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Anyone been out there lately chasing these smallies? I am thinking about heading there tomorrow morning but will be out there fo sure on sat. Just looking for some info.
Thanks

We got blown off Mill Lac on friday but we tried again on saturday. Found 4 smallies still on bed (16″-18″). Still pretty winded out on the rocks. How did you do?

I got out on Sat for a while and found the wind something of a challenge. We launched at cove and proceeded to get hammered by the wind from the start. Trying to fish the rock reef was difficult to have any boat control. Ended up getting 1 25” walleye on a tube. We went inside of cove and fish some shorelines and determine what our game plan was going to be, stay on Mille Lacs or try some other lake. As we were weighing our possibilities my buddy hooked up with a nice 20.25” Largie. See the picture. We got it on a black tube under a dock. A couple more little dinks and we decided to pick up and launch up on the north side of the lake and get out of the wind.

In our next spot we started by fishing a rocky shoreline fan casting baby-1s, tubes, spinnerbaits, and traps. We ended up finding a couple pods of fish that ran in the range of 8” to 18”. Nothing too special but some action none-the-less. Here is a picture of BigTime with one of the smallies. The key for us on this wind blown side of the bay was to fish the shallow rock with reeds close by. We where fishing in about 4/5 feet of water.

Our final spot of the day we keyed in on a rock ref that was pretty well protected from the wind. We slowed our presentation down and basically casted tubes and senkos. The fish where holding pretty close to the inside edge of the rock reef in about 5 feet of water. We had the best luck with the senkos, casting them out and letting the wind move them in the water. We caught about 5 more fish this way, nothing too huge though.

All in all it was a pretty good day considering the conditions on the lake.

I got another nice picture of BigTime’s samllies but I ma having a hard time condencing it under 100K. Any ideas?

If you’d like you can send it to me at [email protected] and I’d be happy to get it down to size.

We’re all about the photos man!

nice LMB Alphid. pretty tough day. I also put in at Cove and after an hour fighting the wind took off for the east side around doe isl. between my partner and I we caught 7 smallies and 3 walleyes for the day. I’ll try and get a pick of my partners smallie, got nothing big. I did have 3 very heavy fish on, one was a muskie, that all came unhooked. bummer. I also sent you a PM. I also have probs condensing my picture files, when I downsize to 50% the file is about 120k to 140, which is too big, when I go down to 25% the picture is crap and don’t feel it then is not worth posting. some workk out and most don’t. may have to send them off to James, and/or load in new pictures editing SW. more soon. Jack.

The first thing to do guys is to reduce the PHYSICAL size of the photo. Most photos come off cameras at 1200 X 1600 pixel size. That’s 1200 pixels in one dimension, 1600 in another. Trouble is most browsers are set for 800 X 600 pixels meaning most monitors are only able to view a photo 800 pixels wide and 600 pixels tall without scrolling. So… for publishing to the web, photos should be “sized” to a safe size of 500 pixels in the max dimension. Since they don’t come off the camera this way you’ll need to use some photo editting software. PhotoShop products are the best in my opinion.

Open the file in PhotoShop. Click on IMAGE >>> IMAGE SIZE and reduce the physical file size.

Then click on FILE >>> SAVE FOR WEB and choose your “quality setting.” This is where you select 50% or 25% quality. If you skip the IMAGE SIZE step before going to save the photo you’ll be stuck trying to get under that 100kb threshold by pulling all the detail and image quality out of a photo that is far to wide and tall to be viewed in its entirety without scrolling.

Hope this helps some. Love to see those photos!

Thanks James,
will try and apply that info. It does get frustrating for me. I do have some great fish photos, I’ll try and get it to work.
Jack.. tight lines.