2009 carp and other Rough fish pics

[Alan]

Nice fish MPLSFisher, thanks for sharing. Are you using a digital scale or the length/girth for the weight ? Just curious..nice fish...nice fight I bet.

[Abndoc]

first sturgeon ever today on the st. croix...is this a lake sturgeon?

sure was fun...jumped way out of the water

[Lowblazah]

yep

[Ralph Wiggum]

Yes, lake sturgeon.

[Tyler Holm]

34" Shovelnose - PB

[KTapper]

Bowfin PB

[carpmanjake]

LOTWvirgin- YOU LUCKY DOG!

KTapper= nice fin! what did she weigh

[KTapper]

Over Eight and a half.

[carpmanjake]

Over Eight and a half.

awesome! what were you using to catch her?

[KTapper]

I was night fishing, and I used my bowfin rig which is a light up bobber, a 20lb. leader with a #5 hook with a medium to large sucker hooked through the dorsal fin. Works great also catches huge bullhead I got a 15" yellow, and my buddies had pike on but they didn't have leaders so they lost them.

[MinnesnowtaWild]

I see you are in Mankato...where are you catching these from if you don't mind me asking. You can always send me an email too, it's in my signature.

[carpmanjake]

I was night fishing, and I used my bowfin rig which is a light up bobber, a 20lb. leader with a #5 hook with a medium to large sucker hooked through the dorsal fin. Works great also catches huge bullhead I got a 15" yellow, and my buddies had pike on but they didn't have leaders so they lost them.

very nice. i also use a set up like that when im night fishing, but i use 20lb flourocarbon for the leader, and i use shiners. pinch off the tail just in front of the tailfin, which causes it to struggle more and let out more scent. i often place a glowing bead above the hook for attraction. and i often find that i catch more bowfin with it then without.

another thing i do at night, is wading, and pitching shiner heads into open weed pockets. one night i must have hooked in to like 20 but i only landed about half of them. in the lake i fish for bowfin, one shoreline is filled with lily pads, and only that shoreline. during the day there are a few bowfin in there. but not many. but at night, it becomes litterally infested with them! the first night i went out there, i would just wade out to 3 FOW and pitch into one single weed pocket the entire night. and i just wait 10 seconds then set the hook and i would have a bowfin! usually over the 4lb range. and by 11 there were bowfin litterally swimming between my legs! it was INSANE!

[KTapper]

I see you are in Mankato...where are you catching these from if you don't mind me asking. You can always send me an email too, it's in my signature.

Just fishing the local lakes its that easy! Check the DNR lake finder and see if any of your favorite lakes have them in there. Just fish and weedy areas, I usually stay under five feet so it is easy to fish from shore. Madison, tetonka, dora, german, and many others have decent bowfin pops.

[MinnesnowtaWild]

Hmmm alright thanks man...if you ever need Catfish spots in the area send me an email.

[KTapper]

Hmmm alright thanks man...if you ever need Catfish spots in the area send me an email.

I have never gone catfishing, but I have wanted to and just don't know where to start.

[carpmanjake]

a yellow and a black bullhead from last night

[LoonState]

that looks like good bait.. Oh wait there is a max 7inch limit never mind... But yea really wish i could use them as bait, specially the one on the left. Big bait = big fish right?

[carpmanjake]

Big bait = big fish right?

not necesarrily. i have caught a few nice (4-6lb) walleye with the smallest panfish jigs i could find. they were 1/100th oz i believe. and little atom wedgies

[MinnesnowtaWild]

Heck ya man those Bullheads would make amazing Flathead bait.

But yeah bigger is not always better. My buddy caught a very small Flathead on a 12" Sucker minnow.

[carpmanjake]

ive got pics to bust the "big bait = big fish" myth. lol

big baits = small fish

this little walleye took a fat head half his size. lol. you can see it in its mouth,it swallowed it!i was in the bathroom

he took all that in, except for the back half, while i was there

little bass that took a 6" shiner

and

little baits = big fish

big eye with corn

9lb 3oz walleye on a tiny crappie minnow

and of course, my pb bass, caught on a tiny panfish popper

[ranger20]

nice walleyes jake

[carpmanjake]

well we went to the orwell dam today. we had a roughfish-a-palooza!

i caught 10 (i think, i dont know my red horses very well, so correct me if im wrong) different species. silver redhores, golden redhorse, shorthead redhorse, (i think im wrong, on the species. not the shorthead tho. for sure) small mouth bass, largemouth bass, channel cat, walleye, goldeye (my first!) and drum! (i also got a nice snapper)

Silver RH?

look at this freak (golden redhorse i believe) fairly recent spear wounds.

shorthead

[bronzeback]

slimey dog caught last night on a big muskie spinner bait. this fish was super aggressive and followed in quite a few times before it bit during the first turn of my friend's figure 8.

pretty funny.

[JimBuck]

Nice dog bronzeback. They sure are a fun bonus every once in a while.

[StillwaterAaron]

Jake the first and third are silvers and the Middle is a tough pic to tell but it is a golden or a silver.