manitoubass2

I had the same experience on that lake as a teen (might not be the same lake you are referring to but it looks one in the same).

Me and two buddies visited the lake for the first time to hang out and have beers with a few girlfriends. When we arrived, we were shocked at the view right on the lake! Wow! We quickly got the swim trunks on and walked to the end of the dock. There was a diving board? I thought, what the hell? I asked her "why is there a diving board? It's like 6 FOW off the end of the dock?" She laughed. "Go ahead, pin dive and touch bottom". I obliged. I resurfaced defeated, lol. We later trolled through what was indeed, 22 FOW.

Fishing was incredible, but snorkeling was a def. highlight of the trip

I've only caught one rock bass in the past 10-15 years, and it was pretty big. Of course it's fun, fishing is fishing, regardless of size or species!

Sometimes, like RC experienced, you just gotta adapt to whatever is biting.

All fishies are fun!

Again, great fish and great pics!!!

I'm out for an average of 5 days per week. But sometimes its shore fishing for 2 hours, other times it might be 13-14 hours out in the boat. I ice fish all winter too, and thats pretty much everyday.

My kiddos are almost always by my side though, and it gives my girlfriend time alone or to bead, so she likes it too. Are time together is after the kids go to bed and or before everyone else wakes up. I'm very thankful for that.

Awesome Simon, always love watching your videos ... always wondered how you have your camera mounted to the fishing rod ?

It would boggle your mind!

When I had the pleasure of fishing Rainy with Simon, he was literally holding the camera in place with his hand holding the rod! Not sure if hes since upgraded? But yeah, I was shocked to see how well he filmed these videos while landing fish! Plus its a sweet angle

man o man!

Beauty fish! Gonna be tough to beat that PB, so yeah, get out there again today and start trying!

Going out for rockbass??? You my friend are a dedicated angler!!!!

Nice pics and fish, looks like alot of fun.

(glad to see I'm not the only one willing to take a pic with a smoke hanging outta my mouth, lol)

I talk to them all the time.Usually folowing a "COME ON YOU......." Then i go back to sniffing for fish farts.

Bull, your hauling in fish left, right front and center this year! Wheres your attitude? Come on Dood, get with the program!

Bass do that dood. Good on ya for re-visiting promising structure! Sometimes timing is the only thing needed

We have great neighbours (they gave us a $200 bottle of Dom Perignon for our wedding day), and I don't think they'd give me a hard time about taking it down, it's actually leaning more to their house than ours, so a storm would take out their bedroom

 

I'll call the city tomorrow and find out what has to be done to get it taken down, if it's a matter of us just taking it down, we're good for a G2G tree taking down Brian

Joey, can you put the beer in the fridge next Saturday? I'm leaving right now, but it's gonna take awhile in the skid steer

Tanks for all the replies guys, much appreciated!

Now how about rods, line and terminal tackle?

Mike that really awesome of you!!!!

And not to change the topic, but thats an epic marketing strategy as well!

Maybe some others will follow your lead! (for the right reason though)

Your a class act!

We went out again today for an hour and a half. Got 10, but missed 7-8 good bites yet again. It was alot of fun! I'll add the pics here shortly to make up for yesterdays post!

The first little shaker! Some of them were crazy small

An even smaller one! You can't even lip these guys, lol. Looks like we had a strong year for bass spawning, these little guys are everywhere!

Awww! So cute! bwahahahaHAHA

No real big ones today, but there was some decent bites. And man o man are these fun to fight in the rapids! They wrap around rocks, jump 3-4 times, they just go absolutely bonkers! I love it

Hope this kinda makes up for the report without pics. Next will hopefully be lakers!

Well ive officially been hooked and cant wait to get out fishing lake trout again. Too bad the season is just about to come to an end, boooo. But i want to set up a really good soft tackle box dedicated to lakers. So the question is, what would you have in your box? I mean lures, spoons, terminal tackle, line etc. Man im looking forward to this!!!! Thanks in advance!

Wow iphone fail. Sorry

Fantastic Fish....

 

I could not get over the ssshhhhh sshhhhh, stop laughing, this is serious....the things we do when we get excited are awesome, I typically am the opposite, screaming like a schoolgirl when I think it's a big one. Hahahaha! Awesome! I go into some weird mode with extreme phrases like" oh, here we go. Here we go! Big bite! Oh yeah, big bite big bite! Get the net ready, real big bite here!" hahah. An airplane could crash right beside me and i wouldnt even notice it! Hahaha

I'll be right over in the skid steer. Take that tree down no problem in about 10 minutes. Get a a yard or two of new soil, and I'll remove roots and all. Hack the branches, fire up the ol chainsaw and make ya some firewood too. Start to finish, maybe two hours.

Only problem is I'm probably 20 hours away from you, lol.

Greay story and report Rick The smallies were on fire on the Franny as well. We caught most of them on spinner baits and dropshoting slammers.Another awesome bait i used for the first time.

That's awesome merc! Your just hammering them this year!!!!

sounds like you had a blast. Gotta love that guy at the end, hahaha gave me a good laugh.

I laughed pretty good as well. It's even more funny, cause it seems to happen every year. Sometimes it's not too funny though. I had one pair tryin to talk to me 2 years ago, they anchored in the rapids . Luckiliy I had a phone on me, $70 grand down the drain. Both guys were out safe and sound though.

Got to love it Rick, when you can choose a spot and put on a clinic from your own back yard Awesome dude

Yep, love every minute of it TJ! Thousands of great lakes to fish at any time, but have a great fishery 200 yards from the house. I'm always thankful for that!!!!

Hey spincast, thats the best kind of failure, lol. When my kids catch a Pb or do better then me, its even more gratifying. Remember, one day down the road, they'll be telling the stories. And I'm sure you'll be added as the epic guide or the best netman ever! Either way, he'll remember it and forever be greatfull!

Well the fair is in town, and the kiddos went to spend the weekend with their grandparents! So I knew fishing was in order this weekend!

After hitting some garage sales with the girlfriend, and getting a great new portable tackle bag for free, I dicided to head out early sunday morning.

I woke around 8am (felt awesome to sleep in for once!!!), I went out onto the deck with a cup of joe, went and looked at the water and checked things out. Turns out the water and weather were absolutely perfect! Overcast, warm with a slight cool breeze, water levels were low but stable, and clarity had finally improved. I looked at my favorite shore fishing spot and got encouraged, one more cup of coffee and time to head out!

I made it by about 9am, got things set up and started casting. It only took about 4 casts before I st the hook on a real good bass! Unfortunately, after a lengthy battle in the rapids, she bested me 10ft from shore, booo.

Thats ok though, cause after that I started putting on a clinic. Every move I decided to make landed me a good fish (for the most part). Man, what a fun style of fishing! Spinning set up to fish the rapids, making precise casts to targets like submerged rocks. Even the shakers put up good fights!

I fished 4" swimbaits, Berkley Chigger craws, 1/4oz jigs with smoke/silver grubs, topwaters(no bites), grass pigs etc and everything was getting bit. Water temps were 67 and I was fishing about 4FOW to 12" of water. Even pulled out two little walleye about 10" a piece.

Fished for 3 hours and landed about 30 fish in all. Highlight of the day was a local bass pro pre fishing for the Intl Falls bass tourny. He went through the rapids, then set up and trolled the US side for about ten minutes. I didnt see him get bit. Then he trolls up as close as he can, and yells at me. "HEY, what are you doing?" As he watched me reel in 3-4 good fish. I reply" I'm fishing!" lol. He kindly sticks me the middle finger, and his partner gets the trolling motor up and thy speed off! I'm laughing the whole time thinking, aren't you the professional? Figure it out lol.

Anyhow, it was a great few hours fishing, I had a blast!

Hey, no worries Manitoubass2, all I'm saying is if you are going to target musky, you need to be prepared, and if he's lucky enough to catch musky that size, next time bring a bigger net is all.

Yeppers, I agree. But like I said, I'm sure he knows now!

Not tryin to start anything, just adding my two cents.

Again, great catches!

I'm fully expecting Gman to be on my tv in 2-3 years, teaching me how to fish.

Way to go guys! Looks like a blast and real nice fish you have there!!!!

Wow, you seriously need a bigger net bud!!!! Very nice fish but the netting is atrocious, you'd have been better hauling it in by hand under the gill plate carefully!!

Eh, it's not like the fish was harmed. Sometimes people aren't prepared for an epic fish like a 55" musky, it happens. I'm sure he knows now.

He said the fish was released unharmed, good enough for me. Let him enjoy the unbelievable catches. I'm thankful he posted them up.

dooood. lol thats all i could say. the slow motion really made for a good doooood i ruined it doood.

thanks dood, hope you were speechless of the fish & not my net job on that hogdoggler 55"

haha i got a good laugh out of your post by the way.

Dood, I wasn't even making fun of you! Thats was really just my reaction, lol. Those are crazy good fish and the videos are priceless. The net job wasn't too bad, we've all done it. But you got it in the net, thats all that matters, dood!

Thanks for that post and those videos, and lol's.

dood, dood, seriously? dood....

Wow, dood, thanks dood.

I'm almost speechless, that was epic, dood