Great day to be on the water.

[Wayne Ek]

What a picture perfect day to spend time on the water today Kent Sheels and myself hit two lakes around the Fergus Falls area today. Water temps are running 58 to 59 pretty constantly. We caught a number of 4s and two that hit the high 5's. Just have not been able to break that 6 mark this month. On one lake we caught them up to 16 feet deep and on the other nothing came over 12 deep. Most came on a slow jig/pig presentation. Tomorrow we will try Miltona for some walleyes and maybe a couple of green fish

But, what a great day to be on the water or chasing ducks.

[ikeslayer]

do you have any pictures and what was the hot presentation? ike

[Fever]

I'll have to agree. I was out Sat afternoon and stumbled upon a pattern that produced big time. Tossing siler rattle raps from 15 fow up into about 5 or six. Caught around 20 + bass and 4 Pike from 4 pm to about 5 pm. Lost track of how many fish. They were literally stacked in one spot and at one time caught back to back to back to back fish on four consectuative casts. Largest being 3lbs 12 oz average was in the two pound range I spose. I'll post a couple pics later. Had to take pics myself so quality was lacking. Beautiful fall day... Wow.

[Slyster]

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Caught around 20 + bass and 4 Pike from 4 pm to about 5 pm.

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Man.. I read things like this once in a while and I have to wonder if these are exaggerations? 20+ in an hour? Come on!... That's a fish every 2+ minutes.

On my best days of ALL time I would say WOW to catching maybe 7 or 8 bass in an hour.. in fact.. 30 bass in 6+ hours in the rare prized goal I succeed at maybe 3 times per year.

Even on TV you don't see that.. not even down south.

[Fluker]

I don't know Fever, nor Slyster, so I'm staying away from the specific case at hand. However I'll comment with some of my opinions in general.

20+ fish in an hour in definitely not unheard of. I'm guessing I've caught 30-35 in an hour before, and 20+ in an hour on multiple occasion. In some instances, many of the fish were 12" or less, but a few rare occasions I've thumped some good ones. Pulled up to a spot on the river a couple falls ago and boated 20 smallies in a little less than 45 minutes. One every other cast almost. The awesome thing is NONE of these fish were less than 16" and the largest was just over 4 (all estimation of course, didn't take time to measure/weigh). They were feeding up for winter and my poor spinnerbait was DONE after this little flurry.

You also mentioned "not even down south.". After coming from "down south" and fishing a few times in other parts of "down south", I'd have to say your MUCH more likely to have this kind of success up here. With MUCH less pressure up here, it's much easier to catch #'s of fish that down south. Granted the odd's of an 8+ might be less up here, but sheer numbers are MUCH greater. I can probably count on 1 hand the # of 100+ fish days I had down south (I think just one if memory serves me right), but I've had more than my share up here.

MN is an AWESOME fishery! In certain parts of the state, if you aren't catching a lot of fish on a particular lake, load up, drive 5 minutes, and try again! Now THAT is awesome!

Fluker

[Wayne Ek]

All on green pumpkin 1/2 oz. strike king pro models with 3x yes you guessed it, green pumpkin chunks fished slow. Ike I got some picks, I will contact Deitz and see if he will post them if I send them, as I have no luck posting pic's most of the time

[buzzin for bass]

Sorry Sly, but I gotta back up Fever on this one. I consider myself mediocre at best but even I have had a couple of trips over the years like what Fever was talking about. I had one 3 hour 50+ fish outing early this summer where I realized I was truely having a great outing after getting mad because it had been 5 casts since my last fish. 20 fish in an hour would be a fish every 3 minutes. Also, the way you fish makes a big difference. If you're skipping docks with a senko (looking at your avatar) you are probably much less likely to get the high number than if you are burning a crank bait across a large main lake point. It just takes more time to pick apart a dock with a senko than it does to fan cast a point. I'm not saying these sorts of outings are common, but they do happen.

[Deitz Dittrich]

send them my way wayne!.. I'll throw them puppies up on the net for you!

Wayne- you sell that boat yet?

[Slyster]

Well.. it's probably my fault then.. ... since I don't travel I fish only 3 or 4 metro lakes. I would locations OUTSIDE the metro are better. I really don't care to fish more than 1/2 hour away from home.

[Wayne Ek]

I will send them tonight.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Here are those pictures Agape sent me.. I'll let him explain who they are...

[Fever]

No kidding... I do have to admit some days I've really stunk it up but this last sat afternoon was one of the better days I've ever had. Seriously at one point it was four casts with four fish. All fish caught were over 14 inches with biggest being around 18 and (3 lbs 12 oz.) Here are some pics. Check out the nasty wound on the side of the smaller Bass. Also, some crazy pigmentation on another. Black splotches. This isn't the first time I've seen this on this particular west metro lake either. Anyone else seen this coloration abnormality?

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I'm telling ya, I threw the anchor and started casting... When it slowed down I kinda got bumbed out but even good things have to end sometime I figure... Until next time. Go Twins!