Post by RapalaGuru on Jun 5, 2006 9:14:23 GMT -4
Howdy All,
I noticed there are quite a few new faces here. Great Job Ted!
Well, I went to the U.P of Michigan for the first fishing trip of the year. I hoped it would be, at best, a nice relaxing trip.
Our timing is always based on weather, did they have a early or late spring? our fishing depends on it.
Our timing this year was GREAT!!!!!
We caught everything....
Go out in the morning do a little walleye fishing, get a few in each boat.
Spend the afternoon getting Northerns and Musky's.
Early evening were Jumbo perch and waiting for the walleye's to move back up on the points.
A couple od days, well, the morning sessions (before lunch)
we decided to see if we could do a little bass fishing.
One morning, My Dad and I slipped into the back of a bay,
a few bullrushes, a few red lily pads, a few large yellow lily pads.
He had a classic south bend nip-i-diddee, I brought a brand new #7 skitter-pop in shad.
Normally in the U.P, late may-early june topwater fishing is something the 'locals' will tell is not going to work out that well.
Well, we slammed 'em.
The sounds of a pair of Loons in the morning,
the bloop, bloop, bloop of a skitter-pop.
In those 5 hours that morning,
we boated well over 80 bass, had at least 30 other blow-ups.
My thumb was raw from lipping the bass.
While the nip was working good, the skitter-pop was tearing them up. It looks like hell now, the 'feathers-mylar' back hook, looks insane all tore up.
Biggest bass that morning was a smallie that went a little over 22 inches, largemouths avg between 15 and 20 inches.
I look back and we caught it all, walleyes, northerns, muskys,
smallies, largemouths, perch, bluegills, pumkinseeds.
We ate fresh fish all but one night and all species
(including the bass)
After going to the same chains of lakes for 20 plus year
we've noticed the changes of the species populations.
Some years the walleyes are a tad bit short, the numbers of perch are down, etc, etc,
The Bass are a looked over species, for what ever reason, the locals and vacationers just don't seem to target them.
We on the other hand, try to find what-ever species is on the bite.
Instead of spending all our time on one species.
Anyway, the 2006 annual spring fishing trip was one of the better
In numbers of fish caught.
hundreds each day. I quit counting by early morning each day.
Did we keep everything that was legal size? nope
Tryed our best to release thos fish that we figured were good brood stock (except for panfish) Bass, walleyes, northerns
were the species that fell into that group.
All musky's were turned loose!! no exceptions!!
even those that met the min legal size
(which in michigan is 42 inches)
Well, I've got to get the baoat cleaned out & ready for the next trip, which starts July 1st
Nice to be back...(I need a few hours of sleep)
Steve "Rapala-Guru"
I'll try to get a picture of the skitter-pop I used
you've got to see this beat-up lure
I noticed there are quite a few new faces here. Great Job Ted!
Well, I went to the U.P of Michigan for the first fishing trip of the year. I hoped it would be, at best, a nice relaxing trip.
Our timing is always based on weather, did they have a early or late spring? our fishing depends on it.
Our timing this year was GREAT!!!!!
We caught everything....
Go out in the morning do a little walleye fishing, get a few in each boat.
Spend the afternoon getting Northerns and Musky's.
Early evening were Jumbo perch and waiting for the walleye's to move back up on the points.
A couple od days, well, the morning sessions (before lunch)
we decided to see if we could do a little bass fishing.
One morning, My Dad and I slipped into the back of a bay,
a few bullrushes, a few red lily pads, a few large yellow lily pads.
He had a classic south bend nip-i-diddee, I brought a brand new #7 skitter-pop in shad.
Normally in the U.P, late may-early june topwater fishing is something the 'locals' will tell is not going to work out that well.
Well, we slammed 'em.
The sounds of a pair of Loons in the morning,
the bloop, bloop, bloop of a skitter-pop.
In those 5 hours that morning,
we boated well over 80 bass, had at least 30 other blow-ups.
My thumb was raw from lipping the bass.
While the nip was working good, the skitter-pop was tearing them up. It looks like hell now, the 'feathers-mylar' back hook, looks insane all tore up.
Biggest bass that morning was a smallie that went a little over 22 inches, largemouths avg between 15 and 20 inches.
I look back and we caught it all, walleyes, northerns, muskys,
smallies, largemouths, perch, bluegills, pumkinseeds.
We ate fresh fish all but one night and all species
(including the bass)
After going to the same chains of lakes for 20 plus year
we've noticed the changes of the species populations.
Some years the walleyes are a tad bit short, the numbers of perch are down, etc, etc,
The Bass are a looked over species, for what ever reason, the locals and vacationers just don't seem to target them.
We on the other hand, try to find what-ever species is on the bite.
Instead of spending all our time on one species.
Anyway, the 2006 annual spring fishing trip was one of the better
In numbers of fish caught.
hundreds each day. I quit counting by early morning each day.
Did we keep everything that was legal size? nope
Tryed our best to release thos fish that we figured were good brood stock (except for panfish) Bass, walleyes, northerns
were the species that fell into that group.
All musky's were turned loose!! no exceptions!!
even those that met the min legal size
(which in michigan is 42 inches)
Well, I've got to get the baoat cleaned out & ready for the next trip, which starts July 1st
Nice to be back...(I need a few hours of sleep)
Steve "Rapala-Guru"
I'll try to get a picture of the skitter-pop I used
you've got to see this beat-up lure
