Good fishing
Not sure catching no fish is really good fishing, but I felt it was good fishing still. This weekend one of our friends from our congregation told us about Alma Boat Float. Alma Boat Float is located in Alma WI, but to fish at their dock either a Minnesota or Wisconsin licence will work, because their dock is in the water, and I guess it Federal waters. It is a little over 100 miles from the MOA which is great because even though it’s well south of the cities and I believe the water would be cleaner, it’s still close enough to home. It took us a little under 2 hours to drive there even with taking a wrong turn and missing our exit and driving past it.
We brought dad a long with us and he really enjoyed himself too. It’s 15$ for taking the ferry over to the dock. There’s a tiny dock that you wait on for the fairy to go across the water. This was the only really unsettling part, I was more worried about dad or someone falling off. It’s right next to railroad tracks there’s a set of two there and boy those trains move fast, and to be honest there’s no real warning a train is on it’s way so we had to be mindful. When the train goes by, boy that little dock really rocks which is amazing because you’d think a river water would not be affected by a train. Alma is right near where the Pepin lake comes into the Mississippi. Even if you don’t enjoy fishing the drive is worth it, it is beautiful and majestic, plus they have different types of shops. I have never been down there so I was amazed. Some parts of it reminded me of a town in my home state, there are definitely some nice cliffs and hills, and plenty of trees with the lake we passed with plenty of boats on it that day it would have made a great painting.
We got to the fish float dock, and waited for the ferry, we waited for about a half hour because we came a little later in the morning, the earier the better. To bad they don’t make pills for sun screen protection like they make best diet pills. I need to find some kind of good sun screen that my skin won’t break out to, I am not as burned as I could have been but I did get a little to much sun. Normally I do not burn more then once a year but I think on a river I might end up being more easily burned especially if it’s a clear day on the river.
My husband caught a few fish, none we could take home, he had a wallie or something which isn’t in season, and a bass of some kind which was way to tiny and not in season, and 2 sheephead fish. We where told if we got sheephead to throw back because they are not worth eating. Found out later they are all bones and no meat, doesn’t sound interesting to me.
Habits are hard to break, because I keep trying to fish, with the style of fly fishing but when you’re not using the right pole for that, that technique doesn’t work as well. I almost caught 3 fish but LOL they caught my worm and ran away. I gotta figure out a better way to get them on the hook and keep them there.
The water was pretty clean and you could see a bunch of little tiny fish by the dock swimming.
I will say I am impressed with the owners, it would be very easy for them to take advantage of their visitors but they didn’t. They where reasonable, which made us happy. We needed Minos and I like fishing with worms, I can’t seem to keep the mino on my hook LOL they get stolen very quickly, so I prefer worms which is the first type of bait I used, and what I seem to have more luck. Even though on the dock the only place to get bait was from them there prices were very reasonable.
Dad got hungry and didn’t want another p&j sandwich and asked for a hot dog, I went over there and got dad a hot dog, it was only 2.75$ which is good because we all know some places would charge more then that for a hotdog. Later that day hubby and I got hungry, and I had a grill cheese and a side of fries, and hubby had a cheese burger. I was surprised it was only 4.25 for his burger, because had he got fries it would have been only 5.25 I want to say or maybe a little over 6 bucks I can’t remember, by the end of our day, we spend 19 between minos, worms and food 3 of us which was very good. Dad said he wanted to go back, so maybe we won’t have to go to the casino so much this summer, but I will have to make sure that I have homework completed some how because Sundays are usually get done with homework or at least a good percentage of it. We stayed fishing for about 6 hours casino usually we leave at 4ish and return at 9ish, and it’s only a 45 minute drive.
I would recommend this to families like my hubby and I who don’t exactly have a lot of money to spend but want to go fishing out on the river and can’t afford the boat rental, Alma Fish Float would be a good place for Fishing with friendly people, and the owner seems like a good guy.. This was a lot cheaper then a boat rental, and it was better I think. The dock had plenty of places to sit down, and we didn’t even need dad’s chair we got him for sitting. There are a lot of stairs so I would say this is not handicap accessible to you need to be able to handle stairs and getting off the boat. Dad is 86 years old so this is a little bit of a challenge for him, but he was able to handle it, now my grandma I would never take her here because she don’t have the ability to walk.We might a few regulars and it was just a great experience all around. They even have a place you can stay for the night if you wanted. I am not sure if I would really want too with hubby and dad but it could be fun.
