I had a week's vacation starting on the long weekend and I decided that I would spend a good amount of it chasing slime! My plan was to split my time between two favourite bodies of water and that's exactly what I did. The water was chilly this year at just 49F when I first launched the boat on Saturday, though over the 4 days spent up there, I did find some water as high as 64F. I had some good water from the previous years spent up there, but I wanted to find some new water as well. Opening day, I wanted to catch fish, so I hit my usual spots with Kelli and we managed some good fish in the boat. Each other day, I spent some time on new areas of the lake looking for good water. I threw a swimbait to cover water, but once I got into good zones, I switched to the new ACE by Imperium Baits to turn followers into strikers. Over the 4 days, we put 7 fish over 40 inches in the boat and a good number of high 30's also. Great week spent! I'm back to work tomorrow night and hope to make a few more trips in the coming weeks! Enjoy the photos

 

 

Nice fish.  Can't tell from the pictures, but are those parasite marks on the 4th pic? 

Nice fish.  Can't tell from the pictures, but are those parasite marks on the 4th pic? 

Some of the fish are just beat up from the spawn still.

Way to go man! Those are some beauties!

 

Like Steve said they are sores and bruises from spawn.

Makes sense.  Here in NW Wisconsin I expect to see similar, way behind schedule for every species this year. 

amazing fish there, good job. sounds like you had a great time

Nice Job Man ~

 

Some real Trophies right there.

 

A-Jay

Nice catches! I've only caught one little Pike this year. Little hammer handle size. Never really have targeted them.

Geeze man...those things are monsters!

Here's a video with some nice footage from my opener

 

 

Thanks for sharing - looked like it was a solid Pike Bite.

 

A-Jay

Great job!

you doing your job great do you loose some pikes?

Good Job on the pike!  Some of those things are monsters!