Mrs. Matstone

You definitely made the best of a tough situation and landed some nice fish too. Congrats! A finesse jig and craw is one of my favorite things to throw. ;D

Nice fish Congrats! ;D

Awesome report! I love posts like this. Very informative. ;D Nice fish too, Thanks for sharing. ;D

Awesome fish, Congrats! ;D

Awesome! ;D

Thanks guys we had alot of fun and it was great to be on a boat that could cover some distance, unlike my little boat. ;D I hope to hit the susky with Matt and Chris in the fall as well. Should be some very good smallie fishing up there too. Rolo I got a muskiee one time before on the Delaware but he was just a teenager. I definitely would like to get a bigger though. ;D Paul I love stream fishing as well. I have never done it with fly tackle though. It is beautiful to see people fly fish but I am not that coordinated. lol ;D

The guide I know is not Mary but the guy I know is Chuck the guy that invented the Parasite weight. Both him and his wife are very nice people. I have heard that shelbyville is a great lake for musky. Would like to take a trip out there and fish that place myself one day. Glad that you got to fish it. ;D

Congrats leo. ;D I know a guide that lives on that lake and I have heard it is quite a nice lake too.

Nice fish Congrats! ;D

It has happened to me several times before and I love it when it happens. ;D

Great report and awesome pics. Thanks for sharing. ;D

Sounds awesome. I love days like that. ;D

I have not been able to fish as much as I would have liked to lately but I finally had the opportunity to go with my husband and a friend of ours on a trip down the river the this past week. They usually try to get together at least once during the summer when their time and work schedules agree with each other. This time I was thrilled to finally be able to come along. We had the opportunity to hit several different spots, some of them being some of my favorite spots that I have not been able to get to in a while so I was really thrilled. Water was still pretty high and the water temps were a little cool for August at 72 degrees. The day was mostly cloudy and being that it was midweek there was not a lot of traffic on the water which was great. Between the three of us we used a variety of different plastics. (tubes, worms, eeliminator, lizards,creatures and as always I had my trusty hawg sauce too....) ;D I spent a lot of my time trying out and trying to get a feel for some of the new Rage tail stuff that I recently stole from my husband. ;D First one that I spent some time with was the eeliminator. Two main reasons for this. One of them was to get a better feel for this bait and second I was hoping to get my first smallmouth on a topwater, which is my favorite way to fish the eeliminator. The eeliminator definitely worked well on the river. I started off casting it at a 45* angle from the boat and it would swim across the top of the water all the way back. It had amazing action. All you had to do was stand there and hold your rod because the current did the rest. You could control the depth by slightly moving the tip of your rod or speed of retrieve but I preferred to let it do its own thing. I did also fish it sub-surface as well and that worked just fine too. Another thing I did was play with the thumper worm a bit today too. What I did with it was to cut it short, about 3 inches. Used the cut tail and rigged it on a jighead. This worked well and landed me some fish too. The cool thing about doing this was that after I did this it I still had the other portion of the bait that I did not use and I could use that as a senko. It was like having 2 baits in one. Cool. The fishing was tough but all in all it was a good day on the water. We had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs. We managed 64 fish in all. 59 smallies, 2 walleye and 3 panfish. I got both of the walleye which was a very cool treat for me and my first topwater smallmouth too. At least I accomplished what I set out to do. I hope you guys have had more time to fish than I have lately. Good fishing to all of you.

Nice fish Congrats! ;D

Great report and congratulations! The shad is one of my favorites baits to throw. ;D

Nice fish. Congrats ;D

Way go Uncle Leo. Nice fish Congrats to you. ;D

Awesome fish. Congrats ;D

Awesome fish. Congrats ;D

Congrats CWB! Your on fire this year. Keep it up. ;D

Congrats! ;D

That is awesome Congrats to her! Great pic too. ;D

Great story.. Sorry it was a painful and expensive on for you though but it is nice to hear it all worked out and you got to spend some time on the water with your wife in the end. Hope you get that mystery fish again too.

Nice fish congrats. I only started fishing jigs a few months ago and I am hopelessly hooked on them. ;D

Great smallies guys. Congrats! ;D