A couple BIG Walleyes –

  • kooty
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    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:18 pm #1275625

    Got these via email. I have no idea if the info is accurate. The first fish was caught in SD, 31″ 11#. The 2nd, I have no idea where actually caught. 21.2#

    vikefanmn77
    Northfield,MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:20 pm #1034994

    I really wish that 2nd pic would just disappear off the internet…

    drewsdad
    Crosby, MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:21 pm #1034995

    The 2nd one looks “Zanderish” to me.

    dd

    erick
    Grand Meadow, MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:22 pm #1034996

    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    sauger
    Hastings ,MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:23 pm #1034997

    Nice Zander

    Brian Klawitter
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    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:26 pm #1034998

    That fish was certified at the Bluffs and it came from the Mississippi River, just up stream of Red Wing.

    It was thought to have been hatched in the brackish water of the Mississippi were it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico. This contributed to it’s size. It was swallowed whole by a bull shark that swam up to MN/WI and regurgitated alive to swim and be caught at the mouth of Hay Creek on a Stewart Pro Blue Ring Worm using a 1/4 oz Sour Apple jig head fished vertically.

    I know the angler personally. Not much more info is known as he only speaks Swedish.

    timschmitz
    Waconia MN
    Posts: 1652
    February 3, 2012 at 1:39 pm #1035001

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    That’s the best way to make me question the size of a fish

    Jesse Krook
    Y.M.H.
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:43 pm #1035005

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    Not only that but his hands are not that far apart…..I’d say it’s pushing 26″ at max (1st pic)

    James Holst
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    SE Minnesota
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:45 pm #1035008

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    Not only that but his hands are not that far apart…..I’d say it’s pushing 26″ at max (1st pic)

    I disagree. The hands of an adult male held the way they are held in that photo are 4 – 4.5 inches across the fingers tips.

    That’s a BIG fish.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:48 pm #1035009

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    ..If you know how to take pic. you dont need long arms. ,,..rrr

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:50 pm #1035010

    Both those pics have been around for awhile. Pretty much everyone knows that they were both caught through the ice on Pepin, in the same hole that this shark was caught in. Heck of a day to have been on Pepin. Thank god we all have access to digital photos, since they can’t be shopped

    James Holst
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    SE Minnesota
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    February 3, 2012 at 1:51 pm #1035011

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    ..If you know how to take pic. you dont need long arms. ,,..rrr

    Randy, ummmm… check your avatar. It looks like you’re doing pushups off a wall while holding two walleyes.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
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    February 3, 2012 at 2:02 pm #1035017

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    ..If you know how to take pic. you dont need long arms. ,,..rrr

    Randy, ummmm… check your avatar. It looks like you’re doing pushups off a wall while holding two walleyes.

    ..Yup. But thats on stage and I am NOT takeing the PIC. ……..rrr

    James Holst
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    SE Minnesota
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    February 3, 2012 at 2:06 pm #1035021

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    Yup. But thats on stage and I am NOT takeing the PIC. ……..rrr

    True. Of course the guys in the pics didn’t take the photos either. I say we find these cameramen that make us hold walleyes out a little too far and give them a stern talking to.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
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    February 3, 2012 at 2:16 pm #1035030

    I’m with James on this one. Although the guy is holding that fish way out, it is a long one. I’ll say it is over 24″, but 31″, I have no idea. I am absolutely horrible at eyeballing lengths and distances.

    Brian Klawitter
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    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
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    February 3, 2012 at 2:43 pm #1035045

    Still haven’t figured out how Randy won that tourny with 18 inch walleyes.

    Must have been the way he cleans up on aisle #2.

    Dean Marshall
    Chippewa Falls WI /Ramsey MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 3:09 pm #1035056

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    Still haven’t figured out how Randy won that tourny with 18 inch walleyes.

    Must have been the way he cleans up on aisle #2.

    It was isle #3.

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
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    February 3, 2012 at 3:59 pm #1035069

    To me it is a nice walleye(pic on the left)… but look at the relationship of the Walleye’s head to his…the walleye’s head is much larger than the anglers head, telling me that the fish is considerably closer to the lens.

    Not a big deal anyway….

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 5:25 pm #1035101

    The fish in the first photo isn’t folling me any. That truly is a 31″ fish. I always look at the size of the fins in relationship to the hands of the angler. Those fins are truly huge!

    That second one is pretty sweet too. That’s actually a buddy of mine who caught that at the Coon Rapids Dam. Its actually a sauger. Note the missing white tip on the tail.

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
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    February 3, 2012 at 5:34 pm #1035106

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    The fish in the first photo isn’t folling me any. That truly is a 31″ fish. I always look at the size of the fins in relationship to the hands of the angler. Those fins are truly huge!

    That second one is pretty sweet too. That’s actually a buddy of mine who caught that at the Coon Rapids Dam. Its actually a sauger. Note the missing white tip on the tail.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
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    February 3, 2012 at 5:44 pm #1035108

    I will say that 1st one looks like it “could” be photoshopped. Something is telling my eyes that it isn’t right. Maybe the color compared to the rest of the photo or how it seems to be more in focus. Not saying it is, just saying it might.

    Brian Klawitter
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    February 3, 2012 at 6:08 pm #1035113

    All the guys that can’t catch a fish say they are photoshopped.

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 6:30 pm #1035126

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    All the guys that can’t catch a fish say they are photoshopped.

    In that case, photoshop for sure

    john23
    St. Paul, MN
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    February 3, 2012 at 6:36 pm #1035129

    First one is definitely a big fish. I feel like I’ve seen that picture before, too.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
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    February 3, 2012 at 6:53 pm #1035138

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    All the guys that can’t catch a fish say they are photoshopped.


    I certainly can’t catch one sitting on IDO at work pretending I am working.

    Brian Klawitter
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    February 3, 2012 at 7:29 pm #1035153

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    All the guys that can’t catch a fish say they are photoshopped.


    I certainly can’t catch one sitting on IDO at work pretending I am working.

    You’re ready to call it a day too, huh?

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    February 3, 2012 at 7:47 pm #1035163

    I was ready at 9am. I came in early yesterday with the intention of leaving early. Didn’t work out. So guess what. I am leaving now dang gummit.

    Go home and eat, run to get a couple small slender spoons, go to bed, get up early and FISH FISH FISH.

    walleyehunter
    Melrose, WI
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    February 3, 2012 at 7:51 pm #1035164

    Picture one looks an aweful lot like the mouth of Joe Creek Kooty. I agree it is totally fake. Lake Oahe doesn’t kick out fish this big, there is no reason for anyone reading this post to make a trip there

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
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    February 3, 2012 at 10:17 pm #1035214

    I’m calling it the way I see it, it’s definately a mule deer!

    icenutz
    Aniwa, WI
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    February 3, 2012 at 10:52 pm #1035227

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    guy in the first one has some LONG arms

    Not only that but his hands are not that far apart…..I’d say it’s pushing 26″ at max (1st pic)

    I disagree. The hands of an adult male held the way they are held in that photo are 4 – 4.5 inches across the fingers tips.

    That’s a BIG fish.

    James remember you are a big guy, my fingers placed just like the pic, are 3″, pinky, ring, and middle finger. I’m 5’11 190 so I’m about average.

    Now his finger spread on the sreen measures 3/8″ and if that equals 3″ then each 1/8″ eaquals 1″. That fish measures about 4″ and that would equal out to about 32″.

    Now measuring a picture is not exact but it maybe pretty close to the 31″ mark.

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