4lb smallie and an eye little over 3lb were biggest today

Bite was good 20 plus eyes couple saugers sheepshead crappies small mouth had close to 50 fish caught for 3 people. Slow was the key, plastics and jig/minnow was best, bright colors far out produced natural hands down

I rub olive oil on the cedar boards . They don’t stick as bad and helps it from charring the board

17 kept walleyes two different times out. Friday night and Sunday morning and the two biggest fish i caught 24 1/2″ and a 28″ caught on two different lakes around faribault all fish kept were between 13″ and 18″ there are in fact a lot of eyes to be caught just think of them as bass as far as location

I know I won’t buy guide wear next time it’s too expensive now

Anything would be better for on the ice fishing than Carhartt bibs. All they do is soak up water and freeze solid. I wear a pair of insulated guidewear bibs and I never get wet, and they are ten years old

There are no walleye in 4th cut. Catfish is all anyone catches there

Morel

Your suckers in Iowa prolly have made their runs up in creeks already but any size able river will have them . You can catch them with a bottom rig and a pinch of crawler the bigger you catch the better= more cut bait

I like to crank on it. hard. But the release feels so good.

Just josh’n ya Kevin to each his own

You look all that up on google? Kevin27 I think you are suppose to hold the rod in your hand and not the reel?

Pick a jig combo you have confidence in and pitch pitch pitch. Or find current seams put on a 1/2 jig and work it vertically. You will catch fish

Why waste more line on a 2500 size reel? What is more capacity doing for you? With mono it is easier to keep your spool filled and maintain line pickup/ reel ratio with the 1000 size. Have you ever had a bass northern or walleye take drag and spool you? No need for bigger reels only draw back to smaller is spool coil memory which won’t happen if you keep your line fresh anyways. Fishing on a river you will always lose line almost every time out take and respool with the extra you have from a smaller reel

The walleyes were biting! and slow was not in the program!

We were watching you pop em pretty good on your ( 100) yrd stretch you guys did well too bad with the crappy weather Saturday those bigger fish didn’t turn on better good job to you and your partner

Yes 5″ more. That’s it

Those who can catch fish and those who can’t whine and complain and keep whatever they get their hands on…. ( heavy sarcasm) haha I will keep posting pics of fish I catch and when people are on that spot you move onto the next. That’s how you keep ahead of the game… Haha sarcasm<

But yet my buddy sits in the boat and has caught three fish and I have caught around 50 last two times out. It’s funny how you can tell majority of people were you caught fish and they still can’t catch them. Hunter go ahead take a look at all the pics doesn’t mean you can catch em. But when you do keep those big females along with the thousands of other people down there and tell me the population won’t be harmed at some point . Lakes like blackduck lake have special regulation on keeping of panfish so it doesn’t get caught out and it does happen I live in faribault and when the ice houses can get out early it’s amazing the following spring there isn’t much for fish. It does happen don’t lie to yourself . Have a nice day

Go with a 1000 size. A 500 size will have to much line coil for casting those light jigs maybe try the smallest size fleuger arbor with the wide spool for casting distance the 1000 will offset the length of the rod also by giving it a lighter rod tip feel

It’s a forced air furnace in a ice castle and has certain safety devices on it just in case my two buddy’s do it all the time with no problems. When we went to red earlier in the year we turned it on when we hit the access nice and toasty when we got to our spot

Here’s a couple from Wednesday

The trout are jumping in the boat

I travel an hour each way to red wing and never keep fish so hopefully the ones I catch you can catch also. What’s your favorite lake from where your from RiverRuns I wanna go fish there.

Hunter1723 I assume then you are one of those people raping the system then? I never once told anyone what they can or can’t keep I’m more interested in having an open season and being able to catch quality fish in ten years from now but hey go ahead snag all those little saugers out of deep water and see how the population holds up . FYI those fish dies or do people need a photograph of all the fish floating on by . Thank god the fish moved in more shallow otherwise it would be a blood bath sorta speak only because the water came up. I fish out of a 98 magnum 165 alumarcraft grey and white with a 60 yamaha I’m always wearing my green guide wear bibs if any feels like they need to discuss anything with me in the future. I am down there all the time and actually give two shits.

Eyecon what boat were you in

When pitching I was pitching down current letting it hit bottom then picking it up and holding at still as possible that’s how we caught our bigger fish. I fished on the left of the y for an hour or so to let my buddy catch some fish as he was struggling I was just holding it dead still and letting the wind and current pull me along I noticed majority of people were using Lindy rigs and minnows. They were catching a lot of dinks and mean small like 6″ to 10″ very small fish I was using a ptail and a straight tail minnow on a Dubuque rig but they were all taking the paddle tail in the bottom and a lot of times it was gone down their mouth I kept getting bit by little ones just grabbing the tail and pulling it off. Those little buggers!!

I love to catch fish. I like to try to catch the biggest fish in the system for the challenge. I don’t care if people do abide by the laws and take fish home lets just be selective in what we take. One 16″ walleye and a side of potatoes is normal for what I can eat for supper. What are these people doing with a limit of 6 per person in each boat out there then going back down the next weekend doing the same over and over that’s a lot of fish to eat period. Hmmmmmm???

Over harvesting either way is bad but for the most part the pool can handle it I just don’t understand why someone knowingly wants to keep the future population of fish I don’t know exactly but seen in videos were there are ten males to one spawning female to fertilize her eggs wouldn’t make sense to keep the males otherwise if the female is gone she’s gone now there will be 30 males to one female ( in theory) hopefully it’s just a cycle as they say but fishing isn’t as good as it was 6 to 8 years ago and the typical people fishing in deeper water are catching the saugers, guess what? Not that good of a sauger population and not a lot of nice big 20″ females around to catch take a photo release and know they will be spawning. Instead let’s just throw those fish into the gut pile along with whatever else is legal to catch and keep

I already did