I’m amazed how poorly things went in North Carolina. While I didn’t expect to do well, I didn’t expect to do as poorly as we did. I expected that we’d only catch a few fish decent sized fish at each location, but all we caught were little Spot fish and Croakers. They [...]
Having had no real success catching fish off a pier, we decided to rent a pontoon. It would hold 10 of us and we would be able to take it out for 4 hours in the morning. Surely someone would catch something worthwhile in the middle of a sound.
We rented the boat from [...]
We told the family about the crabbing spot we went to yesterday and a few of them wanted to try fishing off the pier that was there. The cousins decided to head down in the morning to try our luck. We had room for one more in the car, so my dad tagged [...]
While we were out crabbing this morning, my uncle, dad, brother, and cousins Chris and Julie went out to Nags Head pier to try their hand at fishing. They caught a few small Spot fish, but weren’t really happy about their experience. We seemed to have more fun crabbing.
Later that afternoon, my aunt [...]
This morning, we went out to Pirate’s Cove to go crabbing. We had purchased some crab lines and chicken necks from TW Bait and Tackle yesterday and they said Pirate’s Cove was a good place to go.
It was a bit longer of a drive than we expected, but once we got there, we had [...]
Two of my younger cousins bought a couple of flashlights this afternoon and wanted to go looking for crabs while it was dark. We thought they might be out because we found one or two that had wandered into our pool and died.
The theory was dead on. We walked on the beach and [...]
I’m in the Outer Banks of North Carolina this week for a family reunion. My wife was out walking the beach alone this morning when she met some people that found some really cool conch shells. She found out from them how they were catching them and then we started doing it.
Hurricane Bill, [...]
Ken was up at his cabin from Aug 4 to Aug 11. He had some friends up through Aug 9 and he came back with a fishing report.
His friend, Eric, caught an 18″ walleye on the channel on the North side of Young’s Island on a small shad rap or fat rap. He [...]
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 20″
Lure used: orange and yellow spinnerbait
Date: 8/15/2009
Time: 10:30am-1:30pm
Body of water: Lake Elmo
Location: Lake Elmo, MN
Weather Conditions: overcast with a spattering of light rain
I live in a pretty close-knit neighborhood. We get together for holidays, random barbecues, and we do a camping trip every year to a local campground. This year, [...]
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 36″
Lure used: Coca-cola colored (and branded) rattlin’ Rapala
Date: Summer, 2002
Time: approx. 11am – 3pm
Body of water: secret lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: [don't remember]
I had been going up to Ken’s cabin for a couple of years and we had always only fished his lake, Poplar Lake. One day we got a visit [...]
