fished fish lake yesterday 3 of us caught around 90 bluegills 10 bass 13 to 19 inches and one 12 to 15 pound northern on a tip up pretty good day i thought
January 8, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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January 8, 2009 at 2:52 pm #735254
Sounds like a great day of fishing! Did you realease the bass?
January 8, 2009 at 3:39 pm #735276Sounded like a great day on the ice!
Any size to the gills?January 8, 2009 at 4:43 pm #735307sounds like you had a great day
January 8, 2009 at 8:23 pm #735407we acctually kept 3 bass and we took home about 30 gills with a few over 8.5 inches
January 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm #735455It’s good to see some people taking bass out. They are getting lousy in all the backwater’s. I bet it’s getting close to 20 a day everytime we hit the the river now.
January 9, 2009 at 3:44 am #735574I have nothing against an angler in his legal right to keep a few bass now and then don’t get me wrong..But please don’t feel the need to “take them out” because the reason you are on so many is because you have obviously found their wintering area. Those fish are extremely voulnerable and a guy can really dent the population, especially certain size ranges in a slough if many fish are being taken out. I know my preaching won’t be taken with open arms by many, but as a sport angler it really hurts to hear of 4 lb fish being taken home for dinner. a 4 lb bass is like a 7 or 8 lb walleye. I just want to preach selective harvest and if you have to have bass try to keep them in the 14-15″ range..there are GOBS of that size range in our system.
Again sorry for disrupting the post, congrats on a great day of fishing
January 9, 2009 at 12:45 pm #735602Three of us were up on Indian yesterday too…some small gills…a few crappies early but all in all it was WAY SLOW !!!
January 9, 2009 at 2:46 pm #735628Not sure why the Indian is getting so much attention this ice year
The footage of the Takasaki/Peck Midwest Outdoor episode was shot at least 3 years ago up there. By all accounts of the local reports that have been coming in you can still see the bottom of the bucket coming off. Last fall I caught nothing but short LMB while crappie hunting the open water. Combine that with the ice walk and this fat guy crossed that area off the checklist before the big pond even froze over. Just my 2 cents on the Indian…….January 9, 2009 at 4:35 pm #735656Quote:
I have nothing against an angler in his legal right to keep a few bass now and then don’t get me wrong..But please don’t feel the need to “take them out” because the reason you are on so many is because you have obviously found their wintering area. Those fish are extremely voulnerable and a guy can really dent the population, especially certain size ranges in a slough if many fish are being taken out. I know my preaching won’t be taken with open arms by many, but as a sport angler it really hurts to hear of 4 lb fish being taken home for dinner. a 4 lb bass is like a 7 or 8 lb walleye. I just want to preach selective harvest and if you have to have bass try to keep them in the 14-15″ range..there are GOBS of that size range in our system.
Again sorry for disrupting the post, congrats on a great day of fishing
It’s that way at every spot I’ve hit so far this year on the river. Good for you bass anglers. Pain in the butt for us looking for panfish. I don’t think the anglers will ever dent the bass population because hardly anyone keeps them from what I have seen. I bet I have thrown back atleast 30 legals this year. That fish class must have had a strong year because they are definately abundant.
January 9, 2009 at 5:18 pm #735672Quote:
Not sure why the Indian is getting so much attention this ice year
The footage of the Takasaki/Peck Midwest Outdoor episode was shot at least 3 years ago up there. By all accounts of the local reports that have been coming in you can still see the bottom of the bucket coming off. Last fall I caught nothing but short LMB while crappie hunting the open water. Combine that with the ice walk and this fat guy crossed that area off the checklist before the big pond even froze over. Just my 2 cents on the Indian…….
Never seen it…Did i miss anything ?
January 9, 2009 at 5:26 pm #735675
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I have nothing against an angler in his legal right to keep a few bass now and then don’t get me wrong..But please don’t feel the need to “take them out” because the reason you are on so many is because you have obviously found their wintering area. Those fish are extremely voulnerable and a guy can really dent the population, especially certain size ranges in a slough if many fish are being taken out.
Truth be told….the DNR was asking everyone they checked on Lawrence Lake a few weeks ago to keep all legal bass they were catching. The warden said they are putting a hurt on the gill population in the area. They said they are becoming the predominant species and need some culling out.
After the last couple years seeing numbers of large bass everywhere, I tend to believe the warden.
January 9, 2009 at 5:41 pm #735678Quote:
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I have nothing against an angler in his legal right to keep a few bass now and then don’t get me wrong..But please don’t feel the need to “take them out” because the reason you are on so many is because you have obviously found their wintering area. Those fish are extremely voulnerable and a guy can really dent the population, especially certain size ranges in a slough if many fish are being taken out.
Truth be told….the DNR was asking everyone they checked on Lawrence Lake a few weeks ago to keep all legal bass they were catching. The warden said they are putting a hurt on the gill population in the area. They said they are becoming the predominant species and need some culling out.
After the last couple years seeing numbers of large bass everywhere, I tend to believe the warden.
I agree. Scott from Bob’s Bait & Tackle and myself were talking about that same topic. The Bass fishermen have done almost too good of a job in terms of keeping the populations high(er). There’s too many people practicing catch and release, and thus the Bass have no natural predators outside off Pike….save cannibalism.
Keeping some, even the larger ones allows a balance to take place.
You won’t find me keeping any, but that doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t either. Right now, they’re biting very well on tip ups. Personally I wouldn’t walk across the road to fish Bass on a tip up.
January 9, 2009 at 8:16 pm #735721[quote
Never seen it…Did i miss anything ?
Just the Captains rosie red round smile pulling 12 inch crappie with an “aahhhhhhh”. But like I said…that was like three years ago when they filmed that.
January 10, 2009 at 3:57 am #735813Quote:
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I have nothing against an angler in his legal right to keep a few bass now and then don’t get me wrong..But please don’t feel the need to “take them out” because the reason you are on so many is because you have obviously found their wintering area. Those fish are extremely voulnerable and a guy can really dent the population, especially certain size ranges in a slough if many fish are being taken out.
Truth be told….the DNR was asking everyone they checked on Lawrence Lake a few weeks ago to keep all legal bass they were catching. The warden said they are putting a hurt on the gill population in the area. They said they are becoming the predominant species and need some culling out.
After the last couple years seeing numbers of large bass everywhere, I tend to believe the warden.
Can you really start a fishing story with “truth be told”??
January 10, 2009 at 12:49 pm #735839
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Can you really start a fishing story with “truth be told”??
Now that theres funny right there
January 11, 2009 at 1:33 pm #736049Quote:
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Can you really start a fishing story with “truth be told”??
Now that theres funny right there
Good point
Like Blue said, I don’t like to eat Bass and will not keep them unless they are going to bleed to death. But for those that do like them I have no problem seeing some Bass leave the waters.
There has to be some kind of check and balance and it is not happening right now.So how do we get the dudes fishing gills to throw everything back now
January 11, 2009 at 10:03 pm #730037I fished pool 9 this morning, kept 5 gills and 2 medium crappies. The fun part was the 6 bass I landed(2 were legal)and I wished I could have seen the 1 that broke me off!
January 12, 2009 at 1:01 am #736172Good points, and all of that makes sense. I still don’t believe that the river is over abundent with 5 lbers
There are lakes up north with far larger largemouth, and tons of them, and their gill/crappie populations are great. I can’t beleive that DNR officer is telling people that- I find it hard to beleive that bass are eating more bluegills than the pike right now.. I agree with you guys that the population of bass needs to be controled to avoid a stunted population, as I said before, but there is no such thing as too many 5 lbers! The 14-15″ fish are the fish that need controlling more than anything, and those are the ones that are being put back while anglers try to fill their limit of 18-19″. Some of these guys have a mentality like they are pro bass fisherman because they can stick ’em on a tip up..Tough stuff..
Sorry, this is just a really touchy subject for me..January 12, 2009 at 1:08 am #736177Someone correct if I’m wrong, but I don’t think you’ll ever have stunted fish of any species in a river stystem.
January 12, 2009 at 1:53 am #736191Quote:
Someone correct if I’m wrong, but I don’t think you’ll ever have stunted fish of any species in a river stystem.
No, you’re not wrong. I think it’s darn near impossible.
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