Guess my success

Can you guess how my day went?
Bald eagle Lake
Conditions were cloudy with intermittent snow, temps were right around 30. Fished from 9am to 6pm. Drilled holes approximately every 20 paces or so along the red lines, in depths ranging from 6-26. Fished lots of different presentations from small jigs/flys with waxies to spoons and jigging raps. Always had a tip up or dead stick down with a plain hook and fathead.

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If it went well there will be a hundred guys camped on those lines this weekend…..

Great post, Brian.

I here there bitting on perch lake north of bemidji

4 limits of 15″ crappies

A limit of green sunfish.

$17… How’s that?

eyefishwalleye wrote:

$17… How’s that?

Haha!

I’m gonna guess you were hunting eyes? So I’ll go with 7 small eyes, 2 keepers, 1 over 24, 2 pike, 4 crappie, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Boy oh boy, I wish that was the count!

The suspense is killing me…..

Well, considering you may have drilled a hundred holes and fished depths ranging from 6-26 and “fished lots of different presentations from small jigs/flys with waxies to spoons and jigging raps. Always had a tip up or dead stick down with a plain hook and fathead”…you never settled into pattern or a pod of willing biters.

I’m going to guess you hit the McDonalds drive-thru for some McFish sandwiches for your Friday night fish fix.

Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:

Well, considering you may have drilled a hundred holes and fished depths ranging from 6-26 and “fished lots of different presentations from small jigs/flys with waxies to spoons and jigging raps. Always had a tip up or dead stick down with a plain hook and fathead”…you never settled into pattern or a pod of willing biters.

I’m going to guess you hit the McDonalds drive-thru for some McFish sandwiches for your Friday night fish fix.

And we have a winner! Found small perch and sunny’s in shallow areas. Had a few real nice marks through the magic hour, off the end of the point. They would chase a spoon and the dead stick, but no commitment. Maybe as focused and hard as I have fished in a long time…sorry for the anti-climatic ending

Brian wrote:

…sorry for the anti-climatic ending

Well…. it was sort of an anti-climatic question.

I’m just thankful there was no video.

Back in the early 1970’s, when I was just a young fishing fool (like many of us are still today) I’d hang around the resort docks with my little Zebco spincast outfit hoping to “get lucky”

I’ll never forget a couple old timers motored into the dock and I eagerly asked how they did. They said they had a great day and proceeded to show me their bucket full of minnows. Even my young naivety still had some skepticism on this one…yet these were “fishing elders”.

And because I was taught to always respect my elders, I bought in.

For some years after I always imagined this…

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Now that’s funny right there now.