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Id say thats a pretty good deal

that is one ugly fish...

Great Report!!

She outfished ya... dude.. you'll get used to it... i did.

My Avatar!!! well its a long story. I was on Rainy Lake one day..... ill fill the rest in later!

Great report as usual Cliff!!

Nice report!! one of these days!!!

Nice big beast... good for you!

Wow nice fish!! someone should have helped her with the fish that would have been a great picture!!

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That was mine!!

Ron: we blew in and outta town so fast.... lol.. and by monday i was pretty "popped" out..... I dunno abou the CRV... its a little low I think.. and I made it through the whole weekend without smooching anyone who didnt want to be smooched... bedside's they would have kicked my butt. To be hoinest.. I just had to go.. I just couldnt sit around and wait to see what if anything wa going on... another 1/2 an ahour and there wouldnt have been anything left of the place. Roy... we had three buckets and 8 people.. i decided to be the documentarian!!! Plus I had clean pants on.... Ahhh Marty the rule is... what happens at camp... stays at camp....

Nice report! Looks like lotsa fun!

Holy Crap.... what a report.... made me dizzy!!! another trip oif a lifetime and wonderfull, as always, report!

ditto

nice fish!! good luck!!

So, on Thursday, my buddie Tookie and I headed down to a buddies place in Coburg, for my once a summer journey to Southern Ontario for some Largemouth fishing. On the Sat. they put on an informal tourney (appropriately named the "Drunkin' Hawg") and its 50 bucks a boat to get in.. winner takes all. The tourney starts at 5 am... YUKKKK! I've been down for the weekend before a couple of years ago but because BOB (yes you Bob) can't get his dates right I missed a couple of years, but managed to get back down there this year for what is always a very long, tiring, but WONDERFUL weekend. It seemed like every day had interesting twists and turns! Now this is a great lake with great fishing as far as I'm concerned.. although it seemed to me that all the bass have a siesta between 11 am and 7 pm..... but the early morning and evening fishing was phenomenal. Also, when some of you see these pictures your gonna know where I was, and I promised the boys I wouldn't reveal their spot, so we will just call it CodPork Lake for lake of a better name. If you really want to know where I was just PM me and ill tell ya, but lets try to keep it off here if we can, I'm sure some folks have been there.. The road in is about 12 miles long, and is 4 wheel drive accessible... if you don't happen to like your vehicle that is... lol. But these good ole boys just drive their trucks right in there like its no problemo, although there were a few that weren't so fortunate. Here's my "journey" over the very very hot weekend. To get in, Bob puts a smaller boat on top of the other one, a pretty ingenious way to get two boats and motors and extra gear in!!! I gotta hand it to Bob or "Bubbie" as I call him.. lol if ya need something fixed up right hes the man! There are a few bad spots to get by, here we cross a river and then get to a pretty large mud hole, that's sure to have claimed a few trucks!! Finally on Friday Morning tookie and I got out for our first batch of fishing, I love topwater fishing for these, especially when there is lots of 'em. I fished Topwater only all weekend with my HammerHead Lures topwaters .. personally I'd rather catch 1/2 the fish on topwater... most fun ever!! Managed to meet up with "Bubbie" so we could tell him where the good spots were, he obviously didn't know the lake very well!!! This was a pretty cool sight... a "Mudcat" (South of 7 term I guess...) was along the shore protecting her new hatch of ... hatchlings?? any way these "Barbut" (proper northern latin name) were a blast to watch. Some Scenery shots My new/old bud Steve on our way to get some firewood! The boys all sitting around camp, way way too hot to fish in the afternoon... This is "Rubbie" , "Bubbies" buddie and my personal morning coffee Barista... thanks bud.. you SAVED my life... I think hes explaining how to tie a Texas bass bass worm rig (LOL now Rubbie, we both know that ain't right eh!!) Rob also donates a hat for every entrant of the tourney!! every year a different hat... thanks!! Mill Valley Trophies plug plug plug! Boats going out for the evening fish.... Obligatory sunset mood photo. and the camera gets put AWAY!!! OK.. its tourney day... now personally... I like tourneys from noon to three, but these guys start at 5 am... UHHHHGGG!!!! I have appropriately named this photo... "Ungodly Hour" The fishing was great for our boat, I was in with Bubbies boy Brad (Some users will remember him from the shirtless young man shoots first deer photo... LOL.. I always get him into trouble.. its become a hobby of mine now!! LOL) and Gregs boy Jeff. Two stand-up young men as far as I'm concerned.. I taught them that proper term for a "Stringer" was a really a "Kill Chain" and they provided me with some new lingo that... umm ... I just can't mention here... Bradley!! The tourney ended, and we had our fish in, but alas.. too much laughing and not enough fishing took its toll on our final weight. Brad... I told you to take it seriously, we all know how serious I am about my fishing! Jeff with our kill chain. Hey Jeffy... how many of those did I catch?? LOL Fish at the weigh in! Lotsa car toppers on the shore (I actually had car topper envy...) Brad and Jeffy fish cleaning, they have a great tradition there, they take a collection up and give it to the fish cleaners.. a wonderful way to say thanks for a job well done!! (HINT HINT.... LOL) The winners... I didn't catch their names, but its the second year for them and then they also got big fish later that evening Now its FISH FRY Time.. we had three different batters a traditional Rubbie Beer Batter... Tookies batter and Bubbies as well! This is Den... who saved my life with a hamburger..... It was kinda nice to watch them do all the cooking.. lol.. Bobs masterpieces!! Bob and my bud Greg... Greg is always pouring something for someone!!! LOL.. Gregs also my new philosophy professor... and he lent me 5 bucks to get in the big fish tourney.. although I had to borrow it $2.50 at a time.... After we were done the fry and sitting around with a bellyfull at the other end of the lake, there was a huge puff of smoke. At first we thought someone had put some cleared out trees on their fire, but when it got bigger we grabbed some buckets and went down the lake to see what was going on. Turns out some young men had inadvertently set fire to their island and were frantically trying to put it out. We arrived with buckets just in time and got it under control quickly. A littlle breeze and dry moss and pine needles and WOOF!!! Flare ups were everywhere... The boys were very thankful we happened along when we did, and I think a very valuable lesson was learned. --------------------------- The biggest air mattress I have ever seen in the back of the truck! Packing up the two boats to go... boo hoo.... The view from the landing. A brand new truck stuck on the way in.. while we were going out. It doesn't look too bad, but they were hung up on something pretty bad... no trucks had been able to help so far. We continued on around the corner and ... bumped into this behemoth.... We went back to watch him try to pull them out..... and I'm pretty sure they turned their four wheel drive into a two wheel drive while trying from the sound of the rear differential after this attempt.... Another group of young men learned another lesson this weekend as well.... take it easy on the way. That's about it, but it was an exciting weekend.. I can't recall all the names, there were so many friendly south of 7'ers there, so thanks to all for making this a great trip. Especially you Bob, you do a wonderful job!!!

hahaha... i ilke that one... for me..... happy wife = happy life.

Really.... this board sucks!! Ill have a report tomorrow... a very interesting one at that!

OMG thats awesome..... trip of a lifetime i say!!

Yup... happy C-Day!!

Welll ill tell ya this, I know for a fact that fish thats sat overnite is much firmer than fresh when cooking it... and as for the beer at this hour... I can't believe it.. you would never catch me doing that!

Ouch.. them are huge.. nice catch... Ive only been out for them a couple of times, but I tell ya, its a rush ti have them big ones on! Nice report, Thanks!

Nice biguns'

Great day out!! Nice catch!