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      We went back to Flathead to catch more Mackinaw.  This time we brought our neighbor.  We caught four the first day.  Three of them were small and one medium sited fish.  The last day, Tom caught a nice 28.5"
 fish.

Flathead

Flathead

     Another check, off of our bucket list...fishing Flathead lake for Mackinaw.  We spent a couple days, fishing in the morning and caught 11 fish.  2 - 28", 1 - 27", 1 - 25", 2 - 23" and the rest were about 20".  Not bad, for the middle of June.  Next year, we are planning  on going in Mid-May, when the fishing is better.  Beautiful lake and great weather.

Lake Roosevelt

Lake Roosevelt

    We just returned from our Lake Roosevelt trip.  We fished, hard, two and a half days, for walleye and burbot.  Our neighbor, Tom S., tagged along with us.  We caught 58 walleye (most of them small) and 14 burbot.  

Here is a Tom, cleaning fish, out on the boat.

Walleye

Walleye

     We wanted to try walleye fishing, but had no idea how to catch them.  We took our neighbor and drove to Hunters, Washington to meet up with our guide.  We went out with Lake Roosevelt Charters, to show us how it was done.  This was a fun and informative trip.  Despite a very winding morning, we manage to catch 16 walleye, 2 burbot and a pike.  

Our guide, Captain Todd

Pike

Pike

    Beautiful day to be out fishing.   We are pike fishing,  near Kalispell.   We took the newbie  to show him the ropes.  It's a high pressure day, so fishing is really slow.  I caught one, finally, and the newbie had his tip-up go off.  Wait, the newbie just caught one.

Perch

Perch

    Yesterday, we went perch fishing again.  We had three holes and poles, each, sat up in front of our chairs.  The fishing was so intense, there were times, we didn't have any of our poles in the water.  We kept 108 perch and packaged them up for fish tacos...yum.  

All our fish in a 7 gal pail.

     Today, fishing was slow and we came home with 45 perch.  Looks like high pressure is moving in.

Red Hot

Red Hot

     Red Hot fishing, up here, in North Idaho.  We had three poles, each, and couldn't keep them in the water.  We caught 44 perch, one-after-another, during a blizzard.  Thanks to our ice suits, we were able to stay warm.