I thought it would be nice to spend the last weekend of walleye season on the big pond with the wife to be. We headed out Friday afternoon around 3:30pm and arrived at Terry’s Boat Harbor around 5:00pm. After a quick discussion on the roads and the breaker crossing we were on our way out to 8 mile 
! I was finished banking and cleaning out the slush in the holes around 7:00pm and the house was warm enough for my gal and our little mascot “ACE”! I would like to say that fishing was not very fast and furious. I didn’t mark more than two fish on the Vexilar all night. We watched a movie and hit the sack around 11:00pm. I was up to the sound of the rattle wheel around 1:00am and picked up a nice 23″ eye(see pic below). I jumped back on my bunk and just closed my eyes when “Ding-a-linga-ling” went the rattle wheel again. I set the hook and got a pretty heavy fish to the hole and she decided that I shouldn’t have to go through the trouble of releasing her so off she came! I again hit the bunk and at 3:30am the rattle chimed again and I set the hook on a nice 24″ that I sent back down for tomorrow.
I didn’t have anymore fish until around 6:30 when I set the hook but missed whatever decided to roust me from the bunk. I figured as long as I was up I would get to it. Well, I got to it but never marked a fish on the Vexilar at all, so at around 10:30 I made us breakfast and we decided to go into Garrison and pick up some snacks and stretch our legs. As we got to the big breaker straight out from Terry’s there was a group of four younger fellas that decided they didn’t need to follow the road and they didn’t get far before they dropped their jeep grand cherokee in up to the doors 
! They were all ok and they had it out by the time we got back from town.
We didn’t get anymore fish until around 6:30pm when I got a really fat 25-1/2″ eye on the rattle wheel again(Picture below). We watched a few more movies and missed another 4 or five fish that were either up to the hole or got off half way up 
so we called it a night around 10:30. I was up around 3:00am to the dinging of the rattle wheel bells and picked up a nice 26″ piggy but couldn’t get the honey to snap a photo for me. She said 
and that she was comfortable so what could I do but 
! I noticed it was only 60 degrees in the house so I checked the heater and the pilot was out. I lit it and it kept going out so I went outside and found that the vent was plugged with all the snow that was drifting. I ended up making a wind block and the heater fired up and ran fine after that.
I was up again at 4:00am again and picked up a 24-1/2″ and another 22″ at 5:30am.
We were up at 8:30 and saw that we were possibly in for quite the 4 x 4 trip with the amount of snow that was on the ice at this point. We were hooked up and on the way at 9:30. We made it about 200yds before I found the biggest drift on the lake , I new I could find it !! I unhooked and shoveled my off, made a good trail and hooked up again. We were in 4 wheel and drive 1 with the 
down 
!! We had to stop 3 times and let the engine cool down because the snow was all packed under the engine and the heat couldn’t get out!!
I had to break the trail, with my 26′ wheel house, from 8 Mile all the way to the ice break which is about a 1/2 mile out from Terry’s. From there the resort had the road plowed and it was a bit easier going.I would say that the average snow depth on the lake is about 12″ with about 70% of it with drifts in the 2′-3′ range.
I don’t know how we made it without getting stuck again but I want to thank God(Lowrance) for the GPS and Chevy for the power to drop the !!
For those of you still with me, the bite was a non -aggressive one and I never picked up a fish jigging all weekend.
I am glad to be home after the Sunday drive on Mile Lacs and I think I will now get some 
!!
Lake of the Woods here I come!! 
February 26, 2007 at 3:28 am
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the ground I fish on!! 
