Stuff is packed, trip is mapquested and expectations are high for our 18 hour trip to Spring Bay Resort on Lake Vermilion, MN. It will be my second trip to a shield lake but this time we will be casting (not trolling) until our arms stop functioning.

There has been a good nite bite out there so far this month slow-rolling DC-10's while burning DC-8's have been hot during the daytime. We hope to catch fish with other baits and not get locked into a "blade mentality" but one of us will always be chucking blades while the other 2 guys are pulling rubber and jerk/glide baits. I had Rich Newman make me several of his "Surprise Mouth" chop baits in custom MN colors that have been hot out there for the past 2 years.........and he even threw in a newly designed glide bait to test out that does not have a name yet.

I am taking my laptop with me so I can (hopefully) post some big fish pics on a daily basis. I am in serious need of some fun fishing on a different waterway.

Good Luck on the water!