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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

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

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.

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

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. 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!

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!!!!

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.

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

Sounds good Simon. As far as I know I'm all free'd up for the weekend. That spot is real easy to find if ya wanna fish there, and it's only a short trip on the lake. I'd be game. We can just meet up at the landing I spose.

hahaha, I seen this on Gussy Twitter during the tourny. Guess whos gonna think twice about fishing in sandals? I bet that was sore the next day, but man, whatta good story to pass on later in life. I'd be thankful it happened the way it did, doods got a man card for life now, no matter what else goes on!

For ultra lights I go pretty cheap on the rod. I'd just look at any UL in the 5'6" range, and pair it up with a decent 1000 or 1500 series real. My ultralight rods are just Wal-Mart Shakespears with Okuma avenger 15 or 20 series reels. Work perfect. For line you can go any which way, but I use light braid with a 4-6lb fluoro leader ( that way I can still let the kids use the rod for walleye fishing) Hope this helps!

Wow buddy! Some real nice fish there!!!! I took your advice and thats how we were smashing those lakers too, so thanks for that. Any chance your gonna get out for lakers before seasons end? I know it last minute dood but we should head out. Manitou or even a little further up your way, let me know if you got days off and can make it happen. Hope Jack and the wife are doing well! Give me a call when ya get a chance!!! Rick

Thanks for sharing Tjunkie ! I really enjoyed that!

Dood, I still have a ton to learn! Offer up, I'm all ears. I'm not even sure what good laker conditions are? But for that day... We had light rain the evening before. Was mainly cloudy and calm almost all day, with brief slight winds occasionally. We drifted the shoreline between .4 and .8. Bottom was flat with two 40ft ledges running along side of it. Surface temps between 71 and 73.