The Lake Minnetonka Record-Tying Ice-Out GAW!! WINNER IN POST #88!!

[btb01]

Not an entry, but an avid follower of the thread!!
Here's an early morning view of Lake Huron from the deck of the cabin we've rented for a week or two each August for more than 25 years. The woods across the water are on Big LaSalle Island, one of the Les Cheneaux Islands in Lake Huron off the south coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula a few miles east of the Straits of Mackinac.

Here's a shot later in the day, looking in the same general direction, with a Wenger Esquire I bought at a flea market while on vacation in the U.P.:

- GT

Thanks again for the bump, GT! That looks like a fine place for a summer vacation, I can see why you go back every year!

Thanks for the opportunity Barrett!

Here is a picture of the Illinois River (home of Red neck fishing

) from Grand View Drive in Peoria Heights Illinois, taken with Pearl in hand. As far as the Asian Carp (an evading species) in the link, it is really bad in certain spots. My limited experience on the river is the hull of the boat, especially aluminum hulls, hitting the waves excites them to jump. It is quite an experience to have them land on the boat or go whizzing by your head. They are nasty slimy and ugly. I do think the Asian Carp population explosion has helped the Bald Eagle population in the area though. Driving to work one day I saw a Bald Eagle that was struggling to clear the bridge with what looked like a huge Asian Carp in its talons.


Here is a picture of a fishing knife. I have this GEC and a Case version. My buddy has a cabin in Wisconsin where we take fishing trips. Since I am not really a true fisherman, I'm thinking of giving the GEC to one of my buddies or brother through a game chance and keeping the Case in my tackle box.

I always thought "noodling" was redneck fishing. We took a little hike down to the Mississippi River on Wednesday (more on that below), and I afterwards, while reading about the lock and dam shown in the photo, I read that they permanently closed the Saint Anthony Falls lock a couple miles upstream to stop the spread of Asian carp.

I don't think I mentioned it after you sent Pearl to me and I realized that you lived near Peoria, but my wife and I lived in Peoria for a year just before moving to Arizona. She was in an internship at OSF St. Francis, and we actually housesat a couple times for a doctor who lived on Grand View Drive.

A couple weeks back, in the Adventures of Pearl thread, I shared some pictures from a trip that Pearl, Eleanor and I took to Minnehaha Falls, just south of Minneapolis. On Wednesday, we went back with my wife, and after checking out the falls again, we hiked the short trail that runs along the creek from the falls down to the Mississippi River. Here's a panoramic shot I took of the Mississippi. Upstream (on the left) you can see Lock and Dam No. 1. On the far right of the photo is the mouth of Minnehaha Creek where it empties into the river.

I didn't take any new pictures of the falls this time, but here are a few I shared previously in the Pearl thread. (All of the ice next to the falls is now gone, and the trees are looking much greener.)

Above the falls.

Below the falls.

 

[Vaporstang]

Thanks again for the bump, GT! That looks like a fine place for a summer vacation, I can see why you go back every year!



I always thought "noodling" was redneck fishing. We took a little hike down to the Mississippi River on Wednesday (more on that below), and I afterwards, while reading about the lock and dam shown in the photo, I read that they permanently closed the Saint Anthony Falls lock a couple miles upstream to stop the spread of Asian carp.

I don't think I mentioned it after you sent Pearl to me and I realized that you lived near Peoria, but my wife and I lived in Peoria for a year just before moving to Arizona. She was in an internship at OSF St. Francis, and we actually housesat a couple times for a doctor who lived on Grand View Drive.

A couple weeks back, in the Adventures of Pearl thread, I shared some pictures from a trip that Pearl, Eleanor and I took to Minnehaha Falls, just south of Minneapolis. On Wednesday, we went back with my wife, and after checking out the falls again, we hiked the short trail that runs along the creek from the falls down to the Mississippi River. Here's a panoramic shot I took of the Mississippi. Upstream (on the left) you can see Lock and Dam No. 1. On the far right of the photo is the mouth of Minnehaha Creek where it empties into the river.

I didn't take any new pictures of the falls this time, but here are a few I shared previously in the Pearl thread. (All of the ice next to the falls is now gone, and the trees are looking much greener.)

Above the falls.

Below the falls.

Yes - Beautiful homes along Grand View Drive! Definitely out of my price range. It is inevitable that the Asian Carp will keep spreading. Awesome pics!

[Edit: of course my earlier post is my official entry...]

 

[glocktenman]

Alright! I'd really like one of those bullnoses!
This pic is one I recently took at Vilano Beach, FL. It's near porpoise point where you can often see dolphins.

This pic is of Daytona Beach, FL. I was digging the cloud coverage that day.

This pic is of me with a jack crevalle I caught between Playa De Carmen, Mexico and Cozumel. That fish kicked my butt for a few minutes! LOL!

The next pic is of an alligator we saw on an airboat ride-tour out of New Orleans. Small to medium gator. They feed them "marsh" mallows.

For my knife picture I'll post my famous canoe on a canoe in acrylics......next posting.

 

[glocktenman]

Canoe on a canoe....Goldhead State Park lake-pond.


This has been a very cool thread. I've seen others who are near the Ichetuknee Springs, which I've tubed and snorkeled down several times. Others have been trout fishing in Arkansas. My son and I took one of the most memorable fishing trips drown the White River in Arkansas from the Cotter Dam. We caught trout all day and had a super shore lunch made by the guide. It's a small world!

Thanks for the give away.

 

[meako]

I hate it when the beach is so crowded.

Puma junior jacaranda scales . snappier than a crocodile whos just read an Al Jaffee book.

 

[Henry Beige]

Thanks again for the bump, GT! That looks like a fine place for a summer vacation, I can see why you go back every year!



I always thought "noodling" was redneck fishing. We took a little hike down to the Mississippi River on Wednesday (more on that below), and I afterwards, while reading about the lock and dam shown in the photo, I read that they permanently closed the Saint Anthony Falls lock a couple miles upstream to stop the spread of Asian carp.

I don't think I mentioned it after you sent Pearl to me and I realized that you lived near Peoria, but my wife and I lived in Peoria for a year just before moving to Arizona. She was in an internship at OSF St. Francis, and we actually housesat a couple times for a doctor who lived on Grand View Drive.

A couple weeks back, in the Adventures of Pearl thread, I shared some pictures from a trip that Pearl, Eleanor and I took to Minnehaha Falls, just south of Minneapolis. On Wednesday, we went back with my wife, and after checking out the falls again, we hiked the short trail that runs along the creek from the falls down to the Mississippi River. Here's a panoramic shot I took of the Mississippi. Upstream (on the left) you can see Lock and Dam No. 1. On the far right of the photo is the mouth of Minnehaha Creek where it empties into the river.

I didn't take any new pictures of the falls this time, but here are a few I shared previously in the Pearl thread. (All of the ice next to the falls is now gone, and the trees are looking much greener.)

Above the falls.

Below the falls.

Point of information: Minnehaha Falls is well within the city limits of Minneapolis. Minnehaha Creek flows about 22 miles east from the eponymous Lake Minnetonka through several suburbs into Minneapolis, over Minnehaha Falls, and shortly thereafter, into the Mississippi River.

 

[5K Qs]

Not an entry, but Barrett's falls photos inspired me to post a couple of pics of falls on the Tahquamenon River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Here's a pic of a 4" Buck clip/spey toothpick at the Lower Falls:

After a 4-mile hike along the river through woods, swamps, and meadows, you find the Upper Falls, pictured here with a Colt canoe:

Here's a pic focused on the Upper Falls:

- GT

 

[btb01]

Point of information: Minnehaha Falls is well within the city limits of Minneapolis. Minnehaha Creek flows about 22 miles east from the eponymous Lake Minnetonka through several suburbs into Minneapolis, over Minnehaha Falls, and shortly thereafter, into the Mississippi River.

You are, of course, correct. I should have more accurately stated that it’s “just south of downtown Minneapolis.” And while I think I mentioned in the Pearl thread that Minnehaha Creek originates at Lake Minnetonka, I failed to mention it in this thread (you know, the one with "Lake Minnetonka" in the thread title).

It just so happens that this morning while we were out running errands, we ended up near Gray's Bay, which is the point at which Lake Minnetonka flows into Minnehaha Creek. There's a small dam (Gray's Bay Dam), and nice walkway across the water on the creek side of the dam.

This is the view of Gray's Bay from the dam.

Turn around and you get this view of the beginning of the creek.

Here is the walkway that goes over the creek. (The creek goes to the left, and the lake is to the right, beyond the walkway.)

At the far end of the walkway from the dam (just behind me in the photo above) is a neighborhood of what I'm sure are very reasonably-priced homes.

I think I'll let this GAW run for one more day, then draw for the winner tomorrow, so if anyone else would like to enter, now's your chance.

One more look at the prize, in case anyone is on the fence about entering and needs some enticement.

 

[btb01]

I just finished getting caught up on the "Let's Talk GEC" thread and thought that I should add a disclaimer here:

The #71 Bull Nose that you're entering for a chance to win here has a strong pull.

Just so you know.

 

[Copperberry]

Well okay I’ll throw my name in the hat. While I already have one of these bad boys, I sharpened it down too skinny trying to sharpen out the blade rap with my worksharp and it legitimately upsets me every time I open her up.

In honor of the OP this is my first ever glimpse of the Mississippi, I bet he’ll recognize the view!

As for the knife photo, I have to post the beauty this would be replacing should I win

 

[Nature Boy]

Not an entry, as the pulls are too light for me...and I already have one...
Thanks for the GAW, though, and for showing the waters of Lake Minnetonka! I’ve heard it’s the place to go to purify yourself...
Walking up one the the creeks that empties into Canandaigua Lake.

 

[FLymon]

Count me in! Very generous giveaway and a great looking knife!

Last body of water I visited was the Gulf of Mexico, 3 weeks ago I think. I took this picture walking the beach and while I had my phone I did not have a knife on me at the time, I will add a picture of my Bullnose out in the woods.

Thanks for the chance!

 

[JTB_5]

Count me in! Very generous giveaway and a great looking knife!

Last body of water I visited was the Gulf of Mexico, 3 weeks ago I think. I took this picture walking the beach and while I had my phone I did not have a knife on me at the time, I will add a picture of my Bullnose out in the woods.

Thanks for the chance!

That looks like Pensacola beach with that pier sticking out like that and those blue beach chairs.

 

[meako]

Happier days. My sons on Kangaroo Creek

The three of them together .Eagle Rock .Royal National Pk.

Flatwater Freddy .Bushrangers Bay .

 

[Jack Black]

Really enjoying your pics folks Great giveaway thread Barrett

 

[donn]

Wow what a great thread! I've really enjoyed seeing everyone's pictures!
NOT an entry but I thought I'd post a few pics.
The UK is so small nowhere is more than 72miles from the coast, so even a landlubber like myself can get out to the coast in a day.
Unfortunately my nearest coast is pretty unremarkable with the horizon covered in gas and oil platforms and windfarms

This is the Lancashire coast at Heysham with the mountains of the Lake District N.P in the distance. The knife rests on whats left on the SV Vanadis, a sailing ship wrecked in 1903.

Crosby Beach. A few miles north of the city of Liverpool. Gas platform on the horizon.

I live on the edge of what was the South Lancashire coalfields. Due to mining subsidence a lot of man-made lakes formed which are called "Flashes"; some of them pretty deep and pretty big. This is Pennington Flash near the town of Leigh in Greater Manchester.

My actual closest body of water is the Leeds-Liverpool canal dug between 1770 and 1816 to link those two cities.

And I guess this counts. This is in the city of Portsmouth, home base to the Royal Navy. That's HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's latest aircraft carrier, in the background.

 

[Cambertree]

Great thread you’ve inspired with this giveaway, Barrett.

Thought I’d sneak in a few more pics of bodies of water (and knife content) before you wind it up...

Travelling by sampan up into the delta of the Kelantan River, near the border between Thailand and Malaysia.

Arriving at an island once owned by my great great grandfather, the live-in Malay caretaker cut open a coconut with his forged golok with guttapercha handle, to offer me a cool drink...

Looking off a clifftop out into the Southern Ocean, off the west coast of Victoria, Australia.

An ancient anvil-stone overlooks this sheltered cove, where shellfish were cracked open, and flint cores for knives and tools broken out of the encasing marine concretion.

The rock on the beach in the foreground here is flint.

These pieces are actually from Aomori, on the northernmost tip of Honshu in Japan, but you get the idea...

A prehistoric knife and axe grinding ‘factory’ in the bed of an undisclosed river in New South Wales.

Trout and Sambar deer country, up in the Alpine National Park, Victoria, on the edge of an abandoned Chromite mine.

And back closer to home, one of the creeks about 5 minutes drive from my place on the east side of Melbourne.

 

[Chief]

Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park. Try to go there every year around aspen turning time. Had to wait for the ripples from the green cut throat trout to stop for a perfect mirror.

Sacred Falls, Oahu. Access only by air.

Lake Hefner, close to where I live now.

My most valuable knife, my dad's. Thanks for the giveaway, can never resist the chance to show off a couple pics.

 

[Half/Stop]

A view of the Washington Monument looking across the Tidal Basin from near the Jefferson Memorial.

My most valuable knife, my paternal Grandfathers Old Timer 8OT!

 

[Half/Stop]

The Atlantic in the background taken from the pier at Tybee Island GA.