Fun in the sun with Jeff and the Scenic Tackle Crew!

[Hemlock]

Just returned from way too short of a trip up to the English River system. I met up with Jeff Beckwith and 7 other guys from Scenic Tackle. What a blast!

Great times having some of the best fish I've ever tasted. Jeff made some fishballs, and they were phenomenal! Good times sitting around into the evening.

Early morning wake up call and we were out fishing by 7:00. I had a great time. We were able to get into the walleyes right away, using some of Scenic's finest, Angel Eye jigs.

We fished from 7-10 yesterday morning and caught fish slowly and steadily for those three hours. Some of the ones pictured are 22-23 inchers and there were several caught and released, as well as keeping a couple so I can try and duplicate those fishballs (tonight)

A big thanks to Jeff and the boys for their hospitality and letting in an outsider to their annual trip. It was too short, but it was a blast. I hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your stay.

I didn't intentionnaly post three pics of me and only one of Jeff....that's just the way the fishing went for us.

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[Matt Johnson]

Looks like you guys got on some fish! Thanks for sharing the pics too Hemlock!

Good Fishin,

Matt Johnson

[cluelessfisherman]

The trip was a blast as always. Glad you could join in on the fun Hemlock!!

My boat spent most of our time searching for pike and smallies - we did get some nice fish - 18" smallie, many pike in the 30"+ range - I bet we boated well over 100 pike! And a 26" walleye caught on a spinner bait was fun!

I was impressed with the new Gulp line of plastics. Seems those out performed live bait at times - other times live bait was the way to go... depends on the day. But we didn't have many problems catching enough eyes to keep our attention span... What an incredible fishery!!

[Scenic]

Hemlock,

Glad you could make it out. The entire trip was a blast. We returned to that same area later in the day and caught a bunch more of them football style walleyes. Later that day we hit a few more spots and did well there also. With the water as high as it was this year the fishing was a bit tougher inregards to locating the fish but I think these fish were healthier and weighed in higher because of the high concentration of food supply. It was also real interesting to see the teeth marks on some of them larger eyes from something real BIG.

The Angel Eye Jigs did very well for us up there this year. That narrow head design allowed us to use smaller sized jigs in the current. For some reason these fish seemed to be pretty color “fussy” this year more then most. Seemed that if you were not catching them on one color just change colors and you were right back into them.

[1tofish]

Hey Jeff,

Sounds like another sucessful trip on the English. I would agree with you on the color specific thing. We found that plain green worked the best for us. At times it was a huge difference. I had a crawler harness with a green hook on the front. 19 out of 20 fish were hooked on that green hook. I would have to say that is not coincedence. Our average size was down a bit this year, but as I mentioned in a previous post, we battled 2 days of wind and couldn't fish some of our better spots. Glad to hear you had a good trip, maybe see you up at LOW this winter.