to 20 ft deep and I spent 45 minutes in that pool after hours using a mask, snorkel and fins to recover the two brown tinted contacts from the bottom of the pool. I could see them as I had a dive mask that had my prescription ground into the glass faceplate. The contacts being brown stood out well on the white painted pool bottom. And they were perfectly round unlike the other debris on the bottom of the pool. So I ended up finding them both and didn't have to buy new contacts that time. I was not so lucky on the Canada Fishing Trip. One other time I was working as a life guard and decided to take out my contacts and go swimming. I liked to use the High Dive and learned years before that my contacts would get knocked out of my eyes if I tried to dive with them still in. So I removed them and put them in a cup of water and put the cup in the medical cabinet inside the life guard and first aid room. Well someone found the cup of water and threw it into the trash can while I was swimming. When I got back I found out that my contacts were both in the trash can. So I dove into the trash and recovered them both after about an hour of digging though all the crap in that trash can. Most of it was just paper waste and there was no garbage in there. Thank God. They were at the bottom of the trash can. The things I do to save my contact lens! I just wish that I could have found the contacts in the pine needles that day.

I still had a great trip and we returned to the same fishing lodge with my Father and my mom for another three whole weeks of fishing on Eagle Lake. I've not been back up there again since. But I did get to take a nice fishing trip up near Eau Claire, Wisconsin with the Current Director of the Indiana DNR Fish and Wildlife Division. Mark invited me and another classmate Mike Fox to go up to his grandparents house for a few days of trout fishing in the cold Wisconsin Streams. Too bad we didn't have "Go Pro" cameras back in 1976. But we did manage to catch a few brown trout in those cold Wisconsin Streams in early May 1976.

Those are the kind of fishing trips that last a life time.

George I love it when you post these fishing stories. You do your best work when fishing man. Thanks for posting the video. And yes you did a great job of narrating the video.

I just recently purchased my first Notebook Computer and finally undated my software to Adobe PhotoShop Elements 12 and Adobe PhotoShop Premier 12. I plan on getting out and doing some video using my Canon T2i DSLR Camera as it has video capabilities. I'm just going to play around with the video and try to learn how to use the camera better and maybe I can read the new books I got on Adobe PhotoShop Elements 12 and learn more about doing video editing. It will give me something to do with my free time. I've got a lot of that these days. Retirement is fun! he he.

'm surprised all you guys didn't wear the mosquito head covers. Last time I was there, was with the brother in law and our wives. We lasted less than 2 days with the bugs. Enjoy your youth, te memories will last a long time.