Wednesday, July 27, 2022

27 Jul 2022 - Fishing Moose Lake, Lunch at Old Mill, Walk Through Downtown Antigo

 27 Jul


Another beautiful Wisconsin day!  This morning Greg and I towed his boat to Moose Lake and fished for a few hours.  The weather was amazing but a little breezy.  Fishing was slow, in fact for the first 45 minutes or so we never got a bite.  We relocated then withing 15 minutes we had caught five bluegills, but all too small to keep.  Then nothing.  We threw some lures at them, minnows, night crawlers - nada!  We gave it our best shot, and then we trailered the boat and headed to Brian &Michele's Old Mill Bar & Grill in Phlox.  Diane and Doreen did some more shopping in town and headed towards Phlox as we had made plans to have lunch there.  

Phlox WI - In the Menominee language it is called Omāhkahkow-Menīkān which means "frog town" and it lies within ancestral Menominee territory which was ceded to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars.  From a 17 Jun 1921 Antigo Herald newspaper article we learned that in it's day, Phlox was home to a large planing and saw mill, a creamery, a cheese factory, Farmer's State Bank, a hardware store, an auto livery, a mercantile and other establishments.  Today Phlox is an unincorporated community in the town of Norwood, Langlade County. Now you know! 

We had a nice lunch there and then returned to Diane and Greg's in Antigo to park the trailer.  After a  visit there Doreen and I headed back to the campground and took care of a few chores.  Later we walked Liberty through downtown Antigo and back. 

Heading out through the campground

A view of Antigo Lake, just a block from our campground

Downtown Antigo

"Yesterday's Sign Park 1930-1960"  I used to work at a DX station!

More signs, very familiar!

   That's it for today.  Tomorrow we plan to have lunch with Greg and Diane and then make preparations for our departure.

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