Come on people post ANY Fish. If you dont post something it goes down as a skunk. No way can I win against the small mouth guys, but what the hell. I AINT SKUNKED !!!! you got to show up to the weigh in.

Well, thankfully we were given an extension so we could fish this extra week and have a chance at beating the man with brown in his veins up in Erie. However, he has proven with about 12 of his fish that we were not going to beat him. I just finished a 5 day fishing trip in Minnesota. I live in Virginia and have not been able to fish in Minnesota for 2 years due to school but found a way to make it happen this year. My grandparents have a cabin up in Fergus Falls in Otter Tail county. When i arrived last Monday, the water temperatures for our bigger bass lakes were at 57-59 degrees. That was a SERIOUS bummer to see that given we only had 5 days. The reeds and lilly pads had not come up yet and we were kinda forced to fish a little differently. There were a few lakes that we fish that had temperatures at 61 in the beginning of the week. Surprisingly, during this week, in just one week the temperatures climbed up 8 degrees giving us a fighting chance (even though the vegetation was not quite compact yet). Either way, me, my brother and brother in law were able to catch some pretty good fish but had few numbers. We are used to 100 fish days up there and the most we caught in one outing was 61. Nevertheless, we had a ton of 4 pounders, several 5 pounders, and then my big fish which weighed in at 6 pounds 10 ounces at "Bens Bait Tackleshop". We had a great time, i won big fish of the week and got my free hat and $5 from the bait shop saying "Winner". Fun as always since we are always pretty competitive. The local paper puts the winning fish in the paper every Wednesday so hopefully my old man who just got there will be able to pick it up to post on our bragging board in the cabin. Had he of been there, it might have been a different story since he is just so dang good. So, with a 6 pound 10 ouncer, that puts me at 6.625 divided by 8.9375= 0.741259 giving me 74.1259 %. Yeh i know i know, Dwight cleaned it with 12 different fish but at least i nibbled at his heels with my lone ranger.

brother was filming it and never got the whole fish in the video so this is the stills from two different videos

Great looking fish Shimmy!

Do farm ponds count? The one I fish was stocked decades ago and the fish aren't fed.

I fished one a few days ago that I get quality fish at every time.

No pics this time, but if I can get there again before this ends I am hoping to get my PB.

I know it's in there, but she's very elusive.

WTG Shimmy! I always knew you were a player.

Come on people post ANY Fish. If you dont post something it goes down as a skunk. No way can I win against the small mouth guys, but what the hell. I AINT SKUNKED !!!! you got to show up to the weigh in.

It's not a skunk just because someone didn't post. It just means they know the fish they caught isn't close to winning the competition. An 8 lb Florida largemouth isn't even close. I caught one around 6 lbs in Missouri and posted the picture but I didn't weigh it because my scale's battery had died, but even then, that is less than 50 percent in Missouri. Dwight and Shimmy are sitting at 74 plus percent. It will take a real statewide chunk to beat that.

Well I got a good upgrade but not a winner. If it was a lake record we were going for I would be golden because I was only 10 ounces off. Got a nice 4.18 pound smallmouth this morning. State record is 6.88 so 4.18/6.88=.607 so 60%. A ways to go to catch Dwight but at least it was a step forward!