Too good not to share

[MNtransplant]

I have already shared this report with a few of you guys and checked with Phil and it is not as much of a secret as I thought so here's the post for the group. I finally got into the Taneycomo walleyes Ive been trying to find for a couple years now...big girl was a 23" smaller male was 19" also caught a really nice white, a chunk smally, and lost another big fish from a headshake after peeling quite a bit of drag...one of the most memorable nights I've had in my fishing career and I only fished for 2 hours. Saw 2 other nice walleyes caught on a white jerkbait from another gentleman who was gracious enough to be my camera man. What makes it special to me is these fish came on a bucktail jig I tied just a few weeks ago. This was the "motivation" i sent DJ last night so I'm sure his crew will tear em up this weekend.

Thanks to everyone who gave me the tips on when and how to target them.

[Johnsfolly]

13 minutes ago, MNtransplant said:

I have already shared this report with a few of you guys and checked with Phil and it is not as much of a secret as I thought so here's the post for the group. I finally got into the Taneycomo walleyes Ive been trying to find for a couple years now...big girl was a 23" smaller male was 19" also caught a really nice white, a chunk smally, and lost another big fish from a headshake after peeling quite a bit of drag...one of the most memorable nights I've had in my fishing career and I only fished for 2 hours. Saw 2 other nice walleyes caught on a white jerkbait from another gentleman who was gracious enough to be my camera man. What makes it special to me is these fish came on a bucktail jig I tied just a few weeks ago. This was the "motivation" i sent DJ last night so I'm sure his crew will tear em up this weekend.

Thanks to everyone who gave me the tips on when and how to target them.

Congrats on some great looking fish! I don't target them much, but my PB walleye is still the one that I caught while fishing Taney with @JestersHK a few years back.

[Ham]

That's pretty darn close to a Smile John. You must have been Super Excited!

[vonreed]

Congrats on the walleye and sorry you lost the couple other nice fish, next time dont use older hooks with dull barbs, haha. That was me and my kids down there fishing next to you.  Congrats on the nice fish

[Terrierman]

37 minutes ago, MNtransplant said:

I have already shared this report with a few of you guys and checked with Phil and it is not as much of a secret as I thought so here's the post for the group. I finally got into the Taneycomo walleyes Ive been trying to find for a couple years now...big girl was a 23" smaller male was 19" also caught a really nice white, a chunk smally, and lost another big fish from a headshake after peeling quite a bit of drag...one of the most memorable nights I've had in my fishing career and I only fished for 2 hours. Saw 2 other nice walleyes caught on a white jerkbait from another gentleman who was gracious enough to be my camera man. What makes it special to me is these fish came on a bucktail jig I tied just a few weeks ago. This was the "motivation" i sent DJ last night so I'm sure his crew will tear em up this weekend.

Thanks to everyone who gave me the tips on when and how to target them.

Wow, very nice!

[liphunter]

Love them Walleye. Good for you buddy!

[Seth]

I'm going down to join DJ this weekend and I'd be thrilled with a 20"+ walter or brown.

[Johnsfolly]

53 minutes ago, Ham said:

That's pretty darn close to a Smile John. You must have been Super Excited!

I was. We had a great time.

Smiling here with a smallie!

And under the rod there is a smile with this big white sucker! Thought that this was a giant brown trout, but was not disappointed. Maybe its the company that I fish with .

[Johnsfolly]

Now back to @MNtransplant original thread .

[JestersHK]

Saw these Walters last night and it had me twitching lol... fantastic job.

John I told MNtransplant we'd work on getting him out at night to chase the big ones.  I promised him I haven't met an ax murderer yet and meeting strangers off the internet at night to go wade in flowing water was totally normal lol still have the teeth marks in my cork too haha