We made it out fishing today. We did not get out as early as we had hoped. Eric had been up with his sick daughter part of the night and he overslept. We made it to the lake by about 9:00 a.m. We went straight out to the channel and redrilled some holes that had been drilled earlier that morning. The water was 195 ' deep. We fished at about 25 to 35' deep. We only managed to catch eight fish between the four of us.

The boys were always tough to deal with. We spend as much time keeping them going as we do fishing, but I think our inexperience here and our timing minimized our catch. There were a lot of people on the ice.

I was the lucky one today. I caught five of the eight fish and Isaac, Ashton and Eric each caught one. One of my fish was pretty small, but there isn't a size limit and it made a good fillet. If we had been catching more fish I would have let it go. I don't know what causes it, but these fish bleed like crazy after they have been caught and lay on the ice for a little while. The fillets are a bright orange, typical of any salmon and some trout that I've seen.

We would have stayed longer and tried for some Lake Trout (Mackinaw or Macks) and Rainbows, but Isaac and Ashton both wanted to go home. Isaac may be getting sick, considering Olivia was up all last night with a fever around 103, same as Eric's little girl.

The hat Isaac has on is Eric's hat. One of the guys at work went to China for about 3 weeks with a local hockey team (highschool age). He brought eric the hat back. It is incredibly warm, but I had to laugh at it.