The BassPastor turned his readers on to this article about open water fishing in the winter in Minnesota:
No ice hole necessary: You can catch fish all winter in open water
It sounds like a lot more fun than sitting over a hole. But it also sounds pretty challenging unless you know what you’re doing. [...]
Welcome to 2010!
The beginning of each year brings New Year’s resolutions. I’m not much for resolutions as they tend to become broken promises. However, goals are more realistic and give you something to strive for. Here are mine for 2010:
Fish 40 days out of the year (28 in 2009)
Have patience to try [...]
Thanx to my diligence in using FishSwami this year, I have a summary of my fishing excursions for 2009. Here are the results:
Days Fished: 28
Fish Caught: 29
Locations Fished: 7
Patterns Fished: 6
Most fish caught in one day: 3 on June 14th
Northern Pike: 10
Smallmouth Bass: 9
Largemouth Bass: 7
Walleye: 1
Muskie: 0
These probably aren’t very impressive numbers to [...]
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: Smallmouth Bass
Size: 21″
Lure used: 6″ grape lizard
Date: 6/30/2007
Time: sunset
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: [don't remember]
This is the story of how I caught my largest smallmouth bass.
Ken and I were fishing the bay in front of our favorite fishing hole. It was late June and the mayflies were hatching all around [...]
Species: Smallmouth bass
Size: 15″
Lure used: white pearl super fluke
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 18″
Lure used: white pearl super fluke
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 27″
Lure used: white pearl super fluke
Date: 7/26/2009
Time: 5:30-7:00am
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: overcast
I woke up a little after 5am the day we were to leave. Since I had such a fun time [...]
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 21″
Lure used: white pearl super fluke
Species: Smallmouth bass
Size: 14″
Lure used: white pearl super fluke
Date: 7/25/2009
Time: 8:30-10:00pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: windy with storm clouds all around, felt sprinkles but never rained
This was our last night at the cabin. Since we still had some leeches, I thought I would [...]
Date: 7/24/2009
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Body of water: Bearskin Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: strong wind from West, some clouds
Ken has an uncle that has a cabin on Bearskin Lake nearby. They have a lot of smallmouth bass there and his aunt catches nice size smallies right off their dock. Ken’s cousin was supposed to be at [...]
Date: 7/24/2009
Time: 9:30-11:30am
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: overcast and windy at first, but cleared out
Ken and I got a pass from working on the raised walkway to fulfill The Mission. We first needed to tour our bay for a line with a bobber that had broken off a cane pole that [...]
