Mom finally went out on the boat with me. The river was a little choppy because the wind was coming and going but the boat was pretty stable. She seemed to enjoy herself.

I was hoping to show her the Eagles that have been flying around the river but they must have been hiding. I did show her the eagles nest but there weren’t any eagles in it. I have watched the eagles fly around several times.

She had never seen the houses with riverfront property from the perspective of the river so that was interesting to her. I have a dream to someday have one of the houses on the river. I think it would be pretty awesome to put some poles out in the morning and sit behind my computer looking out a window at my poles.

I Don’t know why I am sharing these pictures of nasty bugs. I am not even sure why i took these pictures but I did so here they are. I know the first one is a wasp I think the second one is some sort of beetle but it really doesn’t matter i am just sharing.

This was a pretty fun day. Well even if it wasn’t I can pretend anyway. Well as you can see in the pictures above My mom is wearing camo. Not sure what got into her to make her want to but it created some smiles.

When Grandma offered me the trolling motor she also gave me some of Grandpa’s hunting stuff. When mom saw it all she was pretty excited she liked the light stuff and she put it on. She wanted to send these pictures to some people she wanted to be sure to get her ladybug coffee cup in the picture.

Then we sent the pictures out and waited for replies.

Since I have been boating I have wanted a trolling motor. For convenience and for safety. My grandma had mentioned that she had an old one in her basment that I was welcome to check out and see if it still worked.  All it needed was a 12 volt battery and it was alive.

I was very surprised with how the little trolling motor was able to move the boat. It actually cruised around without any trouble as long as i wasn’t trying to use it in the river and fight the current. I played with it for several hours the first day i had it in the water.

What I like most about trolling is being able to stand on the front of the boat and slowly jig and cast and be able to cover more water. I have found that it is very useful when the fish are not biting in the area I start to fish. Before having the trolling motor i would have to pull up anchor and try to start the gas motor. Now i almost never use an anchor i just float around and when I get in a shallow area or too close to shore or a tree I can just slowly move out of the way.

Trolling disturbs the water a lot less and I think it greatly increases the chances of not scaring away the fish.

As most of the loyal readers know Minnie was hit by a car. You can read grandmas update on Minnie here. Minnie Rose. Grandma and I took Mini back to the Madison emergency animal hospital for her check up to see how she was healing after all the surgery. Everything checked out well and Minnie is recovering to the best that could be expected.

While waiting for Minnie to have her exam at the animal hospital Grandma and I found a place to park and look at the lake in Madison. As you can see in the picture above it started to sleet. This was the first time of this winter season that we had sleet.

When I was a child I remember Grandma and Grandpa taking me to a restaurant in Janesville WI called Shakeys. Grandma and I were going to see if they were open and we sadly found that they had gone out of business. So we were forced to find another place to eat on out way home.

Grandma and I found a place in Janesville called Milwaukee Grille it wasn’t busy so we decided to go in and check it out. We both ordered their special Chicken thingy and onion fries. Lunch was very good and more food then either of us could finish.

I snapped this pic of mom getting ready to go out. She had some Dr appointments this day. I thought it was kinda unique because of the way i took the picture of the mirror so it also caught my cellphone taking a picture of itself.  might sound goofy to you reading it. but o-well. I can be goofy when I want to.

After her appointments and a little shopping we went out for lunch at Old Chicago. We took these pictures to intentionally tease Doug and Grandma. When mom and I go out for lunch we like to take pix and send them to a few people. Its a lot of fun sometimes to see their replies.

Doug responded to the pix I sent to him with a picture of his lunch an apple. It was pretty silly and gave both mom and I a smile when I received the image from him.

Brandon was a cow for Halloween. Michelle sent me this picture on Halloween day just before trick or treat. I think he makes a pretty cute cow hehe. I know he had a good time trick or treating. He wanted to be an airplane for trick or treat but its not easy to find a airplane costume so he had to settle for the cow. If he is still into airplanes next year I hope he can dress up as one then.

This picture is of my boat shortly after i finished installing the seats. They make the boat a lot more comfortable especially when spending several hours on the river. Now that i have used the seats several times i don’t think I would ever want to go fishing in a boat with standard benches. The seats make it so much easier for me and 1 passenger.

I finally am back trying to get some posts written. I have more then 100 pix I would like to publish for all of the readers of huntpix.com. I am sorry about neglecting the site and not posting as often as I should have. I have been busy with many things and huntpix.com just hasn’t been my priority.

I have done a lot of fishing and i have several pix of fish my boat and some modifications i have made to the boat. I have also been experimenting with some different lures and good stuff like that.

I hope everyone will start sharing the site with others and posting comments again. I would really love it if someone out there wanted to make a post. Just let me know and i can walk ya through getting your post made here.

This pix is of the biggest sucker I have caught this year. The picture really doesn’t show the fishes true size well. But anyway it was a lot of fun to catch and actually one of the few fish I have caught this year that ran my drag out. it isnt exactly the most desirable kind of fish to catch but at least it keeps my fishing energy level up.