37 Inch Bass

  • Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5621
    May 6, 2014 at 6:04 pm #1357939

    I played hooky today and headed to my favorite East Metro Bass lake to see if I could find a few Crappies.

    It sure felt good to be back in the boat!

    I was using my trusty 6 weight fly rod. The water temp was 51-52 degrees, there were some old weeds hanging around, and it was very windy. I was using a sink tip line and a two fly setup; two nymphs on the same leader. That’s legal in Minnesota.

    After a lot of hunting around I found some nice Bluegills and one lonely little Crappie. Nothing to get excited about but still great fun after a long hard winter.

    After releasing another nice Bluegill I threw back in there and instead of the normal “peck-peck-peck” of a Bluegill, I felt a deep solid “thunk”. Whatever this was, it wouldn’t move. A solid 5 minutes later it was still in pretty much the same spot. And it felt weird, the head shakes were wrong for a fish this big. It finally started to move around the boat, under the boat, back and forth. About 20 minutes later I had the monster up to the boat.

    Yup…..TWO Bass, an 18 incher and a 19 incher on the same leader! No picture, it’s not bass season yet and I wasn’t going to mess around with these guys any more than I had to.

    Anyway 19 plus 18 is 37, right?

    Rootski

    robby
    Quad Cities
    Posts: 2823
    May 6, 2014 at 6:11 pm #1408852

    Lol. I thought BS! Had me for a second. Good deal!

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    May 6, 2014 at 6:14 pm #1408853

    Nice fish and story ski

    DaveB
    Inver Grove Heights MN
    Posts: 4465
    May 6, 2014 at 6:41 pm #1408859

    Poacher!

    belletaine
    Nevis, MN
    Posts: 5116
    May 6, 2014 at 7:38 pm #1408870

    Which one tasted better?

    jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    May 6, 2014 at 8:55 pm #1408880

    Way to go Rootski! That’s awesome… Even more awesome that you respected the resource.

    jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    May 6, 2014 at 8:58 pm #1408881

    Seen lots of photos of guys with multiple bass in hand during spawn and pre- spawn. Taking these fish off beds, putting them in live wells, etc.

    hookem
    Hastings,Minn.
    Posts: 1027
    May 7, 2014 at 5:41 am #1408905

    Can’t wait to get to your favorite lake. It is my favorite too. Do they still have the speed restrictions on it?

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5621
    May 7, 2014 at 9:07 am #1408968

    Hookem: If I read the new sign right, the speed limit is in force from sunset to sunrise during the week, Saturday morning, and all of Sunday. If you remember it changed when some doofus city council member thought property values on the lakes was going down because people couldn’t run jet skis at 5Am or something. Genius…

    Dave B: I hope you were kidding and don’t really think that I was poaching Bass out of season. I measured those two nymphs I was using. One was just over half an inch long and the other one was about 3/8th of an inch. Small stuff and I was surprised a bass would bother to eat them. I was definitely looking for Panfish but you never know what’s going to happen when you drop a line in the water.

    Jeremy: Found any good carp action yet? Over the winter I tied a whole box of flies that are supposed to work great on Carp.

    Rootski

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18605
    May 7, 2014 at 9:18 am #1408977

    That is cool!

    barebackjack
    New Prague, MN.
    Posts: 1023
    May 7, 2014 at 6:03 pm #1409141

    Quote:

    Which one tasted better?


    The one smothered in loon gravy

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    May 8, 2014 at 10:01 am #1409281

    Nice going Steve,
    definitely great getting back on the water.
    What is the speed limit when in force?

    Jack
    Real opener is 2 weeks and 2 day away!

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5621
    May 8, 2014 at 10:26 am #1409290

    Hello Jack,

    5 MPH, and it’s been fairly well respected over the years. On a small lake in the early morning it’s very nice. No noise or boat wakes.

    Won’t be long now!

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