Awesome Day on stony!

[kemper]

Headed out at 4 AM this morning to a buddys cottage for a day of fishing. Location was stony lake, where I had never fished before. We were half awake and on the water at 5 to 6 in the AM

 

The action started with largemouth and never stopped, we were on the fish all day with most around 14" and 5 or 6 coming in over the 16" mark. In total we boated around 40 bass, mostly largemouth with the exception of two smallies and the surprise of my life. I was shooting for the grand slam but lost a walleye at the boat.

 

Fishin largies in shallow water with a green/white spinner bait i nearly had my arms pulled out of the socket on the second turn of the crank by a nice stony lake musky. I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be a musky fisherman so this was quite the experiance for me. After a great battle (short and sweet, even though im a bass fisherman i use 65 pound PP) we had this 36 inch musky in the boat. Fish was very chunky for its size, and really healthy.

 

Kinda cool for a bass guy like me, heres some picture from the day, most didnt turn out because all i had was my camera phone.

 

 

[BFSC Kevin]

awesome surprise!

[mepps]

Great job!

[007]

Sounds like a fantastic day - congrats on the musky!

[motv8tr]

Very nice!!! I know a couple of Bass men that complain about those pesky Musky taking their lures

 

Maureen

Edited July 9, 2007 by motv8tr

[misfish]

That must of been a real nice bonus for the day.

[ccmtcanada]

Great surprise Kemper! Bly and I were out with Fishnsled on that same lake on Saturday. Funny thing though...we were targetting muskie and only got bass....LOL. Great pic...the smile says it all.

[Fly Me In Scotty]

Great report. Congrats on the success.

 

Who needs sleep when your reel is keeping you up by going zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......zzzzzzzzzzzz....

[Hookset]

Congrats Kemper,

 

That's what fishin' is all about

 

 

Hookset.

Edited July 9, 2007 by Hookset

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Congrats on the first Musky. Sounds like you had a blast.

[Randy]

Hey Brady, lots of them in Buckhorn. Better keep your 65 lb PP handy.

[addict]

nice toothy critter,wtg on the fish man.

[k-max]

you didn't have a leader on did you? I always wondered how braids stand up to muskie/pike teeth... perhaps since it was 65lb it's a bit harder to cut through? opinions?

 

I use 14lb fireline for bass bass fishing and whenever I get to co-incidental pike, more than half of them cut me off...

[mattyk]

very nice, thanks for sharing. Always nice to get a surprise.

[kemper]

you didn't have a leader on did you? I always wondered how braids stand up to muskie/pike teeth... perhaps since it was 65lb it's a bit harder to cut through? opinions?

 

I use 14lb fireline for bass bass fishing and whenever I get to co-incidental pike, more than half of them cut me off...

 

 

I was actually worried about that because all that was stickin out of the fish's mouth was one blade on my spinnerbait. Line was fine, but like I said it was a quick fight because i wanted to get him in and then back in the water as quick as I could.

[bigbuck]

If you're targeting toothy critters, USE A LEADER. They can saw their way through mono like butter and can hack their way through braid although it's a lot tougher. Mind you, for bass, 65lb PP is plenty and should take a heck of a lot of abuse before having to retie. Congrats on the surprise.

[setomonkey]

Congrats on the fun day of fishing, and the surprise catch.

 

Mike

[tbayboy]

Congrats on the great day. Stoney sure seems like a fun lake, always something different.