These personal bests came in for Tyler And Vandy today!
Tyler caught his personal best sauger…..great job !
Vandy, No stranger to big fish,landed this 30 inch 11.8# monster today….. 
On a side note I caught my personal best batch of PB cookies today thanks to Tyler’s mom…”The better half”.
Outstanding work Peggy! 
Wow on both fish!
John
Wow on both fish…AND the 
cookies! 
WOW sums it up pretty well! Greg, that is quite a walleye. Care to give any details 
Way to go Tyler on that sumo sauger. In case I haven’t said it before “I love this time of year”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go Tyler nice fish and WOW because you are one lucky guy your mom is a great baker. I had some of those Peanut Butter cookies there GRRRREAT. Dean said one per customer, but I had to have two. Thanks MOM!! sorry Dean.
The walleye came on a jig tipped with a minnow pitched to sand and hit in about 12 feet of water. A plain lead head with an orange fuzzy grub body 1/4 ounce with a nice trained fathead.
Good luck out there everybody.
Thanks for the info Greg. We’ll be on the river tomorrow and hoping that a big gal is cooperative. One of us in the Redneck boat doesn’t have a 10 pounder yet and he is getting a little antsy about it. He didn’t put a scale to his big one this Summer but it would have been close. The next month or so should be good for the bigguns 
Must of been a RUSH Vandy! Nothing better than pitching a jig…setting the hook and just feeling that big ol HEAD SHAKE!!!!
Hope you gave her a kiss goodbye for that thrill!
I’m heading your way early in da morning!
Nice fish Vandy!! Thats huge.
Way to go. VERY nice fish bud. Congrats. And Tyler, very nice fish you caught also. That sauger sure looks good in your hands and I’m sure you will catch even more big ones.
Thanks, Bill
Congrats on the great fish guys!
Those are some real dandies.
Boog
Nice fish guys
Great fish fellas!
Jami
Dang Greg, you have got those piggies dialed this fall!
Awesome fish once again!
Congrats again on that walleye, Vandy.
That was definately the largest walleye I have ever seen in person. It was an absolute slob of a fish!
WOW Nice fish guys!!!
That is one awesome fish!! Great job
Jeremy
Wow! That’s it I’m moving to Minnesota. 
Thanks guys and for the record that fish is still swimming exactly where I caught her.
Here is the story of the day. I started my day with a half day guide trip and I must say the wind and cold weather was not very conducive for my southern clientele. I had a very tough time getting the saugers to go so we ended our day at noon with very few fish. So back to Everts and drove them back to Redwing.
Upon my return I had a cup with Dean in the bait shop and whined about my poor performance. Then I went to the dock and was in my boat switching some reels around.
I was thinking about calling it a day, when a bug landed on my ear and I swatted my ear and flipped my glasses into the river. Well dang if that wasn’t the quickest loss of $400 bucks I have ever had.
So now I am ticked off the river kicked my butt twice in one day. So I figure I am going to do some more pitching for a few hours now. I at least have my Prescription sunglasses.
Man it stinks getting old I have become so dependent on my bifocals I can not see didley with out them, and tying jigs is a joke.
Ok on with the story, I head out and get boat position on a current break on a sand flat. I was casting shallow and letting the jig blow out deep. I just kept repeating this with little results. I boat a small fish on a firecracker K-grub, and switch to a paddle tail then a ring worm, I get another fish a sheephead. I then switch to a jig and minnow and on two casts in a row I get my minnow stolen. I keep up the live bait and jig presentation. A couple hours have passed since I left the dock and the river was still wining.
The wind was picking up and I was getting ready to bend and submit to a loss to Miss’s Mississippi. When a gust blew my line and I thought I felt a tick so I rear back and hammer the hook home, wait I am snagged so I am pulling like crazy and it moves and I go crap I got a log. So I add more bend to the rod and I feel two head shakes, now I am smiling, but not sure what I have but I know it is big. She comes right to the boat just like dead weight and into the net without any fight what so ever. That’s my story and I am sticking too it. I wished I could say she made many runs a couple of back flips and was a ten minute battle but it was very quick and very little effort exhorted.
I have a photo of the jig that was used. However I went back on Sunday to try and duplicate the results but that was not to happen. The one thing I would like to say is to be versatile out there and keep changing things up. Good Luck out there and let the big girls go so they can grow. I really believe that the voluntary catch and release going on Pool 4 is working. This year for me on this Pool has been my personnel best I have five fish over ten pounds and now one over eleven that’s in the last three months I can’t wait until spring of 08.
See you on the water
Ouch on the glasses, but maybe the big girl was the Mississippi’s way of giving back. I’ve got a couple pairs down there and didn’t get a reward. 
John
Greg,
Thanks for the update on how the big gal came about. It showed me that sometimes I lose focus and out think myself when I need to just stay with the plan. On Sunday afternoon we were out and anchored on a good seam. We caught 6 saugers 19″ and over but never got the walleye to go. We would only catch about 1 fish per color (almost all came on plastics) and then it was beat the water and keep at it till the next bite. I really felt the big walleye were there but after all the nice ‘eyes being caught lately I kept second guessing myself. Several of the saugers came from right next to the bank like the big ‘eyes do, really made us think it was a big eye when they hit the current. I have been kicking myself for staying on that spot but after reading your post I think luck just wasn’t with me that day. It was a good spot, just didn’t get the big eye. Thats the thing about the big river, you can do everything right and she’ll still kick your butt once in a while.
Rich
Holy Smokes! WOW!!!!
Nice read Vandy. Congrats to you and tyler. Both are beautiful fish. Might see ya soon
Ok Greg, I think we’d like some Gps coordinates now 
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