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Username: Rockman
Post Number: 5
Registered: 6-2004
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 8:01 am: | |
The bar is officially done. Thank god for that. I wish I enjoyed construction more than I do. The projects just take to long to see any progress. But I do enjoy the results. The bar is beautiful. The Grand Opening will be this weekend. Saturday August 21st. from 4pm to 6pm we will be serving free hot dogs and bratwurst. Then from 6pm to 8pm we will have happy hour, 2 for 1 drink specials and drawing for door prizes. So if you are planning a trip to Mille Lacs this weekend stop in and see us. It will be worth your while. Sure do appreciate what all of you bartenders and waitresses go through now that we are doing it ourselves. My hats off to you. There is definitely an art to doing it well. Thank you to all those who helped to get it all done. It has been a long 6 weeks. I have not even had a moment to fish off of the dock let alone on the big pond, so the report this week will be from what I have heard from those of you that were out doing it.
The night bite is still slower than I have seen in the past few months. With the weather going from 90 degrees to 60 degrees the fish do not know where to be. There is a rigging bite early in the morning from 5 to 7 am. The day time bobber bite has slowed a bit, but they are still getting some during the day in 12 to 18 ft of water on leeches and night crawlers with a small 32nd oz. Jig or just a plain painted hook. The muskies are still hot on the north end of the lake and in Vineland bay. Most of the biters are taking surface baits, or if you want to troll for them they are taking bucktails also. The small mouth are still on the rocks from 14 to 18 ft of water. Still using tube jibs and plastic worms. There are a few being taken on rattle traps and crank baits. The open water trolling is starting to pick up on the mud flats. Using the reef runners. Most of the biters are in the 15 to 20 ft range over 33 ft of water. Out in what we call no mans land. Hopefully the weather will warm up for us before the summer comes to an end in a few weeks. This is definitely the summer that never was. Some of the coldest temps that any of us has seen in our life time. Lets hope that the fall will bring warmer than usual temps. That is until November at least. We do not want the winter ice to come in to late again this year, but the farmers almanac is predicting warmer than normal temps for this coming winter season also. Lets hope that they are wrong about that too. That is about it for now. I will try to get out sometime this week and see if I can dial you all in a little better than I have in the past 6 weeks now that I am done with the last rocky reef project as far as I am concerned, but Patti may have another one for me in the future. You know, like a new deck with a Jacuzzi on it. She has been asking the past three years for one of those. I will see what I can do about that peaches. She deserves the best I can assure you of that.
Be safe
I hope to see a lot of you this Saturday for the Grand Opening of The Rockman’s Bar and Grill
Thanks
Rockman
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