Best Fish this year.

[catmaster1557]

Now that fishing season has closed just wondering what your personal bestfish was this past year. Mine was a 31 inch northern on lake Sleepy Eye on a tip-up. Kinda surpraised me as this lake is not known for a great number of northerns.

[eyepatrol]

13" crappie on a so. mn lake, so far.

[Tyler Holm]

10.5" Crappie & 11.5" Perch - Double

[Hooked On a Feeling]

29" walleye on mille lacs.

Best fight was a 25-26" walleye on mille lacs...Wow what a fight...took line off on three different runs.

[harvey lee]

No big eyes as I didnt fish them much,to busy chasing pannies.I caught numerous crappies over 12 and 4 over 13.5,with the biggest going 14.50.The last 2 caught are in my avatar to the left.Great year ice fishing for panfish.

[hanson]

Its been a great year so far with even better fishing coming up. Let's see here...

Started off the winter with a 42" Lake Sturgeon on Lake of the Woods

Pulled this 10" Bluegill out of Cutfoot Sioux. BDR had a dandy as well while I was pulling mine in.

Also got this pig of a Bluegill (9 1/8") out of West Rush Lake.

Big Upper Red Lake Slab!!

And the highlight of my winter was this 20" Smallmouth Bass out of Chequamegon Bay.

Sorry about all the photos but its been a heck of a winter for me. Guess thats what happens with lots of time spent on the water.

[SomethingFishy*]

My personal best this Ice season have been a 13.5 inch Crappie on a St. Cloud area lake and some nice pumpkinseeds on a lake near Blackduck.

[Kylersk]

Not much to brag about, but I did finally ice my first walleye (17") that I could actually keep.

[Roughfisher]

50 pound sturgeon, wimpy ten pound walleye, 5 pound steelhead, and 21 pound pike that stuck a treble hook in my leg for 4 hours until I managed to get it out using a bolt cutter. It was a pretty crappy year. Anybody know a bait that those pesky walleyes will leave alone? Accidentally caught a lot of walleyes while fishing for other species this year. I wish something could be done about all the dang walleyes; you can't keep 'em off your line. Didn't get any big sturgeon or bass over 6, didn't get any redhorse over 12 pounds, didn't get any bowfin at all, no blue sucker, no buffalo. Stinks. bad fishing.

I hope next year is decent.

[fishing tech]

Haven't been out much but 1 night I had 2 8"plus sunnies, 6 10.5 crappies, and a 14" walleye all out of the same hole in about 3 hours. I hope to improve on the sunnies and crappies.

[harvey lee]

Hanson and Roughfisher: Nice Sturgeon. I hope to add that fish to my resume this April.They look like a awesome fish to catch,and through the ice,Awesome dudes.

[fisherman]

My biggest eye was 29in caught on a rattle reel at 2am on a metro lake. Numorous eyes C&R 19-23in. Have got into some nice crappies with 3 over 15in 1st of the 3 is going on wall other 2 were released, going to get another for the wall over 17in

Also got into those gills & craps on cutfoot early in the year which was lots of fun.

The best part of the season is just starting to get going.

[Quickstrike]

33 in north shore steelhead, 37 in lake superior king, 36 inch pike, and a 14 in crappie. pretty good year although over the last month i have been taken to school on almost every outing!!!

[river rat316]

Roughfisher dont you hate when you think you snagged an old t-shirt or something and it turns out to be one of those stinky walleyes I say toss em up in the weeds so you dont have to catch em again

[hovermn]

34" Northern jigging for Crappies on an Angel Eye Jr. Really quite funny. Came up to the hole in low light and I actually mistook it for a crappie! The light shining down the hole only light up an oval shape on the fish. Just then, it took off running almost stripping my reel of line. Took about 5 minutes to get it back up. Pretty nice fish and my personal best as I usually target pannies.

[Chad Halvorson]

My 1 pound 3oz Pumpkinseed.

Close second was a 1 pound 14 oz Crappie.

[LEECH21]

2005 I mostly targeted big smallies, trying to hook into a trophy 21+ incher. I came close a few times. I ended up with

2-20.5"

4-20"

2-19.75"

1-19.5"

4-19.25

7-19"

and to many to count under 19". Maybe 2006 will be the year! I also caught the biggest fish of my life so far this last April...a 50" sturgeon! Hope this coming April is good to me

[Dan Thiem]

I had a good October with catching muskies. Nothing big but they will all be there again but bigger this year.

[ASMOLEY]

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Have got into some nice crappies with 3 over 15in 1st of the 3 is going on wall other 2 were released, going to get another for the wall over 17in

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Fisherman how much did that 17in weigh? That must just be a monster. There has been some discussion on this forum if 15+ inchers exist. Hats off to you for getting 3 in one year!

[fisherman]

Havent got a 17in yet! I know they are there... just waiting for the right bite They are out there takes time and lots of patience. It can get very frustrating.

[fievel9922]

since we are all doing a little bragging I thought i would post a few of my best pics of the year.

29 in eye from canada

a nice king from lake michigan

and two 15 inchers one black and one white, caught within a min of each other last week about 30 minutes from the metro. my fishing partner caught a true 17in white the day before, biggest darn crappie i ever seen. cant wait to see the mount.

Great topic guys keep the good pics coming.

[oil painter]

Dont know how to post pics but 2 14 1/2 one black one white crappies, 1 18 1/2 smallie in 32 feet in the fall wow what a tussle nothing earth shatering but thats ok,only fished 2 times on open water. I'd rather paint in the summer!

[Captain B.R.K]

I don't have lots to brag about, but did catch some nice fish this summer

A fine 20+ inch St.Louis River Walleye on Opener!

One of many bucket mouths I caught this year....my biggest 5.0/5.5 lbs!

14 1/4" slab Crappie from on URL!

All in all a pretty successful year and only looking to do better and learn more!

[fievel9922]

nice fish captain when were u on red going next weekend. always a fun trip any advice if you were there recently let me know.

[fishin magician]

Well I see some others are bragging so I better post a couple. 29" walleye and a 19 lbs Salmon.