Posts Tagged ‘august’

Clear Creek

My friend Chad at Clear Creek asked me for a few photos from New Zealand to consider for their annual catalog. I bet he is just super bored at work today and needs some new pictures to look at. Either way here they are.


2008-08-30_TrempeleauRiver


2008-08-28_MississippiRiver


2008-08-27_MiddleBranchWhitewater


2008-08-23_FreebornCounty


2008-08-22_AlbertLeaChannel


2008-08-20_GarvinBrook


2008_08_18_MississippiRiver


2008_08_15_MississippiRiver


2008_08_11_MississippiRiver


2008-08-10_NorthBranchRootRiver

The paddle out was more than the distance we paddled to the camp site. We stayed up too late last night and it was too early to paddle. It was a sunny day. We made it to the take out. We took time for lunch at a waterfall that leaked out of a crag. This [...]


2008-08-09_NorthBranchRootRiver

Canoeing in August. Our friend Ass is back from her stint in the Peace Corp in French Guinea, that Africa for those who don’t know. So with two dogs and two boats we headed to the North Branch Root River to paddle to Highway 16. Hatch didn’t ride in the boat the first 10 miles. [...]


2008-08-07_MississippiRiver

Tonight Mikey and I sat at the Levee in a spot other than our usual spot because a half a dozen people had our spot. the word must’ve got out that there are fish there. I wonder if they were disappointed to only catch Drum and Redhorse. Mikey an I would’ve loved to catch something [...]


2008-08-05_MississippiRiver

Mikey and I have fished everyday since last Friday. We met up with the Wenzel’s and fished a wing dam off of the main channel near Fountain City. We caught Drum, Catfish, and Walleye here. We fished the mouth of Garvin Brook in 20 feet of water. We anchored on an eddy of poo and [...]


2008-08-04_MississippiRiver

Mikey and I decided over dinner that it would be a good idea to drive to the levy, put in the canoe, and float downstream to the St. Charles boat landing where we would carry the 90-pound boat and all of our gear back to my house six blocks away. We caught Drum off the [...]


2008-08-03_MississippiRiver

We launched at Verchota Landing in the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge at Minnesota City and headed to Straight Slough. We caught heaps of Sunnies and ran out of crawlers which required us to run to the Fountain City Kwik Trip to get more.


2008-08-01_RootRiver

Mikey and I paddled the Lower Root to its mouth to meet up with the Roughfishopen crew in search of the mythical Shovelnose Sturgeon. The paddle took less than two hours and we made our way to a Maple river bottom to spend the night fishing. We caught a few Drum and watched as the [...]