Quillback

Once this weather moderates, I want to get some gills. Gills are a bit of a pain to clean, but IMO, they are the best eating fish that swims in TR.

Let's see if I can upload one to the gallery. Nope, failed.

Talked to a buddy that is catching walleye right now on a spoon. You gotta find them of course.

Sheepshead minnow - never heard of them until now, congrats on the catches!

Thanks for the write up, I probably would've blown it off. Glad to hear you got it fixed.

Nice ones!

Stop by Wall Drug and get everyone a T-Shirt!

I'll sometimes use an RFJ (rearward facing jig) when I'm searching for fish this time of year. Toss a 1/2 oz jig behind the boat, let it fall to the bottom and slowly kick along with the TM maintaining bottom contact with the jig, while watching the downward screen looking for fish. A slowly trolled jig (whoops should've said dragged), is a very effective fish catcher this time of year.

When the flooding was in the news I was wondering how the Agnew's were doing, good to hear your property made it through OK.

That is pretty neat, the west is a great place to live for an outdoorsman!

I've been getting some from the garden the last couple of weeks. Having BLT's tonight. $2 per lb. is not bad.

Saw this on BBC: I am fortunate enough to be able to fish Chequamegon Bay twice a week, weather permitting, and the enlightened catch & release policies and daily creel limit of allowing only one minimum 22" smallmouth bass to be kept has allowed this vast shallow expanse of Lake Superior to become one of the best trophy smallmouth bass fisheries anywhere on the planet! I highly recommend both Mr. Baron and Mr. Teigen, having recommended several business clients to them in the past and everyone has always been happy and satisfied with their guided trips for giant smallmouth bass on this special fishery.

That's a great LM for this time of year, congrats!

Good deal.

Best wishes on your recovery Mr. McBasser.

Go get 'em!

Looks very tasty!

I saved that link, might head up there someday when circumstances allow.

Well shoot, thought you were done with that.

Hang in there, you got one thing fixed, I'm sure you'll get this next one knocked out and get back to fishing.

Yep, that's the guy. He saw me and another guy catching them there last week, so he was there early today. But it has been a late morning bite there, no need to be there at oh-dark-thirty. I can't catch anything on the Keitech lately, couple of weeks ago they were hammering it.

I thought that was you Bill. Should've stopped by, not much of a surface bite in that spot to scare off. I'm going to add on my results to your post. I caught 32 bass, 5 keepers. Early it was a drop shot bite, a few on a jig and a couple on top. First thing in the AM, there was a guy sitting on my hot spot, so I had to wait for him to vamoose. Once he did leave, I got in there and had a bit of a top water bite, and then started catching them on a 1/4 oz Kastmaster. 3 of my 5 keeper came on the Kaster. They would not touch the drop shot in that spot. No walleye for me. 😭 I saw 86 for a surface temp.

Driven by several times but never stopped. Have to do it next time. If anything, I want one of those T-shirts.

Wall Drug - 150 miles. 5 cents coffee.