Back to the River—Finally!

I remember a fine Sunday afternoon about ten years ago when I was battling big boat wakes on a popular metro muskie lake.  At that point in my life, I really did a lot of muskie fishing and I as slowed to bounce through still another ski boat’s wake, I strongly evaluated my choice of water craft.  Maybe it was time to move up to boat better suited to big or busy water.  It was a week or two later that I found myself on a remote section of a river in northern Wisconsin, searching for muskies and sturgeon.  Once, while we were anchored up I had a good chance to take a good look around.  No boat wakes here.  No Boom Boom music coming from wakeboard boats.  Just birds and squirrels and flowing water.  And lots of fish.    I knew right then that I would always have a suitable river boat. I have since added to my fleet and I do have a bigger boat in addition to my jon boat.  These days the big boat gets the most time on the water.  And the fact that for three summers in a row we have come into smallmouth season with crazy high water on the Mississippi hasn’t helped.  It brought me great pleasure to roll the Green Monster out of the garage the other day, but at the same time...

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