Saturday fishin' off the dock

It was pretty cold and windy saturday so we decided to just do some fishing off the docks and leave the boat in the garage. Fishing was kind of slow, we got a few decent crappies and sunfish for some eating. I used a small jig spiked with a waxworm on 2 lb line to finesse the light biters.
Jack did better with a jig with a ratso plastic tail.


When I got there I saw this on the dock, some people can't wait to ice fish, haha! they actually were getting fish too!





chunky bass looking for a snack gets lipped



well hooked slab for the frying pan



really small but cool looking blue crappie




close up

Jack caught some good fish "ice fishing" through a hole in the dock

2 day backwater fishing marathon

Me and jack decided to hit the water for two full days of slab and bass seeking, since this could be the last warm weekend. We started in some sloughs early in the morning and got into some perch,bass and crappies right away. the best bait for us was a 1/64th oz jig with a power minnow. we also got some on fatheads below a slip bobber in the heavey timber.
I got most of my good largemouths on a zoom fluke jerk bait in shad colors around the wood. we also got a good amount of bass on our crappie lures, quite a battle on my panfish rod with 2 pound test! We also got some good perch and sunfish. This will probably be my last time on the river this year, time to start focusing on the big metro area walleyes, and lunker smallies up by the nuke plant! :)

big ol slabasaurus


Jack and jumbo perch


larry the largemouth

another good speck

nice pike tried to eat Jacks crappie, and irt couldn't resist my follow up with a spinnerbait!

yellow perch closeup

is it a pounder? almost!

still some fall colors

Jack vs. Jack!

End of the day comes too soon, but still another full day of fishin' to go!

Power minnow takes a good crop

a lavender rockbass???

a chunky bass on plastics

nice speck hit one of my homemade jigs!

Red oaks

pretty perch

another beauty


thanks mister larry!

pounder!

good one!

some for the pan

on the road home.... wow what a weekend!

Panfish and bass are still biting

Me and Jack did well on the backwaters again Saturday with lots of big panfish and perch and lots of largemouth bass too. I caught most of mine with micro lite gear and 2 # test trilene.
I used a 32nd oz jig with either a small fathead minnow or power minnow anywhere from 2 to 12 feet.


fall slab



medium sized bass were a good time on lite line!


This was pretty funny, I fet a sunfsh pecking on my plastic minnow when all of a sudden my rod just started bending down, yep, the pike swallowed the sunfish, and got my hook on its lip too!




big slab bluegills

Jack with a nice slab

Here is a beauty, and the fish looks pretty good too!

the release

Big yellow perch

more bass action

nice sunnie

GEM fall outing report

We had a great time and got lots of fish, check it out on the GEM BLOG

MPG update:

I am trying for another 60 mpg tank, here is were I am at now, I really need t get to 400 miles before half way on the gauge to have a reasonable shot at it.

Mississippi river panfish frenzy 10-11

Me, Ben and jack hit the backwaters of the mississippi looking for panfish, and they were waiting for us! We got a bite on almost every cast! fishing from 2 to ten feet down with plastics and jigs produced lots of nice crappies and sunfish, then towards evening a good topwater bass bite got our attention.

Ben with the first fish of the day


Jack gets a nice slab


I got a couple of pounders




big bull gill


doubles!


pretty gill


Ben with a big mule


more doubs


plenty of bass action on poppers a good end to the day


wow, what a great day, hope we do as well tomorrow with the gem kids club!