Long Lake Yarns

This past Saturday, early in the morning, the fog was just beginning to thin when we headed out to Ghost Bay.  The light was filtered through the fog remains and everything was looking very  golden. There was no breeze.  Like so many fall mornings, there were no other boats or paddlers on the lake.  Not [...]

This is Steve’s close up shot of the moon setting.  Moonset.  Not sunset, not sunrise.  The sun was just beginning to poke up in the eastern sky, but this light was still the cold white light of the moon.
Next is more how the eye saw it. The morning mist rising from the lake. No breeze. Moonset only lasted [...]

This is Ghost Bay on a rainy, misty, chilly, early morning in mid-July.  That’s me in my yellow Pungo and Steve’s classic Grundens rain hat. Steve actually never wore the hat; I wrestled it away from him. Actually, it wasn’t much of a wrestle because he was going to give the hat to the Salvation [...]

No, the island isn’t widely known by the name Belly Button.  Only Steve and I know that’s its name (and Steve knew it first of all). This is Long Lake.  Latitude:  N45 degrees, 76.85′, longitude W83 degrees, 58.41′. If you are one of those rare humans who can actually still see the figures that the [...]

As a child and teenager, I’d fished with my dad for about two weeks each summer while we rented a cottage near Zink’s Point on Elk Lake.  I liked that, quite a bit, and never more than when others were catching fish and I was just getting bites and not hooking them.  My dad babied [...]

My last post complained about people’s golfballs ending up in Long Lake.  This Saturday, a pontoon boot was moving slowly through our small bay, close to shore.  At first, I didn’t understand what its occupants were up to.  One fellow was draped over the bow of the boat and seemed to be scooping something up [...]

My Long Lake neighbors’ grandaughter, estimated age 9 years old, and her “new best friend” started the day early in the water.  The lake temperature is around 60–warmer in the shallows but not by all that much.  The air temperature reached a high of about 74.  Winds were brisk throughout the day.  By day’s end, other [...]

It looks like this internet “thing” is going to stick after all.  My son’s mother’s day present 2009 was creating this page for me and encouraging me to get started.  I’ve been thinking about blogging for awhile but was put off by the notion that there might be internet hordes reading what I write.  The truth [...]