June 8

8 guys 4 days, 5 nites
Temps in High 60’s
One afternoon/evening of Rain
1,421 Fish
1,252 Walleyes
169 Northern
14 Walleye 24" or above (2@27")
6 Northern over 30" (Longest 37")

Used Jigs w/Minnows or leaches
First day fish in 8-10' of water-
By last day fish in 18'-20' of water exception is the narrows and river to cromarte

Sycamore, Oswego, Elburn- IL
Madison, WI
Grand Rapids, MI

Terre Haute, IN

Bill, Kevin, Charlie

July 6, Fished 2:30 to 7:30 – 38 walleye, 12 Pike orange jig with chart. Body & leech 5' to 6' of water.

July 7, 1st full day fishing – 143 walleye 12 Pike – depth 9' to 16'. Best 10' to 12' chart jig with orange grub & leech. Windy sides of under water humps walleye sizes 26", 23 ¼", 21", 21" Small rain shower at noon.

July 8, Windy – some rain – 118 walleye 11 northern Pike, 8 walleye 20" or bigger. Biggest 21 ½" Fished hard all day on windy rock banks Best Depth 9' to 10'. Chart jig with ruby colored grubs && leeches. Ran out of grubs & changed to Ruby jig & chart grub and worked as well. Also caught several on Berkley 3" powergrub (gulp) in neon orange no leech.

July 9, Fished 9am to 5pm – 71 walleye – 13 northern no rain but very windy. Fished main lake hump in high winds. Had 3' waves. Best color orange anything on jigs. Jig combos that worked – orange/pink orange/chart- orange/chart& yellow. Orange color was more like a sherbet. Biggest walleyes so far today 25,24,24,21,20 ½ Caught fish 12' to 24' Best depth 20' to 18' Going back out at 7:30 to try evening bite.

Back from evening fishing on under water hump by Ruddy cove. Same colors as today. 41 walleye 0 northern fished to 10:15pm. Caught fish from 7'to 14' with 9' to 10' Best. 1-23" walleye total for day 112 walleye 13 northern windy to start but layed down as evening went on.

July10, Fish west end of main lake. 2/3 down. Same color on lures. Oranges seems to be main color. Sherbet or burnt orange very little wind to start with and went to 20 mph with 30 mph gusts. Got run off at 3pm by lighting. Went back out at about 7pm & got run off again. 86 walleye 3 northern 4 walleye 20& or better. Biggest 23" 8' to 20' deep with best depth 16'. So far 30 walleye over 20".

Last two days got to feed the eagle. If you see an eagle in a tree watching you, kill a small walleye and throw out into water. Get camera ready because h will come with in 20' of boat and pick right out of water. (Awesome)

July 11, More wind (white caps) fished humps main lake & hidden lake. Jigs & leeches still need orange on jig or grub. 104 walleye 7 northern (5 walleye over 20").

Fed the eagle again today.
Summation: 5 ½ days fishing
Total walleye 601 - 20 or better 35
Total Northern 59
Biggest walleye 26" Biggest N- 28 ½"
Good luck and good fishing

Aug 2 - 3

Dale, Dennis, Rachel, Angie, Mallory and Dan (aka Dipstick)

Worked at it - but about 75 walleyes over 2 days- Biggest 21"
36 ½" Northern by Rachel – off the dock – assisted by Angie
Great first time for the girls!!

Aug 4 - 7 Terre Haute, IN

Tim, Jackie, Scott, Terri. Cold Front Just Past

Aug 4,  Windy can’t hold boat still
Tim 1 – small Walleye 1 Pike
Terri 1 – small Pike; Long Road Trip 21 hours; Bedtime

Aug 5, Windy overcast Tim 1 – Walleye couple Pike; Terri 24" Pike off dock; catching small perch @dock & in first cove; Terri 1 – 16" Walleye from dock; Terri Walleye from dock 18" Still Windy.

Aug 6, Best day fishing rat-L- Trap Walleye & Pike Best Pike 31"; Best Walleye 20"
3' waves in main lake.

Aug 8, southerners figured out best approach run out of bait still have fish to cook & limit to go home hope to come back in future.

Aug 8 - 13, Owens Party of 2

Arrived Sunday afternoon. Fished for 2 hours. Couple of small ones. Major storm predicted, but never materialized. Hot, no wind. Made soup & got ready for Monday.

Aug 9, Monday - Up @ 6 out by 7:15. Caught several Northern, one perch & one walleye.
Around 10:15 small Northern caught & when I went to remove it IT happened! The Northern did a wiggle jump and one of the terrible hooks went DEEP into my pinkey. Holy Hanna! Both of us forgot our Leatherman tools. We got the hook forced through the other side so the barb was out! Good Lord did that hurt!!!! I had to sit still while my dad used a hook File to file the entire hookend off. I'm a Military college grad & not wuss but wowzers was that not fun. Fot it out & went back out fishing after bandaging me up. 80's of calm fish in 12+ Feet of water per the sonar. Walleyes sitting on the bottom. This trip can only get better!!!

Aug 10, Tough day, HOT & no breeze. Fish in 15+ water. Only 1 northern in the morning. Finger healing & doesn't hurt too much. The afternoon was a bit better but I've really had to work have to catch fish. We called it a day after my reel broke & my dad's line got caught in the prop. We went in, cleaned fish, ate , read a bit & went to bed at 4am is going to come early. This weather has got to break & so does our luck!

Aug 11, 4 am & chilly the wind had picked up & rain is coming!!! The morning was good, wet & slow but we got fish. This is our 2nd season on Bertha & last year we killed the fish & this year it seems to be the lake's win…

The evening from started off slow & wet. We brought 2 decent northern in trolling and on our final pass BAM!!!! This thing was huge. I told me dad it was luring the boat & it was! I landed a 35" 20#+ Northern! What a way to end the day watching that big buy swim away after I released him.

Johnson Group of 8

Friday Aug 20th               Sunny & 80
Big Northern 29"              5 to 10 mph wind S
Big Walleye 27 ½"

Sat Aug 21                       Sunny 80
Big Walleye 25"                5 Mph wind West
Big Northern 33"

Sunday Aug 22                 Sunny 85 East
Big Walleye 28"
Big Northern 28"

Mon Aug 23                      Sunny 80
Big Walleye 22 ½"            South winds 15 to 20
Big Northern 28 ½"

Walleye around 800 for trip
Northern around 100

19 cases of beer
1 liter of crown/ 1 liter crown Royal/ 1 liter of brandy
1 liter of capair/ 1 liter of Windsor

1st time to Bertha 20th trip to KL!!

Aug 31 – Sept 6, What an awesome 6 Days it has been! We had wind & rain & sun and more wind and rain & lots of sun but always wind! We really do not count but we definitely caught hundreds of walleyes and many northern. Biggest Walleyes was 28" caught by Carole! A lot of walleyes 24" – 27" best trip yet for numbers of big walleyes! We found 1 real good spot in the islands and stayed there most of the time out of the wind! God willing we will be back to Bertha Lake! Thank you Harald & Ann for making this great experience in God's creation possible!
God Bless
Cliff & Carole

Moose Hunt

Sept 22, Joe & Jim

Day 1, Arrived 2pm - Set up had Beer. No moose First ½ day, more beer & scruffy Brats for dinner & more beer.

Day 2, We miss Dave - SE winds, motor not working too good, found some fairly evident moose sign, not coming to call YET!!! Beer is good.

Day 3, Wind north – Strong 25 hp broke down no spark, paddled for 2 ½ hours to get back to camp. No moose yet wind picked up in pm no moose.

Day 4, AM cold & calm called 1 Bull would not show his head 150 yards wind picked up in PM. No response Joe is getting cranky.

Day 5, Sunday was windy. So we went for a boat ride to west end of Bertha for the fun of it and saw a moose on shoreline called it in & Joe pulverized it five feet from shore Easy pickins. We were back at camp with Bull tagged & bagged by 7pm. Joe is Happy – Now it's beer time. The end.