2019 RV/Boat

A family member, who will remain un-named, sent me a note this morning complaining about being tardy to post the weekend update of my life.  I was unaware that my activities were being so closely monitored.  Now that I am aware, I will try to be more prompt.

There were big plans for loads of news this week.  For the most part, many of those plans fell flat as fishing is terrible, at best and the boating conditions deteriorated throughout the weekend.  We were joined by Kathy's parents for a morning fishing run.  We ran out on a nice lake and found nothing but frigid water that held few fish or maybe none as far as I could tell. We trolled for a couple hours and gave up.  So, after Brian and Shanna arrived, we drove down to experience the craft show in Pentwater. 

It took a while to get past the first booth with samples of jam and jelly.

After the show and a walk over to the brew pub for dinner, we circled the chairs and chatted on the dock for a couple hours.  A SW breeze off the lake made it just a touch chilly.

...or as Shanna would tell you, downright cold.

We wore out Kathy's folks so they headed back to their motel while the rest of us took a stroll to the pier.

Oh, look!  There's the Badger and a camera shot I don't have among the hundreds of shots I've made over the past 15 years.

This boat came into the marina Saturday and slipped at the head of out pier.

It was tied such that the bow pulpit protruded over the dock a little.  As I walked past, something strange caught my eye.  Somewhere, there is a mother hen missing her family.

Seems it's been a while since the boat was washed or the anchor deployed.

Although the boating part of the day was less than perfect, we had a fun day with some alternate activities and anticipation of another try at catching a salmon Sunday morning with Brian and Shanna on board.

So we woke up to...

Wet everything...

...and fog so think, you couldn't see the end of the dock.  There's a marina building in the background there and that's only maybe 100 yards away.  Anyway, we did leave the dock for a little while and trolled near the harbor entrance for an hour or so.  I thought I might get lucky and find a couple salmon around all the bait in the harbor again but that didn't happen.  A few more blips (boats) began to appear on my radar screen so we gave up instead of trying to dodge them in the thick fog.

That in a nutshell was the weekend.  A perfect 0 for 0 in the fish department but certainly a 10 with the company we enjoyed.

Summer temperatures are forecast for the next week so hopefully that will improve the lake conditions.