Drove up to URL monday morning for a two day trip. could not find anyone to go with me, quess the friends I called have jobs during the week, bummer. With some of the good reports I had been receiving, just had to get up there at least one more time. Stayed in a friends house out of the WW road about 4 to 6 miles out. Nice weather and light winds, and mild temps, wow not bad. got to the house around 3pm monday. First minnow down the hole only got 6 feet down, then was intercepted and clobbered by a beauty 13 1/2 inch Crappie, second minnow got down to 7 feet before a 13 1/4 incher nailed it. My third minnow got down to 9 feet when the nicest Crappie of the trip hammered it, a 14 1/4 incher. that is probably my nicest Crappie I’ve ever caught. My fourth minnow actually had to be jigged near the bottom for 15 seconds before a 12 1/2 fish hit it. total time actually fishing for these first four fish was about 3 minutes, in the first 15 minutes in the house. A really nice start to the trip I’d say. 
That was my last crappies for monday afternoon 
, then the walleyes starting hitting pretty regular 
. some were very active, while others were finicky. the night bite was slow, but had two walleyes on the rattle reel. things picked up at 7:10am (got woken up)with a double, one 17″ walleye on the rattle reel, and a 13 1/2 Crappie on the bobber rod. quess I’ll stay up and start fishing the rod again . In the next hour up to 8:15am, I sat there with one rod, in my socks and underwear 
, catching crappies and walleyes very reqularly. a few vehicles stopped by to say hi, so thought I’d better get dressed. things slowed by mid to late morning. I started to not feel good by late morning so stopped fishing and laid down for awhile. Looked like I was not very smart keeping fresh air in the house 
, and had too much CO. learned my lesson on that one. Overall the trip was pretty fantastic. It was pretty cool releasing over 13″ Crappies, had a total of 13 crappies, up to 14 1/4″( I will mount this one for myself), and had 10 walleyes over 15″, including 5-17’s, 19″, 22″, and a whopper at 25 inches. I stopped counting walleyes under 15″ but they were numerous. Really was a good trip, I have my pictures loaded into my computer finally, and will get a few of those shots on here later today. 
Jack….
March 18, 2005 at 5:47 pm
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Jack..
