Monday was absolutely gorgeous - warm, sunny - a perfect day to go fishing! Nice, easy snowmobile trip to the edge of the BWCA, nice half mile hike into a small lake, cooperative fish - a wonderful day! Finally we have the fish picture we promised in an earlier blog! You can see the sunshine - and shirtsleeves - and the beautiful lake trout.
Well, the trout tasted so good at dinner Monday night... and Tuesday was the last day of the trout season... and the forecast was for 1-2 inches of new snow - mostly flurries... so Mike and friends bundled up a bit, grabbed the tackle and gear, and off they went again for a mid-morning fishing trip.
They'd hardly gotten the sleds started and headed up the trail when someone pulled the zipper on the clouds. It started snowing hard. And then it snowed harder. And then the wind started blowing. One hour into the trip we had over two inches of new snow and visibility was down to a third of a mile if that. And it kept snowing.
The fish had been biting and "what's a little snow?" so... they kept fishing. By noon it was coming down at 2 inches per hour and blowing harder. By the time they decided that "a little snow" had turned into "a lot of snow" there was over 8 inches of new stuff on that nice easy hike into the BWCA... and it wasn't what you'd call an easy hike any more, more like a heavy slog, especially in wet snowmobile suits and parkas. Crossing the lake to the landing where they left the sleds was an adventure with blowing snow and visibility minimal. Digging the sleds out of the new snowbanks and getting them started was another adventure.
The fish are delicious, the winter trout season is over - and it's still SNOWING! As of this morning we had at least 14 inches of new snow (it's hard to tell because it's blowing too and there are a lot of drifts) and it's still coming down in big wet flakes. Mike and his snowblower are getting a getting a real workout clearing the driveway and a path to the house, the siskenfinchpolls are hitting the feeders in dozens and Lin is just as glad to be inside.
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