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A Rum Punch and more smallie cocktails
Well it has been a great fishing season thus far. The bass are really heating up and the rivers are in great shape. We had an outstanding day on the Rum River this week. It is a hidden gem in all the great smallmouth waters that surround the Twin Cities.…
Trip from Hell and More !
Well we made it through another “Smallmouth Trip from Hell.” This trip just gets better every year. The fishing this year was outstanding. All the rivers fished great including the St. Croix. According to the boys from Tight Lines in Green Bay the St. Croix is hell on earth. It…
Bass season has officially kicked off!!
Well it is finally here. Bass season is in full bloom. The last two weekends have been a very busy time for me. Memorial Day weekend I had the pleasure of fishing the Menominee River in Northeast Wisconsin with Bart and Matt from the Tight Lines crew. What a great…
We are spoiled!!!
We’ll we got back form the Bighorn river last Monday night. We had a great time despite the 50mph winds and the 3,000 people that also thought it would be a great weekend to fish. Not many fish were caught, and Grace didn’t get one either. She is however hooked…
Is it the trip or is it planning and Packing?
A big Bighorn River Rainbow from a few years back. Hopefully to be repeated this year. In three days my daughter Grace, friend Jim(I use that word loosely) and I are head the the Bighorn River in Montana for a long weekend trout excursion. This will be Grace’s first big…
Were did the time go?
Here are some of the highlights to the season that was 2007. The first picture is Joseph Meyer from One More Cast In Chicago with probably the nicest fish of the year. 5+ lbs. The picture doesn’t do the fish justice. The second is my son Truman with his first…
Welcome Back Gary!!!
One of my very good and dear friends made it back! It was a joy to have Gary back in the boat after some heart trouble earlier this year. We weren’t ten minutes into the trip and Gary had his first fish on a black popper. I think the Lord…
Trico Time and a day off!
Well I had a cancellation yesterday. This gave me a chance for me to do some fishing. I headed east to the Rush River to enjoy a morning of Trico fishing. I sometimes forget in the heat of the smallmouth season what a great resource we have in our Western…
The quest for 20
Many of my customers are on the quest for the illusive 20″ smallmouth. Well one of them reached his goal on July 24th. Duane Phinney has been chasing large smallmouth with me for three years and all his hard work paid off. Duane got this brute on a popper making…
We survived the trip from hell!
The trip from hell was one of the best trips I have ever been apart of. I think everyone that participated had and outstanding time . A lot of fish were caught including a couple of Muskie’s. The rivers that we fished were great and we had a little of…