Great Expectations Ministries

2011-10-23T10:01:00.001-05:00

More 2011 camp photos

2011-10-19T08:03:00.002-05:00

I will be adding all the new pictures in the next few days. Enjoy!

Summer Camp Updates from David Lindmark

2011-07-15T07:43:00.000-05:00

Middle School GEM camp at Shamineau was a great week but different from our usual camps in that we fit more into the host camp's total program. This meant that we fished on Shamineau the entire week. We caught lots of bass, a bonus walleye, and had a few muskie sightings. One muskie hit at boatside but got off. Food was terrific.

Camp 3 at Lutherdel

A great week of fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass as well as northerns, A good bunch of kids who were competitive but cooperative in our daily fishing tournaments.

Pictures from our fall outing on the Mississippi river 10-23

2010-10-28T17:02:00.000-05:00

We had a great outing out there, getting lots of walleyes down from the ford dam. nothing huge, but the kids all had a great time and learned how to nab those walleyes on a jig and minnow combo!

GEM Camp pics for Aug 2-6

2010-08-10T20:41:00.007-05:00

I was up for the week for this camp. The fishing was pretty good for bass, sunfish, and crappies, with a few pike too.

Wesley did good, catching lots of fish and learning how to unhook them!

On the last day we got onto a great crappie bite, averyone in the boat was getting em, sometimes 3 at a time!

GEM camp#4 pics

2010-07-31T23:47:00.001-05:00

Fishing was pretty good with lots of p[ike bass, and crappie being caught! great job kids!

Pics from GEM camp 3 at Boy lake 7/5-9

2010-07-13T20:51:00.007-05:00

Here are some pics of our latest camp. Many good fish were caught and everyone had a good time!

Corey gets a nice sunfish

Austin got many bass on a weightless radical glow tube

perch bit well on boy lake, no jumbos though

another big sunnie

plenty of pike around hitting spinners

Devon admires a nice bass

pair of pike

Our first Boy lake smallmouth since camp started!

Hunter boats his first walleye ever!

Nite bite, and a first crappie ever for evan!

Another sucessful camp in the books! thanks to everyone who helped make it happen. looks like I will be back for another one in august!

camp 2, metro day camps

2010-06-24T20:52:00.002-05:00

Dave, Jeff and Mitch have had some good fishing with the GEM kids around the metro, lots of action from many different species, including this bass that was 6 pounds!

Camp # 1 2010

2010-06-20T22:24:00.002-05:00

Catching my breath until day camps start next week. Here's a picture of last week's up north GEM Fishing camp minus guide Mitch who had to leave early. Lots of largemouth bass and northerns caught. Smallmouths, a favorite quarry, seemed to have lock jaw. Praise and worship with Luther Dell was good.

GEM Camp #1. Stormy weather, good fishing. Mitch Norman's boat won all three tournaments. All of of our 13 campers were believers, but some had never been baptized and wanted to be. I recently received a minister's license with International Ministerial Fellowship, and thus was privileged to baptize four of my campers. I may have thrown a few campers in the lake before, but baptising campers in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was a first for me.

FFL and GEM event

2010-05-24T21:27:00.005-05:00

Fishing for life and GEM were at a big boy scouts camp. the trout pond was a huge hit with the kids of all ages. We were also able to tell many kids about the fishing for life events and GEM fishing camps!
Special thanks to team midwest extreme outdoors for manning the trout pond all day, and cleaning all the fish!

GEM opener outing

2010-05-17T21:41:00.004-05:00

Me, Dave, and Casey, got out with some kids for opener on waconia lake. The walleyes were not revealing their secrets, so we switched to crappie and sunfish to get action. They were biting pretty good on the weed edges on gulp minnows and leeches. There were lots of small fish, but enough keepers in the mix too. Also we had a couple of big fish on, but they got away without us seeing them.

Casey and co...

Nice 'gill

not too big, but had a big appetite

More fishing action

Nice "crappie" haha

After a while, the kids in casey's boat wanted to try for pike, so they trolled a while with chatter baits, and Ryan hooked and got this lunker in for the photo and release! great work!

Dave got a monster too haha

Spring GEM crappie tourney!

2010-04-26T21:36:00.003-05:00

We had a great time out on the water for our Gem kids crappie tournament. the crappies were a bit reluctant, but enough were caught to make it interesting. All the kids had a good time even though it was kind of rainy and windy.

My week at GEM camp 7/6-10

2009-07-11T13:07:00.009-05:00

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!

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

2009-07-05T21:10:00.003-05:00

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

2009-07-05T20:56:00.003-05:00

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

Fishing for life kids outing

2009-06-03T20:08:00.004-05:00

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

GEM Spring outings

2009-05-28T06:15:00.004-05:00

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

GEM Auction 09

2009-04-21T21:22:00.004-05:00

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

Febuary ice outing!

2009-03-10T20:34:00.004-05:00

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

Ice fishing outing 1-19-2009

2009-01-20T21:39:00.003-06:00

Dave and wayne got out with a few kids for the first GEM fishing outing of the year! I wasn't able to go because it was on a work day. They had good fishing with lots of panfish on the feed, some kids got their first fish through the ice! Great job kids, and guides!

GEM kids outing on the Mississippi River

2008-10-20T20:02:00.004-05:00

We had a great time on our fall outing down on the backwaters fishing for panfish and bass.
The crappies were biting on plastics, some good gills too, the kids got some good largemouth bass action on plastic worms and tube baits. here are the pics from the day, the weather was great and the fish bit pretty good, though lots of duckweed and floating leaves made iot tougher than usual.

At the landing

on the water

Devon with a good bass

doug with a huge slab

casey and lucas

Andrew with a nice crappie

doug and Darius with some nice slabs

bass and kids go together!

A bass just hanging out!

Last Camp of the summer

2008-08-26T20:29:00.008-05:00

We had a great summer, thanks for everyone who helped with their time, finances, or fishing equipment! Here are the pics from the last camp!

GEM Day trips

2008-08-26T20:19:00.005-05:00

Sometimes we take a week off from up north and do day trips to some lakes around the metro area. Here are a few pictures from this summer...

Pics from the BWCA outing are up!

2008-08-02T19:20:00.003-05:00

We had a great time
Click these for each day reports and pics.

Day 1

Day2

Day3

Day 4-5

Nathan also took lots of good pics all week.

Nathans BWCA pictures

Camp 4 pics

2008-07-14T06:59:00.006-05:00

Looks like another excellent week at GEM fishing camp!
They had one problem of the pontoon trailer losing a wheel, but thankfully no real damage was done and no one was hurt.
Here are Daves pics for the week, enjoy!

Monster slab crappie! 2 + pounder

looks like the bass were biting!

cooling off after a hard days fishing

Pike girl!

You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheeel!

I thank the LORD for another successful GEM camp!

MT

Pictures from the 3rd camp

2008-07-10T07:36:00.007-05:00

Here are pics Dave gave me this week, looks like fishin was pretty good!

2nd GEM camp pictures

2008-06-25T03:10:00.003-05:00

I could not be at the 2nd summer fishing camp, but Dave got me some pictures and that was seconds best to being there! Nice pics Dave! It was a good week, everyone had a great time and got lots of fish!

First GEM camp of the summer

2008-06-14T10:41:00.008-05:00

I was blessed to be able to participate in the first GEM camp of the year at Lutherdel camp on Boy lake.
The kids were really good, they learned how to tie on lures, and catch bass, panfish, and pike.
For morning devotions we learned about the life of King David from a video and reading from the Bible. All the kids listened and also asked some great questions.
Some memorized Psalm 23 and John 3:16.
The weather was kind of cold and we had some rain with wind, but the kids did good with it, that made it a fun week.
here are some pics, enjoy!
MT

Minnesota Opener

2008-05-12T19:54:00.005-05:00

GEM fishing club had another successful outing on Minnetonka.
Many fish were caught, pike,bass, crappies, and sunfish.
It was a bit rainy but not too bad. thanks to everyone who came!

Spring panfish outing 4-26

2008-04-27T22:01:00.011-05:00

We had a great time at our spring?? outing this year thanks to Jim and Ted's excellent RV they brought to help keep us warm! Thanks guys! We decided not to bring the pontoon, a very good decision because we had 30 mph winds and snow. we fished off the dock at the park on medicine lake. the panfish were biting pretty good on small jigs and waxworms. we fished for a while and got enough for a small fish fry, Dave did devotions, then we went back out for another half hour and got a few crappies.
It was short but fun!

GEM auction pics

2008-04-08T20:49:00.003-05:00

A big thank you to all who worked hard to make this happen, and all who attended !
We raised enough funds to send many kids to GEM fishing camp!

The crappie kid grows up!

2008-04-04T21:34:00.003-05:00

GEM camper Justin, known 10 years ago as the crappie kid for catching this huge crappie over 2 pounds stopped by the auction and I got to take his pic next to his old big slab pic!

Ice Fishing 2007-8 slideshow

2008-03-23T22:01:00.002-05:00

Thought I would get the GEM blogs a rollin' with a slide show of some of the pics fronm our ice outings this winter...enjoy!