7 minutes ago, Jeff Zurawski said:

Thanks OC. 

 

I ain't as hardcore as I was in the past during my big lake, walleye chasing days.  I wait for warm fronts to go out early and late in the year.  You see I'm not even wearing an overcoat. ?

 

Btw, can you tell me why it is that my response to 'drakesndrum' is blended in with my previous post?  I didn't intend to do that and can't find a way to edit or separate the two posts. 

 

Bass Resource does that automatically. I think Glenn, the creator, designed it this way to keep things tidy. 

 

Yeah, big lake walleye chasing is hardcore. I've paddled some big lakes on frosty days in my YOUTH, which can be best described like this: You go up. You go down. You go up. You go down. Now, like you, I wait for warm, calm days.  

18 hours ago, Jeff Zurawski said:

These are all River fish.  Never weighed any of them, but I'm guessing they total somewhere close to 20lbs?

 

I posted this one in the Gallery.  I'm pretty sure it's over 20" and under 22".  It's the first real big one I caught here in WV  At the time, I had no idea fish of this size even existed in the River I was fishing.  Started carrying a tape measure after that.  Caught on a spinnerbait in May

 

 

20.5" Caught on a Jignpig in March

 

 

21" - Jignpig in March

 

 

20.5" - Jignpig in November

 

21.5" - Jerkbait in November.  This is the girthiest one I've caught.  Maybe a 5lbr?  I remember it spitting up some shad big as my hand.

I wanted to hit both the "like" button and the "sad" button. 

Congrats on an epic day!

Feels bad you lost the pics. 

 

Unfortunate for sure, but last Friday I beat that total so it's not so bad.  New best five in a day is 96.75"!  Fun time of year, big fish are pushing shallow and obliterating moving baits.  I think they fight harder in that cooler water. 

Those are beautiful fish, well done! 

Whoa @drakesndrum,  that's two trips in a row (if I'm not mistaken) with best 5 well into the 90s".  Awesome!!

 

That's a good entire season for me and I usually do at least 30 floats plus wade trips.    

 

Stay on em dude. 

I don't recall exact weights and while I don't have photos (not here, I'm at the winter residence and using my laptop), my top 5 smallies were between the low 6 pound range and 6.75 pounds, probably 31-32 pounds total.   I've been blessed to fish a lot of really great fisheries and I'm close to Lake Erie, though I typically don't fish it often at all (none of my top 5 came from Erie).   Haven't caught a 7 pounder yet, though I've seen some that were really 7 pound'ish that got off near the boat and I had a buddy take a 7 pound 4 ouncer with me a few years back.

5 hours ago, GANGGREEN said:

I don't recall exact weights and while I don't have photos (not here, I'm at the winter residence and using my laptop), my top 5 smallies were between the low 6 pound range and 6.75 pounds, probably 31-32 pounds total.   I've been blessed to fish a lot of really great fisheries and I'm close to Lake Erie, though I typically don't fish it often at all (none of my top 5 came from Erie).   Haven't caught a 7 pounder yet, though I've seen some that were really 7 pound'ish that got off near the boat and I had a buddy take a 7 pound 4 ouncer with me a few years back.