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Saturday, July 11, 2009

My week at GEM camp 7/6-10

I got to spend a week up fishing with the GEM kids. fishing was great, lots of bass, crappies, rockbass, and pike were willing to make a kids day! Most of the fish were caught on plastic worms, tubes, and flukes, some kids tried some live bait but soon found plastics worked even better. We had some pretty rowdy kids this week, Dave did a great job keeping order so i could get down to the business of getting kids on the best bite. Mitch came and helped out too when dave had to leave a day early, thank you Mitch!!!!

on with the pics!

Rileys first pike!


packing dinner to eat out on the lake



taking some time for singing praise songs. we also got to watch a video called God of Wonders, that showed how we could see the Glory of God in creation, very cool!





Some free time for fun and games



Tommy gets a good largemouth



kisha was just jigging for sunfish over the side of the boat, I was watching when the big bass came from under the boat and ate the plastic crappie minnow she was using! I told her to lift the rod and hold on! the battle was successful!


Darius gets a huge stump! I think he also caught more fish than all the other campers combines! way to get em!


As I said, the campers seemed a little wilder than usual, mabye it was the moooooon?



fishin on the pontoon









Nice gill girl!



crappie action



How big is it? I want to win that pop!






Devon boats a slab




I think the kids liked running the motorboat more than the fishing, they were always begging me to let them !







fun sized!


first pike!






fish fry time



that fish disappeared before I could get the camera out!



three men and a pike


We like to catch, photo, and release, all the nice fish for other kids to enjoy, we keep some smaller fish for our fish fry though





I thank the Lord for getting to be at fishing camp for the week!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

GEM camp at luther Dell 6/29-7/3

Dave and GEM campers and staff had another great outing this time up north. it looks like the bass and pike were cooperating nicely! I will find out next week as I will be up there monday through friday!



Alex Ramos: all smiles on a backwoods lake with a 5# bass

Alex ready to release the backwoods lake lunker to maybe be caught again by another GEM camper on another day.


Eric Dahlman with his first northern ever, but not his last!

Former GEM camper and now GEM guide, Elliott Washington. To see Elliott at age 15 with a 20lb northern, look at "camp pictures and activities" on the GEM web site.



GEM guide Gary with Jonathan and Adam. Gary did a number on the bass with a Senko work.





Camp two at the cross






Summer camp day camps in the metro 6/22-25

Sounds like dave and the kids had a great time exploreing the metro area lakes and rivers catching many different kinds of fish!

Nick with a nice Medicine Lake bass after he got bored catching crappies


Guide Jeff Bosshardt and Alex with a Mississippi smallmouth



Jack and Alex with a Mississippi northern


Cooling off


Day campers



Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Fishing for life kids outing

Me and Dave got the GEM boats out on weaver lake to help out with the fishing for life kids fishing outing. We had lots of kids show up eager to try going out on the water.
The kids I took out never have been in a boat or caught fish before. unfortunatly the fish didn't want to bite. it appears they recently killed the pondweed out and the fish were scattered and negative. a few fish were caught though. bluegill and bass mainly. Most of the kids had more fin zipping around the lake than fishing I think!


loading up the boats with kids



bass time




first fish ever!


the pontoon


kids fun contest for biggest fish



Minnow races


the winner, hey little guy, don't get a fat head! :)



cookin' up some dinner

Thursday, May 28, 2009

GEM Spring outings

We had some successful spring outings

We did opener on lake Waconia. a cold front had the walleyes sleeping, but panfish saved the day as they often do, everyone got fish. MT forgot his camera, good thing dave took some pics!










GEM helping with a neighborhood outreach







Wayne and Fred's Excellent canoeing adventure












Tuesday, April 21, 2009

GEM Auction 09

Some pictures from the GEM fund raiser auction. Thanks for attending everyone and making this another successful event!



































Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Febuary ice outing!

GEM got out for some perch, and walleye action on whitebear lake. fishin' was slow but still fun was had by all!


Ice house devotions


Zach with a pike and walleye



Mitch with pike



a few good perch


Matt Schweitz


Mark schweitz


Dave's monster walleye