Bluegill Mania

Went to Enemy Swim lake today for a team effort bluegill attack

Everybody is catching fish

One of the bluegill queens, Ms Kelsey.

Adam and Sushi Perch!

Team Bluegill

Bob and Deb Stroud, John and Kelsey Spontanske, Adam and Heather Spotanske, Karen and I.

Serious damage on Enemy Swim Lake !

The fish of the day, 25 3/4" Walleye, 7 lbs !!

Walleyes at Webster, South Dakota

The girls had a big time today catching all the big Walleyes.

Kelsey and Karen chasing Walleyes

First big one of the day!

Another good one,

One right after another

Heather with a beauty!

Not a bad day!

These girls can fish, but they had great teachers!

Gregory County, South Dakota

Back in South Dakota at the Tokarczyk Ranch

Making the turn on SD  HWY 1806. 

Can see the buildings on the horizon.

Acres of sunflowers

A great dinner Monday night with Al and Barb Nelson from Virginia, MN

Cigars and flyswatters on the veranda!

New Antlers for the hunting lodge, courtesy of Tom Powell from Riverton, WY.

Karen is cooking her pecan crusted fish for dinner with the Lubbers brothers.

Badlands National Park

Went through Badlands National park today. Absolutely awesome!

Saw buffalo, bighorn sheep, mule deer, antelope and even a coyote exiting a prairie dog town!

One of the many overlooks as you drive along the wall of the badlands

Mule deer

Bighorn sheep

Stay on the boardwalk!

The Badlands

And thousands of prairie dogs!

Oh, for a couple hundred rounds of .223's and a shooting bench!

Beautiful!

Nice landscape too!

Wall Drug, South Dakota

You can't go to western South Dakota without stopping at Wall Drug.

Stopped in Alzada, Montana for a Bloody Mary at the Stoneville Saloon. A popular watering hole between Billings and Sturgis.

Karen got a part time job in Wall, SD saddle breaking wild Jackalopes!

Tomorrow we head to Badlands National Park for the day.

Karen's big day on the Bighorn River

We fished the Bighorn River today and had a great day. Lots of fish and big ones too!

Browns and Rainbows galore!

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Bighorn River float trip

Fished the bighorn river today for browns and rainbows, caught some really nice fish. Karen and I are going back tomorrow for more. I went by myself today and Karen says I was prefishing for her.

Drift boat below the Ft. Smith dam on the Bighorn River

First Brown of the day!

The next Brownie a short way down stream

A nice solid Brown Trout

Rainbow in the net!

A really nice rainbow on the Bighorn River

A really nice female rainbow in 2 ft of water.

A nice brownie drift fishing!

My task master Richie , even put me in the penelty box for five minutes. I've got a lot to learn about this big river fly fishing. Did catch some really nice fish today, had a great teacher!