Fri. and Sat. night’s report

  • gotcatfish
    Prior Lake,MN
    Posts: 550
    August 28, 2006 at 12:52 am #1219976

    I finally put some fish in the boat Friday evening Brent(Farmboy1) and I hit the water at 6:30. Got down to the first spot and set up with shad and cut sucker. It didn’t take long to put our first channel in the boat. If memory serves me right the first fish went about 24″ on shad. I caught 2-3 more fish and missed just as many on the shad and that was all Brent needed to see that shad was the ticket. After switching over to shad it took about 15 minutes for Brent to put a nice 22-23″ channel in the boat. Spent another 30 minutes in the first spot and then headed upstream a bit to try our luck for Flatheads. Sat for about an hour in front of a nice scour hole and didn’t even have a run Moved to our third spot for the evening and put out a live sucker and I baited up with cut sucker. I got another 22-23″ channel and then it was pretty slow for a bit. I had just switched to fresh cut when my clicker started to scream. As soon as I set the hook I knew this was a big fish, after a semi-short tough battle on my new spinning rod Brent scooped a 31″ 12lb channel out the water for me. As we were getting ready to snap a pic or two Brent sucker got smacked. His clicker never moved so we figured whatever it was was gone and we took pics of my fish and let her go. brent went to check his bait and looks at me and says there’s a fish on here. We didn’t measure it but I would say this flat went 26-28″ or so. After that we fished 1 more spot, I caught Brent sleeping in the front of the boat and calle dit a night. Not sure exactly how many we got maybe 8-10, but it was great to finally catch a few fish.

    Sat night I fished with my dad (aka-g3/8) and we hammered on the channels. Since I had done so good the night before. we went back down to where I had fished the night before. Got to our first spto and took 3 channels out of there, then we moved upstream to where I got the monster from the night before. We spent the rest of the night in this spot because we were getting constant action. Strawberry jello sucker was the ticket for us. I got a 28 1/2″ channel to take second place in the contest and my dad’s biggest went 26″. All in all we got 10-12 fish and missed af ew good ones also. I even managed to get my first turtle this year. What a great weekend on the water, the weather was great and I had two great fishinf partners for two awesome nights of fishing.

    gotcatfish
    Prior Lake,MN
    Posts: 550
    August 28, 2006 at 12:52 am #472746

    Brent’s Flathead- Nice fish Brent

    gotcatfish
    Prior Lake,MN
    Posts: 550
    August 28, 2006 at 12:53 am #472748

    Another channel from Friday Night.

    gotcatfish
    Prior Lake,MN
    Posts: 550
    August 28, 2006 at 12:54 am #472747

    Here is the release of my 31″er

    gotcatfish
    Prior Lake,MN
    Posts: 550
    August 28, 2006 at 12:57 am #472704

    My dad’s biggest channel on Sat night- 26″

    gotcatfish
    Prior Lake,MN
    Posts: 550
    August 28, 2006 at 12:58 am #472690

    Ok the last one my 28 1/2″er from Sat night that took second place

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    August 28, 2006 at 1:04 am #472750

    Great post and pics!
    Looks like you had a very good weekend

    diggers
    starbuck minnesota
    Posts: 92
    August 28, 2006 at 2:08 am #472775

    way to go gocatfish, them are some good pics and cool story.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 28, 2006 at 3:08 am #472798

    Cool!

    All these pics make me want to go wake up a bait shop owner for some bait! Anyone know if Moores or Jimmy’s is selling pre packaged jelloed suckers??

    Tony, what did your dad think of the jello?

    larry_haugh
    MN
    Posts: 1767
    August 28, 2006 at 11:26 am #472841

    Nice Report and Nice Fish Mate!
    thanks for sharing

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    August 28, 2006 at 11:42 am #472843

    I told Bob he should probably start dumping a little jello in with the shad when he freezes them. It can’t hurt! I saw Tony at Moore’s yesterday and he said he won’t be fishing for a week…Vegas has 2.5 days as the over/under!

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    August 28, 2006 at 11:51 am #472844

    Thanks for the trip Tony I had a great time, and it was nice to be net man for you

    And for the record, I was not sleeping, just resting my eyes

    g38
    South metro
    Posts: 134
    August 28, 2006 at 1:11 pm #472853

    Brian, I would have preferred raspberry jello, but the strawberry stuff wasnt too bad…once you got used to the little bones, it was alright. It goes real well with pastrami/smoked turkey/provolone sammies, and a cold LaBatts.
    Oh, yeah, and the fishin’ was pretty good too.
    G

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    August 28, 2006 at 1:23 pm #472854

    Quote:

    It goes real well with pastrami/smoked turkey/provolone sammies, and a cold LaBatts.



    Tony, I like the way your dad thinks. Sounds like you had a good birthday!

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    August 28, 2006 at 2:32 pm #472873

    Tony, You forgot to mention the best part of the evening. Hookems “buddy” was not on shore doing things I don’t want to discuss.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    August 28, 2006 at 2:37 pm #472875

    Quote:

    …I don’t want to discuss.


    But you just had to bring it up!

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