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8-12 ft of water. jig and pig or 10 inch worms rigged texas Find the last green weeds in the lake and you will find the largies.

Looks awesome guys

How many fly in trips do you do each year ? Most people would love to do one trip like that in a lifetime Thanks for the stellar report

Nice ones Mike. Well done ! When are we going ?

Some real Donkeys there ! Great report as always

Jerkbait smallies are very fun. A couple of points - a softer rod helps keep the fish pinned. I use a 7 ft extra fast medium action baitcast rod with a Calcutta 151 loaded with 30 # braid. Sometimes switching to a medium action spinning rod with 20# braid if its windy If there are no toothy fish around , sometimes I will use a 12# flouro leader. If pike and musky are around i will use a 50# flouro leader. If the smallies are very active , i will tie direct to 30# braid. sometimes this is a pain because the front hook gets tangled on the line especially when using the more eratic jerbaits like lucky craft amd megabass - typically I start with a very fast retreive and cover water as quickly as possible. Trolling motor on high, jerk, jerk ,jerk with the occasional rip up. the odd rip up can cause a reaction strike. when the water temps drop like mid to late October, I will slow down considerably. Looooong pauses and slower jerks. - Always keep an eye behind the bait as fall smallies typically school up and chase baits together. - Always have a throw back bait ready. when they follow the bait to the boat and wont hit the jerkbait, throw a tube or grub out and you can usually pick up a couple of extra fish. - Go back to basics......... especially when the water temps are getting very cold, smallies dont want the fancy eratic, expensive Japanese jerkbaits ( way too much action ) Standard Husky jerks and Rogues excell at this time - Livewells can be a huge advantage at this time when they are schooled up. holding them in the livewell before leaving the school helps. released fish can spook the school making the other fish very weary. make sure you release them back to the lake !

Thanks for the pics ! I just showed my son and he loved them well done

That actually sounds like alot of fun ! I will start training asap

I had the BPS 2 bank charger for about 6 months and then it died on me. BPS gave me a full refund at which time I exchanged it for the Minn Kota 2 bank charger. The Minn Kota charger has been great so far. 4 years Personnally I would stay away from the BPS. just my opinion and experience

Great post MJL. Hope all is well on your end. Excellent photo skills too ! I too live by some Zombieland rules........ # 8 - Get a kick a$$ partner # 14- Always carry a change of underwear Take care of yourself dude

Are you hiring an assistant ? Sound right up your alley. Congrats.

Well done Mike. I got your message and will pop into the store later this week

Beauty fish. Your old man looks like he would fit in well at a British pub drinking a Guinness and smoking a pipe

Is it only on HBO ? Im not sure what season I left off at. The end of the last episode I saw was when Walt blew up the main dealer guy. Am I up to date ?

Hey guys, I was up there from Thursday to Sunday with limited time to fish. Never fished there before this weekend. Fished a total of 5 hrs. 1 hour on Restoule and 4 hrs on Clear. 1 hr on Restoule and boated 3 decent smallies ( my son got his first smallie on a top water ) and had a 8- 10 pound musky slash my jerk bait 4 hrs on Clear Lk. The wife gave me a pass to fish for 4 hrs on Sat. Boated a 10 pound musky in the first 10 min of fishing and thought it was going to be a killer day. Figured that the bite was on, I targeted musky with big baits and raised 2 nice muskies to the boat. Nothing else. Nice looking lake. Beautifull park. Not sure if I will be back anytime soon. I can see the potential for great fishing. A little far to travel IMO

I will be up there from Thursday to Sunday this week. I will let you know how I make out

Very cool . It amazing how wide they can open up their yaps. Thanks for the recap Well written and great pics

By far the best scissors for fishing. Great for cutting braid, tying roe bags ect..... http://www.fiskars.ca/Products/Yard-and-Garden/Floral-Shears/Softouch-R-Micro-Tip-R-Pruning-Snip Or these http://www.fiskars.ca/Products/Yard-and-Garden/Cuts-More-Scissors Uni to Uni knot works well for me for all sizes of braid and flouro

Got my new float reel yesterday. Just wondering what you " float guys " think ?

Atta boy Mike you got em good. well done

You probably catch more fish in one month than most people catch all year well done this spring

tank of an eye! good fishing all around

nice bass !!!!!

Looks like a great time. thanks for putting it all together