ThatOneBigKid

Thanks for the follow up. Cool to know. I had never heard or seen that before.

That is a crazy looking Largemouth. Never seen one like that. I wonder if it is sick?

Nice one. From all I have heard, finding Tonka smallies is like finding them on WBL. They are like ghosts. Here's to hoping they are still there for you.

Had a tournament on White Bear Lake on Sunday in the downpour and ended up getting 2nd place. All my fish came in the first hour and a half as the rain was rolling through. Had numerous back to back to back cast fish catches. Short of it raining cats and dogs it was a fun morning. Ended up weighing just over 14 lbs and got beat out of 1st by .08 of a pound. All my fish came on deep hard bottom on the edge of the weed line in approx. 18-20ft of water. All finesse tactics between 1/8 and 3/16 of an oz.

Had an 8 hour tournament out on Green Lake (Chisago) on Sunday. Ended up with 19.1lbs and landed in 2nd place. Also missed out on the big bass side pot by only .01 of a pound. Was a really fun tournament all together. Caught all my fish on deeper off shore structure with a 4.3 Kietech swimbait and a Football jig.

Nice work catching some hawgs guys! Got out on Sunday and managed 18 and change for my best 5. All my best 5 were under 4lbs as well. Just couldn't get a real good one to bite. I caught probably 30 fish for the day, no of which were under 2lbs, and 20 of them were between 3 and 3.79lbs. great day overall. a vast majority of the fish were on drop shots. Couldn't seem to get them to go on moving baits.

Interesting thought I am going to have to give a try the next time I am out idling a weed line. My theory is if an old, wise 5lber gets fooled by it, there must be something there, but I might be giving the fish too much credit. Also, if it helps to find one more school on a weed line while idling I am in!

Sounds like an awesome lake there umdivx. Never have thought to troll a Neko rig. How fast are you idiling when your doing this?

Ended up placing 3rd on the GH Sunday Series on Minnetoka yesterday with 15.4 lbs. Had the trim/tilt solenoid on my motor go out mid day so I lost the latter half of my day dealing with that, but still had a great day. Also caught the Big Bass of the tourney as well.

Got out on Bald Eagle last night for the second tournament of the GH Advanced Wednesday night. Ended up 8th out 21 teams. Got plenty of bites but struggled for that big bite. Sounded like the M.O. for a lot of the teams. Still a fun night even though the wind was ripping.

Sounds like an awesome day, umdivx. Got out Friday prefishing for a Sunday tournament on Coon Lake. It took all day but I finally found something I had confidence in for the tournament. Sunday was rough with the wind blowing 16-20 all day. My primary spot was so blown out you couldn't fish it. Scrambled around to a few other spots that had the same shallow grass on them and was able to scrape together a 10lb limit. Luckily a number of other teams had a rough go too so I ended up in 9th(solo) out of 22 other teams. Didn't completely blow my AOY/TOY chances with this one, but I defiantly dug a little hole. Next tournament is Minnetonka so I am looking forward to getting back to milfoil flipping.

Had our first Wednesday night tourney last night and my Bro-in-law and I pulled out a 1st place finish and Big Bass on a tough grinder of an event on Big Marine. Fish were in that tough post-spawn in between funk, but we were able to squeak out 10.5lbs with the help of a 4.66lb stud. Caught all our fish flipping 3/4 and 1oz jigs in developing patches of Milfoil in 8-12ft of water. The milfoil was for sure the key for us. We didn't get a bite unless there was milfoil there. Great start to the season. Looking to keep it rolling with my first solo derby on Coon Lake this Sunday.

Went out to Mille Lacs on Sunday. Caught 6 smallies, biggest went 4.1lbs. Caught more walleyes that I could count. 3 of them went 24". Almost everything was on a 4.2 Kietech on a 3/8 head. Perch color. Water was 58 degrees by the end of the day.

Got out to Mille Lacs last Saturday and cracked on some smallies and wallies a bit as well as got a chance to test out the new Mega 360 unit. Bumped up my PB smallie to 4.65lbs. Thought I was going to check off one of this seasons goals(Break 5lbs for a PB Smallie), but it was just shy. The smallies and walleyes were hammering the jerkbait. Great first trip to Mille Lacs for the season. Water temp was 49.5

This is the kind of input I have been looking for. Thanks a ton Fry!