Canada Day 5 - Wind and Rain

And yet we persisted.

The biggest Smallmouth of the group, 19 5/8. On a Whopper Flopper.

Rick’s best Pike of the day.

Mine.

Travis with the group record Walleye, 20 inches.

Pete with the group record Pike, 40 inches. He also got a mammoth Musky, 48, but I don’t have any pictures yet.

The Wednesday Wetness

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Canada Day 4

Rain. It rained most of the day.  We put on rain gear and went fishing anyway.

Rick caught this big Musky on a little spinner bait back in weeds of an unnamed cove.

I snuck this 35 inch Pike out of Pete’s favorite cove, on a local favorite top water lure, the Whopper Flopper. After lunch,  I hooked a huge Musky near the same spot on the flopper. I fought it a minute, until it jumped to give us a good look, and threw the hook.

Tuesday Tanlines

At Med Xpress, Why Canada's sunburn problem keeps getting worse. 

We have seen this before. In 22 focus groups across Atlantic Canada, residents of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island knew about sun safety and frequently relied on sunscreen. Yet in our survey of nearly 8,000 Canadians, residents there reported roughly twice as many sunburns as those in provinces with lower melanoma incidence. We called this apparent contradiction the "sunscreen paradox."

When you live somewhere the sun basically goes away for 6 months, you really enjoy your time in the sun.