Gotta run.

Off to a week long family gathering on a lake near Brainerd starting Sat.; so there are some last minute things to take care of, including assembling some 12 dozen eggs for camp breakfast a week from next Thursday. With over a hundred of us there won't be any left overs from them either. Adding some peppers, some garlic, onions, and tomatoes and any left over breakfast meat from around the camp will spice it up a bit, and a cousin will be adding the pancakes; so nobody leaves hungry from that feast.

Should be fishing stories and pictures come out of that week, too, including some slabs and maybe a bullgill or two and possibly even some green carp and a pike or two, if prior years are any indication. This year I plan to add some dock shooting and work the thermocline some due to the current heat wave. In past years the outside weedline had been enough, until it crapped out last summer under similar heat. We've been doing this for some 5 decades now as the family has grown from about a single initial couple and their kids to well over a hundred of us now with some four generations in some cases in camp at the same time. Nice modern camp well run by a young couple and their growing kids, and we pack it to capacity this one week out of the year. We've moved around some over the years, but with a group this size, it is getting a whole lot harder; so we tend to stay put as long as we can to suit all the different budget levels involved across the group.

Now its down to Iowa to help my aging mother and one sister get their stuff together, back up here on Friday to get mine organized and then off to fishing and other family recreations.