Our Canadian fishing trip

Dad, Brian, Chris and I had a wonderful time on our fishing trip. It was a long drive up to the resort but well worth it. The fishing started out a bit slow(actually the first night was great) but by the last day the fish were practically jumping in the boat:) We had a few problems with the boat. The engine was not working correctly but someone helped us with that and then the battery for the trolling motor died on us. So we borrowed one from the resort. Other than that we didn't have any major problems. This is a new resort to us. The weather was nice the first few days. The sun was out at least. Wednesday the rain was coming down and it was cooler but we still went out fishing. This is the day Chris caught his big fish. Thursday was cloudy but it didn't rain. We had a wood burning stove in the cabin and it worked wonderful. It got so hot in the cabin we had to open the windows and door. Here are the pictures and little bit about each one, ENJOY:

Our first sign of Canada. This is at a gas station before we crossed the border

Are we there yet? It was nice to have Chris' GPS from his big rig. This way we knew when we would be arriving. It took us 11 hours to get to the resort. 14 miles left at this point!

The sign on the fish cleaning house

This was our cabin. Or the red barn as we called it. As you walked into the cabin it dropped down to the left. We were only a little afraid of a wind storm! Since it rested on small 4x4 pieces of wood. We did get a discount because we were in the only cabin that hasn't been remodeled.

The boat is in the water, lets go fishing!

Dad and I on the way to the fishing spot

Our first catch! Yummy, we were able to catch fish the first night and eat them for supper:)

Here come the fish pictures:

This is the biggest fish of the trip. Chris caught a 41 inch Northern. It was a lot of fun watching this one come in! This one went back into the water.

Here is dads 36 inch Northern. We decided to keep this one. Oh and it was delicious!

The biggest I caught was a 23 inch Walleye

Brian caught a tree branch I took a picture as it was coming up out of the water:) He did catch a bunch of fish too but for some reason no pictures were taken with him and the fish.

The only picture of the four of us. This is the inside of the cabin. Wasn't it beautiful:) It was a different shade of green. We played Euchre almost every night. Dad and I creamed the boys!

Every day we saw planes taking off and landing on the water. There was an airport very close to camp.

Nature:

Here is a seagull that flew right next to us onto a rock waiting to eat our bait.

This is a beaver but you can't tell! You should have heard him slap the water. It was really neat.

This is a loon sitting on it's nest

This is a pair of loons swimming around their bay

We had to stop at the watering hole a few times:)
This is dad and Brian

This is at the watering hole Chris is standing on a tree that a beaver cut down onto an old cabin.

All done fishing and on the way home. We had a little trouble with the boat cover. We had to stop on the side of the road and take it off because the strap broke off.

We found out on the way home that there had been a lot of rain in northern Minnesota and Ontario area. There were roads closed and we had to detour and also roads that were covered in water. There was a lot of fixing of ditches and water all over the place.

This is a place where we stopped by Grand Marais this is suppose to be a little creek running into Lake Superior

Here is a video dad took of it. It was so loud! They received about 5 inches of rain the night before!