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Ended up getting some fish in the rain this morning. I was pulling spinner rigs in 4-8 feet of water with fatheads, going very slow. 17 and 18.5 inches. Landed a 23 incher as well, however the battery in the camera was dead.

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Took the last week of work off to pre-fish tourneys and just be a kid again, well here are just a few pics from this week. all these fish were caught in less than 3fow. and all while bass fishing, Team Otter is right when he says the shallow water walleye bite is going!!! Enjoy


38"s fell victim to a chatterbait on French


Luckycrank w/ a 26"er


A 25"er from washington, sorry this is from a cellphone


These are also from Washington 17" and 21" all these fish were released to swim another day

Nice pics, but where's the bass?

Those will stay on my photobucket account at least til tourney season is over

Nice fish!

took a little road trip to the st. croix by Stillwater to do fishing on saturday night with a few buddies. didn't get out on the water till dark but it was to our benefit. as the fishing was slow we heard some hoots from shore that made us think we should take a closer look. as we pulled up close to the docks somebody was deffinetly having a good time. got close enough with the boat lights and we got ourselves a nice show from some ladies at a bachelorette party that were taking a "late-night" dip off the dock! ah success at its best, talk about a great night on the water.

haha really, river girls gone wild....

haha well that makes that trip even more fun!!!

Made it out for a while today in the crazy wind and managed to catch something other than a horrible sunburn!!! We had to hide from the wind most of the day but all in all it was a productive day we fished about 13 ft and shallower all day on points and found that the crappies seemed to like the 11ft depth and a minnow... now the sheepheads they were crazy, seemed like every ten minutes we had another BIG sheepie on...overall on the day probably caught about 15 crappies 9-101/2 inches and to many sheepies to count and a couple bonus perch!! great day to be out on the water (except for the sunburn...ouch!!!)

Is it just me or does that muskie look skinny? nice fish though.

Nice fish FLK, how did you manage during the washington tourney?

No Bait Nate - you just need to make sure you blur the background when you post the pics from the river saturday night so nobody can locate your "hot spot" haha

We ate it badly, but hey that happens, helps you appriciate winning or finishing high, all the better

sorry to hear that but you got the right attitude!

Check your email

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I thought that was LC's favorite lake in southern MN?

operative word being was

Had a limit of "eater"(15-18) fish last night. 18-20 feet off old weedlines. Hook color and snell length seemed to make a ton of difference. Too short and "sheepieville".
sunfish ate tighter to old weeds and in large schools- picked up several in the 9inch range, after getting to close to the old weeds( 13-15 feet)

Was! Past tense! The weights were scary bad, and I hope that the DNR takes notice.

At least the walleyes were biting (supper that night for many)! (Eyes shouldn't be living in bass habitat, or they will pay the ultimate consequence.)

There is a evening contest out there tonight...

Fish this am and picked up a few eyes in the 15-17" range and a limit of crappies and some nice sunfish also.

All fish came on crawler harness's and crawlers. Water depth from 3ft for the eyes up to 10' for the gills and crappies.

Beautiful morning on the lake.

Any word on the weights?

I found the pike and bass on the edge of the remaining weedlines in 7-8 fow this AM. Rattle traps and rattlin' raps took most of the fish.

Hit a local lake this morning to pull some cranks, the morning started off good with 4 fish in less than an hour, but then the bite got tough.

A change in locations was the ticket, we ended the day catching 27 fish between 4 people, biggest at 25", also a 23" and 2 21". Most fish were in the 16-18" range.

#5 Shad Raps and #4 Salmo Hornets in 5-8' on any type of bottle neck area was the ticket, trolling speeds were anywhere from 2.2-3.4 mph, somewhere around 3 was the best.

Nice work Riverrat!!! 27 fish is one heck of a day. you must be on the spot, im having enough trouble putting one eye in the boat per trip.