Don't Worry-Be Happy

Life means never having a dull moment, huh?  

Don’t worry, be happy.

Okay, you guessed it.  The fish have been biting, of late.

Landed a bunch of nice walleyes: Where?  At a place called Smoothrock Camp on Ontario’s Smoothrock Lake (west of Armstrong, Ont.).

Just as important:  landed a good story.

It’s about a entrepreneur named David Dill. The name might ring a bell. David is a Minnesota Legislator who lives in Crane Lake and who once owned an aviation business.

Now---David is running a Canadian fishing camp and a fly-in outpost business known as Thunderhook Fly-ins.   He’s also still wearing his political hat and running for re-election in Minnesota’s November election.

Please don’t think I’m David’s campaign manager, but I find it interesting that one of our lawmakers is also in the fishing business.  I mean, that’s good…good to have someone making our fishing laws who also knows what it’s like to hold a fishing rod.

Okay, enough politics.

The walleye bite was awesome on Smoothrock.  A jig and minnow in 20 feet of water produced in some places a walleye every 20 seconds.  With fishing action like that we all could have our own fishing television show, huh?

Alas, the fish don’t always bite like that.  I went bass fishing the other day and couldn’t catch a cold.

 My mood turned to sugarless lemonade.  And that ain’t good.