Fridays Action

[Duffman]

I'm just curious to see if anyone else had some great action Friday afternoon? I had my best bass fishing day ever, not numbers but size wise. I'm wondering if the weather conditions were the main factor, or if I was just at the right place at the right time type of deals.

I was so amped up after Friday that I went back first thing Saturday morning, a couple more decent fish were landed, but it was nothing like Fridays pigfest. Were the fishing gods just smiling down on me or did anybody else have a decent bite on Friday afternoon???

[Mark Christianson]

I was out for 10+ hours on Friday fishing smallies. We by no means got many big fish.

Went out again Saturday for 8 hours and we caught fewer fish, and no real size to speak of at all. In fact, we were out with around 8 other rigs, and the biggest smallie caught(all boats combined) for the day was 18 1/2 inches.

How big were the fish you got Friday?

Congrats!

[LEECH21]

Yea, how big? You can't tell us that you got into the piggies without telling us exactly how big they were

[ChuckN]

No real size to speak of at all? Friday I'd say you did perty good der bub. Yeah, it's only a 19.5" smallie I guess...

Saturday, 7:46 am smallie hawgin:

Well, when all was done yesterday our boat with myself, BLB and Cory Bechtold had 53 smallies landed, a musky follow, one cat, two rock bass, and 7 northerns. Several nice smallies in the mix but we ended up shy of the 20" mark with a 19.5" BLB landed in the afternoon.

Things that make you go hmmmm.... LOL

[Duffman]

BLB.....

Well, I might as well open up a little can of worms, especialy with no pictures to back up my claim. But, my top five largemouths came in at a combined 24.6 lbs. And I lost one that might have put me over the mythical 6 fish 30 lb. limit.

The List

5.7 21" My 2nd largest ever.

5.2 20 1/4"

4.7 19 1/2"

4.6

4.4

3.6

3.3

+ 3 smaller fish

Now on to the no photo's story, I've found out that it is difficult to work the digital camera when I'm out by myself. It doesn't want to focus on me and the fish in timer mode. So I broke out the ol SLR camera and mounted it on a tripod in the canoe. I tested it out on the 3.6 lber, worked great I thought. All I had to do was turn it on (pre-focused), hit the button, sit back down and wholla- fish picture. Now, I'm fishing out of a canoe, and I tend to stand most of the time I'm fishing by myself. So I set the hook on a 4ish size bass, and I hear a sploosh behind me. I knew before I even turned around that it had to be the camera taking a dive. The bass finally gets off, cause I'm too busy trying to mentally mark where the camera went in(peagreen water 8" visibility). It was easy, it's where all the bubbles were coming up from. Thought I might snag it with the end of my rod, uh-oh it's deeper than seven feet. So I put on a monster five-of-diamonds daredevil, and on my second attempt, I bring it up. Took the time to take out the batteries and film, opened it up and took off the lens. Lens looks shot, but the camera might work again. I let it bug me for a while, but after the results of three more hours of fishing, I couldn't care less. I had a perma-grin going the whole weekend.

[Mark Christianson]

Hey Goomba(Chuck)

With 8 rigs or so in the river loaded with people on Saturday, and the biggest fish being 18.5 inches for all those boats, thats a slow day on quality.

As far as Fridays fishing, we got one over 19 inches for 10+ hours of fishing.

PS - Still both great days fishing overall though.

[ChuckN]

LOL

Quote:

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We by no means got many big fish.

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- I didn't inhale.

[Mark Christianson]

After you fish the Miss a few times, if you dont get several 18 inchers, it was a slow day on the river....

PS - puff puff pass

[ChuckN]

Hey Duff, that is a great day on the water. I've had a couple bass days like that, and they are rare. Too bad about the camera..

The fishing (catfishing) was dead for me all weekend, if that matters.

[Duffman]

You two done passing that thing back and forth yet??

No big deal on the camera, it still had pics from last summer on it, that shows ya how much I really used it. I just hope I have a few more bass days like that in my future, it sure was fun.

Hey, I just found out that I'll be opening the duck season up in Gissert/BLB/ChuckN territory, maybe we could all get together and discuss the openers success at a local watering hole???

[ChuckN]

The early season looks promising up here, unlike last year. A watering hole meet may be in order...

[Captain B.R.K]

Great bag Duffman....WOW! You can take me fishing anytime

[turn_in_poachers]

I was out Thursday morning and did pretty good. Caught about 9 fish in 1 1/2 hrs of fishing. Most of them came on a senko, and one on a 1/4 oz black/blue jig with a zoom trailer. It was one of the better days of fishing lately. The largemouth went 4 lbs. The smallie was 2 lbs. Had another one that went 3 lbs. Im like Duffman, I had to take the pictures with one hand holding the fish and the other holding the camera, so they turned out funky. Decided to bring the camer along cause my brother in law never believes me when I catch fish. Fishing action was hot that day. Ill post up pictures later when my wife shows me how to upload these pictures.

[Lunker]

I'm all to familiar with the camera woes. I have one that has a delayed start, but I never have anything elevated for it to sit on so I end up taking them from the ground pointing straight up with me standing over them...They don't turn out so well... And the biggest smallie I've ever caught I managed to not turn the flash on so all you can see is the fishes tail... Sigh.

[Mark Christianson]

Hey Duff

Whats this about you being in "our" duck territory over opener?????

Sorry off topic, but a guys gotta know...

Shoot me an email. I think an opening weekend "watering" is necessary.

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I need some details on where you will be, how long you are gonna be up there, etc, etc..... If you make it a long weekend, I might have a spot you could accompany me for some birds if they are around. Maybe Gissert and ChuckN would be available too?????

[turn_in_poachers]

Heres some pictures from last Thursday. All in all, pretty good day.

[Duffman]

Gave it a go again last night, same lake, same spots, same technique. I think we caught 8 or 9 fish, and not a single one over 17". I must of sore lipped all the big ones. That's fishin' for ya. I guess I was there last week.