November 6th, 2008
What is up everyone? I hit my local reservior, Quail Creek, today with Jack Daddy. It’s getting cold down here finally and the bass are slowing down. The water has dropped to 60 degrees, so the most active fish now in this lake are the trout. But we were after our beautiful green friends. Anyway, we only caught 3 today, but all were quality fish. The biggest was the first fish I caught today, a nice 19 inch/4 lb largemouth. I got another that was about 16 inches and Jack Daddy got one that was about 17 inches. We also both accidently caught one trout each. It was the first time I’ve caught a trout on a football jig/hula grub. Only took a couple pics to share.
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October 20th, 2008
A huge lake between two straights in the Great Lakes system, but’s it’s not recognized as one of them. Total world class wamwater fishery and probably one of the best Smallmouth scenes in North America. It’s not drift fishing the St. Croix, but it diverse (1-9 feet deep) and supports 6lb smallies.
You can site fish them on the flats in the spring, or fish blindly over deep weed edges in the summer and fall. Clousers, crayfish patterns and weighted sculpins (a non-indigenous species, round gobies are over the great lakes now.) Heres a pic of pops. I have had 20 fish days on flies. 4-5 pounders……..
MR
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October 20th, 2008
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September 19th, 2008
My father-in-law, Jack Daddy, and I hit Quail Creek for our weekly Friday fishing trip while my daughter is in school. Was another tough 3 hours of fishing, but it was quaility over quantity again.
We launched about 930am into 73 degree water with smooth glass like surfaces. Only about 3 boats beat us out there. We headed to my buddy John’s spot in hopes of some hogs, but I only caught a couple 12 inch fish on weightless senko’s. Jack daddy only donated a few jigs to the lake bottom.
We motored out of there and headed to “the sticks”. This is a long beach-like shoreline near the campgrounds that is loaded with flooded sticks. This is the same place I caught my personal best earlier this year in March. Anyway, the first bite over here was a bluegill caught by Jack daddy on a craw. Then I tossed my senko into the brush and just saw my line take off. I set the hook and tried to muscle the hog out of the bushes. Got it past the first couple then it wrapped me up on a last stick before the boat. Jack daddy grabbed the net as I trolled us closer, all while watching the fish pull my line up and down on the stick. I thought it was gonna snap for sure, but Jack scooped it up just in the nick of time. High fives ensued. Weighed near 4 lbs and measured about 19 1/4 inches.
Jack Daddy, who was struggling a bit finally hooks into a nice fish with his signature craw/jig and fights it perfectly into the net. This fish measured 20 inches and weighed around 3 1/2 pounds, which I still thought was light. We fished for about another 1/2 hour before we had to leave, but no bites. Not a great day, but not a bad day either.
Next Friday we’ll head to our other nearby reservoir, Sand Hollow, where it’s usually more quantity than quality, but does have some giants too. I will be scoping out the lake for the next day’s tournament.
PEACE OUT……
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May 13th, 2008
Looks like the Utah warm water variety is starting to heat up a bit. Bob D. has a new best to top now after horsing in this fish that measured out to be a bit over 20 inches and nearly 5 pounds.
After about 45 minutes of sight casting almost everything in his box to this fish it finally got worn down and slammed his offering. In only about eight feet of water the fish had no where to go and was successfully kept from retreating into a number of nearby snags.
Keep up the good work D. I will need to get you to do that next time with a fly rod.
Meskel
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