My Buddy Is Nuts

You caught a 31″ walleye in the Croix?

I think you better read the report again.

He’s not the brightest bulb in the St. Croix forum.

Got it. That’s a pretty rare fish anywhere..

Any pics???

sounds like fun! I made it out yesterday (didn’t get out on Saturday or Sunday ), launched at Beanies and stayed pretty close to there… trolled for a while, marked some fish but couldn’t get any takers. Switched to jigging – crawlers, leeches, fatheads… found a few schools of active fish, typical Croix mixed-bag – Crappies, Whities, Sheephead, Walleye. Brought a few home for the fryer last night, mmm mmm good a nice mix of Croix Crappies and Walleye. The biggest walleye we caught taped out at 21″.

The hot jig color appeared to be orange but I think they’d like just about any bright color. As for bait, I’d give it a tie between minnows and crawlers. The sheephead seemed to love the leeches.

I made it out for a short while last night. Not long enough to really focus on any one thing. Caught a short trolling and 2 shorts on crawlers. Lost a couple good bites. 20 foot was the magic range in the area I was in.

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Fished the Croix today. Caught my limit all were saugers and one walleye. I caught lots of fish. Biggest was a 31 inch walleye and a 24 inch walleye. Those came from down a ways in pool 3. My limit fish all came from the Croix. I caught around 15 fish. Lots of shorts.

Also got a 21 inch sauger. Two sauger I kept still had eggs. Caught the 24 inch eye on jig and minnow. All others came trolling cranks and handlining.Number 5 Firetiger shad rap color was the hot lure.

All fish came from around 20 feet of water.

Good Luck,

Jimmy

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Wow. That sounds like the “perfect” day out there! Nice work.

I fished in the FLW tourney Saturday and zeroed. I had a few big fish spots on pool 3 that I knew would have produced. My boater didn’t know how to handline and he didn’t want to run up there. Well thats where I popped the two biggest eyes.

I caught the 24 inch eye on a orange Knuckleball jig.

I wish I would have taken some pics, but I didn’t bring my camera with. Every time I do all I catch is small fish.

The Griz saw me pop the 24 incher, all I got was huh nice eh!!

I was trolling a sand flat and thats all I will say. And I was using leadcore and when I hit the break thats when I would get hit. At one point I caught I caught a few on 6 passes in a row.

Good Luck,

Jimmy

Thanks for the report Jimmy. Yesterday looked like a perfect day to be out fishing.

I made it our about 3pm on Monday. What a completely AWESOME day! There wasn’t even a ripple on the water how rare is that? I lost a half dozen minnows in 20′ but I just couldn’t hook up. I had a stinger hook on too but to no avail. I did get a tiny smallie in 20′ trolling cranks. What was he doing there?

I had to head back to Beanies to pick up my brother after work and the fishing league. Than we hit the Hudson channel for a big BINGO. It sounded like everybody was doing good on opener there??? 6 boats and 1 walleye brought in for the night now that’s slow

Still plenty of people disobeying the no wake rule but to each his own!

Good Luck,

Ferny.

I never saw one fishing boat disobey the no wake rule. It was all pleasure boats and wake ski boats. Hell I almost go run into by a cruiser, the guy yelled at me to get out of the way when I was making a trolling pass. We exchange pleasentries to say the least..

But it paid off for him. My Buddy Dave climbed into a tree about 5 PM last night (yes I gave him a WTF are you doing in a tree in this wind) Just to have this dandy buck coming barreling across the set aside field right to him. The buck stopped directly below him and he put a rage in his cage The buck ran about 80 yards and piled up on the creek bank. Congrats Dave

Congrats on a great buck

Great job Dave

Can’t get one on the couch! Nice work, Way to brave the weather and bag a nice one!

Congrats!

Congrats

Congrats to your buddy Pat. Way to get it done in miserable weather. I love this type of weather…well maybe not this much wind that is.

Nice buck and a big one too.

What a stud! And great pictures too…did you take them Pat? Congrats to your buddy! Sounds like another quick hunt for you guys!

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What a stud! And great pictures too…did you take them Pat? Congrats to your buddy! Sounds like another quick hunt for you guys!

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Yep I took the pics

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What a stud! And great pictures too…did you take them Pat? Congrats to your buddy! Sounds like another quick hunt for you guys!

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Yep I took the pics

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yep he just crazy enough! congrats on that nice buck. The deer were moving pretty good last night.

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What a stud! And great pictures too…did you take them Pat? Congrats to your buddy! Sounds like another quick hunt for you guys!

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Yep I took the pics

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Congrats to your friend, Pat! Great looking deer!
Now if I get a buck can I get you to help with pictures??? I getting tired of setting up the tripod…set up the shot… then run over to the deer before the timer goes off! Smile!

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What a stud! And great pictures too…did you take them Pat? Congrats to your buddy! Sounds like another quick hunt for you guys!

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Yep I took the pics

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Congrats to your friend, Pat! Great looking deer!
Now if I get a buck can I get you to help with pictures??? I getting tired of setting up the tripod…set up the shot… then run over to the deer before the timer goes off! Smile!

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Zimmy I would love to take pics But Brad Juaire is the man when it comes to picture taking

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What a stud! And great pictures too…did you take them Pat? Congrats to your buddy! Sounds like another quick hunt for you guys!

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Yep I took the pics

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Congrats to your friend, Pat! Great looking deer!
Now if I get a buck can I get you to help with pictures??? I getting tired of setting up the tripod…set up the shot… then run over to the deer before the timer goes off! Smile!

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Zimmy I would love to take pics But Brad Juaire is the man when it comes to picture taking

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It shows in your profile picture, Pat!

Congrats to Dave on a great buck. Not many people willing to brave those elements but his persistence paid off big time.

Cool story Congrads 2 him

I didn’t hunt but there was a suprising amount of deer out in fields last night, mainly in protected areas, despite the high wind.