We had our annual work trip to Lake Vermilion over the weekend. The trip is always after the September 15th corporate tax deadline and we stay at Rod's place on Birch Point. Lake Vermilion is a pretty impressive lake but I highly recommend using a GPS - a map doesn't cut-it because you can get turned around pretty quickly (look it up on Google.maps)
The real story is the trip up there. We were going to use Matt's Green Machine but there was a trailer part snafu that required us to get my boat late Wednesday night - we took my boat off the lift in Minong at midnight (fortunately the sheriff wasn't called). Matt and I hung out for 2-3 hours and then drove up to Tower, MN getting to Rod's around 5:30 am. Got our gear in order and launched the boat for a full day of Muskie fishing. Since the temp had dropped to 28 degrees, there was little fog.
As the fog lifted we started moving around the lake trying new spots - we cover a lot of water over the 2 days.
We saw 5 fish the first day and 2 the second (and caught a nice pike). Some of the follows were pretty aggressive but we couldn't get any hook-ups. I know it makes for lame blogging when there aren't any fish pictures so I included Gary's 26.5 walleye (he was with the group).
Overall it was a great trip - we Muskie fished much more than past years and it was interesting being up for 42 straight hours but we survived. Next year will be the year we boat a nice 50 incher.
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