2010 Windy Report July 23-Aug 6th
Dead tired, doing a mountain of laundry so I decided to check in with my report from our two weeks in Cass Lake. This marked our 23 year and by far it was our best year of fishing. Our family had our entire limit of take home walleyes (18-20 inch range) within the first 5 days of our trip. We also did two fish frys over the two weeks, we usually have enough fish for only one fish fry. My father in law went out with me and we fished on Friday from 8 am to 11 am and caught and released 16 walleye in the 15-17 inch range, we kept two that were 19 and 20. I never thought I would see that day when we threw back so many beautiful keeper sized walleye!
I had not even been out with Brian yet. I did use Brian the second week for perch and filled both my ticket and my wifes ticket of perch and they are simply outstanding, all in the 10.5 to 13 inch range, biggest topped out at 13.5! Pike fishing was slow though I did manage to take three home, all good eater size and I also kept 2 giant rock bass and a 4 lb large mouth.
The real success of the trip was at the Casino. Having closed their poker room at the Palace Casino in Cass, I moved my business to Northern Lights in Walker on the first day of rain in Cass. I was at the poker table for about 20 minutes when I was dealt a full house Aces full of tens and got beat by Aces full of Queens. Normally this would be very bad and I did lose a pot of about $40 BUT I won a bonus pot they had called a Bad Beat Pot which had over $10,400 dollars in it. I got 50% of that so I took home a check for $5240! The guy who beat me took home $2620 and the other 8 guys at the table took home $325 each. Needless to say, I was the most popular guy in the poker room that day!
Two other trips to Northern Lights resulted in wins of $165 and $100 and a final day mini trip to the Palace resulted in a $20 win at the slots for a grand cash total for the trip of just over $5500.
Golf was a huge success as well. Golfed Long Bow the first week and won by six strokes and golfed Greenwood the second week and won by 10. I would strongly recommend Long Bow to anybody looking for a great scenic well kept course near Cass. Just a tad pricy compared to the dirt farm courses that surround Cass but WELL WORTH the money. Cost $46 per person with an electric cart for 18 holes. Great course.
Baseball was great too with my beloved Pale Hose in first place when we got there AND in first place when we left!
Weather was teriffic. Mostly low 80's, cool and perfect sleeping weather with the windows open! It don't get much better than that fellas!
Putting 25% of my winnings into a CD to pay for the taxes (yes they did 1099 me) and the rest goes into a 1 year CD to pay for next years two week trip!
Trip of a lifetime this year!
