June 14
We headed northwest from Harnischfeger Park 153 miles to Camp Holiday RV Park near Boulder Junction, WI to spend two nights and join Dick's nephew Lance and his wife Martha and children Daniel and Rachel who by coincidence were spending the week at YMCA Camp Nawakwa on Little Crooked Lake located on the Lac de Flambeau Indian Reservation. We started by nearly getting lost trying to find our way about 12 miles from the RV camp to the "Y" camp on local roads around several lakes. Too many turns.
Lance loves fishing and has a nice boat similar to the one Dan had. Lance picked Dick up at 5:30 am the next morning to go fishing on Little Crooked Lake. We caught a few smallmouth bass then about 8:30 we met up with the rest of the family and Pat and Lance and Martha treated us to a local camp Breakfast on the Point. The weather was windy and cool but we all ate well on open fire cooked pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash browns and juice. Martha and Rachel even canoed over to the point and back.
Dick, Lance and Daniel went fishing and landed and released a number of nice smallmouth bass on a variety of lures and rubber worms. That evening after Pat demonstrated and cooked up a delicious Tracy favorite of pizza on the grill over an open fire and some s'mores, Pat, Dick and Lance went out fishing and Pat proved that their family Wisconsin fishing license was worth it by catching about six or seven nice smallmouths, outfishing both of the guys!
Next morning before breaking camp at the RV park Dick and Lance again fished and this time worked surface lures and rubber worms very successfully in some shallow bays on Little Crooked Lake. Dick even landed one largemouth. Pat was gracious enough to do laundry while they were out. We said goodbye to Lance Martha and the kids and after returning to Nawakwa one more time, to retrieve Dicks fishing shirt he had left in Lance's truck, headed off for Minnesota to get us closer to Detroit Lakes, MN where we are to attend a Flatt family reunion with relatives of Pat's father's family we had met only over the phone and internet. The reunion is to be on Sunday the 19th but we told a distant cousin, John Flatt, we would get in a day or two early and meet him and his family. We crossed into Duluth, MN from Superior, WI by way of a high bridge on highway 535, and the view of Duluth and surrounding area was amazing. We had never been into northern MN before. Visited a beautiful welcome center then found another RV park at Saginaw Campground in Saginaw, MN a few miles west of Duluth.
We headed northwest from Harnischfeger Park 153 miles to Camp Holiday RV Park near Boulder Junction, WI to spend two nights and join Dick's nephew Lance and his wife Martha and children Daniel and Rachel who by coincidence were spending the week at YMCA Camp Nawakwa on Little Crooked Lake located on the Lac de Flambeau Indian Reservation. We started by nearly getting lost trying to find our way about 12 miles from the RV camp to the "Y" camp on local roads around several lakes. Too many turns.
Lance loves fishing and has a nice boat similar to the one Dan had. Lance picked Dick up at 5:30 am the next morning to go fishing on Little Crooked Lake. We caught a few smallmouth bass then about 8:30 we met up with the rest of the family and Pat and Lance and Martha treated us to a local camp Breakfast on the Point. The weather was windy and cool but we all ate well on open fire cooked pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash browns and juice. Martha and Rachel even canoed over to the point and back.
Dick, Lance and Daniel went fishing and landed and released a number of nice smallmouth bass on a variety of lures and rubber worms. That evening after Pat demonstrated and cooked up a delicious Tracy favorite of pizza on the grill over an open fire and some s'mores, Pat, Dick and Lance went out fishing and Pat proved that their family Wisconsin fishing license was worth it by catching about six or seven nice smallmouths, outfishing both of the guys!
Next morning before breaking camp at the RV park Dick and Lance again fished and this time worked surface lures and rubber worms very successfully in some shallow bays on Little Crooked Lake. Dick even landed one largemouth. Pat was gracious enough to do laundry while they were out. We said goodbye to Lance Martha and the kids and after returning to Nawakwa one more time, to retrieve Dicks fishing shirt he had left in Lance's truck, headed off for Minnesota to get us closer to Detroit Lakes, MN where we are to attend a Flatt family reunion with relatives of Pat's father's family we had met only over the phone and internet. The reunion is to be on Sunday the 19th but we told a distant cousin, John Flatt, we would get in a day or two early and meet him and his family. We crossed into Duluth, MN from Superior, WI by way of a high bridge on highway 535, and the view of Duluth and surrounding area was amazing. We had never been into northern MN before. Visited a beautiful welcome center then found another RV park at Saginaw Campground in Saginaw, MN a few miles west of Duluth.
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Dick - do you have any comments on the Flatt family reunion? Detroit Lakes, MN, eh? Our daughter-in-law is from Detroit Lakes! Whoa! Small world ..as DL is NOT a big place either!
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