May 31, 2009 Update
Sunday, May 31, 2009
After several really nice Spring days; during which the fishing was fantastic on Hawk, Mud, Portage and Wolf Lakes today was very cold and windy. With the winds out of the northwest and completely sunny skies, it was everone's nemesis - the dreaded cold front. Maybe we should take a stab at a new rendition of an old angling theme - the "Cold Front Blues". Upon further thought, best to abstain from that idea lest the loons leave Hawk Lake and environs in disgust.
We did find a reminder of springs past. I refer to the first appearance of the beginning stages of spawning beds on the main lake. You might have know, they were right where they have been for the last seven years. Perhaps they have been there far longer. This is unusual. We had not seen during the prior several days any signs of beds on Wolf, Mud or Portage Lakes. Strange as these normally warm up first and have the earlier spawning activity. On the other, hand Hawk Lake is cold, really cold, damn cold depending on who you talk to and where they came from. Yesterday while making the rounds,we experienced several "wake-up calls" of water splashed on the face - enough to buy into the "damn cold" description.
On other fronts, loons seem everwhere. John and Pam from LaCrosse, WI happened upon a nest on Portage Lake. The Poplar leaves are finding the courage to peer out of their buds, but only reluctantly it would seem. The eagles, osprey, common mergansers are all, as they say here, "oout and aboout". The lovely, but largely unseen, white throated sparrow with their lovely song are ubiquitous. Sorry foks, but no moose, deer, lynx but one impoverished bear have showed up to date. One very spent hummingbird did take up temporary residence in cabin #2. Poor thing was so tired that the legitimate and duly registered occupants were able to pick the bird up in their hand and take outside. I have been told, the the bird in question made a complete recovery.
Call us and we can go over the specifics of the fishing. Suffice it to say here that the bass fishing has been great all out of context given the frigid nature of the water. Odd but fish of 18 and 19 inches seem to be outnumbering the lesser fish.
So long for now.
We did find a reminder of springs past. I refer to the first appearance of the beginning stages of spawning beds on the main lake. You might have know, they were right where they have been for the last seven years. Perhaps they have been there far longer. This is unusual. We had not seen during the prior several days any signs of beds on Wolf, Mud or Portage Lakes. Strange as these normally warm up first and have the earlier spawning activity. On the other, hand Hawk Lake is cold, really cold, damn cold depending on who you talk to and where they came from. Yesterday while making the rounds,we experienced several "wake-up calls" of water splashed on the face - enough to buy into the "damn cold" description.
On other fronts, loons seem everwhere. John and Pam from LaCrosse, WI happened upon a nest on Portage Lake. The Poplar leaves are finding the courage to peer out of their buds, but only reluctantly it would seem. The eagles, osprey, common mergansers are all, as they say here, "oout and aboout". The lovely, but largely unseen, white throated sparrow with their lovely song are ubiquitous. Sorry foks, but no moose, deer, lynx but one impoverished bear have showed up to date. One very spent hummingbird did take up temporary residence in cabin #2. Poor thing was so tired that the legitimate and duly registered occupants were able to pick the bird up in their hand and take outside. I have been told, the the bird in question made a complete recovery.
Call us and we can go over the specifics of the fishing. Suffice it to say here that the bass fishing has been great all out of context given the frigid nature of the water. Odd but fish of 18 and 19 inches seem to be outnumbering the lesser fish.
So long for now.
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