Bullshoals 2010 trip photos

  • buzzer
    Garnavillo Iowa
    Posts: 542
    March 13, 2011 at 7:08 am #1311913

    Never got around to sharing these photos till now if you ever get a chance to fish this lake do it best fishing trip I’ve had we originly planed on fishing Pre spawn walleyes and cold front shut them down so plan B went into affect Crappies which we planed on fishing any way boat was set up with spider rigs did a lot of searching to find fish but when u find crappies there stacked fished live Bait rigs 3 rods each start our drifts in a bay in 13 fow and drift down to 22 fow perch were all over mixed in with crappies and caught gills bass and whites bass along with Kentucky bass which are a fierce little fish the Perch we caught were Jumbos 2 biggest Perch were 2.32 and 2.34 and 13.5 and 14 inches biggest crappie was 15.5 this was my first trip south and always wanted to fish this lake the crappies are slabs down here and hard mouths.unlike most of crappies I’ve fished in Iowa the memories of this trip will last forever the 5 day trip turned into a 10 day trip








    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    March 13, 2011 at 11:57 am #946653

    Awesome.

    Dave Koonce
    Moderator
    Prairie du Chien Wi.
    Posts: 6946
    March 13, 2011 at 2:10 pm #946676

    nice fish Buzz !!

    That one perch looks like a tank !!!

    Mr. Pike 81
    NW Iowa
    Posts: 212
    March 13, 2011 at 2:57 pm #946686

    What time of year did you go down.Looks like late Feb- March

    buzzer
    Garnavillo Iowa
    Posts: 542
    March 13, 2011 at 4:32 pm #915449

    We were there last week of febuary and came back march 8th last year had to cancel our trip this year buddy had a baby and bought a new house so April 1 headed to Lake Grenada Mississipppi last nite looked at Missouri records and relized we broke state record ring perch 2 times the current record is 1.91 lbs and here is picture

    average-joe
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 2376
    April 9, 2011 at 2:40 pm #955500

    Great Report

    Nice Fish

    rdgallo
    Morton, Illinois
    Posts: 110
    May 9, 2011 at 11:51 pm #964612

    I just love Bull Shoals and usually fish out of Theodosia, Mo. What part of the lake were you fishing? we fish a lot around Point 13 and Cow Pen
    hollar.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    May 10, 2011 at 2:29 am #964671

    Learn something new every day. I had no idea they had a perch fishery like that down there. Do they receive little pressure? Are they as sought after as they are up here?

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