King of the Cats 2007 Team River Rats

[harvey lee]

Boy, Mr Hatlestad. I had to look twice to know who you were talking too. We cant say Mr or Grump or DTRO will really give me the S--T.

Nothing to live up to while fishing on the same team as I. We will go forth and have a great summer of fishing and let the chips fall where they may.

[Grant]

cripes- if I hear "Mr. Bakken" i start looking for my dad~

[DTro]

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Thanks Darren. My putor at home is down and I have not been able to be online much. The River Rats will prevail even with Papa Grump not on our team.

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Ah, that's too bad.....I sent you an invite to tackle some whites last night. figured something must be wrong when I didn't get a reply....your loss, Hanson's gain (see "White Bass Assault Continues...)

[Shack]

We will stick with first names. Anyone going out this weekend?

[Mike Steckelberg]

i'll be heading out this weekend, i'll be in between little falls and st. cloud on sat. then might try down by granite falls on sunday

[Grant]

conditions permitting I might try to get out Saturday and/or Sunday.

[Farmboy1]

I will be on pool 4 Saturday, but with a tourney in town, don't know how productive it will be. I may do a little scouting for later

[Shack]

Well, I was going to hide this little tid bite, I told grant in another thread. An easy way to do some scouting is to go on mapquest and get a map of area you like to fish and up in right hand corner there is a link to aerial veiw. It is cool, you can plan and map out trip before it happens. it is cool to look at river and get good info. I know this will travel beyond our team, but the main thing is to get some "Big Cats" and post images. Lets get out and do some fishing. I am already for Saturday (after noon and night).

[Shack]

P.S.

Remember control item, I all ready forgot copies I had at my office. I will print some at home, but I been telling my self since it came out to bring home. I forgot!

[Shack]

Went out last night for six hours. It was late and wind was blowing. Tried all the good spots. Nothing. We did get a rather large one on by the 5 bridge on Mississippi and after moving boat and fighting it for a while a weak spot in line broke (2" for swivle). It was fun again to get out.

Had to get dressed up for winter a little, but out of wind was nice. Already planing trip's for this week and next weekend. I think we will for go Walleye fishing up north to get back out for cats this weekend. Its up in the air. great fish to all how got them. Will post this week after I get back out.

[harvey lee]

I will be heading out for some channel and flat action on Tuesday. After that it will be teo days a week for sure.

here kitty, kitty.

[Shack]

I think I will get back out by Tues... We fished pool 2 on Sat. night. Due to storms, we did not get down there until around 9:30 p.m... The only action we saw was the paddleboats and some "girl’s gone wild" action on one of them. Besides that and getting one on at 5 bridge on Miss., It was a slow night. I did get a nice shot of a paddleboat at night; I will post later (Clean images).

!!!!Question! Anyone getting fish out in main channel area yet? We picked up a fair amount of arches on graph from main channel area and deep swirl pool area's, but could not get them to pick bait up. River is low for this time of year and main channel is anchor able now. Just a question.

[Mike Steckelberg]

ok, i got out this afternoon and did so so...the biggest fish i caught was a channel 27.5x12.5 so nothing great but at least its a start..i don't know how to put pics on here so if anyone could help i would appreciate it

[DTro]

Nice Catch.

Well all teams are now officially on the board.

Bring on the hogs!

[Shack]

Good Job!

[Shack]

Here is a sign of summer for ya! The paddle boats are out and weddings are going on! I would show ya some other paddle boat picutes, but I would get kicked off this web site for sure. Going to a wedding, on a paddle boat in St. Paul, couple of cocktales and women get wild when a camara from a boat filled with guys is flashing in the dark. It was the high light of the night, even though we did not get fish.

Can not forget the kids! we went to St Cloud dam to night and found water is rushing almost to strong.

[harvey lee]

Way to go mpsteckel. Hopefully I can add a couple to the team score tonight.

[harvey lee]

After the first night on the river, we picked up 1 channel and 1 flathead. Many other were missed. I did get on the board with 1 channel, 24x13.5 . Dtro has the pic.

[Shack]

HarveyLee,

Great Job. I hope to been on board by this weekend. That seems to be a good sized fish. Lets hope there is more to come.

[Farmboy1]

With the gale force winds, and a honey do list at home, I did not get out last weekend. The wife asked me last night if I was going to sleep on the river Friday, or Saturday night. I think that means I have permission

Hopefully I have some pictures come Monday. I hope to get at least a respectable channel, but will concentrate on a few flathead holes I have been wanting to try, just have not gotten a chance.

Go Team River Rats

[Shack]

Farmboy 1,

You did not miss much. I got kinda of a cold from last weekend. Feel like I have the crud.

[Farmboy1]

I did not think I would be missing much, but a guy can't turn down time on the water when he gets a chance

FB

[Shack]

Well, hit our easy pick'ins spot tonight. I felt I had to get my self on board with something. Used cut sucker and got 5 fish. Got home after work and took a nap, then headed down to Mississippi for some evening action. Not much, but get some points on board. 7.2 lbs, 25 1/2"x16

Here is a couple more.

It was fun to get out again this week. Will hit Minnesota and pool 2 this weekend again. Hoping for my first flatty of the season. Will send E-mail to dtro On Thurs. Good night!

[harvey lee]

Way to go Shackbash. I think I may hit the river Sat or Sun for some flatty action and maybe upgrade my smaller channel.

[Mike Steckelberg]

I wish you all luck this weekend, I have to work (i drive semi) so I won't be back till thursday, then i will hit the lakes and rivers for some fun