What a fun fishing weekend!  My hubby, my dad, and me!  We started out Friday near Cawker City.  First stop, the Little Bait Shop for minnows.  And just a few miles away is Glen Elder Lake.

I just gotta say, if you find your fishing honey spot, life is great!  Here it is……

The secret spot.  Now don’t tell anybody, especially anyone who lives in Kansas that likes to fish, but we caught (put in the boat) 58 crappie in an afternoon.  Maybe another 40 were lucky and got to stay for awhile longer because, for various reasons, we lost ‘em before they made it to the boat!

One, after another, after another……..you see how it goes?  Pretty much wears a person down!!

What a beautiful day!  Calm, warm, just perfect.  One last cast……

You must call LAST CAST on a day like this or you’ll NEVER leave!! 

Because when you leave a lake in Kansas, you might never know what’s behind you…..

Only then are you glad you had your last cast when you did!!

WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! First, I have to tell you how I came up with the winner, right??  I thought about you guys a LOT while I was hard at work this weekend!

I decided Saturday morning that whatever the number of fish we caught between 3 of us on Saturday, would be the comment number I would choose.  Very fair and random, keeping in mind there were loads of great comments from lots of deserving folks!!   BTW, we caught 58 crappie on Friday!!  WOW, was that fun!  I’ll give you that story tomorrow.

This, my internet friends, was fish (walleye) number….5!!!

Congrats to WENDY, comment number 5, who was either going camping at Texas State Park or to the San Antonio Zoo.  Whatever you did, Wendy, I hope you had loads of fun!!  I’ll be sending this lovely your way!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by this weekend.  I sure enjoyed reading all your weekend plans.  I’ll be doing this again cuz it’s just so much fun.  Maybe in a few weeks to celebrate the marriage of youngest daughter.  YES, that would be a good reason for another giveaway.  Her wedding date, you ask?  May 22!!   Woo hoo!!  I should probably quit sewing and start planning, maybe?

I recently went fishing with my dad at Glen Elder Lake in north central Kansas.  I’m really not much help with getting the boat ready or hooking it up or anything like that.  My dad does all the work.  I’m just there for the fishing.   What a girl!  By the way, I do bait my own hook and take off my own fish, so there!

We went by an interesting “tourist” attraction on the way to the lake in Cawker City, KS, that I’m sure you all are dying to see.

It’s the World’s Largest BALL of TWINE! 

And then we went on to The Little Bait Shop for minnows, notice the sign!  We didn’t HONK or HOLLAR….I hope that was OK?

OH, wait!  I CAN pull the boat trailer OUT of the water and park the truck.  That’s pretty good, isn’t it?

Not a bad lake day, except for that Kansas wind that comes up when you least expect it.

And well, this one’s just for fun!

This is what we were catching that day…..lots of crappie!

I will admit, I do think it’s kind of pathetic answering a cell phone while catching a fish, out in the middle of nowhere, but hey, when kids call, you gotta answer!

At the end of the day, we had 30 crappie in the boat.  That’s not counting ALL we missed or the ones we put back.

THAT was a fun day!  Thanks Dad and HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

This would be my favorite springtime meal!  And it’s so quick and easy.  It takes just 10 minutes TOTAL time to cook.

                          Start with some fresh caught crappie……or anything else you might be catching.

               The ingredients are simple….. half flour, half corn meal and some salt and pepper in a baggie.

      Heat up some oil in your skillet, I use half olive oil and half canola.  For pure health, use olive oil

          Now, put a bunch of your fish fillets in the bag and coat them (see, your fingers never get dirty!).

                                                                      They should look like this.

Start frying!  I think they cook about 3 or 4 minutes on each side.  Make sure they cook long enough so you can easily turn them over with tongs without breaking into a million pieces.

And while the fish are turning a golden brown, put your fresh picked asparagus into a glass dish and microwave with just a bit ‘o water for about 3 minutes.

                                                                  OMG!  Can you hear them sizzle??

                                                  And look what you have in 8 SHORT MINUTES!

                          Add a pad of butter and a little garlic salt to your asparagus and WA-LAH……

          There’s a PERFECT meal!  Then I started to think, did that really just take 10 minutes???  WELL……

                                                     I guess I didn’t include the afternoon of fishing……..

Or a morning of asparagus picking with my good friend, Henry, and his mom, Maggie.  BUT, I sure had a lot of fun getting my ingredients the good ‘ole fashioned way! (I know my pic is a little large, but Henry is just SO darn cute I wanted to show him off!)

PS.  If you don’t have a pond or lake nearby, don’t fret, fresh/frozen white fish fillets from the grocery will do just fine!

                                                                                                                     ENJOY!