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Back at Pelican Lake in northern Minnesota for my annual trip. Weather is tough at times with wind and rain. Still getting some nice chunks on jigs, senkos, drop shot and my trusty craw bait. Not much action as yet for smallies though and too windy for topwater so far. We really can’t complain when ...

Couple nice four pound plus LMB chunks from Pelican Lake, Minnesota. Only disappointment of the trip is the lack of nice smallies that we got in previous years. Had a lot of fun the last two evenings on topwater action with the rat and the grasshopper.

Wed morning showed up w my dad at around 645 fish were boiling pretty good missed 2 right away started w dolive beaver got 3 then 1 more on craw my dad got 3 he got big fish 3.64 left at 945 on that note came back today at 545 fish were boiling good again there was people throwing glide baits and ...

Cap was a popular spot this morning a lot boats on water ramp still open water level seems same got to same spot as last week middle lake north side rock piles boat was where I wanted to b guy and his kid started putting on a clinic kid had 10 on senco guy I believe William his name had 8 to my one ...

A large and a smallie to end the trip.

Happy Father’s Day Sunday hooked up on 2 of those big kitty’s first I weighed so I now have better idea 12lb other 18 at least didn’t want try pick it up in yak lol got 5 bass first 6 casts when I got to the spot bass were busting on shad here and there but that didn’t detour me from throwing my ...

Needed to try something different and headed up to Lake Miramar with my kayak this morning. It was foggy for a bit and it may be a little soon for topwater as I talked to a local who seems to be there almost every time I go there.
I did get a bass on a small jerkbait, but after a while of trying ...

After reading Mr. Vinny's glowing report on Miramar yesterday, guess where I went today...yep, Murray! It started out good with a couple topwater fish, but within 10 minutes they were gone! I heard that the day before the busters were at the other end of the lake, so I kicked all the way across the ...

Had not planned to go fishing today so I ate breakfast and took care of just a few things around the house and then ended up in the garage. I always end up messing around with some fishing gear when I am in there and put some new braid on one of my reels. Suddenly I decided to take a late morning ...

Dfishin wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:33 pm That's nice! Worth the trip.

The day turned around pretty quick then!

Got rental w friend again today otay water down even more grass is thick around edges we fished basically around both sides Harvey some in middle the otay arm after 12 I got about 10 clones on craw my buddy did better on Dropshot robo seemed to b what they wanted

Spent the first 3 weeks of vacation camped at Cottonwood AZ. Took day trips to the Grand Canyon, Tuzigoot, Montezuma Castle and all the surrounding monuments and towns. I never did locate a good spot to launch my tube so I didn't fish for 3 weeks.

The DTs started to set in. Uncontrollable shaking ...

Spent a lot of time throwing onto bass swirling around the surface feeding almost exclusively on small shad. Still exciting but then you start seeing that 90% of them are very small 8-12" bass. Every once in a while maybe a 2lb bass would jump but even then that was rare, but that is what keeps you ...

I found a pattern on Lake Mohave my last day here. I got on the water at 3 am, and immediately headed to rocky areas I identified yesterday. I was casting weedless craw baits on to the bank and bouncing them down steep rocky banks.

Ended the day at 11am with nine largemouth and one smallie. Most of ...

By sneak I mean that most people have to work on Wednesdays...Got to Hodges, bought a ticket and drove over to the other side (which is the only side for me I guess) but half way there I remembered leaving my sunglasses on top of the ticket machine (oops) so I drove back and by some miracle they ...

Love to see the ones that don't quite fit in the picture! Great work.


Haha yeah my selfie arm is only so long... VinnyBass once suggested that I change angles sometimes to break up the monotony of my photos, but there is only so much room on my float tube, and with arthritic shoulders I am ...

Dfishin wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:25 am Nicely done! A lake you can fish anytime any day.

Yeah brother! I haven't night fished for a hot minute, at least for bass. I guess Jennings allows for some after dark fishing during the summer, but they don't allow float tubes so ..

Well I took my car to mechanic for oil leak so I took a break all week got to cap early 530 this morning no yak on foot I decided to fish the rock pile next to ramp boats still launching water level hasn’t dropped much 👍 was the right move I got 6 in first hour then I decided to cover ground wasn’t ...

Dfishin wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:25 am Nicely done! A lake you can fish anytime any day.

Yes...not run by the idiots in San Diego!

...and far, far away, I ventured up to the Lake of D & K. Fisheromen and Mcfish were already therehaving the advantage living in Ramona and a hop skip and jump from the lake. Picked up just a couple on top with a few others found freedom tossing the hook while those guys were having a lot of action ...