Crappie frenzy

I got out for a little crappie fishing in the evening a few days ago, here is some of the action!

GEM blog update

I posted my first on the gemkids blog, a slideshow of our icefishing 07-08 pics.
enjoy...HERE

2007 was a great year for catch-n huge bass!

BP posted about his lack of success last year for big bass last year,
mainly because he didn't get his line wet too often!
I on the other hand, had a great year, even though someone stole my boat the fall before.
In fact I think not having a boat helped me go more, because it was such a hassle to get my boat rigged up and ready that I just didn't get out much in 2006. I fished a whole lot in 07' because
now with my float tube I can just keep it in my car ready to go anytime I want to wet a line after work, or I can slide my kayak in the van and head off to any out of the way lake and catch huge looonkers like these:


this one was close to 21 inches and fat, est. wt. 6#



This one was over 22 inches, but was quite skinny. 5.5 ets wt.



Another toadie over 5 #



My biggest Bass this year were on a Catch-n Ring-N TUBE
Zoom super flukes also brought me some good uns too...

I can't help it:T.H.E. Movie

finally started tinkering with my movie maker today, here is my first project, enjoy!

Last day of winter

This must be the last snow, eh? haha

Some rockin' sight fishing action!

Check it out here

more of caseys fishin pics!

Looks like Casey and pete have some cleaning and frying to do!

Crappie Close ups

More crappie action with friends from yesterday.

We had a great time fishing a small metro lake for hungry late ice crappies. they were feeding right under the ice, you could see em bite, fun!

Schmucko meets a new friend!



a few for the pan

another nice one on the jig


Ben with a slabberoni

nice crappie casey!

Did you hear that???

icen' another speck

tip o the lip!

Nite bite for casey and Pete

Me and schmucko left before dark, but Casey and pete stayed out and the crappies really bit well!

Some late ice crappie action

Got out with jack, Casey, Ben, Pete, for some crappie fishin.
the bite was good and I will have the full report tomorrow with all the pics.
here is a clip i took, with rod in left hand and camera in the right, good thing it wasn't a 4 pound bass!
ooops, thad didn't work!
try viewing it HERE

CK Outdoors

Crappie Keith has a great looking new site, check it out HERE and you will find some "catch'n" wisdom!

Evening crappie action

got out for a little crappie action with jack after work, the crappies were on the feed, got plenty the last hour before dark. Nice to have the extra daylight!

crappie on THE Jig



nice slab Schmuck-o!

March Gem club outing

We had our last ice fishing outing of the year saturday, it was another successful one too. We had 6 kids and we met up with another youth fishing club called Young Fishers in Redwing, then we headed down past Alma Wisconsin to fish some of the backwaters of the mississippi. The crappies were not in a biting moode today, but we did get some largemouth bass. (no closed season there!) and bluegills were there thick, but they were finicky for sure, 2 pound test and the tinyest jig were needed to finesse them into biting. Most of the kids got a few fish, and they also had fun exploring the shorelines. For lunch we went up to the nice RV that Ted from young fishers brought and ate some hotdogs and beans, while Dave Lindmark shared from a book that used fishing to illustrate Christian spiritual applications. Then we hit the ice for a couple more hours, Jack found a couple of nice crappies. Praise God for another great outing!



Here are the pics!

3-5 pic

Took this pic from 60 south 6th st downtown Mpls 33rd floor.
the "sun" is actually my flash reflecting off the window.

GEM Update

Gem fishing camp and club got a nice article in the Minnesota Christian Chronicle!
they have it online here.

Schmucko gets some slabs

Jack (Juggs) puts lots of time on the ice and often gets rewarded for his efforts!He got this nice bucket of slabs today on one of his favorite spots on the Miss!

Catch-N get together on lake Sarah

We had a great time on the ice today, eating some good grub and catchn some crappies Here are the pics!

Crappie Magnet, made some good chili



Everyone was chowin down!

Yumm


watch out for those flying saucers behine you!


Cory came all the way from Iowa! Thanks for the fishing goodies for the GEM kids cory!



the Casey family!


Jiggin' up some slabs

time to put the hurt on some panfish!






Crappie ninja!


Juano gets a speck


Had a great time, I hope there will be many more!