20” inch urban sauger! Mmmmmmm we had it for an appetizer. 

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

20” inch urban sauger! Mmmmmmm we had it for an appetizer. 

That's a dark gravel lizard.

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

That's a dark gravel lizard.

Haha! My buddy’s wife was in the boat and she said “is it supposed to look like that? Looks dirty”

Caught this nice shellcracker ( red ear ) and some of his buddies, fishing beds with worms. Also got a bonus bass which was fun on the ultralight combo...

Sauger?  Saugeye?  I have no idea.  The only thing that matters is that a Ned head with 1/2 of a ZinkerZ in the color Coppertreuse catches EVERYTHING.  I've caught bass, crappie, bluegill, drum, catfish, and...whatever this is...oh, and a turtle.  And a rusty Rapala Flicker Shad.  I hope a pirate's chest is next.  

 

5 hours ago, BigAngus752 said:

Sauger?  Saugeye?  I have no idea.  The only thing that matters is that a Ned head with 1/2 of a ZinkerZ in the color Coppertreuse catches EVERYTHING.  I've caught bass, crappie, bluegill, drum, catfish, and...whatever this is...oh, and a turtle.  And a rusty Rapala Flicker Shad.  I hope a pirate's chest is next.  

 

Looks like a saugeye to me. Has the splotching but still has the white spot on the bottom of the tail.

My best Whopper Plopper fish so far ~

A-Jay

Close, but no cigar!

10 minutes ago, Tim Kelly said:

Close, but no cigar!

Close to what - ?

Not a forty for sure.

A-Jay 

 

Just now, A-Jay said:

Not a forty for sure.

Close to a proper fish. ? Spend most of my time trying to avoid them, after years chasing them. Fickle or what? ?

Could have caught all these guys I wanted if I wasn't guiding Saturday morning.

 

And this guy, what was he thinking? I mean, he's big for what he is, but come on.

Got catfished twice yesterday morning.

Good times with my daughter and grandchildren on SML. 

Nice stripers! SML is a blast.

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Got catfished twice yesterday morning.

Looks like golden fried nuggets to me 

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Looks like golden fried nuggets to me 

Residential lake with disgusting water. Their grey water use to go directly into the lake. I wouldn't anyways, but not a chance I'd eat a fish from this lake.

7 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Looks like golden fried nuggets to me 

Haha was thinking how good theyd be fried up too...

5 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Residential lake with disgusting water. Their grey water use to go directly into the lake. I wouldn't anyways, but not a chance I'd eat a fish from this lake.

Ewwww

New PB, that I know of. I hate the snot rockets! I’m sure this is my pike PB. My bump board is 22” and he hung 4-6” beyond that. 
 

 

Main course walleye with rock bass appetizers 

Took the kid out for a walk in the bush for some grouse this morning. It was real windy, and way too hot for hunting, but we still had a nice walk and saw some nice views. 
 

Kayak fishing this week has been great. I had one bad day. The rest of the week was great with lots of Smallmouth, a PB Pickerel that broke off before I could get a pick and lots of Sunfish when the Smallmouth bite died out. Got a PB Redbreast Sunfish over a half a pound and lots of runner ups.

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This is from a month or so ago on our family camping trip, but my dad just sent it to me. Caught on a 4" grub on an 1/8oz jighead, 10lb Seaguar Smackdown Flame Green with and 8lb Seaguar AbrasX leader on a ML rod. It was a good 15-20 minute fight that I thought was going to end early when I had a guy trolling cranks that I was sure was going to troll right across where I was fighting him and snag my lines. Seemed like he was coming through where I was no matter what but finally called off the dogs at the last minute.