Crooked Lake

Day 15 (7/29/09)
Today we tried Crooked Lake, one of the many lakes in the Kettle Moraine State Forest area. It was great. We planed on taking off kind of early but by the time we ate breakfast, watered plants and got everything ready to go it was 9:00. When we left there was little to no wind but when we got there it was quite windy. We decided because of that we would head up wind as far as we could go and drift back. After getting to the far end I started fishing and Eileen started stalking a crane. In spite of her stealth, it took off with the biggest ruckus I think I have ever heard from a single bird. She did manage to get a few good pictures of it before it took off. I managed to get one nice Northern on my ultra light pole which was a blast before the wind became too much of a hassle. After a couple hours we decided to call it a day and check out some of the other lakes for future reference. It was a great ride through the Kettles and we decided on the next trip we would try Mauthe Lake. At the Mauthe Lake information center we picked up some literature on the Kettle Moraine area. It gave us much to think about and we couldn’t believe we hadn’t been out there before. On the way home we stopped by the Renaissance bakery for some sweet treats. Sweet, pretty much summed up the whole trip and I can wait to get out there again.