big fish...

[Flat_Top]

Damn I jealous. I've been out a couple times lately and water is over 90. Just too hot and fish are no where to be found.

[jomama]

Damn I jealous. I've been out a couple times lately and water is over 90. Just too hot and fish are no where to be found.

I'm jealous too! Because I hadn't a chance to get out lately .... HAD TO WORK! The good news is my work was going to Buffalo to a beer can show AND PALING AROUND WITH OLD + NEW FRIENDS that mostly have funny accents.
Bjorn ... NICE PIKE! Greg Hackney called pike "legless crocodiles" Cool!!!

[Ziphippie]

Pike are my favorite! They blow up on a buxtail ripped just under the surface. I lost a bigger fish but landed this chunky three-footer on a...you guessed it, Norski Nailer. Tough to get a good pic with these 'ornery critters in the Tuffy by myself- Bjorn

[Ziphippie]

Norski bucktails catch fish- Bjorn

[Ziphippie]

got out again in the Tuffy with an original Pike Patrol member this morning, we've fished together over 40years, told him to put the friggin' Mepps away and threw him one of my smaller size Norski buxtails after releasing two smaller viscious pike. Less flash, more color. Black is also a great choice when the sun is hot! I also included a pic of one of my handcrafted topwater baits. Anyway, third cast, Wham! 41" fatty muskie caught by Fiore(pronounced "fe-OR") -Bjorn(pronounced "be-ORn").

[kb]

whats a fish??

[Ziphippie]

You don't want any fish slime in that new rig, kb? Got a couple yesterday on a Norski buxtail near the bridge over a chilly feeder creek leading out to the lake, one max'd out my bump board while giving me the ol' fish eye- Bjorn

[kb]

Man you are slayer of all things toothy - nice ... Oh I learned all about musky slime a few yrs !! The new rig or the drum boat only drifts big water and catches sheepsheads!!


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[Ziphippie]

getting closer to that 40" mark, not quite- 'bout an inch short. Bjorn

[Flat_Top]

That is a hog

[jomama]

BEAUTY! I have only hit 40 in Canada.

[Ziphippie]

It has been action packed lately! snuck out again this afternoon with Pike Patrol member Spicoli, before I could get my line out he landed this fatass 38".

I have to admit, action on my bucktails has slowed up a bit so we took a short trip upriver to catch some live bait(cheating), picked up eight 3"-5" bluegills to soak under a large buoy/bobber with quikstrike rigs - the 'gills didn't last long..... we caught five fish in 2.5hours....smallest was 37", lost one monster....bent rods and screeching drag. Bjorn

[kb]

the PIKE SLAYERS... i dont even think i could snag a blue gill right now- bad slump, of course havent been out in a few weeks and cant til next weekend

[Ziphippie]

My kayak fishing trip turned into a dumping trip this afternoon after I lost a big 'ol bass, I think... never saw it , at the mouth of an old quarry pond(lake) that connects with the Root River here in Milwaukee. I was so frazzled I threw my favorite and best color bucktail in the very large tree. Managed a couple smaller bass and fought some 30"pike, I clearly had other things on my mind.

I brought a shovel to extract a sign I couldn't quite get last time I was here.

I wanted to walk around the entire quarry and check out some old foundations, there is rust everywhere. Bjorn

[Flat_Top]

The heat broke and hurricane Mathew helped blow the redtide out, so it was time to get out and see what we could find. Got 6 or 7 Redfish and 5 Snook. As the weather cools the fishing will get hotter.

[Ziphippie]

Nice fish, gorgeous pics Chuck! blue skies, blue water- two things that are hard to find here in WI right now. Had to hang up the fishing gear for a bit while I renovate my sisters new lake home on the shores of Lake Ripley( 11lb+ state record bigmouth was caught there in 1940! ) just wait 'til next year! I sound like a Brewers fan now- sheesh. Bjorn

[crowntainer]

The heat broke and hurricane Mathew helped blow the redtide out, so it was time to get out and see what we could find. Got 6 or 7 Redfish and 5 Snook. As the weather cools the fishing will get hotter.

Nice looking fish! All you needed was a keeper sized Trout and you would have had a Florida Slam. Sure miss flats fishing out that way.

[crowntainer]

Have not sunk a line since 2012 when I caught this large mouth while visiting my dad's place in Florida. Not big by Florida standards, but was still fun catching and releasing it. Didn't even loose my cigar.

[Flat_Top]

Nice fish. That is bigger than any Bass I've caught.

[Cantageous]

Nice!


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[Ziphippie]

I snuck away on my lunch hour working on the new cottage, don't tell the boss. Just a short drive to the river. All I had was my walleye stick with 6lb. mono and a couple rapalas. This fish took me for a ride! I had to yell "Got 'eeem'!" for the cameraman to meet me downstream, sorry about the pic, just click to supersize- he's fired. Bjorn

[Flat_Top]

Well done. Nothing better than catching a big fish on light tackle.

[Sweeperman]

Amazing..... light line, wading, small water and obstacles on the banks.!!! You must have been a nervous wreak until you had him landed.

[Ziphippie]

more toothy critters from the same stretch of river- Bjorn

[Flat_Top]

Is that a walleye?

[halfquart]

Great pics guys, love to see RB'ers who get out and fish. My best memories growing up was fishing with my Dad. I live on a 165 acre mill pond here in DE. The second largest lake in the state. Here's one I caught with my son last weekend.

Nice fall LMB.

[kb]

Had a few hookups last weekend at my creek finally pulled one in today , 1st fish of any in 2 months - whew ... . Same fish but different angle , note the color change .. . That's how they hide in the water


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[Ziphippie]

Is that a walleye?

a nice walleye, a nice crappie and a nice shirt. Bjorn

[Ziphippie]

lots of pike patrol action lately now that we have some ice, fishing in about a foot of water- usually some nice fish near the springs. Bjorn

[Flat_Top]

That looks too cold for me. Do the fish come out of the frozen?