Smallies on fire!!

  • coppertop
    Central MN
    Posts: 2852
    October 5, 2006 at 5:51 am #1251704

    Tonite I chose to jet up the river vs. sitting in the bow stand, tough choice!!! I probably don’t need to tell you other smallie fanatics but the smallies are absolutey in overdrive. I took the advice from one of the last reports from Steve DeZurik and picked up some minnows after work today. They only had fatheads but boy did they work. 25-30 fish with 7 over 18″, 19.5″ being biggest in just over 2 hours. Get out there!!! Hopefully Mr. big didn’t walk past the stand tonight. (Remember catch and release only) Good luck ! You probably won’t need it though!

    sliderfishn
    Blaine, MN
    Posts: 5431
    October 5, 2006 at 12:24 pm #485927

    That sounds like a blast. Way too many choices in October between hunting and fishing.

    Ron

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    October 5, 2006 at 1:17 pm #485959

    Nice fish Randy.
    Such a great time of year. I gave up hunting about 13 years ago. Each time I was hunting this time of year I was wishing I was out in the boat fishing!

    Sounds like you had a great day! Congrats!

    keepcasting
    Excelsior
    Posts: 445
    October 5, 2006 at 1:28 pm #485963

    coppertop, I will agree with you…I stuck with a 3″ tube and a 4″ power worm on Monday evening and got 7 in about an hour just south of Monticello, not nearly the size that you found (biggest was 16″)…I will be heading out again this evening for a hour or two…I will let you know how it goes…

    eyebuster
    Duluth
    Posts: 1025
    October 5, 2006 at 1:47 pm #485972

    I was out on pool 7 on Tuesday and the smallies were on fire there also I was swimming a orange jig tipped with a full crawler. my cousins were pullin green cranks. Pulled in numbers but not a whole lot of size.

    serpent
    MPLS, MN
    Posts: 42
    October 5, 2006 at 2:17 pm #485989

    I feel that minnows are cheating but
    today I’m going to be a cheater.
    Sounds like too much fun.

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    October 5, 2006 at 2:29 pm #485999

    Quote:

    I feel that minnows are cheating but
    today I’m going to be a cheater.
    Sounds like too much fun.

    I could not agree more with you Serpent!
    But after what I have seen this past 2 weeks up here, It is the best thing I have going right now BAR NONE!
    Yesterday I had to resort to mostly sucker minnows. The smallies would hit the red tails chubs like no tomrorow but would be real finicky with the slow moving sucker minnows that I had. Amazing how picky these fish can be. Kind of a weird non-typical past couple weeks for me so far. I have not had to resort to minnows for many years…. until now

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