More Fishing ...

Greetings Everyone!

We've been consumed  by fishing and warm weather!  So I thought you would like to see some of what Nature has offered us.

Below - Ernie is preparing to fillet one of the salmon we caught.  The day was very warm - making it a great day to be out fishing on the lake.

My job - after Ernie completes a fillet - is to rinse the fillet off in the cold lake water.  We are blessed to have fresh salmon - so we've been eating a lot of salmon for dinner and breakfast.  I'm sure we'll slow down our eating of salmon - but for now it's just fantastic to eat fresh salmon!

With all the hot weather - we finally had a thunderstorm that dumped lots of rain.  All good - we needed the rain to give everything a good soaking of water.  After the storm - a beautiful rainbow graced the sky - signaling the storm was passing.

The other day we went looking for schools of salmon and ended up visually exploring the lake shore.  It's amazing to think that we pass the rock formation below on our snow machines in the winter.

Below -- is another area of the lake - very different from the one above.  When we rounded the corner - we startled a mother duck and her ten ducklings -- so they all went scooting off as fast as they could - making a wake as they headed closer to shore.

 

 

Yesterday, we went out again to look for schools of salmon - and came upon a young brown bear fishing.  We got caught up watching the bear.  Below - he or she - checks us out - but ignored us after that.  So we watched the bear be a bear in the wild.

Below - the bear got out of the water - but he or she had no luck fishing.  Upon us looking closer up and down the beach - we noticed that some prior fishermen had cleaned their fish on the bank and left the guts along the shore.  So - this bear was eating the fish gut piles.

After the bear ate its meal - what better way to finish than with a nice long back scratch.  The bear spent considerable time scratching its back, sides, rump, and head on the tree.

Below - the bear checks us out again - but Ernie used his telephoto lens - so we were at a safe distance in our boat.

After checking us out again - the bear watched some fish jump - but the fish were too far out for him or her to catch.

Since the bear couldn't fish - it went back to give itself another body rub.  It also took a play break and began playing with a piece of driftwood by tossing it around.  Afterwards, the bear began digging and hopping along as it dug along the beach. The bear must have tired out - because it laid down and took a brief nap.

 

 

Finally - the bear got up from its nap and decided to continue up the beach looking for scraps.

 

 We spent over an hour watching the bear - so when the 'show' was over - we decided to head back to our cabin -- fishing forgotten until another day.

Take care - and thank you for checking in on us!