05-30-2007, 11:01 AM
[size 1]Met up with LH2 today to fish for the elusive tiger musky.
We started off by the pumphouse and worked the shorline from there. For the 45 minutes or so neither of us had hooked into anything, but we did have a few follows.
We passed by a half a mile of shorline that was full of submerged brush, and I just couldn't take it anymore... I had to fish for smallies. I put a few perch in the boat, and had a smallie on for a second, so LH2 followed suit and threw on a Maniac Salt Stick, wacky rigged. That rig worked for him the rest of the day. We must have caught between 30-40 smallmouth, but the funny thing was that the smallest one we caught was maybe 10".... We found MANY big ones. I must admit that LH2 had the hot stick today. He caught at least 10 fish that were between 2-3lbs. While I managed only a few that big. LH2 also took big fish honors with a 4lb smallie... what a toad! [cool]
I also had an absolute MONSTER smallie on.... By the looks of it, it probably was around 22" long and fat. After ripping several yards of line off, and then running at me, he came unbuttoned. [
] In addition to the perch and smallies, I also managed a nice crappie that took my Maniac Reaper.
While fishing plastics, both of us had a musky or two on, but we didn't manage to land any of them. We must have seen 50 of them throughout the day cruising in the brush.
About noon the wind kicked up something fierce and that made fishing tough for the next couple of hours. Brody did a great job with boat control, and we still caught fish, but it made it very difficult. Brody's wife and kids decided to join us for an hour in the boat. It's always fun watching his son reel in fish. [
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I had to get home by 4pm, and Brody didn't think we'd be able to get the boat off in time for me to get back, so his wife gave me a ride. He has all the pics on his camera, so I am sure he'll post them when he gets a chance.
All in all.... a GREAT day! [cool] [/size]
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We started off by the pumphouse and worked the shorline from there. For the 45 minutes or so neither of us had hooked into anything, but we did have a few follows.
We passed by a half a mile of shorline that was full of submerged brush, and I just couldn't take it anymore... I had to fish for smallies. I put a few perch in the boat, and had a smallie on for a second, so LH2 followed suit and threw on a Maniac Salt Stick, wacky rigged. That rig worked for him the rest of the day. We must have caught between 30-40 smallmouth, but the funny thing was that the smallest one we caught was maybe 10".... We found MANY big ones. I must admit that LH2 had the hot stick today. He caught at least 10 fish that were between 2-3lbs. While I managed only a few that big. LH2 also took big fish honors with a 4lb smallie... what a toad! [cool]
I also had an absolute MONSTER smallie on.... By the looks of it, it probably was around 22" long and fat. After ripping several yards of line off, and then running at me, he came unbuttoned. [
] In addition to the perch and smallies, I also managed a nice crappie that took my Maniac Reaper. While fishing plastics, both of us had a musky or two on, but we didn't manage to land any of them. We must have seen 50 of them throughout the day cruising in the brush.
About noon the wind kicked up something fierce and that made fishing tough for the next couple of hours. Brody did a great job with boat control, and we still caught fish, but it made it very difficult. Brody's wife and kids decided to join us for an hour in the boat. It's always fun watching his son reel in fish. [
] I had to get home by 4pm, and Brody didn't think we'd be able to get the boat off in time for me to get back, so his wife gave me a ride. He has all the pics on his camera, so I am sure he'll post them when he gets a chance.
All in all.... a GREAT day! [cool] [/size]
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