Fishing on Pend Oreille

Yea, it's a big lake up near Sandpoint.

On Friday after work I headed to Butch's house because people were around the house that I didn't care to be around (landlord was renting out the "B&B.")

We ended up getting my new boat's motor working in a garbage can full of water and ready to go. I figured I'd go fishing on Saturday. Well, the neighbor kid came over after dinner and we helped him play with a new bike he got...changing spark plugs and trying to get it going.

I got home at around 1200. No good. But about 1700 on Saturday I got a call from Butch. We're going up to Pend Oreille, Ron decided instead of leaving at 0200 on Sunday, we could go tonight. I thought that was a great idea. So then I couldn't find my license anywhere. Had to go to Black Sheep 5 minutes before they closed to get replacements...(still can't find that stuff anywhere...it must have dropped in the woods.) So, we collected Ron and got to Bayview, prepared his big boat, and hung out for a bit. Then went to town about 2100 for dinner of shrimp and fries...um, and beer. Well, we ended up back at the boat at 0200 on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, Ron left the keys for the boat shed on the boat...so I was convinced to climb around the edge...over 15 feet of cold water...half-tuned...with only a toe and a finger hold to get me there. Oddly enough, I managed. We needed to get a certain part of the lake by 0330 so Butch took a nap and Ron and I stayed up, "We're going to leave in about 45 minutes...who cares?"

We DID take off early and got there and rigged up. Troll troll troll. Troll troll troll. Finally wandered into a lake trout and woke Butch up with it.

The rest of the day was spent trying to not get too hot and still fish. We had to stop and buy some sandwiches, but that was all we stopped for. And I think the heat got up to...94 I think it was?

Anywho, we had a great time even with one fish. I got to learn about driving this big boat, rigging for trolling, and brought home a fish and some nice pictures to boot.

Luckily Ron's wife and granddaughter came up to meet us, so he went back with them and Butch and I took off with Butch driving. I say luckily, because I was asleep in no time riding along in the truck, and we were in CDA when I woke up. I managed to sleep about 8 hours last night and was just wore out today. But tonight shall be good, I promise!

Here we go:

Got to the boat at 0200

Leaving

Getting there

Still getting there

We turned around for this shot

Where we were headed

Whiskey Point

Just interesting

From the bridge

Captain Ron on it

Waking Butch up in the bow

Butch made it aft shortly!