wow, huge fish! 5#11oz if this keeps up me and casey will make the bloggers derby a 2 man show! ok, my turn!hehe
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
more tubin' for bass with casey
I got out sunday afternoon to chase some big largies with casey.
I got a few on the swimjig and some on a senko.
casey got most of his on a "ribbit'plastic toad bait. it was a slow bite til sunset, then the bite got good for a short bit. We casted around the pads, coontail beds and slop in shallow water. the water is finally warm enough to go without waders!
casey out in the lake
first keeper for me on a jig and craw
pad bass action
casey nabs a nice 3 pounder. he also missed one he thinks was twice as big!
nice fish on a senko
I was just about to the landing and taking the last few casts of the night when I had a bite on my senko. I set the hook and this sea monster started to pull me sideways! I finally wrestled it in and it was this big huge toad! I tried to measure it, but it was hard on a paddle, i couldn't believe it but I couldn't get a 20 inch measurement off it, but I was sure it was 5 pounds! then casey said he had a hand held digital scale, so i gave up on the ruler, and hooked it up...5.1 pounds! Cha ching! :D
I got a few on the swimjig and some on a senko.
casey got most of his on a "ribbit'plastic toad bait. it was a slow bite til sunset, then the bite got good for a short bit. We casted around the pads, coontail beds and slop in shallow water. the water is finally warm enough to go without waders!
casey out in the lake
first keeper for me on a jig and craw
pad bass action
casey nabs a nice 3 pounder. he also missed one he thinks was twice as big!
nice fish on a senko
I was just about to the landing and taking the last few casts of the night when I had a bite on my senko. I set the hook and this sea monster started to pull me sideways! I finally wrestled it in and it was this big huge toad! I tried to measure it, but it was hard on a paddle, i couldn't believe it but I couldn't get a 20 inch measurement off it, but I was sure it was 5 pounds! then casey said he had a hand held digital scale, so i gave up on the ruler, and hooked it up...5.1 pounds! Cha ching! :D
Friday, July 10, 2009
got my 5 bass, but need bigger ones!
I got my limit for the bass pundit's blogger bass derby.I was at GEM camp for the week. I didn't get any of the 20 + inchers but still respectable fish 19 incher and two 18s now i need lots of upgrading to do to meet my goal of a 5# average for 25#...
guess I have a lot more bassin' to do, oh well hehehe
guess I have a lot more bassin' to do, oh well hehehe
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Mille lacs bassin 7-3
We got out on Mille lacs for some bass action, I got the big one right away and we thought the action would be good, but it turned out not to be. jack got a good one later, and we got some smaller ones, but the bite hasn't really come around yet.
i got the big one on a power tube, jack got his on a small rapala. they were around 5 ft down. we tried some other lakes too for panfish, but nothing much was going.
bigg bass
20 1/4 incher!
jack gets a good one
interesting insects
we were not the only ones not catching much
a couple of sunset shots
i got the big one on a power tube, jack got his on a small rapala. they were around 5 ft down. we tried some other lakes too for panfish, but nothing much was going.
bigg bass
20 1/4 incher!
jack gets a good one
interesting insects
we were not the only ones not catching much
a couple of sunset shots
Monday, June 29, 2009
Saturday bassin' 6-27
I got out for some bass action in the float tube saturday. they were biting pretty good, a few decent sized but no real lunkers.
I worked the shallows in weedy areas with a plastic swim shad, spinnerbait, and plastic frog.
I worked the shallows in weedy areas with a plastic swim shad, spinnerbait, and plastic frog.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Bluegills,Crappies ,and walleyes with CK
I drove up to palisade to chase some big bluegills with CK
I got there expecting to see CKs duckboat ready to go, only to find a nice fully rigged fishing boat that his friend steve "Mallard" left for him to use.
I was a bit concerned about pulling it with my little ranger 4 cylinder pickup, but it did just fine on those lightly traveled roads! i even got 32 miles per gallon over around 25 miles of towing that thing!
We got to the first lake and tried a spot where CK got into them last week. the fish were there, starting to bed in the emerging wild rice . they were quite skittish and would not come out to bite unless you threw it right in the stuff.
We got as many as we could on Cks jigs, and also a black and yellow JRs stub grub worked well. i was wishing we had some small leeches, I think we could have extracted some of the bigger fish from deep in the grass with them.
we moved up and down the shore and found a few more pods of them.
We also worked some floating docks where CK pulled in a few slabs on the jig, but it was still a bit early for that bite.
Then there was a disturbance in "the force'! that would be Mallards outboard.
CK worked on it for a while in the hot sun while i teased him and watched the geese. he got it figured out and we headed in for a steak dinner.
Afterwards we hit a small lake stocked with lots of walleyes.
We ancored on a break for a while and caught some on bobbers and fatheads until the bugs invited themselves to our boat for dinner!
we got out of there and did some trolling after dark with 1/4 oz leadheads tipped with a plastic swim shad. We got some more doing that and i got the big one of the night, around 3 pounds, CK also tagged a nice pike that I gave to my Dad for fathers day, he loves pike!
Another great day of fishing is in the books!
love those big gills!
Hookin' up the boat!
pretty gills!
Very interesting colored gill!
They havn't spawned yet
night bite walleyes
I got there expecting to see CKs duckboat ready to go, only to find a nice fully rigged fishing boat that his friend steve "Mallard" left for him to use.
I was a bit concerned about pulling it with my little ranger 4 cylinder pickup, but it did just fine on those lightly traveled roads! i even got 32 miles per gallon over around 25 miles of towing that thing!
We got to the first lake and tried a spot where CK got into them last week. the fish were there, starting to bed in the emerging wild rice . they were quite skittish and would not come out to bite unless you threw it right in the stuff.
We got as many as we could on Cks jigs, and also a black and yellow JRs stub grub worked well. i was wishing we had some small leeches, I think we could have extracted some of the bigger fish from deep in the grass with them.
we moved up and down the shore and found a few more pods of them.
We also worked some floating docks where CK pulled in a few slabs on the jig, but it was still a bit early for that bite.
Then there was a disturbance in "the force'! that would be Mallards outboard.
CK worked on it for a while in the hot sun while i teased him and watched the geese. he got it figured out and we headed in for a steak dinner.
Afterwards we hit a small lake stocked with lots of walleyes.
We ancored on a break for a while and caught some on bobbers and fatheads until the bugs invited themselves to our boat for dinner!
we got out of there and did some trolling after dark with 1/4 oz leadheads tipped with a plastic swim shad. We got some more doing that and i got the big one of the night, around 3 pounds, CK also tagged a nice pike that I gave to my Dad for fathers day, he loves pike!
Another great day of fishing is in the books!
love those big gills!
Hookin' up the boat!
pretty gills!
Very interesting colored gill!
They havn't spawned yet
night bite walleyes
Monday, June 15, 2009
Fly fishing in SE MN
Me and fishface mcFly decided to hit some trout action sunday afternoon. I started out catching everything but the fish, but soon was into a leaping rainbow trout.
We just kept working our way upstream until we found the deeper holes were the fish were feeding. We got lots of fish, no huge ones, but some around 14 inches. They all put a good bent in a 3 weight rod though! Color is what matters to me for trout and they didn't disapoint, with colds, red, silver and every other color, they were great! i got most of my fish on a beadhead pheasanttail. Black spiders and elkhair caddisflies also got some action.
MT with fish
great colored fish!
Fatso
We just kept working our way upstream until we found the deeper holes were the fish were feeding. We got lots of fish, no huge ones, but some around 14 inches. They all put a good bent in a 3 weight rod though! Color is what matters to me for trout and they didn't disapoint, with colds, red, silver and every other color, they were great! i got most of my fish on a beadhead pheasanttail. Black spiders and elkhair caddisflies also got some action.
MT with fish
great colored fish!
Fatso
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