On the Water

This is part 2 of the last post "On the Ground". Just a collection of our late winter, spring, and summer water activities. Obviously, most will  revolve around fishing.

If anyonce can make icefishing look beautiful, it's this little girl

Our buddy Jared with a slammer perch

Local Splake  make for some awesome fish tacos

Springtime macky jigging

jigging splake on lower sunshine

My first Montana cat

We made a trip for paddle fish and cats. While hooking paddles, occasionally you'd run into these sturgeon

Sumemrtime catfishing on the Yellowstone. An awesome experience

Hook up!

The elusive yellowtail crappie

Hoyt caught his biggest smallie this summer. A dandy on a minnow

The baot has been awesome this summer and put to good use!

I promise there was a great big cutt in this picture right before it went back into the big drink, by accident. If you look close you could see it's blurred tail

Hunting for a Cajun boil

A look of confidence

My first fish hooked me big time on Fort Peck Lake, Montana

My first red drum

Yea, I didn't know what it was either when we first brought it in. They're called gold-eyes and their ferocious.

Bob with a Fort Peck walleye

Hunter with his first local walleye

Three generations of fishermen

Yellowstone cut on a #8 hopper pattern