Swamp Girl

[Swamp Girl]

If @Blue Raider Bob is a swamp boy, raised in the swamp with mud in his veins, then I've become a swamp girl by dint of all the time I spend in swamps and my love of them. Here's where I fished this morning:

 

 

Here's the biggest girl I caught:

 

 

These two were almost as long:

 

 

I caught them respectively on a spinnerbait, a popper, and a Googan Revolver. I have become skilled at extricating bass from weeds. Here's where the third bass lives:

 

 

I cast the Googan Revolver in a narrow opening in the weeds and surfed the bass to the canoe. Keep their head up and reel like crazy, @T-Billy said.

 

I caught mid-sized bass too. Here are a couple:

 

 

I pulled this little bass out of wood:

 

 

And for old time's sake, I lipped and gripped this one too. Actually, I just wanted an excuse to photograph the island behind it:

 

 

35 in all. Numbers-wise, the best morning I've had in a while. Hopefully this pace will continue! I also caught bass on a fluke. I missed bass on a frog. If @Pat Brown is a 10 at frog fishing, I'm a 0. 

 

A pretty pic to close my report. That's the river channel in the foreground. Thanks for climbing into my canoe and fishing a morning in Maine with a swamp girl:

 

 

P.S. - I have never fished alongside so many dinosaurs. There were Great blue herons, Bald Eagles, hawks, ospreys, kingfishers, and cormorants. There were geese and ducks too. It was wonderful. 

 

P.P.S. - As I fished this morning, I was acutely aware of how no bass boat will ever fish that water. No FFS will ever pinpoint its bass. Even my canoe bumped into two rocks and a prop would be fouled in seconds before its lower unit was sheared free. I like that there are places only paddlers can go.

 

 

[jbmaine]

Getting that far away from the crowd. Love it!!!!!!!!!

[MN Fisher]

I can only dream of fishing a place like that, Katie...but I can live vicariously through your pics - keep them coming.

[Swamp Girl]

32 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I can only dream of fishing a place like that, Katie...but I can live vicariously through your pics - keep them coming.

 

No need to just dream. PM me and I'll give you some 100-bass-per-person-per-day lakes in northern Ontario, east of Kenora, which you can reach with a four-wheel drive vehicle. You would have to sleep in a tent.

 

Frankly, Maine is Ontario lite. 

 

45 minutes ago, jbmaine said:

Getting that far away from the crowd. Love it!!!!!!!!!

 

Me too! This morning's bog gets fished on the weekends, but launch in the dark on a weekday and it's all yours. 

[GreenPig]

Excellent, Swamp Girl.

[MN Fisher]

26 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

No need to just dream. PM me and I'll give you some 100-bass-per-person-per-day lakes in northern Ontario, east of Kenora, which you can reach with a four-wheel drive vehicle. You would have to sleep in a tent.

 

Frankly, Maine is Ontario lite. 

Katie - I'd love doing that as I miss tent camping...but I have a disabled wife to take care of and can only go fishing in lakes close to home.

[Swamp Girl]

26 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Katie - I'd love doing that as I miss tent camping...but I have a disabled wife to take care of and can only go fishing in lakes close to home.

 

Ah, I see. I know how that goes. It's why I can't fish Ontario anymore. Sigh. I was going to give you the name and location of a lake where I actually caught more than 250 bass per day for two straight days. I think I could have done it a third straight day, but I was too tired to try. I fished barbless and didn't even remove them from the water to expedite releasing them. 

[Catt]

Swamp Girl!

Like that better than @ol'crickety 😉

[WRB]

When my in-laws were still living we spent vacations on Lake of the Woods just north of Nestor Falls. My father in law was a lake trout and walleye fisherman smallmouth bass were what visitors wanted to catch.

Jim had a 180 on floats to fly into his outpost cabins on Arrow lake and Kiskatina (Height of Land) both lakes were insane Smallmouth fishing with 2 lb bass like fleas and 3 to 4 lb were common.

You portage into Kiskatina, 7 portages but Arrow is fly in only. Arrow had a walleye and Pike population Kiskatina didn’t, it was a lake Trout and musky lake both full of virgin Smallies, doubles not uncommon.

Tom

PS, Kate your reports and photos shared are excellent. I don’t worry about sharing lake names few members will ever fish there.

 

[Mobasser]

ol Crickety, your post are really good. I always enjoy them. Keep up the good work mam.

[Swamp Girl]

45 minutes ago, Catt said:

Swamp Girl!

Like that better than @ol'crickety 😉

 

Me too! I wonder if I can change it. Paging, @TnRiver46.

 

43 minutes ago, WRB said:

PS, Kate your reports and photos shared are excellent.

 

I am glowing after reading your praise, Tom. 

 

I've fished Lake of the Woods too, Tom, as well as dozens of other lakes in that region. It makes me sad that I might never smell that air again. 

 

Thanks, @Mobasser!

[Rockhopper]

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Me too! I wonder if I can change it. Paging, @TnRiver46.

profile > account settings > display name change

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks, @Rockhopper! 

 

I'm guessing that some will wonder where Ol' Crickety went.

[MN Fisher]

32 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

I've fished Lake of the Woods too, Tom, as well as dozens of other lakes in that region. It makes me sad that I might never smell that air again.

I'm sad too - I lived 6 years in Bemidji, so LotW was a frequent destination as well as Red Lake, Winni, Leech and others. Now I'm 'stuck' fishing the west metro of Minneapolis...fishing is good, but it's not northern MN good.

[Functional]

Kermit knows what he would do to that place....

[pdxfisher]

Great report and I love the new handle. It is awesome to be able to fish places where bigger boats can't go. Out here I am fishing big water but when I lived in NC I used to drag my little homemade boat to all kinds of small waters like you fish now. I love it out here but I miss those days too. 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Me too! I wonder if I can change it. Paging, @TnRiver46.

 

 

I am glowing after reading your praise, Tom. 

 

I've fished Lake of the Woods too, Tom, as well as dozens of other lakes in that region. It makes me sad that I might never smell that air again. 

 

Thanks, @Mobasser!

There I fixed it….. just kidding swamp girl! 
 

swamps don’t even exist in East TN, water can’t sit still on the side of a cliff 

[Blue Raider Bob]

4 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

If @Blue Raider Bob is a swamp boy, raised in the swamp with mud in his veins, then I've become a swamp girl by dint of all the time I spend in swamps and my love of them. Here's where I fished this morning:

 

 

Here's the biggest girl I caught:

 

 

These two were almost as long:

 

 

I caught them respectively on a spinnerbait, a popper, and a Googan Revolver. I have become skilled at extricating bass from weeds. Here's where the third bass lives:

 

 

I cast the Googan Revolver in a narrow opening in the weeds and surfed it to the canoe.

 

I caught mid-sized bass too. Here are a couple:

 

 

I pulled this little bass out of wood:

 

 

And for old time's sake, I lipped and gripped this one too. Actually, I just wanted an excuse to photograph the island behind it:

 

 

35 in all. Numbers-wise, the best morning I've had in a while. Hopefully this pace will continue! I also caught bass on a fluke. I missed bass on a frog. If @Pat Brown is a 10 at frog fishing, I'm a 0. 

 

A pretty pic to close my report. That's the river channel in the foreground. Thanks for climbing into my canoe and fishing a morning in Maine with a swamp girl:

 

 

P.S. - I have never fished alongside so many dinosaurs. There were Great blue herons, Bald Eagles, hawks, ospreys, kingfishers, and cormorants. There were geese and ducks too. It was wonderful. 

 

P.P.S. - As I fished this morning, I was acutely aware of how no bass boat will ever fish that water. No FFS will ever pinpoint its bass. Even my canoe bumped into two rocks and a prop would be fouled in seconds before its lower unit was sheared free. I like that there are places only paddlers can go.

I am honored to be mentioned in a post by a world class fisherman, (and person), catching fat bass in one of the most beautiful areas of our great country. Yep, you're a swamp girl!

2 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

I was going to give you the name and location of a lake where I actually caught more than 250 bass per day for two straight days. I think I could have done it a third straight day, but I was too tired to try. I

you can whisper it to me......

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

I'm guessing that some will wonder where Ol' Crickety went.

Metamorphosed!

To change into a different physical form, especially by supernatural means!

[Swamp Girl]

I just sent you the name of the lake, Bob. Find it on Google Earth and we can chat about it. 

 

@swamppeoplesticktogether!

[gim]

Swamp thing

 

[Swamp Girl]

I don't remember you filming me, @gimruis, but thanks for getting my good side!

[gim]

7 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

I have never fished alongside so many dinosaurs. There were Great blue herons, Bald Eagles, hawks, ospreys, kingfishers, and cormorants

 

I saw this last month. Brontasaurus. 🤣

 

 

[12poundbass]

6 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

Me too! I wonder if I can change it. Paging, @TnRiver46.

I was extremely confused here! I get a notification that a Swamp Girl posted on a topic. I had never seen that name before so I look at your profile and see you’ve been a member since 2012. Way more confused after that and not know how in the heck I had never heard this name before I click on this thread, scroll down, and finally get my answer! Mystery solved.

 

[Swamp Girl]

@12poundbass: I'm sure you won't be the only one my name change will confuse, but Swamp Girl fits me better. I don't even know what Ol' Crickety meant!

 

I can catch bass in open water, of course, but it feels like playing golf on a course without trees, rough, sand traps, and water.

[T-Billy]

Flipp'n and pitch'n paradise right there.