Mille Lacs Bassing

  • Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    October 14, 2011 at 3:51 pm #1321519

    My club was up last weekend for our annual Oct tournament. I usually put in some time Bassin, then hit the Walleyes at night.
    The Bass did not disapoint, fishing was slow and you had to work for them, but extreme quality bass were caught.
    Most of the fish were quite big. A long with the average 18 to 19 inch Smallie, we were able to get a few that were 20 and 21 inches.
    And I was able to catch my ALLTIME biggest Smallie at 22 inches and 6.1 pounds. I hooked it up 4 minutes before our tournament time ended and took a full (clocked) 8 minutes to land it on 8 pound mono. I could absolutely not believe the size and girth of this fish.
    It was my best ever complete Mille Lacs tournament (paper tourney) with the culled Bass limit and Walleye limit.

    Jack




    jeff_huberty
    Inactive
    Posts: 4941
    October 14, 2011 at 4:14 pm #1001472

    Nice fish!!!

    DrewH
    s/w WI.
    Posts: 1404
    October 14, 2011 at 4:20 pm #1001479

    Jack that catch is hard to surpass. Great job.

    dank
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 1123
    October 14, 2011 at 5:48 pm #1001503

    great fish, it looks like the other toad that you had published.

    Congrats!

    jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    October 14, 2011 at 6:22 pm #1001513

    Nicely done! Live bait or plastics/cranks?

    cbeeksma
    Delta, WI
    Posts: 400
    October 14, 2011 at 8:21 pm #1001556

    Great job Jack….I got to fish Mille Lacs a few times this summer and it really is an incredible smallie fishery….Similar to what I am accustomed to…..lol

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    October 14, 2011 at 10:28 pm #1001570

    Do I hear taxidermy Jack!!!!

    Nice job buddy! I have only 1 22″er after 50 years of trying…

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    October 16, 2011 at 2:56 am #1001711

    Thanks guys,

    Jeremy- it was live bait, lindy rig/minnow.
    Tom- taxidermy? am trying to get out of the business. SMB are 100% protected here in MN as mandatory release after mid-septemter. they are just too vulnerable mid to late fall. might consider doing a repo for myself tho.

    am trying to get back up there, but have guests this week. mid next week maybe.
    Jack

    hummerst1
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 24
    October 18, 2011 at 9:01 pm #1002399

    JACK,,,,,,THESE ARE SOME REALLY GREAT SHOTS OF YOU AND THE HOGS YOU WERE CATCHING. YOUR NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE GIRTH OF THEM. NICE JOB GETTING THEM IN ON THE LIGHT LINE YOU HAD,,,,,,,,,,,SUPER CATCH. STEVE BLEICHNER.

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