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Yeah thats him! Matt is like a brother to me and i have taught him everything he knows about fishing.

who is your brother? if you don't mind me asking. maybe i've met him

That's great that your wife let you go out fishing when she was about to pop!

Congrats Aaron.

When my wife was pregnant with our girls she'd come back from a check up and say the baby was 18" and 5 lbs or something and I would always come back with "That's a nice size bass." One track mind I guess.

My brother's name is Bryan. I see you live in Farmington. Wish I could have met you sooner and we could have done a little fishing since we live so close

The name does ring a bell........


where do you usually fish around here?

i mainly hit the vermillion river for pike, trout, and carp

me and matt are probably going to head down there tomorrow

COngrats on Both Aaron!

Congrats Aaron!!!

Went out today and all I caught was this lunker lol. Atleast I didnt come out empty handed!!!

Nice... Gotta love a Norman

WOW! what a trophy!


i know that spot but don't worry, i'll keep it a secret! lol

Lol yeah, its one of my favorite cranksbaits!!

The little guy must of been pretty hungry, or really agressive, since the crank doesnt even fit in his mouth lol. I think this is my smallest bass ever. Its was only like 6 inches lol. I usually have better luck on the other side of the point.

Dude, that crankbait is HUGE.. are those 16/0 trebles? LOL

Kinda like this one? This was in the spring when they weren't even in feed bag mode...

Yeah the "thin n", I got into an awesome bunch of fish with that exact crankbait. They were smacking the you know what out of it. One of my favorite smaller cranks.

Got these to today, first one 19.5" second one just at the 20" line on the board but was by far the fattest 20" fish I have seen in a long time, both fish hit a white spinnerbait big fish had the whole bait down just short of the gullet, released with no harm, good deer opener

Well since some of you are showing some of the real trophys of the year I will share some to. Since there so small there harder to catch right making you better fisherman right Small mouth large lure well thats my theory

Nice fish river! Were they around some weeds?

Yep all were off of whats left of the weeds, small one was off of an isolated clump on an inside turn, second one was off a good hard edge on an inside turn, was really surprised we didn't pick more out of that spot, but my boat drifted over it when I took the pic so I might have spooked em

i usually don't take pictures of those "trophy" fish. but i once got a 3 inch smallie on a 3 inch crankbait.......it was pretty funny.


nice fish river rat316

nice looking fish river!

my first bass of the ice season

sight fishing with a maramooska and eurolarvea

it came in side by side with a buddy of the same size

also had a beastly bass come in, easily over 5lbs. im bringing the windlass and shiners the next time i go out!

Nice fish jake! heres one we got..

this could be a stupid question...but how do you sight fish when you're ice fishing? shovel off a nice shallow clear spot and just hurry and drill a hole when you see a fish?

To sight fish when ice fishing you just drill your hole like normal and look directly down and watch the fish react to your presentations. You need relatively clear water, it's a lot like spearing because it allows you see the fish and you can keep decide whether or not you want them to eat the bait so you can enjoy seeing the fish without even harming it by taking it out of the water.

Well in my limited ice fishing experience the water is generally 2-3 times clearer on a lake than in summer times. So if you are fishing say a seven foot weed edge you can usually see fish near your jig 5 feet down or so on brighter days. The fish seem to be oblivious to your presence so you can watch them and see what kind of motion they like.

makes sense. I could see my jig about 15-20 feet down on the last lake i was ice fishing on so I can definitely see how that could work and be a lot of fun. Especially with the right light.