Sunday, June 18, 2006

Luck or Skill?


It looks like we just can't get enough of these amazing fish! Not even two weeks ago, I caugt a walleye one half inch smaller than this one (pictured below). Kathy landed this 25 1/2 inch walleye with ease this weekend. I think we might as well hang up the rods for good. Both of these fish were caught in shallow water just off the Warrod public access on lake of da woods, using three plain hooks and one big juicy night crawler. Now you all know our secret, get your gear and . . . good luck.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Lake of DA woods!


Kathy and I just went to Roseau to visit her parents. We went fishing on Lake of the Woods on Saturaday. This was the first fish of the day, caught by yours truly. It was a pretty good sized wallye coming in at 25" and just about 6 lbs. We had a really good time up der in da row-soe

Friday, May 26, 2006

America's Bird or America's Pest?


In Homer Alaska, out on "the spit," there were a bunch of eagles. On the bottom of this picture there is a young eagle (without a full white head, or black feathers yet) who is feeding on the carcass of a halibut left behind by a fisherman. All of a sudden a larger more mature eagle came swooping in to try to take the carcass away from the younger eagle. He was unsuccessful, but it was an interesting sight to see nonetheless.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Brrrrrrrrr!




Holgate Glacier. This was truly an AWESOME sight! While on a Kenai Fjord's tour, one of the many amazing sights we saw, was this glacier. This picture was taken without zoom at just about a half mile away. I was actually lucky enough to caputure a large chunk of the glacier fall into the unsuspecting Pacific Ocean on video camera. While on the cruise I also learned from that guide that the word glacier means "always moving." The closer we got to this glacier the louder the creeking and cracking got, it sounded like the ice on a frozen Minnesota lake but only on a much larger scale.

Musk Ox


We visited a Musk Ox farm near Palmer AK while on vacation. This is a picture of two young male Musk Ox who were pushing and shoving each other. I was interested in getting a picture of them at play, but when I took a closer look I found that the picture turned out to have a beautiful landscape in the background.

as pure as it gets



The Kenai River is a beautiful river with an aqua blue color to it because of how clear the water is. The river is this color for most of the year, except for when the red salmon make their run to the spawning grounds. When this happens the water turns blood red because of all the salmon. We were there a little to early to see the red color of the river, but this beautiful blue color was good enough.

Everest?



On my recent trip to Alaska I climbed a relatively small mountain (875ft) called "The Butte" the view from on top was beautiful. It took Kathy and I about an hour to get all the way up. While on top we were able to get some relly cool views of Pioneer Peak and the Sleeping Lady Mountain.