pool 4 “saturday”

got out today with my buddy “tom”. we hit the river right at sunrise in search of some highwater eyes… wow.. that high water and fast current can be quite frustrating
we fished spot, after spot, after spot, and on and on. with not so much as a nibble. then it was game on.. we found a pattern that work and grinded out limits for the both of us.
walleye/ sauger combo.. biggest walleye going 21 inches.
hair jigs with meat was the ticket.
we both couldnt ask for a better day.
o-yea we also had a problem with snakes crawling out of the water into the boat. two got in and one quite larger one.. he and i had it out… i won…. not to fond of snakes

im pretty sure ild jump out of the boat if one of those entered my boat. Nice fish though

Snakes, Man they were a pain in the for my boat the last 3 day. Not a big fan of them either. We only had one sneek in on us. Had to keep your head on a swivel or they would make there way right in.
Wallster ><((((>

What kind of snake is this? Something you can just grab and toss? (not knowing anything about ID’ing snakes I doubt I’d like dealing with them.

Nice fish! I know where that cloud formation is!

Iceberg, dead ahead! Looked like Alaska for a second…

You’ve GOT to be kidding me!

Now how am I going to get the FW down there?

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You’ve GOT to be kidding me!

Now how am I going to get the FW down there?

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I know I’m never coming back!
DT

Just trying to draw a mental pic of your wife sitting on top of your head after one of those garter snakes crawls in the boat.

Nice job on the fish. I think I briefly saw you at Everts in the morning.

Everywhere I went the last 2 days there were snakes swimming around. Never had any sneak in on us though.

Yikes you would have seen a guy in Tuffy sitting on top of the motor

On the “plus side” you wouldn’t have to worry about mice in the boat Garter snakes aren’t too bad except for the fact that they never know when to go home jerr

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Everywhere I went the last 2 days there were snakes swimming around. Never had any sneak in on us though.

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That YOU know off!

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Yikes you would have seen a guy in Tuffy sitting on top of the motor

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if you had been there you would have seen me standing on top of the swivel chair sqirming and yelling like a little girl while tom is snapping photos of me . we had one that looked like a rattle snake, which i know it couldnt have been, but no way was he getting in.

lots of brown ice bergs floating around, it just amazed me with some of these guys going mach 5 ..

and yea jesse i do recall seeing you in the a.m.. ran into a few from i.d.o on the water.. chatted with rudger.. and mark for a while.

I was in a bit of a hurry or I would have stuck around and chatted.

BK I dont like snakes so I kept a good watch on them to make sure they didnt get anywhere’s near us.

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BK I dont like snakes so I kept a good watch on them to make sure they didnt get anywhere’s near us.

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Uh huh.

Nice fish. Fishing with snakes? Not so good.

Years ago I had a good crappie spot on the St Croix. Had a snake come off a cliff and land in the boat right next to me. That was a heck of a scramble but luckily the snake went over the side of the boat before I did. To this day I still have problems fishing next to that cliff.

Glad to here jigs are working down that way. We could not buy a fish on one on Pool 2 yesterday. It was all cranks for us. Sure hope that changes soon.

Louis you sure you were on pool 4 You have ice bergs behind you

Good job on getting a bite working. I was on pool 9 yesterday and had 1 large snake 4 ft long wrapped it’s self around my power lift on the motor and spent a half hour trying to get it out. Then when we left my buddy pulled up the trolling motor and we had one slip in the boat. I HATE SNAKES!

This is because of high water…right?….please tell me that….please…..:)

Not a fan of snakes either, will bird shot go through a aluminum hull???

Any of them poisonous??

Al

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This is because of high water…right?….please tell me that….please…..:)

Not a fan of snakes either, will bird shot go through a aluminum hull???

Any of them poisonous??

Al

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Not poisonous. Just Common Gardner Snakes.

I assume they went to the trees when the flooding started. After a couple weeks in the trees without food they took advantage of this hot weather and went hunting for food and land. We were just there to see it.

That of course is a theory.

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Iceberg, dead ahead!

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Nice job guys. There might be bullet holes in my boat if that happened!!

-J.

– “Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these *****’ snakes on this *****’ boat!”

You ladies are seriously afraid of a garter snake?

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I assume they went to the trees

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Trees???

The snake in our boat was a northern brown snake. Known to kill big and bald headed guys in red rangers. I was scared!

There are some things even a snake won’t eat.

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– “Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these *****’ snakes on this *****’ boat!”

You ladies are seriously afraid of a garter snake?

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yup pretty much!! toms got a photo of me just like ole samuel… thanks for the laugh “PUG” ….

Ok. I had this post saved under my favorites but I’m going to have to delete it. It’s just to gross to keep following.
DT

heres poking fun at myself…
sorry photo so crappy, but like anyone really cares to see a grown man whine like a school girl lol!!!

I’m glad to see the pic is blurred, there’s just some things I don’t want to see on a family web-site.