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[Craigums]

Fun fight on a light action crappie rod. I think it was a male because he was right up on the bank and didn't have a swollen belly. Usually the males I catch are shorter though.

Cool thing is I saw a blue heron moments earlier chowing down on a bass about the same size. I almost called TIP on him because bass season isn't open on the lake I was fishing

[Juan Grande]

Dang it Craigums, that Blue Heron was crappie fishing.

[EBass]

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Dang it Craigums, that Blue Heron was crappie fishing.

HA!

[slopmaster]

Here's my biggest one of the year so far. 4.12lb

[bassfshin24]

Nice fish! What a fatty!

[carpmanjake]

2 nice ones from this weekend, fun stuff on light walleye tackle.

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[Presco]

Got out in Wisconsin this weekend with a buddy. Water was between 55-58. While we saw a lot of cruising fish, we had a hard time getting them to commit. Spent the morning Friday just pounding shorelines and rock humps with jerkbaits, but only caught a few. We had to drag tubes and beavers as slow as possible across the breaks or where rocks met the sand and thats when we started to have success. We saw lots of beds, but fish either weren't on them or weren't aggressively defending them. We caught 4 fish over 4lbs including my new PB, a 5lb 13oz female with a belly so full, I almost felt bad for her.

[tritonman]

Presco that is a PIG!!!! Congrats man!

[MN BassFisher]

Wow look at that belly!!

[Nick Kuhn]

Well, I can't match that size (after all, we are just a couple of muskie guys). This double sums up our Saturday though, always just a bit better than my dad. Even more impressive was my aim with the camera; got it first try.

[bassfshin24]

Holy fat fish Presco. Congrats on the PB. What did you get her to bite on?

Nice fish NK.

Man this is getting me excited for opener on Mille Lacs. Was on Mille Lacs pike fishing Saturday and saw a lot of big smallies cruising around. Didnt see any beds yet but with temps the way they are going I bet fish will be spawning by the end of the week. My bro in law did manage to get one smallie to bite on a big spinnerbait that was 18in and 4.25lbs.

[HAWKsmyGSP]

Presco: Thats a beauty congrats on the brownie what was the lenght ?

[Presco]

Fish was caught on a tube. All our biggest fish were caught with either a tube or a smallie beaver on a football head or t-rigged. Bite was really light and always seemed to be when the bait was sitting for a period of time. They were just nipping at the jerkbaits as well.

She was just shy of 21" on the Hawg Trough, biggest belly I've ever seen on a smallmouth though. It looked painful. Like Bigstick, I'm also 6'3'' with big hands, so fish never look as big when I'm holding them.

[Cecil]

I'll say its just under 5 pounds. Looks like you are holding it out quite a bit in the picture

[Presco]

Cecil, you'll be happy to know she was caught on a Loomis rod and Shimano reel. Can I get your discount on the NRX now?

[Cecil]

Heck, with a statement like that...you are on the pro staff!!

[Dooley87]

Smallies opened in Wisconsin 2 weekends ago for catch and release so me and my grandpa always fish smallies on opener up there instead of walleyes and this years opener was very successful

Caught 22 smallmouth between 14 inches and 17.5 inches with the majority being between the 16 to 17 inch range and 21 of the 22 came on my hand made hair jigs

All the fish seemed to be on rocks

Managed a few walleyes on accident as well

[corncob]

Great pics and good work gentlemen......That lake looks soooo welcoming...Beautiful scenery.

[BDawg23]

These 4 were the highlights of 2 1/2 days spent in Hayward. Weather was terrible for the first couple of days and right when the sun came out the fish started biting and we had to leave. Most were caught on lipless cranks, football heads & grubs. These were all in the 18" to 19" range.

[TonkaBass]

presco, thats a beast!

[Craigums]

Bdawg is that a Boxer? Ive got a Boxer "Babe" that I plan on bringing out in the boat this year. She's not a very strong swimmer so I bought her an aquadog life jacket lol

[bassfshin24]

Nice Craigums. I have a boxer (Murphy) as well. He loves being out on the boat! But like you said they do not swim well at all. I dont even know if you would call it swimming...its more like they are slapping the water haha.

[BDawg23]

Craigums,

Yes, mine is a boxer named Leroy. He loves the boat and likes to lick the tails of the fish. Haha. He can't really swim either and I compare it to "boxing" the water. I love the breed and will never have another dog other then a boxer. Here is one of my favorite pictures as he acts like a human a lot by just crawling right up on the boat seats. Haha.

[Smallie Hunter]

Caught 3 18" fish with my son last sunday. he is 3 and had a blast.

[slopmaster]

Heres a few nice ones from the weekend. Biggest two went 5.12 and 5.02.