Thread: Michigan spring camp was bananas!

Michigan 2025 camp is in the books.


We had a great weekend of friends, fun and catching. Started the weekend with four boats hitting the lakes close to camp. The weather turned out cool and windy but the catching was fairly good. Most fish were pre-spawn with a few caught looking close. Jerry and I had the pleasure of having Buckeyecrappie in the boat as he and Maryln came up from Ohio to visit.
We started fishing Thursday and John stuck his first fish shortly after getting on the water.

After getting that first fish he rewarded himself with a snack and proceeded to offer to share. Now, not sure who hasn't heard but there is an old tradition going back to the old sailing ships that bananas on a boat were taboo for fishing. Well, you guessed it... He had bananas, one for each of us! Boy did we razz him for that.... Not sure he caught another fish till he had eaten all of them himself! Just saying....
Friday morning everyone was out to ensure we had enough fillets for Saturday's fish fry. John joined us again and brought apples for a snack this time. Yep... He had a pretty successful day of catching with no bananas in the boat.

After all the boats came in, we cleaned a nice mess of fish and gathered to tell a few tall tales at our liars club. We enjoyed bratts and all the dishes brought to pass.


Saturday we always have a little friendly tournament for five fish weight and all boats brought in fish to weigh. This year's totals for those that weighed were...
Steelguy--7.18 lbs
Buckeyecrappie-5 lbs
Birdbander-3.94 lbs
Flytier-2 lbs


After a good day on the water (be it very windy), the fish fry was delicious!!!


Thanks Sparty for doing the frying and the fries were next level!! Thanks for all the great food brought to share, Steel guy for the jug of maple syrup brought for each of us and the custom crank Buckeyecrappie made for each of us!
Hope to see everyone next year same weekend, same place!