Pete Day #2 Morning and Evening Trips

1st Bass For Pistol

6:00-7:00AM GOMH, Culvert, Inlet
7:30-10:10AM 3 Loon, F Flat
Conditions: 60-78℉, Mostly Sunny, 3-7 MPH SSW
Water Temp: 72℉

14" Crawtube (Junebug)

Pete at the Inlet

So we started at the GOMH.  Nobody was there.  Pete decided to go with a topwater frog.  I didn't get a hit on the NE side.  I got the 14-incher and then immediately got another bite.  Wanting to get Pete a bullhead I made him fish a Dinger.  He didn't get a bite and I didn't get another one either.  Nothing at the Culvert.  Pete missed a pike at the Inlet as I brought one up on the marsh side.  A little while later Pete got his fish on a Spro Popper.

Pete released his fish before I could get a picture

I got the boat drained and headed for 3 Loon Flat.  Pete thought we should give the reed line off the point a try.  He only got the Hula Popper hung up once so there is that.  We started working the flat in b the docks.  I think I got one pike.  There was a family fishing off a dock so I started moving us out and we got a double.  Pete got a couple more pike.  I moved us back in by the docks over by the pads.  Nothing there.  I then headed as back out on 3-Loon.  I had my black/blue/grey Vet Chatterjig get bit off.  Pete got himself that small bass And I got a 13-incher on the junebug Vet Chatter.  I had a good-sized dogfish get off at the boat.  We got several pike as we drifted across to F-Flat.  Missed a bunch of hits as well.  We stopped just after 10AM.
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3.90lbs/19" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

7:15-9:30PM SPBI, SPSI, NPSI, Loon Sex Point
Conditions: 78-74℉, Partly Cloudy, 3-7 MPH SSE
Water Temp: 74℉
Pete went with the parents to get wings at Brothers.  Steve was down fishing off the pontoon not catching anything.  We were off fairly quickly.  I took us to a place Pete pointed out last night, the South side of the big island, but there was a pontoon fishing where I wanted to start.  So started fishing us down the reeds.  I caught a pike right away and  Pete wasn't happy with how I was controlling the boat and letting me know about it.  When we got down in the juice I swung the boat letting him cast to the prime area and he caught 2 bass in about 3 casts.

Pete's first bass with the Pontoon where I wanted to start in the background.

I started working us West.  Pete had a migraine giving him problems and wasn't happy with me taking us looking into the sun.  The pontoon left before we got there.  We got a few pikes running the South side of the island, Pete got one bass ass well.  I then ran us down to the SPSI.  On the way there Pete was pointing out the NPSI, which I thought we would hit after the SPSI.  Pete wasn't happy with how I chose to attack the point and no fish were there to change his attitude about it.  After giving it 20 minutes we were off to the NPSI.  Pete was having melted tackle issues.  I missed a couple hits off the point and got a couple pikes to the South.  Pete was finally up and running again so I took us back toward the point, Pete wasn't happy with how fast I was getting us there.  Then he was micromanaging my boat control, which unfortunately he no doubt feels vindicated by because he caught 2 more bass.

Pete off of NPSI

It was now getting close to 9PM and Pete had me down 5-0 on bass for the trip.  I headed us for the base of Loon Sex Point and had the big girl blast me on the second cast.  Pete put a frog on immediately.  Pete wanted to work the area quickly while I wanted to work the area more thoroughly.  So I did what Pete wanted and got us moving.  I got a 14.5-incher on the Bobby's.  Pete had to take a piss and instead of standing up and taking it off of the battery compartment he got pissed off that I had rods, the net, and the paddle in the way and he started banging stuff around.  That really pissed me off.  I ended up missing a hit because of it.  Upon completing his piss he immediately got into me about my boat control.  Now I was really pissed off.  I guy who had me down 5-0 in bass caught 15 minutes ago is being a whiny argumentative little brat because I caught a big one and a strung together a few bites.  I was furious and didn't engage in an argument with Pete because to do such is pointless.  I just moved us along and fished way to fast.  I took us into the whole where Pete got 3 bites but didn't hook up.  The skeeters came out and we were done.  As I was putting on my rain gear while we were slowly underway.  Pete decided to spray his Ultrathon Bug Spray all over my boat, tackle box, depth finder and GPS was a good idea.  Wasn't too happy with that choice of Pete's, but what was done was done in an instant and I don't know if he was aware of where he was spraying.  I hurried things up and didn't put any rod socks on.  We were out of there by 10 o'clock. 

Pete Caught Some Fish On Bulldog Today

Pete drilled in the right spot

4:00-8:00PM Bulldog Lake
Conditions: 35-31℉, Cloudy, Calm
Depth: 30' with the fish coming 7' and up

After getting Steve up to speed on a chainsaw and visiting Don W for a bit we headed out to Bulldog Lake.  Pete went right out to the deep hole where I wanted to go yesterday and drilled a couple of holes.  I was right behind him this time.  I started getting my stuff ready to fish.  Pete dropped down in the first hole and immediately brought up a little perch.  Next thing he brought up was a crappie and then another and then another.  I went and drilled a couple of holes.  By the time I was done the fish had left Pete's hole.  I didn't get anything in my first hole and briefly had some fish below the second one.  Pete and I drilled around hoping to connect with some fish.  We went about an hour and a half without getting anything, but Pete getting a few perch.  After 7PM Pete started catching fish again, even a few small bluegills.  I missed all the bites I had.  Pete caught his fish on a small chart. tungsten jig with maggots or a minnow.  He ended up keeping 10 crappies.  I didn't catch anything.  Pete had fun but felt bad I didn't catch anything. I didn't care one way or the other about me getting fish.  I didn't have to clean any.

12 Crappies
15 Perch
3 Sunfish

Fishing With Pete On Bulldog

Dead center to center-left is where the Crappies have been all winter

Pete went so far to the South he wasn't in the picture frame

5:30-7:50PM Bulldog Lake
Conditions: 28-26℉, Cloudy some light snow, Light N wind
Depth: 25-22 feet, fish just under the ice to 10 feet down.  Water clarity was down significantly.

4" VMC Fly/Maggot

So after not fishing last night.  We went out tonight on Bulldog.  Rather than wait for me to get my stuff ready to go.  Pete loaded his sled with his stuff and the auger and headed off to find fish not consulting me on where we should start looking for fish.  I don't think Pete had ever looked at a Bulldog Lake map and he's never ice fished it.  I don't know if I've even taken him to the lake shore fishing.  He had no clue where he was going.  By the time I was out of the shore reeds I was yelling for him to stop.  He drilled a hole well to the South East of the deepest part of the basin where the crappies had been all winter and where I wanted to start.  Instead of using reverse on the Ion he waited for me to show up so he could get an ice scoop.

I grabbed the auger and started off to the North drilling holes as I went.  Instead of following my lead and fishing in the holes I drilled to look for fish.  Pete just staid at the hole he drilled.  I got back to where Pete was and where I had left my Fish Trap.  Pete wanted to go to the South shore over by the big hill.  I drilled some holes off in that direction so Pete could look for a non-existent drop-off.  Then I went back to where Pete was fishing and got my stuff set up for fishing.  I would head North and Pete would head South.

4" VMC Fly/maggots

I didn't find anything in the first hole I drilled, but quickly had fish coming through in the top of the water column in the second hole on the Glow Demon Spoon.  I didn't catch any of those initial marks.  I caught a couple of small perch and then got that dink crappie on the VMC Fly.  I was having a heck of a time detecting bites.  I did lose something that felt bigger.

Pete had worked his way about 100 yards to the East of where I was fishing and he waved for me to come over to where he was fishing.  There were fish about 10 feet down over 23 feet of water. I drilled a hole about 20 feet away from him.  I caught one good 9.5" crappie.  Pete tried a minnow, the fish disappeared and Pete was getting cold so we left at about 8 or so.

I'm not sure if Pete caught anything.  Apparently, after being here for a day and a half he didn't have the proper tackle with him.  Really Pete? SMHRE

2 Crappies
3 Perch

Morning at the GOMH/Afternoon With Pete

Close Call

It is now July 24th and I still haven't gotten this blog done and I erased most of the pics off of the Flash card and I don't feel like digging them out of the cloud.  I basically went fishing at the GOMH without Pete because he didn't want to get up.  Fishing was pretty good.   I got 5 bass on the Shower Blows Knock Off; the biggest of which was 17 inches.  I also lost a good fish on the Schroomz Jig.  My success made my enthusiasm for getting out with Pete in the Trophy plummet.  I ended up getting back to the house and let him sleep.

 Todd and the girls arrived at the lake place just before Pete and I arrived.  Pete got a bass on the Terminator Poppin Frog.  We went out in the boat in search of panfish.

Basically, Pete taught me a way to catch trolling them that I may or may not ever use.  We didn't have much success, too many loose floating weeds around.  As that I barely got any sleep the previous night I was too tired to go out in the evening.  Pete and I did drive into Pierz to get a paper for Mom around sunset.  I felt guilty about being with Pete rather than out at the Lake with the girls.  It worked out as they paddle boarded out to see the sunset and Pete left on the 4th. I spent plenty of time with the girls over the next week as they came up 3 times.

Frogging With Pete Again

17" Spro Poppin' Frog (Black/Red)

6:30-9:30PM Loon Sex Bay Platte Lake
Conditions: 74-70℉, Most Sunny, Light NW Wind
Water Temp: 72℉

17.75" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

So apparently Pete prefers the light weight and castability of the supposedly under powered Tatula to the cork handles and power of the 7'3" MH Avid which is a broom stick by comparison.  I'll see what he thinks of the XH Zillion tomorrow.

I took him to Loon Sex Bay because that is where he talked about fishing yesterday.  The slop looks great in there and was alive with baitfish.  It's been a couple weeks since I was last there.  Some kids were fishing out of a small aluminum fishing boat and needed to borrow some pliers.  I let them keep them with the agreement that they would give them back when they were leaving.

Pete missed the first hit of the night as I was starting to move out to the kids.  We saw a lot of little bass swimming out on the slop edge.  I missed my first hit as well.  The kids came and gave back the pliers about a half hour later when we were in the NE corner.  Pete got the 17" shortly after that on the black/red Spro Popper.  It was hung up on some pads and we had to go get it with the net.   I think Pete lost his next two fish and I got a good sized bowfin most of the way back before it got off.  The bowfin gave it's position away to me.  Pete then got a 16.25" fish on the Spro Popper.

16" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

I got my first fish near the tip of Loon Sex Point where the pads and rice intermixed.  A pike bit off the Spro Popper Pete was throwing and we didn't find it.  We started working back over water we already covered and Pete got a 16".  I got a 15.5" and this skinny 17.75"

17.75" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

I got a 15.5" and Pete got the last fish of the night with this 16".

16" Terminator Popper

I missed a blow up about 15' feet from the boat.  Pete was not impressed when the frog went flying by him at mach 4.  Pete missed the last blow up of the night when he landed on top of one.

Pete fished as I was slowly driving us out of the bay

We got quite a fireworks show on the way back.

Didn't have the scale cleared from last night

As that I didn't have the scale cleared from last night when we went out tonight with a fish waiting to be weighed and my first three attempts to clear the scale not working I just added to last nights weight.  I didn't think at the time that I could remove the weights one at a time, Duh!  The 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 8th weights were from tonight's fish.

4 Bass Me
4 Bass Pete
4 Pike Me
4 Pike Pete
1 Bowfin Me

 

Evening Trip In the Trophy With Pete

Pete's Lunker Tonight

6:15-8:15PM Trophy from the Dock to Loon Sex Bay running the point
Conditions: High 60's, Partly cloudy, Light NW wind

We just headed West and kept going.  I missed like 5 or 6 solid bites on the Pad Crasher.  Eventually I got a small bass off of a boat track on the Piranha with Chigger Craw. Then I got a pike off of a dock and had a nice sunfish pulling on the Chigger Craw as well. Pete caught a couple bass in shallow on a buzzbait.  I had a pike miss the Piranha at the boat.

The Big Island

 We talked to Don as we went by him out fishing off his dock.  The sun went down.  We got to the dock on the end of the point and I got this fish.

16" Piranha

Would have made for a good picture had Pete paid attention to what he was doing.  Pete got the one in the picture as I was getting the camera out to take a picture of my fish.  I missed a bite off the dock.  Pete had a pike miss the buzzbait a couple of times and I caught one last pike there on the Piranha.  We both had little fish bite in the rice at then entrance to LSB.  It was dark and we didn't have any lights in the boat other than my nav lights, so we went in. Pete figured out the problem with my boat is apparently the fuel line and connectors.

Six Toothy's And Pete Melts Down

How much Open water on the N side

Pete broke off some ice

1:30-2:30PM Rock, GOMH
3:30-5:10PM Sullivan Inlet, GOMH

Conditions: Partly Sunny, 39-34 degrees, wind out of the ???

So Pete and I went out fishing again.  I started on the SW side and Pete on the NE side.  I didn't get anything so we switched sides.  I landed one and then another on the STX.

Luck-E-Strike RC STX

Luck-E-Strike RC STX

On the second fish I hooked my jacket at the wrist.  I managed to get the fish off, then made the mistake of asking for Pete's help in getting the lure off my jacket.  In the process of getting the hook out of the jacket Pete got a hook in a finger past the barb.  He then melted down in a hail of swear words and busted my pliers.

I wasn't to happy about that.   He got a hook in his finger, big deal.  Unfortunately it was Tuesday so Bear Trax was closed and Pete didn't want to go to the Clinic/Hospital.  I drove home and Pete cut the hook off leaving part of it in his finger.  He wanted me to drive him the the St. Cloud VA, but I wasn't having that.  So he packed up his stuff and headed to the VA in the cities.

I went back fishing and caught 4 more toothy's and saw a nice moon rise.

Luck-E-Strike RC STX

Luck-E-Strike RC STX

Pete Was Up For A Few (6-14-16)

6-14-14

Blogged 1-1-15

...After his Church retreat at Whitefish got rained out.  We didn't have a whole lot of success.  I think we got beat out by a group to fish at the Culvert.  

6-14-14

16" at Sullivan Inlet 6-14-14

Blue Flag Iris

Fishin' in a blizzard: 1st Trip 2005

Well some of the guys from the Fishers of Men got me to go out ice fishing today. We decided to head out on the big pond because we knew we could have plowed roads. Rumor had a good bite on 8 mile Flat. We met at the Onamia BP at about 10am and were fishing by by Noon. Mike Cummins, Pistol Pete, Goodrich, Vaughn, and 3 dogs were today's Posse. There was S and BS the whole time, close to white out conditions as we went back.

For our efforts a few bites and not much else. I landed 2 Perch, one of which was just shy of 13" and probably a bit over a pound. Got her on a pink Angel Eye spoon, at least I think that was what caught it. Nobody around us was getting much either. Had a few sniffers which may have been Eye's but who knows.

Ohh well, the road pass was only $7.50, kind of sucks when I need another ice reel and could get one right now for that price.

The BP is just not enthusiastic about icing Mille Lacs unless someone else is paying for that road pass or I am in a ice tournament where I can win something. Unless you know of a specific bite or have lots of experience on the lake, getting into em is such a crap shoot. I've never done super well there in the winter, I did however take 2nd Place and $100 in Gander Mountain Staff tournament a couple of years ago.

Sorry No pics, which bites cause that was a totally nice perch and Vaughn's dog is such a cutie.