June 14-15th

[LKunze]

I'd like to thank Fred again for the great dive get together this past weekend at his cabin. Diving over the weekend were myself, Jason Baker, Larry, Tim and Anna, Chris Morris, and of course Fred. We did 5 dives. We did three dives Saturday in West McDonald Lake and 2 dives Sunday in Paul Lake. The first dive Saturday in West McDonald was off of Fred's boat into one of the deeper spots in the lake (55 feet) It was a bit dark at depth but once we got to the shallows we had some pretty good viz...I'd say maybe 12 to 15 feet. After a surface interval we did another dive from a submerged island. Fred took us out in the boat again and dropped us off at the island which was about 3 feet deep. We dropped off our gear and geared up in the waist deep water and headed out. We had good viz again here and saw numerous fish around the island where it dropped off to around 20 to 30 feet. I was amazed at the variety of fish we saw on this dive. I'm not real good with fish ID but I believe we saw suckers (a couple huge ones), northern, walleye, sunnies, etc. After another surface interval and a meal we went out for a night dive from the dock on Fred's cabin property. We saw an enormous amount of fish on this dive and it was a lot of fun.
Onto Sunday. We headed to Paul Lake. This lake had even better viz...I'd say 20+ feet. I really liked this lake. Excellent access at the boat ramp and a nice sandy bottom. The first dive was to around 55 feet. After a surface interval we did another dive in the shallows and saw lots of fish. Many northerns and sunnies on this dive. I highly recommend diving up in the Detroit Lakes area...there is some excellent diving up there and I'd definately like to return again.