Halt everything. Nothing goes right and I'm stuck at work until 8:00 at night. Not the early departure I was looking forward to. By the time I got the camper hooked up, and everything else loaded, it was too late to think about driving 4 hours to the lake.
After a going back and forth in my head on whether it was still worth making the drive, we went to bed early and got up at 5:00 the next morning to head out.
It was windy by the time we arrived at the lake and started setting up camp. I was uncomfortable being on the downwind side of the camper for fear of it falling over on me. Camp was set up in short order. I love the new pop up. I can set it up by myself in no time.
After lunch we headed out to fish some. I caught a walleye and Mom caught a crappie, but that's all we could catch. We saw a lot of people cleaning a lot of fish so we new they were eating, just not sure where.
Dad and Mom had been fishing deep for crappie and had gotten a few. From my previous experience I thought they would be shallow if they were spawning. On Sunday, I got the chance to test my theory as the anchor wouldn't hold us out deep fishing for walleye any longer. Mom had caught a 22 incher. We went into a cove that looked perfect. Sand banks with lots of trees in the water and grass in the water at the shoreline. If I was a fish, this is where I would be. I got about 5 casts before Dad decided he needed to find a restroom.
Afterwards he was about to take off to somewhere else but I told him that I had saw a couple crappie caught while I was doing my 5 casts. That boat was leaving so we pulled into that spot. He hooked into 1 pretty quickly. Then another. We got a couple doubles. Mom was getting some as well. We ended up catching 13 crappie between 14-16 inches, before we had to leave to go back to camp.
It seemed like a really fast weekend, but my head feels refreshed after I spent some time at the lake so it was worth driving 4 hours to camp for 1 night.
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