Pool 4 Monster Sauger

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    January 20, 2003 at 8:05 pm #1328064

    Here is a pic from Mark Halbakken. His story tells it all.

    Fishing below the Red Wing dam on 1/08/2003 I started with a jig and fatheads and caught a couple of small sauger – the same as other boats around. I quickly decided a change was in order. I had brought a dozen crawlers from my wintering storage spot and tried them on some of my hand tied spinner crawler rigs. I drifting a mile stretch starting up at the dam. I caught a small Walleye and a nice sauger on the first drift and ended up with a nice limit by the time the crawlers were gone, most of them in deep water in the center of the channel.

    The big fish hit in 14 ft of water. I never use a net and landed it just like all large Walleye, quietly supporting it under the belly. I do not think the other boats in the vacinity knew the fish was even caught. Crawlers in January????

    If anyone else has a photo or two they’d like to share with us here at FTR,

    simply send the photo out as a .jpg attachment in an e-mail to

    [email protected] and we’ll gladly get that posted here just as

    quickly as we can.

    rivereyes
    Osceola, Wisconsin
    Posts: 2782
    January 20, 2003 at 8:16 pm #250719

    holy COW!!… what a beast!!… how long was that old girl? and of course how much did she weigh?

    lundgeye
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 1209
    January 20, 2003 at 9:59 pm #250725

    Guess who’s gonna check his crawlers tonight…and maybe even feed ’em a bit?…NICE FISH!! Thanks for sharing the pic…and details would be great. Assume she’s heading for the wall?

    bill_cadwell
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 12607
    January 20, 2003 at 10:37 pm #250727

    Hey nice fish Mark. Saugers like that are hard to find. Keep them fish pics coming! Thanks, Bill

    riveratt
    Central Wisconsin US-of-A
    Posts: 1464
    January 21, 2003 at 1:09 am #250739

    She is a beauty for sure.Well into packing the ol spawn bags full.IS that a pure sauger?Looks like it may have some walleye genes as well,with the white tip.Either way she’s a hoss!

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    January 21, 2003 at 1:12 am #250740

    It looks like a saugeye to me. Beautiful fish regardless.

    jeff-patrick
    Fort Atkinson, WI
    Posts: 2128
    January 21, 2003 at 3:16 am #250746

    Nice fish Mark you lucky guy. CPR

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    DaveB
    Inver Grove Heights MN
    Posts: 4499
    January 21, 2003 at 12:58 pm #250749

    If that is a sauger, it has to be a state record???

    nord
    Posts: 744
    January 21, 2003 at 6:21 pm #250763

    H20, that’s the same thing I was thinking. Regardless, it’s a fantastic fish!!! I only wish it would of been on the end of my line.

    JimW
    SE MN
    Posts: 519
    January 21, 2003 at 8:44 pm #250780

    Mark sent me the photo and I thought everyone here would enjoy it. He mentioned that a DNR
    official looked at it. Apparently there were spots on the dorsal, to me indicating either a suager or
    saugeye. You really can’t tell a saugeye wiht out truly performing some sort of DNA test.
    Hey that’s it, let’s set up a fsihing DNA booth at Everts?LOL

    Keep the rods bendin’!!!!

    Jim W

    mountain man
    Coon Valley, WI.
    Posts: 1419
    January 21, 2003 at 11:53 pm #250797

    AWESOME SAUGEYE….. That picture makes you feel like your right there. Unless I have misunderstood sauger can’t genetically have more than 3 veins of white on their tail, and that one appears to have six or seven. But it sure makes you wonder, because the mouth sure looks all sauger.

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    January 22, 2003 at 12:35 am #250798

    Here’s a pic of one of the largest saugers I’ve seen boated. Or at least I believe it to be a sauger. Like it has been suggested, without an actual DNA test, who can really say, but this one has the markings and “look” of a true sauger. Caught by Tim Gavins – 25″

    eyesforever
    IGH, MN
    Posts: 46
    January 22, 2003 at 1:55 am #250803

    The attached photo was of a 23″ sauger caught up in St Paul a couple weeks ago.
    Pretty nice fish too.

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    January 23, 2003 at 8:23 am #250904

    Super fish, My very first impression is Saugeye, and it sure if fat. and I agree, I think Tim’s fish is a Sauger. very nice men. way to go. Jack..

    nate-cadwell
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 498
    January 23, 2003 at 10:45 am #250905

    AHH James the old Yar Craft!!!! its been awhile sense I seen you in that.
    later

    bill_cadwell
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 12607
    January 23, 2003 at 5:19 pm #250927

    You guys really make it hard for a guy to not be able to be in his boat out fishing. Thanks for the pics. Keep em comin. Thanks, Bill

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