I got a call from my friend Brian Neilson in Moses Lake. He wanted to ask me a favor. Scott Erickson, who is the guy who repairs all the Minn Kota electric motors, wanted him to take his Mom and Dad fishing when they visited from Minnesota this week. Brian is waiting for his new boat and wanted to see if I could take them. You bet, I said. Scott had been a great help to me. Just this last sockeye season I was having a problem with my electric motor, and he talked me through a fix by phone. He saved my day, and it wasn’t the first time he has come to my rescue. I met Scott, his Dad Clint and his Mom Mary and Brian at the Northrup boat ramp on Thursday morning. Scott grew up in Minnesota, so he and his Dad have been fishing walleye for most of their lives. We wish we could have shown them a better day of walleye fishing, but we did get three. We also caught some big smallmouth bass and a bunch of perch. More than anything we had a great time visiting and they were very impressed with the scenery on Banks Lake.