Best 2002 fishing experience

[Reefdawg75]

It was August. Three of my friends and I went out at 8:30 at night to try for Catfish on a Lake near Howard Lake. We fished for a couple of hours and all we caught were bullheads. We figured 20 feet was to deep so we moved in closer to shore. With out paying attention we were now in 3 feet of water. Well, at least the bullheads weren't swallowing the hook anymore. Not much was biting so we focused energy on drinking beer and BSing about summer. Suddenly, my rod started yanking backward and I thought one of my friends had tangled up with line by not paying attention or they were just messing around teasing me. So I yelled, "Who's Pullin?" They responded, "Pullin What." That second I set the hook. Fish On! We all stand up in the pontoon boat with a mission to land the fish. They scrambled for the flashlight and discovering that my rod looks like an ugly stick commercial. Meanwhile with all of commotion the anchor rope had come untied and was now rapped around my foot. I've now got a large fish in three feet of water pullin one way and the anchor rope pullin the other way. Soon things became organized. I had one friend with the net, another friend with the flashlight and the third friend untangling me from the anchor rope. Now all of us were cheering on the battle against the fish. After about 10 minutes we landed the 12 pound channel cat with the best "half in the bag" teamwork I have seen. Thanks to my friends that was the best of '02.

[Cottco]

Watching my 5 year old catch a 3 lb. northern thru the ice on light line in our home built fish house, with the ice booming & banging, and managing to take a photo before watching him slip that critter back toward its icey home.

Without question - kids are a gift from God.

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Minnow, please.

[legendelite]

Watching my son(7) and daughter(5) catch their first walleyes on Mille Lacs (CPR), then wanting to do 'Cannon Balls' off the boat.

[MJCatfish]

Two day trip to LOTW with a bunch of great buddies: Day one- Morson-Caught a nice bunch of shore lunch walleyes, then fished smallies and muskies. Two boats caught lots of smallies and even two muskies. Saw more muskies and watched one attack a smallie right next to the boat on my buddies bucktail. He also caught a muskie on the surface. It blew the bait up four times before he was hooked, caught, and released. Day Two-Sioux Narrows- Didn't do as well, but caught some smallies, largemouth, pike, and even watched a 5 pound walleye chase my shad rap to the boat.

And of course, every trip up to Selkirk for big cats is a hoot also.

MJ

[Guest]

In august catching a 15lb northeran and letting her go!
And my trip up to lake Diefenbaker always catch alot of quality walleyes.
OR on memorial weekend catching bout 40 bass on a top water frog! That was a blast!
So many to choose from i cant decide.

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FISHSTUNNER

[This message has been edited by fishstunner (edited 01-04-2003).]

[Guest]

LOW 2nd week in June. it rained for two days and the water rose 2ft and was still going up. Got my grandfather to come up with us, he was battling a rare disease. his favorite lure was something called a wobbleglow. there was always a lot of teasing going on between my grandpa, my dad, and me (dad and i didn't have much faith in wobble glows). we were fishing near Oak Island and my dad caught a nice one on a jig, and just as he started lipping off about how the jig out-performed the wobbleglow again, my grandpa proceeded to pull in 5 walleyes in a row, all over 21", within a half hour. (we released all but three bigger ones). i'd never seen him so excited, shoving our jabs right back in our face. my grandpa passed away two months later. that's one moment in time i'll never forget.

[Darton37]

I took my wife up to Wheelers Point Resort on LOW in October to fish the river for walleyes.She ups and catches a 53" sturgeon on 8 pound test,it took her 45 minutes took get it in. I think I recieved a lifetime of browny points for that trip. She walked me down to Wigwam after that for dinner and cocktails. Who could ask for more.