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'Boji Bonanza Bull Blues!

DTro

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Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to be invited to fish with Perchpounder and Muc33 down on Okoboji for the 1st annual Get Together.

I've heard stories about the big Gills down there so I was excited to say the least.

Well to make a long story short, Chris and Chad, were able to do their magic and put us on some awesome fish!

Sat was a little slow but not bad at all, today however was lights out. I lost count how many 9+" fish we caught! Several that were 9.75" Just a blast!

I've never really done this type of sight fishing before and boy was it fun. Never know what you might see. I watched countless large Musky/Pike/Bass swim through my hole while enticing another Bull Gill. I was even able to take some nice videos of this happening. I'll try to get that uploaded here shortly.

It is quite obvious that these guys have it figured out. The long hours they put in patterning and locating these fish is apparent. I can't wait to try some of their tactics in other lakes.

Maybe you guys can chime in and explain how we were catching them.

Chris and Chad, thanks again for the great time, this won't be my last trip down there. wink

I'll rethink my plans next time I decide to "head North" and do a 180 instead. grin

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Gotta love those Iowa gills. We caught our fish sight fishing horizontal jigs tipped with plastics (unless your DTRO and have to cheat by using Euros). We use the motto down here of small and slow and it seems to work most of the time. Today was probably the third best day i've had this year but we did pretty well. the weather pattern finally turned around and put the fish on bite giving us very little down time today once we got on top of them.

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Here's a short video. I had a hard time holding the camera and setting the hook with my left hand. That's my story and I'm sticking to it smile

The red light is a reflection from the camera.

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We were only in about 5-6' of water there but its not uncommon for us to sight fish standing outside in 10-12'. BTW the water was a little dirty due to all the fresh snow on top. The fishing is going to start changing soon the weeds we were fishing last weekend are all dead and im sure the ones that are still standing aren't going to last long.

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Don't ask me to guide. All thanks and credit to Perchpounder, cool

We drilled a bunch of holes, then after a while he drilled more, walked over to my shack and simply said in a convincing voice, "you can do whatever you want, but if I were you, I'd move your house over to this hole here"

You don't have to tell me twice. smile

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