Mankato Gathering

[Rick]

Thanks guys for all your tips and good time.

Luckyfish,
Hope you and Dennis have a great time on Big Marine today.

Dagon Master, rushing, and sir snores a lot, it was certainly great meeting yu. You guys are great. You sure gave me some new ideas.

As always, Dennis, Dark, Sarge, Leah and BGR, you did your thing and really put the fun into high gear.

Dennis gave out reds on his 18' jet ski...err, I mean River Pro. he took Sirsnoresalot through some pretty tough water and handled it like a champ.

I think someone said he is planning on saving up his nickels to get one for himself after the ride. It's amazing, every River Rat who sees it is soon plotting a way to try and get one for themselves or they definitely sit back impressed with the River Pro boat.

Oh yes, let's not forget leah, what a champ. She was taking good care of Sarge and at least trying to keep him focused on fishing. He had one lapse and lost a way nice walleye about 5 feet from his position. Leah tried to help him but Sarge shrugged her off. Hey Sarge, when are you going to learn?

Dragon Master proceeded to load that Jon of his down pretty good. I believe he had about 3 inches above the water line when he took off. That bait system you invented is awesome. He had enough gear in there for 20 river rats. You had an awesome group in that Jon.

Sounds like the Channels are finally starting to tail off ojn their spawn in the Minnesota. I guess the Flatties will be next.

Keep us posted guys on how things are going..please??

[DARK30]

That was fun!....Makes ya want to have more gatherings. Maybe we can have one down there this fall. Too bad the Blue Earth is rolling so fast but it dosn't take long to come down either. If I wasn't so shot from Friday night, I may have been able to stick it out and fished longer.

Hey Korn, did you stop in early? I don't think anybody was around at noon. Next time we could start a little later I suppose.

How about the guy who was [PoorWordUsage]ed at the world eh? Man, what a goofball! Too bad for his kid.

WET NETS!

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[korn_fish]

I swung in really early around 11:30. Didn't see much activity and went to get something to eat. Then got paged into work.

Wished I could have made it there. Im not on call again till October. WOHOO!!

How did everyone do?

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[dragon master]

Iam ready for the nexted Riverrat meet, man that was fun. One of the best parts was the real big JET SKI. MAN that thing is unreal. Some day if fishhead can keep it down under 80mph I might just go for a ride

It was good to meet all who showed up and to see some new river. Went 5mi up river a jam here and there and one 20foot hole. Found one bottleneck with fast water that I will have to come back to fish also found a good sand point that sat on a 18foot hole.

We will have to have a Bar-B-Q on the nexted rat meet. And to all who showed up it was good to meet you and looking forward to seeing you at the nexted meet....

[Sarge]

As always Dark30 was a great host. And its always great to gather with old friends, and meet new ones!

I would like to comment on the quality anglers and in general all around good and friendly people, who I have met because of this great site, Rick has put together. We had an experience, of "meeting" someone at the landing, who, to put it as nicely as I can, was a total "jerk". He really needed to learn how to "have more fun"!!!

Leah and I didn't get there till late, but got to put some more faces to FM names. And then spent the evening sharing some shore and fishing with BGR, and Rick and Dark just up from us in a boat. And BGR is just another example of quality FM anglers, I had never met Brian before, but by the time the evening was done I felt like he was one of my old fishing buddies!!(and of course I pumped him for all the catfishing info I could)

Thanks everyone!

[Mr Special]

Sorry didn't make it everyone, really wanted to meet you all. but by the time I was done with the Jeep, which is still not 100% it was 4:00pm. But did go down to chaska yesterday morning and caught two whitebass and more than enough sheepheads to keep me busy. Sounds like it was a good time for eveyone. I'm game for it next time.

Good luck

[Dennis Steele]

It was great to meet all the river rats that showed up for the Cat Gathering.I learned quite a lot sitting on the ramp for hours talking with some very good catmen. I wish I could have stayed and fished the night with you guys.I hope you guys did well that night!I hope to see you all at the next one!

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[Dennis Steele]

dragon
You bet that the River Pro (big jet ski )does not have to go that fast or in circles all the time.Matter of fact I usually drive "fairly" responsibly. I am still 12 at heart and like to show it off!
Maybee you,Kevin and I will hook up some time befroe the season is out and have a good time.We can take the River Pro and I will behave.

[LuckyFish]

Thanks guys for all the info shared. I had a great time sorry I had to leave so soon but I had to get some rest for the LETS on Big Marine. It was great to see all the catmen I've been "listening in on" on the forums. Now that I have the boat I will be exploring the Mn around Mankato more. Maybe at the next gathering I will have some better info to share. All in all a great time, and Dennis thanks for the ride in that water rocket....er I mean the River Pro.
Lucky

[dragon master]

Dennis I will take you up on that. You and DARK will have to show me how to fish that part of the river. And some day you will have to come up to the part of the river that I fish. We have a lot more cover than what I seen down in mankato but then I seen only 5mi of it. Fishing with you and DARK could be fun, I just might have to much fun

How meany river mi can you get on a tank of gas with that river pro??

[Dennis Steele]

I have buddies running River Pro's that siad they can go about 70 miles on a tank of gas.Thats a lot of river to explore!

[Guest]

Nice meeting up with the Sarge and Leah also, and a big thanks for the extra bait! The suckers didn't make it, but at least I have a bunch of cut bait now also. Many more
opportunities for cattin left this year. Holler if you want to check out some more shore spots. Don't forget , Horseshoe this winter for channels through the ice also!