Fished it this morning.
My goal today was to fish seven potential access points that I thought might be good. I used Google Earth to select the locations in the stream that were closest to the road, and used my GPS to get there by car.
Belle Creek Potential Acess Point #1GPS: 44o 30' 18.32"N, 92o 45' 0.88WThe first location was where the river crosses Hwy 19. I saw signs posted with "No Tresspassing". Moved on.Belle Creek Access Point #2GPS: 44°32'2.57"N, 92°44'10.30"WThen I went into the Town of Vasa and drove north on 7 and, stopped at the my second potential access point. The where the stream crosses 7 (bridge just south of Belle Creek Way). I fished the east side of the bridge. It was about 9 am.
Nothing was surface feeding so I practiced nymph fishing. Caught a one pound Brown using a #12 Bead Head Prince Nymph. The fish was caught in one of the darker holes. (Hey, I'm not going to tell you which hole - you'll have to find it yourself!) It seemed that a TU and/or DNR had spent some time and money on this stream. It seemed like the rocks and holes were created by humans. I spent 3 hours fishing this area. Good Casting, good Terrain and some wadeable areas for crossing even with hip waders (or even knee boots).
Belle Creek Access Point #3 & #4GPS: 44°32'19.49"N, 92°44'8.12"W and 44°32'36.17"N, 92°43'39.13"WThe next two areas I must have just drove by. I guess my GPS was just poweriung up as I drove by them. The third access point was suppose to be where the stream come close to 7 just south of Sunset Trail and the fouth access point where 7 goes north. This is like only 2000 feet north of 7 from Access Point #2.
Belle Creek Access Point #5 - Old BridgeGPS: 44°32'49.62"N, 92°43'31.21"WThe 5th Potential Access point I am now calling the Old Wooden Walk Bridge. There is good off road parking that my PT Cruiser was able to navagate. There was another car parked there but no sign of anyone fishing. I fished under the bridge and then moved downstream. I saw a school of fingerlings. It seemed that my line kept scaring them but they wouldn't leave the area. I finaly caught one and it was a Carp fingerling. Probably a Carp came up from the Cannon River and spawned near by.
Belle Creek Access Point #6GPS: 44°33'11.23"N, 92°42'42.06"WTwo spots I selected were on the Cannon Valley Trail bike path. One spot was where the path crossed the river and the other was the Belle Creek Mouth at the Cannon River. I was too tired, hungry and it was getting hot to hike down the Path to cover this location.
Belle Creek Mouth at Cannon River44°33'13.71"N, 92°42'2.07"WThis too required a hike and I decided to attempt this some other day. I figued if I wasn't going to hike down the trail to #6 I wasn't going to continue hiking the 1/2+ mile all the way to the mouth.
There is some good spots in the stream with access.Good for fly casting. I'm sure as the folage greens up and the bank grass grows for the summer the casting might be more difficult. If I'm in the area again, I would try Belle Creek again.
It is about an hour drive from where I live in Rosemount MN. I really don't know when I'll be back since there are some closer trout streams to where I live. Hey, I rather spend my time fishing then driving. So I try to stay close to home.
Note to self: Next time I fish in this area, bring sunscreen, lunch, more water and coffee.
Will Local Teen be DISNEY's "Next Big Thing" (MN)
THIS ISN'T AN ACTUAL EVENT TO ATTEND! IT'S SIMPLY VOTING ON RADIODISNEY.COM FOR THE NBT CONTEST!!!
"Danielle Thrush (I) am one of 11 contestant from all of the country that was chosen to be apart of Radio Disney's NBT (Next Big Thing) competition! Each artist gets a two week spot online at http://radio.disney.go.com/artists/nbt/index.html and on Radio Disney radio. Fans vote/rank each of two songs from that artist. The winner is flown to perform in a Radio Disney concert and could even get signed by Hollywood Records. The Jonas Brothers were found through a Radio Disney competition just like this one! So! I need your votes! From Saturday February 21st through March 6th you can vote as well as from April 4th through 23rd which is the open voting period.Every vote counts. Vote as often and as many times as you want!!!Thank you so much!!! MYSPACE.COM/DANIELLETHRUSH"
Danielle Thrush, the 19 year old daughter of Laurie Thrush, Hastings (MN) Community Education’s Senior Center Coordinator is one of 11 artists chosen to be a part of Radio Disney's NBT (Next Big Thing) contest. Each artist is featured 2 weeks on Radio Disney stations across the country as well as on radiodisney.com. For those two weeks two songs that Danielle wrote & performed with her band can be ranked from one to five stars by listeners. Snippets of a radio interview she did and daily blogs will also be featured.
There is also another 3 week period to VOTE in April. The winner of the contest will be featured in an upcoming Disney concert.You can log on to VOTE as many times as you like between Feb. 21 and March 6 at radiodisney.com. and then again in April. You can also check out other songs by Danielle at www.musicmyspace.com/daniellethrush and you can hear a Twin Cities Live interview and debut of her original song "Hello" at http://www.twincitieslive.com/ , past shows and go to the week of Feb. 9th.
Danielle Thrush - Your VOTE will make her Disney's NEXT BIG THING!
My Wife's Dark Family History
I really don't know if I should be telling this on-line where everyone has access to see this. I could get into some trouble by my wife's family if they object. I though it was interesting. Since I have an Italian background friends always assumed that I had some Mafia ties. I had asked my father about that and he always denied it. I knew that some Italians had some shady people in their family but it wasn't in mine.
On the east side of St Paul, where I'm familiar with growing up. in the 60s and 70s, there was a good sized community of Italian decent. The location of the Roma bakery that my grandparent owned was on the east side. Predominately, Minnesota citizens are of Western European decent. The largest populations are German, Norwegeian, Irish and Swedish. In rural Minnesota its mostly Swedish and Norwegeian. It seems that they are all Lutherans.
In years past, St Paul has been a known location for gangsters to be in the 20s and 30s. Dillinger was also known to stay at the Lincoln Court apartments in St Paul on a regular basis. Others known to frequent St Paul were Babyface Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and Ma Barker.
As everyone knows Z and I like to travel, and once we took a trip to northern Wisconsin. She had told me that her family was from Cumberland, Wisconsin, near Hayward. One of the stops we went to was Al Capone's Hideaway. The Hideaway is near Hayward, in Couderay Wisconsin. She had told me about a dead relative that had been known to have a shady past.
A few years later we heard that her Great Aunt Winnie wasn't doing well so we went to Wilmar to visit and help her do some cleaning of her apartment. Aunt Winnie was in her 90's and nearly blind.
When Winnie's husband was alive they lived in Burbank, California. He owned a bakery in California. They had lived next door to the actress Angie Dickenson (of Police Woman). I have heard that Angie, Burt Bacharach, Dominic and Winnie used to play cards together.
Looking at Angie's history, I could see how they could be close because Angie was born in South Dakota and Winnie grew up in Browns Valley Minnesota area in western Minnesota on the Dakotas borders. Winnie also had relatives that had farms in North Dakota. For those unfamiliar with Minnesota, Browns Valley is the western most bump on the Minnesota map.
After Dominic retired, Winnie and Dominic moved back to Browns Valley. They had lived there for many years. Z remembers as a child visiting them for a weeks almost every summer. Before I married Z, Dominic had died and was buried in Browns Valley. When he died his grave stone was placed on the grave on the hill of the cemetary overlooking the valley, there was two names engraved upon his side. Along with Dominic's name there was the name of his brother Ralph.
When Great Aunt Winnie died every one in the Zaccardi clan made a automobile convoy to Browns Valley. We stayed overnight in Willmer before going on to Browns Valley. As well as her family (mainly us) there was quite a lot her friends and people that had known her from her church.
After the burial everyone met in the basement of the church for the funeral meal. After the dinner Z and I were making our rounds and we joined a group of Lutheran women that were talking to Zoey and Myrna (my mother-in-law). Being these women cornering us were from Browns Valley, I believed most of them had last names such as, Swenson, Johnson, or some other Scandinavian name ending in "son".
They were all wondering why under Dominic's name on his stone was the name of "Ralph Zaccardi". Zoey sheepishly looked at Myrna, the matriarch of the Zaccardi family, and then to Z and I. We all knew the story but had kept it quiet for fear of what could happen if this history escaped the inner circle of the family. Since Winnie had past on and it has been a number of years since Dominic and Ralph died, it was now time to tell this family history. Zoey started it out by saying a very slow and quiet, "Well..." At that moment the the circle of people closed in tighter and quieter to listen more intently.
This is how it went...
Ralph's wife separated from him we think because she didn't want to be connected at all with him. When Ralph died he was cremated and after the service, his ashes were left at the funeral home. No one claimed his ashes. Even his wife didn't want to do with with his ashes. Before Dominic had died he wished to have his brother buried with him.
These Lutheran women from western Minnesota were amazed that a family could turn their back on a relative even after death. What could have this man named Ralph had done that was so bad. Zoey continued saying that he was in trouble with the law.
See, Ralph did work for Al Capone as a driver. Our family knew that we was deep into the Capone ginner circle because when Ralph's mother died, the FBI was waiting for him at the funeral. Waiting for him to show up. As the story goes, he had either paid his repects to his mother well before the funeral or he was hiding in a tree at a distance watching the service.
He was known in our family as a criminal.
He had once went to Myrna and Robert (Z's mom and dad) home to ask for money. They would've given him money but, they had none since they were raising seven children.
The women at the funeral were stunned and intrigued that their quiet town, in almost the western most point of Minnesota, had a connection to the Mafia.
On the east side of St Paul, where I'm familiar with growing up. in the 60s and 70s, there was a good sized community of Italian decent. The location of the Roma bakery that my grandparent owned was on the east side. Predominately, Minnesota citizens are of Western European decent. The largest populations are German, Norwegeian, Irish and Swedish. In rural Minnesota its mostly Swedish and Norwegeian. It seems that they are all Lutherans.
In years past, St Paul has been a known location for gangsters to be in the 20s and 30s. Dillinger was also known to stay at the Lincoln Court apartments in St Paul on a regular basis. Others known to frequent St Paul were Babyface Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and Ma Barker.
As everyone knows Z and I like to travel, and once we took a trip to northern Wisconsin. She had told me that her family was from Cumberland, Wisconsin, near Hayward. One of the stops we went to was Al Capone's Hideaway. The Hideaway is near Hayward, in Couderay Wisconsin. She had told me about a dead relative that had been known to have a shady past.
A few years later we heard that her Great Aunt Winnie wasn't doing well so we went to Wilmar to visit and help her do some cleaning of her apartment. Aunt Winnie was in her 90's and nearly blind.
When Winnie's husband was alive they lived in Burbank, California. He owned a bakery in California. They had lived next door to the actress Angie Dickenson (of Police Woman). I have heard that Angie, Burt Bacharach, Dominic and Winnie used to play cards together.
Looking at Angie's history, I could see how they could be close because Angie was born in South Dakota and Winnie grew up in Browns Valley Minnesota area in western Minnesota on the Dakotas borders. Winnie also had relatives that had farms in North Dakota. For those unfamiliar with Minnesota, Browns Valley is the western most bump on the Minnesota map.
After Dominic retired, Winnie and Dominic moved back to Browns Valley. They had lived there for many years. Z remembers as a child visiting them for a weeks almost every summer. Before I married Z, Dominic had died and was buried in Browns Valley. When he died his grave stone was placed on the grave on the hill of the cemetary overlooking the valley, there was two names engraved upon his side. Along with Dominic's name there was the name of his brother Ralph.
When Great Aunt Winnie died every one in the Zaccardi clan made a automobile convoy to Browns Valley. We stayed overnight in Willmer before going on to Browns Valley. As well as her family (mainly us) there was quite a lot her friends and people that had known her from her church.
After the burial everyone met in the basement of the church for the funeral meal. After the dinner Z and I were making our rounds and we joined a group of Lutheran women that were talking to Zoey and Myrna (my mother-in-law). Being these women cornering us were from Browns Valley, I believed most of them had last names such as, Swenson, Johnson, or some other Scandinavian name ending in "son".
They were all wondering why under Dominic's name on his stone was the name of "Ralph Zaccardi". Zoey sheepishly looked at Myrna, the matriarch of the Zaccardi family, and then to Z and I. We all knew the story but had kept it quiet for fear of what could happen if this history escaped the inner circle of the family. Since Winnie had past on and it has been a number of years since Dominic and Ralph died, it was now time to tell this family history. Zoey started it out by saying a very slow and quiet, "Well..." At that moment the the circle of people closed in tighter and quieter to listen more intently.
This is how it went...
Ralph's wife separated from him we think because she didn't want to be connected at all with him. When Ralph died he was cremated and after the service, his ashes were left at the funeral home. No one claimed his ashes. Even his wife didn't want to do with with his ashes. Before Dominic had died he wished to have his brother buried with him.
These Lutheran women from western Minnesota were amazed that a family could turn their back on a relative even after death. What could have this man named Ralph had done that was so bad. Zoey continued saying that he was in trouble with the law.
See, Ralph did work for Al Capone as a driver. Our family knew that we was deep into the Capone ginner circle because when Ralph's mother died, the FBI was waiting for him at the funeral. Waiting for him to show up. As the story goes, he had either paid his repects to his mother well before the funeral or he was hiding in a tree at a distance watching the service.
He was known in our family as a criminal.
He had once went to Myrna and Robert (Z's mom and dad) home to ask for money. They would've given him money but, they had none since they were raising seven children.
The women at the funeral were stunned and intrigued that their quiet town, in almost the western most point of Minnesota, had a connection to the Mafia.
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