Lots of plains have been flying over head while I was on the river the last couple days. I tried to snap a few pictures but they turned out to be more of pictures of clouds. The noise they made was weird it didnt sound or feel that loud but it left a small ripple on the river.

I am going to blain the Rockford Air Show for why I don’t have any good fish pictures to share from the weekend.

Having some fun catching Northern casting different lures. They seem to like anything with yellow orange and green. So I have been sticking to pearch style lures. The Northern are sticking really close to cover so casting into thick downed trees or rough rocks seams to do the magic. I havent had any luck yet this year landing any of the larger ones but sooner or later It will happen. I am considering going back out today. I want to try flipping some live bait with an agressive hook a couple inches above a stick pile I found at the end of the day yesterday.

Grilled up some burgers brats and dogs tonight. Turned out really good. I am over full.

Had Mel Jason Austin Taylor and Baby Cailey over. We ate good and played hard after. Austin and Taylor wrestled pretty rough until I gave up. I dont have the energy to keep up with both of them anymore.

Crappie in the pit. Its really odd that from time to time trolling over the shallows at the enterance to the pit I have been picking up crappie in 3 – 4 feet of water. I know where these crappie are hovering that there should be some larger Walleye and Northern. I am gettin ready to put the boat in right now if the water is deep enough under the train bridge I will head to the pit and see if I can sink my hooks into a big one.

Mom went out for a boat ride and to float for a little while. It was her first time out since I got a different boat. It was a nice calm day. I am lookin forward to her going out with me more often. I would like it if she got her fishing license and started to do a little fishing. I think its one of the most peacful and relaxing things to sit in the boat and just float and watch a bobber.

Its hot and raining out here. I am on the river hovering under a bridge to stay dry. I havent caught anything yet but i am casting with a twister and have a set pole with a worm on the bottom. as long as lightning doesnt get close i will waite out this rain.

Jason and I went out to do some catfishing at night. We headed to a spot where a creek opens up into the rock river. We casted into a 10 – 12 foot hole and I caught 2 turtles on liver and one on worm. Was a really odd experiance. I had never expected to catch 3 turtles in one night. They werent small the largest has a shell a little over 15 inches wide and they streatched their neck way out. Pretty spooky animals. The claws in their feet were also sharp and long. I don’t know where all the turtles came from all i know is that before this year people didnt catch turtles like this.

The white bass are starting to hit at random. They seem to be in large schools and they bite in a fury when you cast anything into the school of them. I believe they will become more and more active in the next few weeks. When the white bass are active they are a lot of fun to catch because they get crazy and wild once they are hooked. They dont put up too much of a fight unless you use a ultra lite or lite action rod But they are great to increase the excitment level fishing.

I took Taylor out in the boat for a few hours. She was sooo happy and perfect on the water. She liked her hair blowing in the wind as we drove up and down the river. She had fun splashing and kicking her hands and feet in the water. She really liked watching the other boats pull tubes. She thinks she is ready to be pulled on the tube. Then she wanted to try driving the boat. I set it up to a nice slow speed in a wide deep part of the river and gave her the wheel. She drove around in a couple figure 8′s then she wanted to watch people on the sand bar swimming and sun bathing. Maybe next time I will be able to talk Austin into going with and we could waste some time playing at the sandbar beach.