Yay yay!! Another first off my checklist!!

  • jennyhanson416
    Polk County, WI
    Posts: 79
    February 13, 2012 at 3:04 am #1303625

    So I told my mom (my 67yr old fishing partner) that this year was going to be the year that I caught a walleye… Never caught one… So I got out on the lake today for a family/friend get together in rememberance of a good friend of mine that passed away in November.. Everyone else had headed up to the house.. but I was determined to catch a few gills to have for dinner tomorrow… Found all the small ones and I look up… FLAG… Got over there and she wasn’t spinning, waiting waiting waiting, and she takes off… Got the hook set, and thought geez it’s gonna be a nice northern with that huge shiner on there.. After a good fight, line running right through my gloves, I finally got it flopped out onto the ice… First thought… That’s not a northern, then it clicked… Caught my first walleye.. Not only did I catch my first ever walleye.. It was 29 1/2″ and 8lbs 9ozs!!! Then Scott came back down and had to take me around the lake for some gloating… Brought it to the taxidermist tonight and he even got the fillets cut out for me so I could have the fillets!! GREAT DAY!!! Jim would be so proud of me (RIP Jimmy!!!) So I have my first northern on a jig pole and my first walleye this year!! Now I have to figure something else out to cross off my to-do list…


    francisco4
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 3607
    February 13, 2012 at 3:19 am #1038283

    That is one heck of a first walleye! Congrats.

    FDR

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    February 13, 2012 at 3:44 am #1038287

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    That is one heck of a first walleye! Congrats.

    FDR

    ..4 sure 4 sure.

    mike-g
    Bloomington,MN
    Posts: 556
    February 13, 2012 at 3:56 am #1038289

    Congrats!! That’s a heck of a way to start out!

    jeff_huberty
    Inactive
    Posts: 4941
    February 13, 2012 at 10:32 am #1038307

    Very Nice

    Mocha
    Park Rapids
    Posts: 1452
    February 13, 2012 at 11:18 am #1038318

    Its a sickness! LOL You are now hooked on the walleye sickness. I have to chase them like there is no tomorrow.

    Great fish! Congratulations!

    palolo
    Posts: 284
    February 13, 2012 at 11:27 am #1038321

    Wowee Jen that is an Awesome First she’s a Monster.
    Congratulations and oh what a high that must be

    Joel Ballweg
    Sauk City, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3295
    February 13, 2012 at 12:11 pm #1038328

    Congrats Jen on not only your first walleye but a very nice one at that!

    musky_ben
    Red Wing, MN
    Posts: 122
    February 13, 2012 at 12:23 pm #1038335

    Congratulations!!! That is a dandy first walleye!!!

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    February 13, 2012 at 12:42 pm #1038340

    Very nice fish. With the length and belly on that fish you might want to question the scale used to weigh it. My guess would be that for your 1st walleye you made the 10# club. A goal many walleye fishers look to hit.

    Dave Ansell
    Rushford, MN
    Posts: 1572
    February 13, 2012 at 12:59 pm #1038343

    Awesome first walleye you’ve got there

    Congratulations

    Ed Stern
    Goodhue, MN, Goodhue County,
    Posts: 510
    February 13, 2012 at 1:13 pm #1038347

    Isn’t it amazing how you can anticipate for so long, and then, all of a sudden, you realize that you have done it?!? And you did it very well. Continued success both on and off the ice…..

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
    Posts: 3974
    February 13, 2012 at 3:32 pm #1038394

    very cool story!
    I still don’t have one bigger than 28 1/2″

    lhprop1
    Eagan
    Posts: 1899
    February 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm #1038401

    That’s going to be tough to top. You might as well give up walleye fishing while you’re ahead. Every other walleye you catch from here on out is going to seem dinky in comparison.

    Great fish!

    washburn
    Aitkin Mn
    Posts: 185
    February 13, 2012 at 4:04 pm #1038411

    That’s awesome especially this time of year, congrats

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    February 13, 2012 at 4:19 pm #1038425

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    Awesome first walleye you’ve got there

    Congratulations

    Agreed, Congrats Jen!!!

    Mark

    redrnger
    Posts: 216
    February 13, 2012 at 5:03 pm #1038444

    Very nice first fish

    jennyhanson416
    Polk County, WI
    Posts: 79
    February 24, 2012 at 6:06 pm #1042649

    Stopped in at the bait store the other day and Ronny had this pic up on the wall of my walleye… Better than the ones taken out on the lake

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