Location: Roberd Lake, Wells, MN (40 miles or so south of MN)
Today’s pictures.
All pictures.
After a very late night with Brian @ the ER for his stiches we slept in for quite a while and didn’t hit the water until 10AM or so. The docks are old and nearing their useful life, but they work and off we went in a pontoon boat:
We had 3 bottled waters, a bag of new lures from Cabelas’:
and high hopes! That were soon dashed. Not a bite. Nothing but weeds. The water, while looking nice from afar was actually dense with weeds and floating particulates. In some places (on the leeward side of the lake) the particulates were so thick lures couldn’t even sink into the water. We tried for a few hours, but were skunked. As were all the fisherman on the lake.
We called it quits for a bit and went in to grab the ladies for a boat tour of the lake. We decided to let Jenny skipper it. That worked as long as we reminded her occasionally that she was driving the boat:
We did the 5 mile loop around the shoreline, admiring the lakeside houses and occasional wildlife:
We took the boat out a that afternoon, and then that evening again. No luck. No bites. Nothing.
We asked the owner of the resort “Are there fish in this lake?”. He says, tons, but they fed all night on the shiners that proliferate the lake and pretty much don’t eat during the day.
Would have been nice to know before we picked this lake and rented a boat!
We decided that tomorrow we will do Mall of America and Northfield, MN and then the next day move west, leaving Roberd’s Lake a day early.
It’s a shame something this lovely:
is so weedy and icky underneath.
And it also explains the smell when we got here. We thought it was the fish cleaning shack (ominously empty!) but it was undoubtedly rotting weeds.
Needless to say, any future lake houses we own won’t be on Roberds Lake. But on the positive side, this is a lesson in what to look for in a lake besides a pretty view.