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[tsewdim]

Frog bassin' on the St. Croix. From last weekend. It's easier to upload pics now. Yay!

[river rat316]

This mornings big fish

They were inhaling jigs, was really fun!!

[bassfshin24]

Well I broke my MN personal best largemouth last night....Twice!!! Ive only fished in MN about a year and for some reason could not hook into a 5lb fish. Caught a ton of 4lbs but couldnt get into a 5. Could not find my tape measure, only had a ruler that went to 18 inches, both fish were around the 19 1/2-20inch mark.

5.0lbs even

5.22lbs

[NTW]

Sounds like a great outing, nice work!

[fishuhalik]

Very nice fish guys! Hey fordo, you wanna take me fishing? I'll put you on some st. croix sturgeon this fall!

[bassNspear]

nice looking fish guys. looks like u are all having fun

[BassKnuckles]

Brad Childress's Brother?

[carpmanjake]

the past 2 days i have been fishing around fergus. i left late at night on monday (well... it was 1 am tuesday morning to be exact...)

i arrived at orwell around 2 am. and did a little bit of scouting and found hundreds of fish gulping the surface of the water. idk if they were carp or buffalo. but after a while of fishing i finally hooked one. and got it withing hands reach, it looked like a buff with its plump head. i reached down and just barely touched it it took off and threw the hook. dang it! normally i consider touching a fish catching it... but it doesnt count because i have no idea if it was actually a buff.

i couldnt get any to bite after that, then i headed to a new spot. and parked for a few hours. i woke up at 6 and scouted the new area. right as i got to the waters edge i spotted a nice bigmouth buff! probably in the mid teens to 20lb range. but i didnt have my rod. the spot looked promising, i went back to the car and got my rod, and started fishing. i focused my efforts on stalking because of the ammount of fish i was seeing feeding along the shore. carp, buffs, shorthead redhorse, silver redhorse, white sucker.

the small smallmouth bass posed a threat on every cast toward a feeding fish... taking the worm before it even hit bottom... but i kept trying to no avail

so i went below the dam, and was catching carp pretty consistantly, then i stumbled upon a small stream flowing into the river that was FULL of nice smallies!

i was fishing anywhere from just enough water to cover their backs, to 3 feet where the river and creek merge. it was so much fun sight fishing for those beautiful fish! and given how many nice ones i caught, i lost just as many! some even bigger!

i went back above the dam, and looked under an overhanging tree and saw a couple carp sucking around lazily among the limbs. i sat and watched them, until a nice 5-6lb bigmouth buff swam in amongst them! i stalked and fished that guy for almost a half hour all the way down the shoreline to the dam, but he showed absolutely no interest in my bait! DANG IT! it was really cool fishing for him just like i fish for lake winona carp here in alex. he was so close to shore i could just drop the worm right in his face

i went back to the smallies for the rest of the stay there, checking for buffs periodically to no avail.

i know where i will be going again sometime in the near future!

[Cicada]

High school classmate joined me for a day of largemouth bass fishing in the Detroit Lakes area.

Scot's 21.5"

My 19.5" that looked like it swallowed a small muskrat.

[abcnerdd]

Nice bucketmouth! Did you feel it's stomach?

[Cicada]

Not really, didn't want her to get the wrong idea. This one was very cool though, saw a wake come from about twenty feet away, catch up to the buzzbait, and then it looked like someone threw a bathtub on top of the lure.

[Irish]

Congrats on all the beautiful smallies Jake. Sounds like a lot of fun. Did you get them all on the flick-shake?

[MN BassFisher]

I love the ones with the distinct barring. I haven't caught one like that.

[bassfshin24]

Nice fish Cicada....those are some hogs!!

[carpmanjake]

Congrats on all the beautiful smallies Jake. Sounds like a lot of fun. Did you get them all on the flick-shake?

the first was on a gulp alive minnow fished weighless twitched through a shallow section of the stream. (watching that baby go after it was INSANE!)

most of the rest were caught on aarons magic roboworms on a shakey head

a couple nice ones were caught drifting a crawler

[pushbutton]

got this monster last night fishing for walleyes. was alone so pic. is not good. also did not have a net and using 4 lb test.....had to beach the boat, jump out, and walk her up to shore( hence the sand) i could almost fit my entire hand in her mouth trying get out the lure. she is certainly pushing 6lbs.....did not weigh or measure....completely inhaled the little plastic i was using, had hard time getting it out, so just let her go without more stress!

[abcnerdd]

Not really, didn't want her to get the wrong idea. This one was very cool though, saw a wake come from about twenty feet away, catch up to the buzzbait, and then it looked like someone threw a bathtub on top of the lure.

LOL

Now that is my kind of bass fishing! Topwater!

[MegaHawk]

pushbutton, did you weigh it? doesnt sound like you did, looks like its pushin 5 not 6. its a nice fish besides the fact . how late at night was it when she bit?

[pushbutton]

caught it around 11pm in 3 ft of water....usually dont care enough to measure and never weigh... can only get about 17 inches of fish on my cell phone camera and this piggy had plenty of room left have caught those bowling ball 18 inch 4 lbers before...this thing was just loonngg and thick!

[st.crioxfishin]

Here are a few from a 2 week spring road trip south of the MN border.

Table Rock Lake, MO in early April

Lake Dardanelle, AR April - My biggest Largemouth to date caught in practice - 7lbs even caught on a Rapala DT3 Flat.

Lake Dardanelle, AR - Day one of Arkansas Tech Invitational - 20lbs even.

[Cicada]

Another angle. You can see this is a big belly...concentrate on the fish now.

[abcnerdd]

Nice bucketmouth, quite a beer belly, huh? LOL

[TonkaBass]

Very nice carpman jake! Keep them coming! Those smallies look awesome!

[carpmanjake]

Very nice carpman jake! Keep them coming! Those smallies look awesome!

thanks, im planning to take another trip up there for a couple days again either this week or next week

[bassfshin24]

Finally got some better pics on my computer of the fish i caught a couple weeks ago. First fish went 5.0 even and second went 5.22