Let’s see the PB’s of IDO

The big smallmouth was caught catfishing with a 9′ surf rod and Okuma 90 reel. The tail was gone but it was probably still my PB smallmouth. That little tiny baby was caught in the same location on a live bait spinner. When the crappie are biting in my favorite early season spot they are all the size of a bucket and it can be very fun.

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These are the most recent PBs I have. 21 inch smallmouth (tie) out of Mille Lacs and the Rum River. Tiger Muskie was 41 inches back in June 2020, and had a replica made by LAX.

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If this wasnt a family friendly place alot of bad stuff could be done to that picture. Of course picture didnt come with.

No idea what this guy is. But it’s a PB.

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Awesome fish guys

Here’s some of our memorable fish. Lake trout over 40″, walleyes from 29.5″-30.75″, Sunnies over 10″, and a Seagull over 50″

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That bottom lake trout is a slob.

gimruis wrote:

That bottom lake trout is a slob.

She’s still swimming and I’m hoping we can have a date again

It’s very likely she’s older than me, but I wouldn’t mind

Nice fish B-Man

43” northern, same pic in profile.

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Aussies would call those “Stonkers”!

PB Crappie: 13.5″ on open water in 2016. It’s also my avatar.

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muskie: 54″
walleyes: 31″ (me) and 30.5″ (son)
crappies: 17″ (me) and 15.5″ (son) caught back-to-back

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Here’s my wife’s 50.5″ musky from Eagle Lake, ON. It t-boned a small walleye and wouldn’t let go. You can see the tail coming out the left side of her mouth. When It might have unpinned in the net, but when I opened her mouth the jig fell out and I had to pull the walleye out with pliers. She landed it on #8 mono while jigging for walleye, so we were pretty unprepared for that battle. Definitely would have brought out the bigger net if we were targeting them that morning.

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Here are a few (most) of mine. Great memories!
Big Muskie – 48″ Minnetonka
Big Pike – 44″ Chequamegon Bay
Big Gills – Both 10″ – Northern MN
Big Crappie – 15″ St. Louis River Superior harbor
Big Smallie – 21″ Chequamegon Bay
Son’s PB Largemouth – 21″ Spooner WI

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Here are the big girls after I got it out of the net.

Also my 30.5″ walleye and 43″ pike. I caught the walleye casting a Bulldawg and the pike on a jig/minnow a half hour later. A few years later I caught my PB musky 47″. Also jig/minnow.

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Love all the PB’s…great pics and fish guys!

PB Buffy and Carp

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Lunge
Smallie
Snapper
Perch
Mirror Carp
Bucketmouth
Channel Cat
River Pike

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Not mine…but a buddy caught this 3# 11oz crappie last week.

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That’s unreal Browndog!

While not big fish a personal best for me. 2 bass on 1 lure.

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Not sure which is the better trophy, the fish or each of my kids smiles. Don’t care about wt/length, all big fish, all still swimming today.

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The kids smiles are awesome and that’s what it’s all about

Yep, those are some keepers! Good job Dad.

I’m kind of a newbie here. I would have a hard time knowing what most of my PBs are, since I’m not the hard-core and successful kind of angler that many folks here are, and for those same reasons, most of my PBs are not too special. However, I do enjoy going after channel catfish and I know what my personal best was for that species. And I even have a picture of it. It was 36 inches and about 24.5 pounds (I didn’t get an exact weight because I was trying to stand up while using the scale to hold up the fish inside the landing net, in a tiny boat in choppy conditions, but it definitely was between 24 and 25 pounds). I caught this in October of 2022 while targeting northern pike. At first I thought I had a PB northern pike, but when it became clear that the fish wasn’t going to get tired for a REALLY long time, I knew it must be a catfish.

Funny thing, I’ve caught about four other channel cats of this same length, but all of them were a bit under 20 pounds. This guy was a brute, and the hardest puller of them all too.

Also, I released this fish.

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Some more mutton for the board…

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Back when I was 19 years old (1992) I caught this 32 1/2” walleye out of the Missouri River in Pierre SD.
Had it weighed at Oahe marina. 13.2 lbs.

Haven’t been able to crack the 30” mark since.

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14” perch

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I can’t believe how little a-bomb was.

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I can’t believe how little a-bomb was.

That went way to fast…

Another new PB for Alex, Jack!

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Wow, what is that?

Gregg Gunter wrote:

Wow, what is that?

Jack Crevalle