Saturday, September 22
Lake Erie EverStart Practice, Detroit, Michigan
Dan writes:
I put in today at Lake Erie Metro Park, where the tournament is going out of on Wednesday. This is at the south end of the Detroit River, right where it empties into the (northwest) corner of Lake Erie.
It was a beautiful sunny morning, without a breath of wind. As nice as the weather was though, the fishing was tough today. I don’t even have much to report, except that I fished the river for five hours this morning without even one bite. I finally gave up on that and ran up to Lake St. Clair, about twenty miles up at the top of the river. Here the fishing was slow also, and all told I caught only three or four fish all afternoon, but nothing even approaching two pounds.
Back at the ramp in the afternoon, I met up with friend who, like me, has been trying to get out around Pelee Island for the last two days. He finally made it today, and he caught `em. If the wind cooperates tomorrow, I’m going to try to go again, though it’s a long way.
Annie writes:
It is a beautiful day, the sun is shining, and it’s fairly warm. I finished organizing the campsite and getting things dried out from the past few days of rain. Got a lot of work done on the computer too, and all my emails caught up.
Dan came in around 7pm. I had the water boiling for Spaghetti, but he needed to go out and get gas, so I shut the stove off and went with him. We ended up eating at 8:30 and then went into the tent. We read a little then went to sleep, but the phone rang at 11:00. We were fumbling to find the phone in the dark, Dan thought it was his alarm clock and time to get up, it scared the daylights out of us, and made our hearts race, as we thought something was wrong. Thank goodness that was not the case, but neither one of us had a good nights sleep after that.