Big fish pics of 2004

Hope everyone is having a great season so far!

Here’s an invitation to share some of this season’s big fish pictures. Location and presentation would be nice too, but only tell how and where if you want to do so.

So, let’s see ’em…

Here’s a pic of my 7 year olds biggest this year. It was 18.5″. Caught it on a slip bobber with a night crawler along some rip rap ….and boy I gotta tell ya, that kid handles fish better than most of my fishin’ buddies.

nice fish, here is my biggest fish so far of this year.

wholey cow, I must have really did something to make my post get that big. I mean i know i have a few extra pounds, and then you add the extra pounds that the camera adds. I am shocked to see that the website also adds more pounds than that. I guess it goes like a fish story. it starts out small and ends up large.

although if you notice that this fish has a wound on the side of it. there was another one on the other side in the same spot. they where fresh. i pulled this hog through the ice, I was using a pink jighead with a crappie minnow on coon lake in east bethel.

shane

Frying Pan Fish?????

Best Largemouth of the year, smacked a Rogue on top of a weed flat in 7′ of water. 21.5″ RELEASED.

yeah i ate that one, it tasted really good. i love to eat bass in the fall and the start of bass season.

shane

22 inches, Spirit Lake near Aitkin. Caught her on a #4 Conehead Wooly Bugger and my trusty Glen Wicks 6 weight. A little light duty for Bass fishing but this fishin’ pole is charmed.

Steve

Wow! On a fly rod even. Top water or sub-surface fly?

Rootski! That is a good catch on a 6 weight! I betcha she was in the air more than the water. Those buggers are a great all around fly.

That’s a huge bass on a 6 Wt. Awesome. If I remember correctly the wooly is a weighted fly correct?? Thanks for sharing!!

These smiles are worth a million bucks..

Gotta love it! Take a kid fishing.

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A Wooly Bugger is a sub-surface fly. Basically a glob of marabou for a tail and a yarn body with a hackle feather spiraled along the length of the hook. The “conehead” is a small cone shaped brass bead. This fly fishes like a small jig that drops very slowly. The one I caught this fish on was chartrueuse and yellow. I much prefer to use top waters (deer hair bugs mainly) because it’s so much fun watching a Bass bust a top water but there are times you have to fish deeper. I was pretty surprised when this fish showed up. The area I was fishing was 30 yards from the resort and there wasn’t a weeed in sight, just a few old logs laying on the bottom of the lake. I thought I’d find a few bank runners if anything so I was throwing the small fly on the light fly rod. Like most big Bass she never jumped or ran very fast, she just pulled REALLY hard. In fact at one point my wife yelled “The boat is moving!!!”. Great fun. If you ever want to get together and try this Bass Bugging thing, let me know. It’s a lot of fun.

Rootski

Here’s My largest bass this year. Caught slip-bobbering a leech in Ottertail Co.

And, here’s my wife Tamara’s largest bass, also caught slip-bobbering a leech. She’s got me beat!

Here is my 9 year old daughter Emily with her biggest fish of the year, a white bass.

Here’s my biggest of the year (so far): 10.4oz from the Columbia River. Caught with a Smile Blade.

Why does T have to be second??? Oh, that’s gonna cost you Wade.

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Saving the best for last…

Nice save Wade!

Best bass so far…

Here is one of Dean Marshall’s. 30 inch 12lb 10oz taken this spring at the Red Wing Dam area.

NO! Steve! Tell me that’s been altered… No way!

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Here is one of Dean Marshall’s

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You mean there’s MORE!

Funny… that fish weighed 11.8 lbs when we weighed it… lol

Not taking ANYTHING away from what is a true piggie. Just thought it was funny how it gained a pound in the retelling. And a little length.

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Here is one of Dean Marshall’s. 30 inch 12lb 10oz taken this spring at the Red Wing Dam area.

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Here is one of Dean Marshall’s. 30 inch 12lb 10oz taken this spring at the Red Wing Dam area.

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Wow, what a beauty!

She’s now 32 inches….around that is and 15 pounds.

Lake Erie over Easter 2004

My wife’s 2nd walleye ever (her first was earlier in the day). This one was a nice fat fish that weighed in right at 8lbs even.

Here’s a pair of 28″ walleyes from Lake Erie April 2004.