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[jalberg]

Here are a couple from this weekend.

20.5"

21.25"

[Cecil]

TOADS

Nicely Done Jal

[Vallejo]

Thanks, I love fall fishing!

[Juan Grande]

Nice!

Can it really be considered fall fishing when the water temps are still around 60 degrees? Are people finding fish schooled up yet?

I got out Friday afternoon with limited success. Either they weren't in shallow or they weren't hitting fast moving stuff. Should have slowed down I guess.

[kt]

NIce fish guys. What have the water temps been around the state? I've had anywhere from 61-58 this past weekend. Grab the net, were those hawgs fromthe "private lake" from last week?

I made it out twice this weekend. Saturday afternoon we hit two lakes, got beat up on one lake (northerns were on a tear though). The other lake we pounded the bass on a windblown point from 3:30-5:30 before we had to leave. Ended up with 40 largemouth in that time biggest one just over twenty inches and extremely obese. It had what i believed to be another largemouth sticking out of its mouth. Got two other 19 inchers as well, with the rest between 16 and 18 inches. The 4 biggest were caught on plastics but over half of the rest were on a rattle trap. Went out sunday afternoon from 4-6:30 and fished smallies. The action wasn't as fast as i expected but we still ended up with 20-25 in that time. Only had time to hit four spots but found fish on each. The key was weed patches near hard bottom areas. Picked up one 19 incher that was a tank and also my biggest smallie to date. Just a hair over twenty with shoulders. I wish my scale wasn't broke because that smallie had to be easily over five. I was really surprised that they weren't on a crankbait/jerkbait bite. Got the first one on a jerkbait and had a couple others slap at it along with a few sniffers but nothing else. Soft plastics were the bait of choice for the smallies. I'll post some pictures later tonight.

[grab the net]

Got invited back, fishing the other guys boat, I couldn't resist. Fished the opener lake on saturday afternoon. Got humbled there, one snake and one dink. Water temps I found Saturdy were 56-57, Sunday morning started out at 54-55 and was at 58 when we left at noon. Just about a 10 degree drop in a week. Lets see that 20 inch smallie with the steroid shoulders.

[kt]

Heres some pictures from the weekend

19"

20"

19" smallie

20" smallie

[Presco]

Here's one from this morning. Sorry for the poor quality, I was camera-less so this is from the cell. I don't want to venture a guess on the length (didn't have scale so no weight), but what I can say is that the writing at the end of the rod is 3 letters (IM6) and the I is exactly at 21". I don't want to say this was a 21", because it doesn't look that big in the pic, but I checked the writing on the rod 3 times tonight. 21" on the dot. This fish has a little extra on the end with a tail pinch and its jaw is still almost lined up with the writing. Fun to catch, even more fun when I had to lip it. No net!

As another frame of reference, I caught another one that I thought was pretty big and measured against the rod, it only came to the end of that square symbol (the rod is a Gander Guide series IM6). I'll bring a ruler next time and a scale.

[grab the net]

No matter what the length, that is one nice fish!

[derek5]

My boy having a good time lastnight, fish were really biting. He turned 2 in july and loves to bass fish.

[fishuhalik]

man alive, alotta nice fish! derek5, hold onto that picture, thats awesome

[TonkaBass]

Jal way to go again man! Kt nice job on those brown ones again too!

[EBass]

Cute pic of da kid - look at that grin!

Nice hogs KT.

Don't know about 21" but that's a hog bass, congrats.

Last year I caught 10 at or over 20" and this year not a single one.

[Presco]

I hear ya, it might not be 21", but its gotta be close. I did some extra measuring on the rod and added it to the pic for reference. Again, not for sure 21", but easily the biggest I've caught out of that hole. I'm still kicking myself for not bringing a scale or ruler, oh well.

[goldie11]

my biggest of the year! gotta love fall bass fishing

[rookie20]

ya i netted that

[kt]

Pictures from this past MEA weekend. Targeted smallies mostly on two different lakes and did well. Went after largemouth for a few hours one day and did well on a steep dropping inside turn with sparse coontail. Biggest fish from the weekend were a nice 20" smallie and two other 19.5" smallies. Big largemouth was a tad over 21" along with a 20.5, and a 19.5. All three largemouth came from the same coontail inside weedline on a steep drop. The smaller two were caught crawling a jig and the big one was caught dragging a tube. Smallies were caught on various soft plastics.

21" and a 14"

20.5"

19.5" pig

20" pig

19.5" tank

[NTW]

dang kt you are all over those big fish!

[NTW]

I had time to put a couple pics on the computer today from last saturday. Regarding the picture of 4 fish - I know it is kind of stupid to hold on to fish you're going to release but it was part of an experiment of sorts.

[Craigums]

Nice fish NTW. Any details on the big girl: Depth, bait ect.?

I got out myself this weekend, caught most fish in 7-8 fow, using a Jigworm looking for any remaining GREEN weeds.

[NTW]

Thanks craigums. Those fish were at 12 and 18fow on specific structure. The two bigger ones both were just under 20 1/4"...one was on a creature in 18ft and the other a crank in 12ft...

The four fish pictured were all caught in about 30 mins on about a 30ft diameter area in 18ft.

I went out last weekend as well but wasn't able to find the same type of deep bite. (different lake) I ended up catching a few in 5-8ft and a nice big sheepie out deeper.

[sicheneder]

oa couple from a few weeks ago. fish are still biting and the average has gone up in my area.water temp 46-47. caught 12 bass yesterday wed. nov.3,with biggest being 5.25lbs and 7 of those fish over 4 lbs. sad part was the boat was winterized and the 16' lund is out to fish for other species, maybe a trip or 2 for smallies still.

[Jim Hudson]

Fall on Chequamegon Bay this year.. Some of my clients and I with a few of the bigger fish..

[Juan Grande]

Nice fish Jim! Getting them on jigging spoons?

[jalberg]

They can steal my gear, but they can't steal my spirit.

5lb 13oz