Lake Fork Report: November 17, 2008
The fall fishing really turned on this past week at Lake Fork with the long awaited end to our warm temps. Even after the cold fronts, numbers of bass have been good to great. Big fish have been hard to come by for my customers and me lately, with regular catches of 5 and 6 lb bass, but we haven’t...
Mille Lacs Multi-Species 10/30
My friend Steve and I, this past Thursday, decided to head up to Mille Lacs for possibly the last trip of the year for a day and half trip. The weather was mild, the winds were light and tolerable, and we were not disappointed. Arriving on the east shore by early afternoon, we were on the wate...
Lake Mendota Multi species
Fishing continues to be fantastic out on Mendota today we mainly live bait rigged and caught some pig smallies, largies and Big Pike! A great day to say the least! Caught our fish from 7-20 feet of water mainly, which was shallower than I had expected. Fish were agressive and putting the feedbag...
Lake Geneva
Made it on friday afternoon on Geneva for a trip with some clients and almost immediately we had solid action. Found a nice pod of smallies that was feeding very aggressively but unfortunately we missed more than we landed the first couple of hours. That's just the way it goes somedays Clients...
Lake Fork Fall Bassin'
Bass are settling into regular fall patterns here on Lake Fork. Normally, I’m catching fish consistently out deep at this time of year, but the offshore bite has been slow for me lately. I expect it to pick up again soon, and in the meantime, there are a lot of fish chasing shad in the shallows ri...
Lake Mendota --Pike- Bass and Catfish
Lake Mendota is going really good now lots of fish on the rocks and weed edges from pike to panfish! We caught fish on the deep rocks and shallow rocks pretty much everywhere we fished. Out in front of marshall Park is good, Govenor's is great even early ice for big pike! The bluffs are are good...
Metro Lakes Fall Hog Bassin' report
Dropping fall temperatures often times signals time for the fall feedbag for fat largemouth bass here in our northern regions. Although I don't chase bass all that much besides some random tournaments throughout the summer, fall is definitely my favorite time to target these crockpot mouth critt...
Kansas fall trolling -still fun!
With all the great reports of fall trolling on the pond up north this week, I headed....south. I wasn't able to make it north this year, but fellow IDOer Sharkbait (Chris) invited me down to fish Saturday with him and his kids Cody and Nikky. I took him up on his offer and as a result, we had a ...
Lake Delavan Largies
Was out today with clients and wow she was a windy one out there today we had 20-30 MPH winds Brrrrr! The good new is the fish were cooperating for us, casting cranks such as lucky crafts, chatter baits.and spinners along with some live bait did the trick for us Clients landed about 10 Bass and...
Giant Smallies and Crappies--Mich U.P.
Had another one of those surreal fishing trips this past week and to top it off it was with 4 of the best guys I enjoy fishing with! I have a cabin in the U.P. on the water and have been fortunate enough to be fish up there for 30+ years mainly with my dad who is from the area and retired on th...
Mississippi River Pool 4-5 Bass Fishing Report
I know it sound like a broken record, but the top-water bite continues to be spectacular on pool 4-5. What has changed is the scenery. The fall colors along the river are near-peak. Hopefully, the wind and rain won’t strip too many leafs. Areas that caught my eye were the stretch from Reeds Land...
Mississippi River Pool 8 Top Water
All that needs to be said is…..if you have a heart condition, make sure you have your nitroglycerin along while fishing top water Bass right now!!!!!
Waking up with anal glaucoma (can’t see my butt going to work) Wednesday morning, the boat was loaded and heading for water before light. I must s...
Mississippi River smallmouth bass report 10-3-08
With water temps slowly on the decline now, the smallmouth bass bite here on the Upper Mississippi River has kicked into ultra high gear. Big numbers of above average fish is what is showing up on a daily basis now. Lots and lots of very aggressive fish in very confined areas is what an angler d...
Lake Fork Fall Bassin'
After a couple of tumultuous weeks in early September dealing with many rainy days and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, we’ve had several of the most consistent weeks of weather I can remember at Lake Fork. Every day starts off cool and clear, warming into the mid-80s under mostly sunny skies. Once you ...
Mississippi River Pool 4-5 Top-Water Bass Fishing
This the combined report of last weeks guide trips. On Thursday Mike Stori, an IDO regular was my guest. Mike prefers spinning tackle so I hand him setup with my standard trio, the Northland Mimic Minnow, swim jig and a Rapala Skitter Prop. We mixed things up all morning with good results on sma...
