Took a few days and went trout fishing last week. Daughter caught a 19" brown trout and my wife and I picked about 4 pounds of Oysters. Many were already buggy or beyond prime. I was surprised to have had to knock them from the tree as they were quite high up.

I just returned from trout fishing for two weeks. As you say, the oysters are everywhere. I was trout fishing on a 300 acre trout lake that has risen 5 feet in the last few years. Because of this, there are a lot of dead flooded aspens. I was able to go in with my inflatable pontoon boat and harvest them off of flooded timber. There were at least 20 trees that had oysters growing on them. Best of all, most of them were pest free. My neighbors in the campground and I dined on oysters for the past 2 weeks. They were some of the cleanest oysters that I have ever seen. I wonder if this had anything to do with the fact that they came off flooded timber. On my drive home, I spotted 5 trees that had oysters growing on them from the road.

Bob

PS On my drive home, I had to pass through Minot, ND. The flooding there is bad. There is only one road open that crosses the river. It took an hour to get from the north side of town to the south side of town. The flow on the Souris River looks like the Missouri River in ND at this time of year.

bob,howd you make out for morels in manitoba?

I bombed on the morels. I never found any and the no see um's where extremely numerous. They kept my journeys in to the woods at a minimum. I had to fish with a bug hat on almost every day. Normally in this area you saw very few of them. The oysters were numerous and easy to collect.

How did you make out after I went back up on the 12th of June? What general part of manitoba are you collecting in?