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Today's Amazing Astrocat photos...
Last
week I traveled north to scout fishing areas on the Red River between
Fargo and Pembina
near the Canadian border. I traveled mostly on gravel roads and crossed
many farm fields to get
to various fishing spots I had previously located with GPS and Google
Earth. I more or less headed
north along Highway 75, which I learned is one of the oldest roads in
our nation. Highway 75 follows
ancient Native American hunting trails and it stretches all the way
from Winnipeg down to the Gulf Of Mexico.
The landscape throughout the Red River Valley is, by and large, as flat
as a pancake, but there's a lot o
f interesting history waiting to be found in the old farming
communities along the way. Long ago, there
were a number of Hudson Bay Fur Company trading posts located at
various points up and down the river,
and back in the days before the railroads, there were many steamboats
transporting passengers and freight
to and from Winnipeg. Nowadays, sugar is king with thousands of huge
sugar beet farms seen everywhere
for miles and miles. The farmers claim this is some of the richest soil
to be found anywhere in the entire world.
Fishing on the Red is much different than fishing on the Mississippi,
the catfish are more numerous and
generally much larger, plus they prefer different baits and
presentations. It was a real pleasure meeting
and exchanging information with all the cat fishermen, and cat
fisherwomen, I met along the way,
the folks who fish the Red River really take their cat fishing
SERIOUSLY!
Near
Georgetown North Dakota
Grand
Forks, North Dakota
Catching
the big ones that are stacked up just below the dam in Drayton North
Dakota
Pembina is the oldest settlement in ND,
This church was built by Icelanders who later sold it to Ukrainian
immigrants.
Once or twice a year a priest comes down from Winnipeg and holds
services.
Huge farms along Highway 75, sugar beet
country
Climax Minnesota
Drayton North Dakota bills itself as
"Catfish Capital Of The North"
One of many old iron bridges crossing
the Red River, this one is near Climax MN and Buxton ND
Night fishing near Drayton, I pulled in
so many cats like this one that I lost count,
I kept fishing until I ran out of bait about 2. am. and then I called
it a night.
Astrocat, you do great
work!