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[Deitz Dittrich]

You will understand the meaning of the name of the post in a little bit here.

Today I had the honor of fishing with fellow Fishing Minnesota Member Ole The Guide. He and I had an awesome day on the water as the largemouth have started to come into the fall patterns. With the pressure rising today, and bluebird skies, we had to slow down our presentation. All fish were next to wood or pads as the lake we were on had little to no other weeds to speak of and water clarity was poor at best. Its lakes like this that will start the fall patterns first and the fish will start the shallow migration first.

Key in on areas with hard bottom and quicker drop offs next to shore, preferable with the wind blowing into it. the majority of our fish today came on a jig and pig. A couple on spinnerbaits slow rolled, and 1 or 2 on texas rigged worms.

After almost 7 hours on the lake we ended up boating 52 bass, with 16 of them over 4 lbs... 3 that were over 5 lbs and of all 52 fish I think only 3 were under 2 lbs! An awesome day on the water!

Thanks Ole for the great day! We will have to get out again soon!

I will say this... Ole took a buck from me for big fish of the day with his 5.4 oz fish... Congrats sir.. I plan on taking it back next time..

and if you get a chance.. ask ole about the mark on his nose?

Ole 5.4 lb fish

my slightly smaller one...

[BDR]

Sounds like a great day Deitz. I need a day like that.

[Trucker Jim]

O.K., I'll bite.

Ole, what's that mark on your nose?

[st.crioxfishin]

I'm jealous! When am I going?

[Ole the Guide]

Well it's a lesson in "How not to release a small (but game) Northern Pike"!

On my second cast of the day I caught a small (20") Northern. I lifted him up out of the water with my rod and as I reached down to grab him he shook like the devil. The spinnerbait flew out of his mouth and ripped right through the end of my nose! Needless to say, it was back to the access and about a 15 minute delay while I grabbed my first aid kit and patched myself up. Deitz did help me by grabbing the biggest bandaid he could find as he was telling me there would be no new avatar photo for me today! That gave me the strength I needed to land that "hawg" in the photo! Ha-ha!

I was thinking of making up this big story about this huge pike (or bass) that attacked my nose but my friends know that I'm not good at making stuff up and talk'ing people! Right friends!

My tip of the day: Trailer hooks really work when you don't want to miss that big one!

Did it hurt? My pride hurt more than the wound!

Yours truly,

Ole

[Deitz Dittrich]

I've seen bloddy noses, being a P.E. teacher I see them quite a bit.. but not from a cut on the outside from a spinnerbait hook.. man was that nasty!!! However the good company and the good day on the water made it a good day!

[delmuts]

i want terribly to say something about sharp hooks, or going cat fishing since you had blood bait ! BUT!!! i just want to point out how things can happen when fishing. BE CAREFULL .

[Deitz Dittrich]

Very good point Del.. I did point out that he had his sun glasses on to protect his eyes.. But that could have been NASTY!

[Ranger sport]

Was that lake in the west metro? Was there green slim with a bad oder on the wind blown side?

[Deitz Dittrich]

No slime, no bad odor. And I would not call it west metro.

The lake we were on was really not that important, you can adapt the pattern to your waters. For this time of year find waters that have more of a stain to it and find the rock, wood, and weeds that are holding fish shallow this time of year.

[Captain B.R.K]

Great report and nice catch Ole and Dietz....I'm jealous.

Actually I don't have pictures to back up my report, but we fished a wind blowin' shoreline with a sharp drop off from 4/5 FOW to 20+ FOW pitchin' jig and pigs into the shallow bringing them down the break this past weekend. First cast produced a fat, PIG, largy that weighed in at 5.2# ! I've got 2 eye witnesses, just no picture

We were pitchin' for walleyes and that bass was a bonus!