I have purchased quite a few items from this company over the years and have never had a problem with anything….

Layne Monroe

I’ve got the itch bad too…. Thinking about heading out tomorrow after work myself…. Ben what are you thinkin…you gonna try to go hit up those cats?

Layne Monroe

Fished Bitter Saturday, Sunday and the first 3 hours Monday morning and did pretty well on nice perch…. This was only my second time ever fishing Bitter and I thought my buddy and I did pretty well for not knowing that body of water well. The first morning we struggled and did not put a perch on the ice until at least 10 am and we started fishing at 630 am. lol I would not say that the perch were on fire but just as all the reports were telling…. when they come through be ready and be quick and you can pop 5 or 6 in just a matter of minutes and I’d say 95% of them are keeper sized fish. The two of us only caught 6 perch total that were small. What a great perch fishery! We ended up bringing back 45 perch between us and all were from 11-14″ fish…. Only 1 was right at 14″ that I caught on the last morning first thing before we left to head back to Lincoln…. Most all of our fish came in 23′ of water, my buddy used a buckshot rattle spoon all weekend and I caught all my perch on a perch colored go-devil in glow tipped with minnow heads… Only a couple came on waxworms when they got finicky midday and they wanted small baits just sitting idle. Make sure to have plenty of minnows because the 4-12″ walleye will not leave you alone ever…. I suspect we caught probably close to 100 between us. We didn’t target the bigger walleye this trip as most of them were being caught in shallow water…. 8-14′ and we were after jumbo perch this trip and they seemed to be all deeper. We also got a few nice perch in 30′ of water one morning as well…. Approx. 22″ of ice and pretty much from what we saw the whole lake was drivable by full size truck. Best bite for us was from 630 am to about 930 and then again from about 330 until 530. From the sounds of it Waubay was putting out some good perch as well as we saw some guys at our motel cleaning quite a few nice fish from there as well… I would say the size of their fish were about the same as ours from bitter…. maybe just a tad smaller average but not much. Neither of us ever hooked into a pike that we know of which I thought was kind of weird since it seemed everyone we talked to was running into lots of them. I would really like to get back up there 1 more time before iceout…

Layne Monroe

Way to go Tuck… that is awesome news!

Layne Monroe

Wow that is a great fish!

Way to go…

Layne Monroe

Did well on eater sized fish at Sherman last wednesday drifting livebait and plastics with the wind in 6-8′ of water. Ended with our 8 fish ranging from 16″-18″ in a few hours. Good Luck.

Layne Monroe

I have been absent from the site here lately and just found out today from Garver about this whole ordeal Dean…. Everts lost the best guy they could have running the place IMO… I have only had the pleasure of meeting you a few times and you took me in like we had known each other for years. Best of luck to you in the future Dean.

Layne Monroe

Congrats to Shawn… that is truly a beast!

Layne Monroe

Stay safe everyone! That water is insane…

Layne Monroe

Well if Pete Bauer is in, then I am in too!

Layne Monroe

Looks like Ben and I made it home just in time….. You guys are absolutely getting pounded with rain…. kind of like Central and NE Nebraska earlier this year. Hope everything goes well.

Layne Monroe

Wow all you guys are killin’ me…. Dean, Dustin, and Dean…. all you guys have nice fish in those pics…. I need to live closer to pool 4! Ben and I had fun on Monday morning trolling but neither he nor Marty put me on fish like those.

Looks like I need to hire a new guide…

Layne Monroe

Wow that is one giant paddle….. Congrats on that fish!

Layne Monroe

Wow what a long trip home from way north….. Glad we had such an awesome place to stay the night on the way home to split the drive…. Thanks Dean… Evert’s sure is a great place and as Ben stated has some fantastic fall fishing…. now if I could just ever make it over there for the spring bite

Layne Monroe

Nothing that I know of for sure but this time of year it is almost a given that the perch will start back up on Spirit. Have not made the Sept. trip the last 2 years due to trips to Rainy Lake Mn. but in years past the middle of Sept. there has been an awesome perch bite at the north end of the lake.

Good Luck

Layne Monroe

Big congrats James!

Layne Monroe

Wow Chris as if I wasn’t pumped up enough just typing posts on the site the last few days, then you have to go and post some more pics and a story like that…. The trip cannot get here fast enough!

Layne Monroe

Yeah Ben sent me pics right after he caught this beast of a flatty… makes the ones in the SE part of the state look small….

Layne Monroe

Wow Clive what a trophy fish!

Layne Monroe

Right on…. I’m lost now too. lol

Layne Monroe

Been that way for the past couple years now…. lots of 0’s showing up at the weigh ins. Great job to the few teams that caught keeper fish.

Layne Monroe

Great post and awesome pics…. those fish are really fat and healthy looking…. Now if only I can get Garver to take me up there with him next time…. oh yeah Dean is a great guy too! Thanks again for the post guys…

Layne Monroe

Guess I did not look at it close enough… I figured when he said thanks guys but still not the info. I was looking for that the link must not of been right. Glad the problem was resolved and the correct link was posted!

Layne Monroe

How bout this one….

LINK

Layne Monroe

Spirit is a great lake to fish and especially ice fish…. walleye season up there has closed but the perch are still thick as flies on a deer carcass. Should have no problem catching perch as they have been biting pretty much all year long with only a few slow times throughout this ice fishing season, only problem is there will be a lot of sorting to keep some nice fish. Seems most perch are in the 5″-7″ range but there are some coming out that are 10″ and a little bigger. Not many but some, if you are looking for some dinner then that should not be a problem. Good Luck and let us know how you do. One more thing if you have an underwater camera bring that… way better for spirit in my opinion for perch fishing than a flasher because it seems those perch have been sucking in the bait and blowing it right back out so fast the camera lets you see what is exactly happening and get em before they can do that! Can’t wait to get the boat up there this spring and summer!

Layne Monroe

Pig crappies for sure! Thanks for teasing us with those pics so early in the year Chris…. Ron’s cake is definately a huge bartering chip! Can’t wait for more of that this year

Layne Monroe

Thanks for getting that link up pullin…. That rebate is a great deal and can be used 4 times per household…

Layne Monroe

Scheels in Lincoln had some of all the colors from last year on the shelves on Monday when I was there…. even hollywood. Picked up quite a few flickers while I was there… that rebate works out pretty nice!

Layne Monroe

Great looking fish Jason, thanks for posting it up.

Layne Monroe

Unless you are talking about catfish!
Panfish yes that is one heck of a bag…. Just razzin’

Layne Monroe