PHOTO GALLERY: Fall thunderstorm brings good luck for fishing

September 25, 2012 | 6:11 p.m. CDT

Some people took to the Lake of the Woods Recreation Area to fish after an afternoon thunderstorm Tuesday.

After about three hours of fishing, Janice Allen, Dee Ashworth and Mark Thomas catch a bucket full of fish Tuesday afternoon at the Lake of the Woods Recreation Area. "It's a good day," Allen says about the fish. "Any day you can fish is a good day." | Yi-Chin Lee

Janice Allen catches a fish Tuesday afternoon at the Lake of the Woods Recreation Area. Allen moved from Arkansas about a month ago and now lives in Ashland.

| Yi-Chin Lee

Janice Allen pulls the cricket out of the fish that she caught Tuesday afternoon at the Lake of the Woods Recreation Area. "Cricket is my secret" of fishing, she said. | Yi-Chin Lee

Mark Thomas, left, Janice Allen and Dee Ashworth go fishing for about three hours after the thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon at the Lake of the Woods Recreation Area. They go to the recreation area to have fun and relax. Thomas said that after the rain is a good time to go fishing because "they bite you."
| Yi-Chin Lee