Category: fishing

Lake Mohawksin

I’m Constantly covered in bug spray. The mosquitos are just waiting for us to come outside. The wind gets rid of them for a day then there back. 

Coming out after a thunderstorm heading to the lake with the boat.

It’s cool and humid, cloudy and buggy. 20 minutes down the road to a small town now to the city a population of 3,600. We need a boat launch to get our boat on the lake. The swamps around here are not quite deep enough for us to put in.

Lake Mohawksin is known as a good fishing water depth is 9-25 feet.                                                                                                            

We have an old Lund fishing boat nothing spectacular but we love it. Best idea we ever had to get a boat.

We finally got out on our first lake this year. Not including our test drive to make sure all is working well.

We passed under some train trestles to get out on the lake so we decide to fish under the pylons for awhile. A train came by later.

The lake has a lot of islands and you have to be careful of the depth in some areas and watch out for any stumps and logs sticking out of the water.

We moved and eventually stopped in the middle of the lake where it came up to 10 feet. We got a lot of bites in the beginning and then we managed to catch some small mouths bass along with some perch.

There we’re some other boats on the lake but not many. We cranked some music,talked awhile as we swatted flies that were biting.

It’s been 4 hours now. We agree it’s time to go.  We’re burnt, tired and hungry and we have a bit of a drive home. We still need to get off the lake so we put it in gear and go. Leaving a bit of wake that no boat will see because we were out there by ourselves by then.

Lake Mohawksin. Nice lake, a lot of features and not a lot of traffic.

Getting on and off the lake

This is one of my in-process paintings.

I am using a combination of three pictures to create this one painting.

I feel like it is telling a story.

I like the look of the water and sky,

but I need to really work on the trees and obscure the buildings a little more.

This Random Lake is 10 minutes away from where I live.

I love this lake.

We go swimming here all summer.

You can catch some really nice large and small mouth bass,

and we have seen people catch and release musky.

I can’t wait to finish this painting.

I’m not a fast painter

I work in oils, so I need time in-between for my painting to dry

so, I usually have a lot of paintings going at one time.