My first Northern!

[Morquinn23]

I caught my first northern yesterday evening, boy was I excited! Im normally a bass fisher woman, yet no bass were hitting shallow yesterday, so I decided to head about 15 yards past the reed line, about 7-8 feet deep and try casting in cabbage, I was using a blue and white mimic minnow spinner combo (I lost my perch colored one on a tree last week) I hadnt been catching anything on the blue and white, but I decided to try last night again, I was getting alot of large mouths and some rock bass along with some nice blue gills, around 7:30-8pm I casted out again, as I was about to pull the lure out of the water about a foot from the boat, I saw a shimmer and splash, freaked me out so bad I screamed and scared my boyfriend haha, it dragged my line out a little ways and I was like "whoa, what is that, a huge bass?" Got it closer to the top water and saw it was a northern, I was exstatic, pulled it out and measured it, it was 30", didnt have a weight scale, but according to Fishing Regulations book it was approx. 6 lbs, we let him go and did some more fishing, and got some more bass. I still kick myself everytime I go out and dont bring a camera. Oh well, it was fun, i'll try again tonight, and this time, I'll bring a camera!

[Dan Thiem]

Congrats! What a thrill eh?

[BigWadeS]

I have a feeling that you will be hooked for those toothy criters...they are fun to catch, congratulations on your first northern

[Morquinn23]

Yeah, it was a thrill, it was fun to catch, but I think it would be funner if he were out a ways, not much thrill pulling him a foot, I was just suprised I caught one! He tore my mimic minnow up pretty bad, i'll have to go buy some more, I havent been having much luck on my normal purple plastic worms like I usually do, so I tried the minnow and it worked like a charm for me last night.