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Timothy

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Re: More New Digs
« Reply #40 on: September 15, 2018, 01:31:07 PM »
I'm waiting to see a big fat walleye frying up.

Walleye are very, very rare up here.  The locals won’t eat panfish and walleye are scarce or extinct. 

Bluegill, crappie, yellow perch, large mouth bass, pickerel, pike and the occasional bullhead make up these upland ponds.

Good small mouth in some lakes and streams.  Biggest bucketmouth I’ve caught in NE was over nine lbs, smallies to about four.  Crappie state record is about four lbs I think.


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Re: More New Digs
« Reply #41 on: September 15, 2018, 04:58:32 PM »
9 lbs....beats me by 3-1/2 lbs.
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Re: More New Digs
« Reply #42 on: September 15, 2018, 07:20:35 PM »
Beats me by over 9 lbs.

It's been so long I'm not completely sure what this one fish I caught looked like but I think it was a walleye. My dad and I were out in a little 12' aluminum boat and I caught a beauty of a fish. We put in in a collapsible metal basket with a spring-loaded lid. It was hanging over the side of the boat tied to a stringer and we forgot to pull it in when we moved. The water forced the lid open and my fish swam away before we got the basket in the boat. I never caught another fish like that in my life. I've caught perch, bluegills, pumpkinseeds too I think, suckers, and at least one bullhead. I remember a bullhead swallowing my hook so deep I couldn't even get it out with a long plastic-handled hook disgorger. There are rainbow trout in the creek downhill of my brothers' cabin but I never fished it. I wasn't a good fisherman but I was the only one in my family who ever caught a redhorse sucker. The fins and tail were pink, or was it red? They aren't called pinkhorses.

When I was a kid sometimes we'd ride our bikes a few miles over to the dam and catch carp. My friends' mom fried some up with butter and lemon, and fed them to her cat/s. I don't think any of us ever ate a carp. I know I didn't. One day we were throwing carp on the road over the dam and watching cars run them over. Cheap entertainment right there, especially when a bus drives by. One guy saw the carp on the road and did a burnout on one. Skinned it instantly. If there are any rednecks here thinking about jacking up your car and sliding fish down a ramp to skin them, do me a favor. Get video of it.
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Re: More New Digs
« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2018, 05:39:19 PM »
A few decent bass fell for a Colorado bladed spinner bait and then “WHAM” something (northern pike) hit it on the drop!

Sizable fish but couldn’t get a good hook set and he/she spit it back and gurgled a defiant fishy laugh...

From the looks of the head the came up it was in the neighborhood of 30” I guess!

 

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