Shelley Cooper

A very Merry Christmas To you and your's too Nanook... All the best for the New Year....

Happy Birthday Roger.... and many, many more....

Nice to see you got out... WTG Thanks for sharing..

Very Nice.... Congrats you two... You'll be hitting some nice whitey and laker grounds this year.... WTG...

Welcome aboard Fireball....

Good to hear Dawg... glad your feeling better...

My condolences to you and your family...

Very sorry for your loss Garry... All the best to you and your family...

I picked the same set up last summer on sale as well.... I love it..

Wow... Nice boat Emil... WTG...

Some real nice fish there guys... WTG....

Ditto.....

Nice Boat Garry.... nice report too.. Thanks for sharing...

Great shots.... Love the report dsn.... Thanks for sharing...

Ya.... What Joey said... Good for you Lew.. Hope you enjoy it...

It was good to see you again BiteMe... Glad you had a good time...

Yup... Some pretty yukky roads up our way too Lew... took me an hour to get into work today, usually a 20 min. ride with a stop at Timmies... In-Cab lesson's were cancelled so I went and did some much NEEDED xmas shopping... Back home now and its still coming down.... Drive safe all....

Congrats on your first Walleye Mike... wtg We're all glad we could help you out.. and sharing a cottage with you was easy.. we hardly new you were there... Glad you enjoyed your first BOQ trip too.... It sure was a great time..

Glen.... Nice Pike Cliff.. wtg

Sorry for the delay in posting, Kept having trouble with photobucket... grrrrr Finally headed out to BOQ Thursday afternoon around 4pm as we both had to work part of the day. Taking the back roads down took us a little longer, but we avoided the Toronto rush hour traffic, and landed at Cara’s just before Sam was about to close the doors. We all chatted a bit and I snooped around the store while Chuck and Sam talked about hunting. Chuck got to hold the big “rack” that Sam posted last week. We bought a few things and just before leaving, remember we wanted some minnows and worms. We tried to pay Sam for them, but he wouldn’t hear of it. He gave us some tips on where to fish, and we were off. Thank you Sam, that was very nice of you….and your tips sure paid off for us. We arrived at Merland’s around 10 pm and got ourselves unpacked and set up.. Enjoyed the company of those already there and hit the hay around 1am… Friday mornings view from the deck of “Pickerel Palace” We were all anxious to get out for the morning bite, but we couldn’t do anything but dock the boat until we got our things moved from this cottage, to cottage 10. (as Joey has already mentioned) so we sat around enjoying coffee and the company. Vatordude and his youngbuck (Kyle) arrived early Friday morning and came in to warm up.. Nice to meet you two.. We finally changed cottage and got on the water for a couple hours before dark and Chuck got his first personally best walleye around 8pds on a Barbie reef runner. Saturday morning we were up bright and early and on the water. Getting ready for the take off.. Within the first hour I get my PB walleye around 8 pounds on a watermelon reef runner and an entry for the derby. We continued to try several areas, trolling and trolling. Chuck decided to try out his little kicker motor and a T.J. pose.. We decided to go back to Merlands for a hot lunch and try again for the late afternoon bite. It was suggested we try Thompson’s point, and we did. Chuck gets his second PB of the weekend and the winning fish of the day. Over 11 pds and 30in long. Dark hand came and it was time to get off the water and go enjoy that wonderful potluck dinner. The spread was amazing; one couldn’t possibly have a taste of everything that was there. Thank you to everyone who helped put the potluck dinner together. Sunday morning we got out for a couple hours. The wind was crazy and it was hard to keep the boat on course once you got out around the big plant. We headed back in around 10 am to pack up and be out of the cottage for 11 am with no more luck with the fishing. Although Roy had arrived late Friday night, we hadn’t really got to see him as he was feeling very sick. Upon our return Sunday morning, Roy was up and feeling somewhat better. Good to see you again Roy. We’re all packed up and ready to go. Joey with her cam out, checking on her pic’s.. It was great to spend the weekend, sharing a cottage with you and Paul again. We had a really good time. Thanks for bringing me the olives. I hope you enjoy the wild leeks. It was a great weekend, had by all I’m sure. It was the best for me as this is the first walleye I’ve every caught on the BOQ and my PB as well. It is always a pleasure seing those we already new and meeting people we hadn’t met before. Thanks again to everyone for a great weekend. I hope everyone had a safe trip home. Shelley

Happy, Happy Birthday to you Lew.... and Paul Hope you have the best day ever...

Thanks all... Lew.. It sure is.. I was only hoping to catch my personal best... and I DID... Winning the tourney was a bonus....and a wonderful one, but it was Chuck who caught the winning fish... I hope to get the post up by morning.. pretty burnt out from the weekend.. lol Pete... I don't know why you couldn't reach us on the cell... we had a couple phone calls that day.... It was an awesome trip....

PM Sent...

Thanks Lew.. and everyone else... We'll be outa her in about an hour.. Hope to beat the snow thats coming our way.... And Lew.. a special THANK YOU from me.. If I hadn't read this post.. I WOULD HAVE FORGOTTEN MY CAMERA.... lol WE WILL take LOTS of pic's...

Chuck n I are planning to stop in on our way... Did you say SALE??