tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28354423599322474932024-03-13T09:28:22.319-07:00Casey's catch of the dayserving fresh fish and other exotic fareCasey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-8980174267963221562010-06-11T04:27:00.000-07:002010-06-11T04:38:43.663-07:00All packed and ready to go......on vacation! My family and Mitch's family are meeting at the Deckert's cabin on Boedigheimer lake in Ottertail county. It's 6:30 am now this friday morning. If I can get Lucas up going we'll be out of here by 7. Anita has been sick all week so Val and Genna will drive to Cambridge to help her and her family get organized while me and Lucas will get to the cabin well ahead of them and get settled in. Right now it's raining. Weather looks to be unsettled most of the time with temps in the mid-70s. Lot's of great fishing opportunities await!Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-41692892840335737472010-06-09T02:40:00.001-07:002010-06-09T04:26:47.047-07:00Camping on the St. CroixNovember 21nd of 2009 Mitch my brother died of a heart attack. So last weekend my family and his family (Anita, Matthew, Aaron, Ryan) went to the St Croix river to spread his ashes on the river, which is what he wanted, and also do some camping way upriver in a very secluded area where Mitch loved to spend much of his time camping and fishing. For the spreading of the ashes, my mom and my brother Kurt met us at the landing before our departure to spread some ashes there. I think for the most part our acute mourning over Mitch is over, although I still have a difficult time knowing that Mitch is no longer with us. I miss him dearly!<br /><br />Here's Mitch's ashes. It was very dense and kind of reminded me of dry concrete mix!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoObQzoIdROxxjaIx_VQfocDf0ZUYREA6pjplJ5zx89q3ENEaFiolA4OJetdisshDMpmF65u3k_QmYxoaxbXSCMYeNKubqjnfs0eOaA2ROyQQoTxtygxz0O4ZLrIlLyK9DzgQaT92jfVH/s1600/mitch's+ashes1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoObQzoIdROxxjaIx_VQfocDf0ZUYREA6pjplJ5zx89q3ENEaFiolA4OJetdisshDMpmF65u3k_QmYxoaxbXSCMYeNKubqjnfs0eOaA2ROyQQoTxtygxz0O4ZLrIlLyK9DzgQaT92jfVH/s400/mitch's+ashes1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480718304628212066" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here I am spreading Mitch's ashes...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvYarYjDENT_YwSKNKzozlksNqFjq7H9K8wsbEEG-MJu5XBc3218xcLdScBaLKTkFmgG8Yy0NJjLpdND0ZoCr5XGxSvgobuqOYu6ZlADtT8GkhowCQ43eVb_Otut0uvNJqvdtssSuGEPH/s1600/mitch's+ashes2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvYarYjDENT_YwSKNKzozlksNqFjq7H9K8wsbEEG-MJu5XBc3218xcLdScBaLKTkFmgG8Yy0NJjLpdND0ZoCr5XGxSvgobuqOYu6ZlADtT8GkhowCQ43eVb_Otut0uvNJqvdtssSuGEPH/s400/mitch's+ashes2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480718292284330274" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And Genna...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCDZbUwgbORHOkwr6UL8lLl1L4OF8rPwXln57qral1RXGXPJULVnZ4wl1OH87U2gEDWrEAE2f5bfpNz8SWefcqzlQcMVGreXe2XrZg7JyNmuSY10L6Q0jR1KXMCQ1s8j4Ibf_qpI95JFY/s1600/mitch's+ashes3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCDZbUwgbORHOkwr6UL8lLl1L4OF8rPwXln57qral1RXGXPJULVnZ4wl1OH87U2gEDWrEAE2f5bfpNz8SWefcqzlQcMVGreXe2XrZg7JyNmuSY10L6Q0jR1KXMCQ1s8j4Ibf_qpI95JFY/s400/mitch's+ashes3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480718276416054578" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And my brother Kurt...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiivODEX4k4bVk6I5By2wXkTZBDvqWb_q8-1806pIN0UhG4i4nHT0WjKje6lvbDl0Q5VhCmuSXNKyeHjzVlQ14mZG8qPaaftmxtjw0JYqoI-QuYM-JNpeEcVbQUaN-_EVeqJWgRIzF0FHRk/s1600/mitch's+ashes4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiivODEX4k4bVk6I5By2wXkTZBDvqWb_q8-1806pIN0UhG4i4nHT0WjKje6lvbDl0Q5VhCmuSXNKyeHjzVlQ14mZG8qPaaftmxtjw0JYqoI-QuYM-JNpeEcVbQUaN-_EVeqJWgRIzF0FHRk/s400/mitch's+ashes4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480718266822718098" border="0" /></a><br /><br />After that we headed up the river several miles. Aaron was piloting Mitch's boat while towing a rubber raft with some camping gear on it, followed by my boat. That's Valerie looking on. Anita was taking handfuls of ashes and putting 'em in the river all along the way up...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjyUdx_Nk6Htc2Me0r0wm4Ii3ZuqUqf9VP45JkT72QT6w2ES1DkHKyF2iHeY57Rf3EzsLu377X9_omwcB7xssuyFSZcFs-48T-e6T1cwCH0hNShJ_V_1zsci8xj9NiJlXwgWNPWnghfLu/s1600/going+up+the+river.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjyUdx_Nk6Htc2Me0r0wm4Ii3ZuqUqf9VP45JkT72QT6w2ES1DkHKyF2iHeY57Rf3EzsLu377X9_omwcB7xssuyFSZcFs-48T-e6T1cwCH0hNShJ_V_1zsci8xj9NiJlXwgWNPWnghfLu/s400/going+up+the+river.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480718258744958626" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Fishing-wise, it's unpressured up there so it's usually pretty good fishing. This time we didn't catch a single walleye though. We did some shore casting, but spent most of our time anchored up and casting out river rigs with a hunk of crawler on. Here's Lucas with a catfish...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyC8KW9XJ1j6YyxtISRZ0oFpIzjtvcUcvVU2J1mkHBYV9j1QAOb92mbIaYTSNEHL4nmRlOlvZhWiryCJ98wy8GdP7SVG6jxV4np4CQ-dpNthqx7QI5KEJHcTyEbW13foZf2KOJSae2S3a/s1600/lucas+cat1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyC8KW9XJ1j6YyxtISRZ0oFpIzjtvcUcvVU2J1mkHBYV9j1QAOb92mbIaYTSNEHL4nmRlOlvZhWiryCJ98wy8GdP7SVG6jxV4np4CQ-dpNthqx7QI5KEJHcTyEbW13foZf2KOJSae2S3a/s400/lucas+cat1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480719218076057970" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Fish on!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirD0zyxhmTSMhx0_5w7xFVh_HcVlGDURLyblRJ5goQcxrrtWh3DVs1usX-aOAyR3R4MVLGl8sNbcpo1kYkbxwWyY1rntlLRUmfPujRYaaSv4A0wc697P4FXjn5W8HYoDW1lvThP6l8U_M1/s1600/bbb+ryan+big+smallie+lost.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirD0zyxhmTSMhx0_5w7xFVh_HcVlGDURLyblRJ5goQcxrrtWh3DVs1usX-aOAyR3R4MVLGl8sNbcpo1kYkbxwWyY1rntlLRUmfPujRYaaSv4A0wc697P4FXjn5W8HYoDW1lvThP6l8U_M1/s400/bbb+ryan+big+smallie+lost.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480719210284782930" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Ryan and smallie...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzUSfOl55VFI7fpHFXmcspwWTCM9A-W4qhKpyNh8puGTOGrBrqd14fY1b3Nvy5fQJ0tdaRv20HmbxoLJxswFyxEoQzu1g6dqP-TTj4tSwnRu5wC5WyWHzgAZDr3mBoY3sf2wOzPXrp-eXG/s1600/b+ryan+smallie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzUSfOl55VFI7fpHFXmcspwWTCM9A-W4qhKpyNh8puGTOGrBrqd14fY1b3Nvy5fQJ0tdaRv20HmbxoLJxswFyxEoQzu1g6dqP-TTj4tSwnRu5wC5WyWHzgAZDr3mBoY3sf2wOzPXrp-eXG/s400/b+ryan+smallie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480719193653375394" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Lucas and redhorse...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3sIbbLDiG-PZZWSDUPcyY4r0ve8oJLRuTiYVJP7Pxxi6TcKHp00l7kt7Ohm2Xq-CTXBEJnqNjgM4mPiBFA2SJ-rVPg4GqOqP56PsLhJgUQbNtFsnu239fDL_z7XHgcRHYJkw36z0nt3H4/s1600/lucas+redhorse1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3sIbbLDiG-PZZWSDUPcyY4r0ve8oJLRuTiYVJP7Pxxi6TcKHp00l7kt7Ohm2Xq-CTXBEJnqNjgM4mPiBFA2SJ-rVPg4GqOqP56PsLhJgUQbNtFsnu239fDL_z7XHgcRHYJkw36z0nt3H4/s400/lucas+redhorse1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480719184082736994" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwt202mnvffnLDSe_tZ0lNFohwUjb3DWI2kIvIwOu72uyo_OXGrjtndlGia2xWF35qGCZvz77pnyZLQjG573zI-TPiVoix7jxGqDKFjkN_4So-9yTWR05yInhEHMejDQk3SqXLesB6P0ws/s1600/lucas+redhorse2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwt202mnvffnLDSe_tZ0lNFohwUjb3DWI2kIvIwOu72uyo_OXGrjtndlGia2xWF35qGCZvz77pnyZLQjG573zI-TPiVoix7jxGqDKFjkN_4So-9yTWR05yInhEHMejDQk3SqXLesB6P0ws/s400/lucas+redhorse2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480719174831696146" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here's Lucas during our catfish outing at night. He has a fish on here...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89MXQvOon2jYUB5BrAIK5203DdtEOByJPj-Dxsoza-NsVFaEgQlx8j_njtkxAFkad-pTSgpkWVzbqPQP_Lo_sRyd2viFHNbFa2n7DnNg82bUpmMoB37zGsGdWKwOMWfpP1IVQVpRgFMoS/s1600/a+fish+on+lucas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89MXQvOon2jYUB5BrAIK5203DdtEOByJPj-Dxsoza-NsVFaEgQlx8j_njtkxAFkad-pTSgpkWVzbqPQP_Lo_sRyd2viFHNbFa2n7DnNg82bUpmMoB37zGsGdWKwOMWfpP1IVQVpRgFMoS/s400/a+fish+on+lucas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720233240559122" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And this is what he caught...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOwNDwywmWH9Ql7erhMWU_fcUIO8FActs6VDGDfwLWf1GIkjdrxD8JCoafWyxmZTKzPugj84Zmbx086kONxRhZCVoi4hF66uAehfupQHwhyxmbqwZkTzXxt0T_VIClbzh-Tyu30zwMlsx/s1600/aa+lucas+cat2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOwNDwywmWH9Ql7erhMWU_fcUIO8FActs6VDGDfwLWf1GIkjdrxD8JCoafWyxmZTKzPugj84Zmbx086kONxRhZCVoi4hF66uAehfupQHwhyxmbqwZkTzXxt0T_VIClbzh-Tyu30zwMlsx/s400/aa+lucas+cat2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720225604674562" border="0" /></a><br /><br />My catfish...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtGliXEFGk3FxTQX9lBKw8NSvTvTBVYlDhYPWveTEjXVaGZh1-ZD3R2xvQZ1JVTBa38gi3Bz-xM6UfZOi6eMKormkrM3G-Cnam4GcFcUhn4gOmQrx30zL4uFVOmJY5ePBgs3Lv3ozA6nq/s1600/casey+cat1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtGliXEFGk3FxTQX9lBKw8NSvTvTBVYlDhYPWveTEjXVaGZh1-ZD3R2xvQZ1JVTBa38gi3Bz-xM6UfZOi6eMKormkrM3G-Cnam4GcFcUhn4gOmQrx30zL4uFVOmJY5ePBgs3Lv3ozA6nq/s400/casey+cat1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720209285286002" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPs_BMuQ2-O8SMWT9hdu-3kmcfgXYDtV36dCum5FCaTs-MlJ4mTKahg8tQNP7_Fyky6JhXyuuiXTFQLmtwzmuwn4TVZ7VVtYan2qVgygYE4ZTMgitYO2Yr6NAqMhPpK4ItumNAD3BWUl8Z/s1600/casey+cat2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPs_BMuQ2-O8SMWT9hdu-3kmcfgXYDtV36dCum5FCaTs-MlJ4mTKahg8tQNP7_Fyky6JhXyuuiXTFQLmtwzmuwn4TVZ7VVtYan2qVgygYE4ZTMgitYO2Yr6NAqMhPpK4ItumNAD3BWUl8Z/s400/casey+cat2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720203867681954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixm5aLr6AFWjs8Kb9lAhKOGV6mvV6OM802-pN7dPo48uDvfkFeD4TtDHpUArO6gJbpp7s93cIJMeEM1XnxkVltUgHLItvHPm_gnzsxhD0s0QwzgBKRLKSrBVrn8Qch_j-80gWvT0JWTAGQ/s1600/ddd+open+wide.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixm5aLr6AFWjs8Kb9lAhKOGV6mvV6OM802-pN7dPo48uDvfkFeD4TtDHpUArO6gJbpp7s93cIJMeEM1XnxkVltUgHLItvHPm_gnzsxhD0s0QwzgBKRLKSrBVrn8Qch_j-80gWvT0JWTAGQ/s400/ddd+open+wide.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720192306136978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVQ0mOvJ21Ng4sRjL8Hpp5sMYaesgQ8emYdD3Nf8GxGLnvXVYYKmJa5nfDPAco1lAUTU2gmG3EIILQDtQLc7kipubPH8r8dO8P_2oMtwnOFnx86_GrfyOwdZltHiVLefR5oq65P9q49Abq/s1600/c+ryan+smallie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVQ0mOvJ21Ng4sRjL8Hpp5sMYaesgQ8emYdD3Nf8GxGLnvXVYYKmJa5nfDPAco1lAUTU2gmG3EIILQDtQLc7kipubPH8r8dO8P_2oMtwnOFnx86_GrfyOwdZltHiVLefR5oq65P9q49Abq/s400/c+ryan+smallie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720990668026402" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Smallie cancer?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjh5nyQFfD3-alMdqRYDAYOSRW2gBXNcm1z4xkzmJBT2DrjN1fmm_gw4aYjy1KW0XpaqbB5jlOQ0vXmzklMqh-SnK2ZCGmmIMQe8ApMAdA9fTMlQXqnxmdzVRbd-UCyQC5Su-EJRJQWfXp/s1600/d+smallie+sore.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 386px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjh5nyQFfD3-alMdqRYDAYOSRW2gBXNcm1z4xkzmJBT2DrjN1fmm_gw4aYjy1KW0XpaqbB5jlOQ0vXmzklMqh-SnK2ZCGmmIMQe8ApMAdA9fTMlQXqnxmdzVRbd-UCyQC5Su-EJRJQWfXp/s400/d+smallie+sore.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720980091928482" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Ryan had on a huge smallie. I'm guessing it was at least 20". He battled it for 10 minutes then lost it by the boat! Man o man, was he upset! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDym83ldMvQa6MMu7QJudsov09dDFS_z5n5ADc5LENBidaOXe2vASCZquCsyvSOuNrJGnZpzyB3w7duLuJI1UoLIHbyebw4Y4G9x-NgQx3X-Fo8v0zsM6w015xHowtbiTcY278sPLql_Of/s1600/e+ryan+battles+fish.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 367px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDym83ldMvQa6MMu7QJudsov09dDFS_z5n5ADc5LENBidaOXe2vASCZquCsyvSOuNrJGnZpzyB3w7duLuJI1UoLIHbyebw4Y4G9x-NgQx3X-Fo8v0zsM6w015xHowtbiTcY278sPLql_Of/s400/e+ryan+battles+fish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720966183688674" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Lucas battles one too, though not as big...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcjT77fmA0V3Ewi07tJzW3wVOJ261eNrA6tP4a2KrBxzvkKNpmOaMckjFUSLlsl4KBJbFvuQVLdojF5QQYQevTS2BIEMCNKSZ3F-P-gyuhiZvVEA-GadpLjT2TdLFgfCeIwRqyOakx6xF1/s1600/cc+lucas+battles+fish.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcjT77fmA0V3Ewi07tJzW3wVOJ261eNrA6tP4a2KrBxzvkKNpmOaMckjFUSLlsl4KBJbFvuQVLdojF5QQYQevTS2BIEMCNKSZ3F-P-gyuhiZvVEA-GadpLjT2TdLFgfCeIwRqyOakx6xF1/s400/cc+lucas+battles+fish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720934287453810" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYNIpBJly2IWistmITEgPikPR1V-UlTP9r5AxgsSVJACcjE_D8k2Nmknkekn2CqhB3D192g3YztvDlsNADJnDPQwByovM48iaeJaRoRQmapULKThZmXQrzEsmeG1JxcA4c3xPvwsEJ75v/s1600/ccc+lucas+smallie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYNIpBJly2IWistmITEgPikPR1V-UlTP9r5AxgsSVJACcjE_D8k2Nmknkekn2CqhB3D192g3YztvDlsNADJnDPQwByovM48iaeJaRoRQmapULKThZmXQrzEsmeG1JxcA4c3xPvwsEJ75v/s400/ccc+lucas+smallie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480720925666059442" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here's a sheephead I caught...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOVU6I4xf5hGF_rSCqE_22eFY7AexB4V6LBB1farI5MlGy7-_i23cDcCkD8Pj__dH7V0_ioqvAK69Ay7go1FBvAc43RWFfKcUEQHhYzyk5Kpb15AeOAaGGeggwYOlCLX0TSp6PI20WBxA/s1600/ffff+casey+drum.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOVU6I4xf5hGF_rSCqE_22eFY7AexB4V6LBB1farI5MlGy7-_i23cDcCkD8Pj__dH7V0_ioqvAK69Ay7go1FBvAc43RWFfKcUEQHhYzyk5Kpb15AeOAaGGeggwYOlCLX0TSp6PI20WBxA/s400/ffff+casey+drum.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480721747491293570" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Aaron caught this 20" smallie right in front of out camp working the current seam on a river rig and crawler...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnYZ1DbMP9r8R1fdJENXaLscD950lE3XLcNljawEjcpzmHPGycMVNkGcuyy7rSkYC7AETwZFh7VL3apnQpfosUySaZsZ9ZNukERgfQ1aKN5TMfWqO07p_Y-pUKmfYUr3N7hKmiaTh0Loky/s1600/eee+aaron+20+inch+smallie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnYZ1DbMP9r8R1fdJENXaLscD950lE3XLcNljawEjcpzmHPGycMVNkGcuyy7rSkYC7AETwZFh7VL3apnQpfosUySaZsZ9ZNukERgfQ1aKN5TMfWqO07p_Y-pUKmfYUr3N7hKmiaTh0Loky/s400/eee+aaron+20+inch+smallie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480721741000413346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMugUPmpHXO0e7npziFH9KdCmnOIInlINzPWn8-5KO6Ko8cVfFR6lFSTD5_rEiDQlKSYzsGliavWdts8xMpdF4FxgrUg943DJjjFTh5obbewhPJ-6bdYkkaadZw4uxyxavxdHyHU7AQOR/s1600/bb+casey+smallie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMugUPmpHXO0e7npziFH9KdCmnOIInlINzPWn8-5KO6Ko8cVfFR6lFSTD5_rEiDQlKSYzsGliavWdts8xMpdF4FxgrUg943DJjjFTh5obbewhPJ-6bdYkkaadZw4uxyxavxdHyHU7AQOR/s400/bb+casey+smallie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480721734370866146" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Genna even went out with us. but she was more interested in reading her book. She did manage a couple fish though...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCUuZW5GizvZSKVtTSLmfGd91NHPM-kbfgmFWox7v0NLmKxSOi3lgcay9x_BtfGbI0tEXZ_WHB_RwjiAMe1e7sKVLtxQIDbbXKSTuHtbMKmekDHaUdEJKKrPa-zxw5pbQqkElLT09kf87/s1600/f+genna+redhorse.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCUuZW5GizvZSKVtTSLmfGd91NHPM-kbfgmFWox7v0NLmKxSOi3lgcay9x_BtfGbI0tEXZ_WHB_RwjiAMe1e7sKVLtxQIDbbXKSTuHtbMKmekDHaUdEJKKrPa-zxw5pbQqkElLT09kf87/s400/f+genna+redhorse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480721724560502098" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And she broke one of my rods too...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSX0vlHsIlNIo1_EsASlyod8aNTzcLWXuzpIB_ibF8wTm9aO7GMgc_OZwYxP50ihZIEsCZLlBZLl1A_XOVeas1V_XNPEYdR0p0Y18ryQ0TzU3FfxGxFa64k7GqvbZUd0itdGDe2N8s5dl/s1600/ff+genna+breaks+rod.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSX0vlHsIlNIo1_EsASlyod8aNTzcLWXuzpIB_ibF8wTm9aO7GMgc_OZwYxP50ihZIEsCZLlBZLl1A_XOVeas1V_XNPEYdR0p0Y18ryQ0TzU3FfxGxFa64k7GqvbZUd0itdGDe2N8s5dl/s400/ff+genna+breaks+rod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480721715576160130" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Lucas was very proud of this catfish he caught on shore just below camp. It was delicious! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqBire0wgphRwwMm2WsxEnc9y1GOms1R7j6B3dmlQc3b0RiwuIhsRmSymKRznjpiLDrJ34g4hWX3SG8gX4w_brdIWOmZe-XeRW5V31uTIIA_bRElMgCkAdTsX774wnuDyDtTP7osOujhF/s1600/ee+lucas+cat2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqBire0wgphRwwMm2WsxEnc9y1GOms1R7j6B3dmlQc3b0RiwuIhsRmSymKRznjpiLDrJ34g4hWX3SG8gX4w_brdIWOmZe-XeRW5V31uTIIA_bRElMgCkAdTsX774wnuDyDtTP7osOujhF/s400/ee+lucas+cat2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480722623565515074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0L1x3g2YATSl2MIhirLZWvRkXqygFbRVIg_47x8zn0YgXmeJewRXDtWmwBgQuAFM_eXqIGvo2w8V0hzT0n1-1MJEN6p8l2XisfZIyUhotjjaYCAABhbdN75hzcoqmNF5eBQ4XKC9e47Y/s1600/dd+crayfish+in+smallie+mouth.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0L1x3g2YATSl2MIhirLZWvRkXqygFbRVIg_47x8zn0YgXmeJewRXDtWmwBgQuAFM_eXqIGvo2w8V0hzT0n1-1MJEN6p8l2XisfZIyUhotjjaYCAABhbdN75hzcoqmNF5eBQ4XKC9e47Y/s400/dd+crayfish+in+smallie+mouth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480722617749763554" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Now it's time for the Nygren family vacation! Friday morning my family and Mitch's family are meeting at the Deckert's (friends from church) lake cabin in Ottertail county for a whole week of relaxation and fishing, hours and hours and hours of fishing! We will return the following saturday. There are plenty of good lakes around the area and I have researched some of them for walleyes, bass, norhterns, and panfish. Weather looks to be unsettled with rain and thunderstorms possible so we'll have to deal with all that, but still, I'm sure we'll still get in lot's of fishing and good times with family.Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-33345455792787213472010-05-31T23:15:00.000-07:002010-05-31T23:59:10.685-07:00A Labor Day visit to the arboretumIt was a beautiful day, Memorial Day was, with sunny skies and low humidity, so me and my family visited the Minnesota Landscape arboretum. I injured my back earlier in the day and it proved to be quite tender while walking around. At the time of injury I wasn't doing anything too strenuous, just turned my torso a certain way while standing and POP! This same thing happens like every year, so it will probably take a week before it completely heals. So anyway,being early in the year yet the arboretum wasn't at peak color by any means, but there was enough color and texture there to make things interesting and did manage to take lots of pictures while I was there...<br /><br />Valerie...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SwRq4JwzrmRJgi0mAxrVtLz6jiHlPmEYf6Wre6qaFV04iy6D4_UfWvHjIQuAdX1ShBfakflaiyLxfPLMPhIaypW753ZpWPyOCePUgJpjrIKO40JlTVm12GXbPz2GjItNW8DqeIkoEqvc/s1600/n+val.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SwRq4JwzrmRJgi0mAxrVtLz6jiHlPmEYf6Wre6qaFV04iy6D4_UfWvHjIQuAdX1ShBfakflaiyLxfPLMPhIaypW753ZpWPyOCePUgJpjrIKO40JlTVm12GXbPz2GjItNW8DqeIkoEqvc/s400/n+val.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477690105765684562" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Genna...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVGwhirvZ9os-KRx0efzEgPAdvnC6p1Bo0BbsN4hBkuXhDc1R1s24PhFnyglXnLRMj1NSkTsm2KSmhvXOn9MM5XCuVLqYTrB0e6NTL6nErt6l7vxw3IUbpCtUACMzjKTePypTXdIlGL8N/s1600/nnn+genna.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVGwhirvZ9os-KRx0efzEgPAdvnC6p1Bo0BbsN4hBkuXhDc1R1s24PhFnyglXnLRMj1NSkTsm2KSmhvXOn9MM5XCuVLqYTrB0e6NTL6nErt6l7vxw3IUbpCtUACMzjKTePypTXdIlGL8N/s400/nnn+genna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477690101985129410" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And Lucas...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHAv4vAx4zk6ZmYbV8YBlOkf5UmE6Bknupevwhr7qx-wC5R8CIfiTtMTXMWoUpFHqsF-LAZU88WgagddhmWMJGwzh3eYEoE3MucpDsnJUqjcNmI2AA-f-TraXm4VVOkKR9Q-toH9XMKWx/s1600/nn+lucas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHAv4vAx4zk6ZmYbV8YBlOkf5UmE6Bknupevwhr7qx-wC5R8CIfiTtMTXMWoUpFHqsF-LAZU88WgagddhmWMJGwzh3eYEoE3MucpDsnJUqjcNmI2AA-f-TraXm4VVOkKR9Q-toH9XMKWx/s400/nn+lucas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477690101069758978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkdjTQH7zKHte2urntdjSsWoqOv0RA18P6bJII6xYhAxpBelHLCOqciDnA9-GFYzbaZUDuSrCtTaVMhlxfIBktSB-_l98djIbvk4ieTwoXUkAU7Fkfaa1ZkkREAV1nNc5-Yy1RtUprTjv/s1600/l+flower.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJ8J_4V7Z4sQ-WX7h56mRUx6AHlxPo-o41LHM8gAlhp1CW5rA7nnfphaA6G5FYm3AlzZTk38GjXvVgQLpKknZezaImvBdFnGbvsRYq0cWXyLS4zwbHHF_p1DefOOWfMp11GFpGzfEl5s8/s400/c+flower.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477692827372206738" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-70533643357688952692010-05-24T06:10:00.000-07:002010-05-25T04:01:02.810-07:00Fantastic week of fishingMonday morning the 17th of May I got up at 2:30 in the morning and started driving to Lake of the Woods for some walleye fishing. I met my buddy Jim Schwandt and his son Dallas up there. They have a cabin right on the lake about a mile from Morris Point; it has got to be one of the best spots to have a cabin...very close to good fishing, and you can't beat the lake view!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiT0eG6Ai9ahO6KLZVRELo8aylcjZ-zBID7IUdM0zz1RMpvYXihlnO335dnXNKXNB695wNtZG3eIR8EbZsVHDAjeKcn7pzYIyyPA9l4-yx3qleGOCbBrF3z_E1ms6o3JnSOY0gFco9jyZ/s1600/A+lakeview.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiT0eG6Ai9ahO6KLZVRELo8aylcjZ-zBID7IUdM0zz1RMpvYXihlnO335dnXNKXNB695wNtZG3eIR8EbZsVHDAjeKcn7pzYIyyPA9l4-yx3qleGOCbBrF3z_E1ms6o3JnSOY0gFco9jyZ/s400/A+lakeview.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474991873942167042" border="0" /></a><div><br />I did three days up there for opener last year and the fishing was amazing with several big walleyes caught. </div><br />With Jimbo, it's alway's vertical jigging with some slip bobbering thrown in. We always anchor up too. We never drift. Last year we had good luck vertical jigging and slip bobbering live and frozen spottail shiners, they weren't very big, about 1.5"-2" long, but they worked great. I was eager to give my new 9 foot Shimano Clarus jigging rod (with medium fast tip) a real workout too; I bought it last year specifically for vertical jigging those LOTW walleyes. The rod was coupled with my brand new Pfleuger President reel spooled with 8lb. Gamma copolymer and a short shank red/glow Fireball jig on the business end....Now I am ready to catch walleyes!<br /><br />Monday me and Jim tried one spot in 17 FOW and caught some small walleyes which we didn't care for, so we tried 24 FOW and started catching some nicer fish in the 15-22" class then went in for dinner. For the evening Jim's son Dallas came with us. We anchored up shallow closer to the gap in 16 FOW to catch the walleyes as they moved shallower to feed at night, and we did good there. Dallas caught 23" and 25" walleyes on a slip bobber while me and Jim caught more in that 14-19" class vertical jigging.<br /><div> </div><br />The next day me and Jim (Dallas went home) tried a spot by Pine island where some boats were stacked up, but we didn't catch a thing. Jim heard of a spot four miles out in 28 FOW for a good mid-day bite, so we decided to give it a try. The walleyes were there, out in the middle of nowhere it seemed, and they were eager to bite.<br /><br />At this point I was having a real tough time hooking up; plenty of bites, but few fish. I soon solved the problem. Here's the situation. With those LOTW walleyes you have to get you're presentation right on the bottom...I mean a half an inch! They don't want to chase anything, and they don't like a whole lot of movement either. What I would do is let it sit very close to the bottom for 30-45 seconds, then either shake the tip up and down or snap the tip once or twice, being careful not to get the jig up too high. Then when I got a bite I let 'em take it for quite some time. Like at least 30 seconds, and then when you thought you let 'em have it long enough, let 'em have it some more. The reason I struggled getting hookups was the minnows we were using this year were quite a bit longer than the ones we used last year, hence they didn't work well on the short shank fireball jig....I always seemed to set the hook too early. I decided try tie on a long shank hook then asked Jimbo how he hooked up his minnows; he taught me to go through the mouth out the gillplate and hook it transversely through the back. It looked really funky...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87UhUXapoAVWqChddlLniKzKmEpnF9l_2XqtAgYcDAk5Nz1qB8qKM78cS5vVrXDHVsVSj9Iewfh_YDF_jZ1vJ_ew29ZZ_0kkwswD3LA-QqYlwpryX7Hm87vyqEL0dbAzaEub9Ou6QINbi/s1600/A+jig+and+minnow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87UhUXapoAVWqChddlLniKzKmEpnF9l_2XqtAgYcDAk5Nz1qB8qKM78cS5vVrXDHVsVSj9Iewfh_YDF_jZ1vJ_ew29ZZ_0kkwswD3LA-QqYlwpryX7Hm87vyqEL0dbAzaEub9Ou6QINbi/s400/A+jig+and+minnow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474991881272104786" border="0" /></a>...but Jim always catches fish like crazy so I gave it a try, and instantly my hookups percentage increased! I also found that by loading the rod tip after getting a bite made the walleye more reluctant to let go, so that helped too. (I encountered yet another problem-line twist. It took me awhile to figure out that it was due to the newfangled way of hooking the minnow onto the jig. It helicoptored as it came up from the lake bottom. I had to tie on a barrel swivel followed by a 3 foot section of the Gamma then the jig and the line twist stopped.)<br /><br />So anyway, we caught walleyes and saugers too, one after another for three hours in 28 FOW before the bite died down. We went in, had dinner and fished the shallow evening spot where we caught even more walleyes.<br /><br />Jim went home wednesday morning and I fished by myself in my little red boat for the next two days. I discovered that by six in the afternoon the walleyes moved shallower, they came through in a wave at 18 FOW, then I would move up to 16 FOW once that things quieted down at 18 FOW. And that was the pattern for the rest of my trip up there...shallow for the morn, then deep, then shallow, then shallower. I used my GPS to get to established areas of active fish depending on time of day. Wednesday it was fairly quiet and I caught only 20 walleyes, one being 26" @ 18 FOW. Thursday I caught 42 walleyes, the most active spot being at 16 FOW from 7 to 8 pm. I figure that the four days I was up there we caught at least a couple hundred walleyes. They weren't as big as last year, probably due to the fact of a much earlier ice out this year, but many decent eater walleyes nonetheless.<br /><br />Here's the pictures I took of the Lake of the Woods portion of my trip (I hit a lake on the way home for big bluegills that was dynamite, so there is much more to come!)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWH48jnKyhc97C-Zijn-XjB3GRd6uAgaIQNYsQCmNpz3OjCo6vt2IkSJ88G2TTprPEMchODdmGvaUj6J3FF6BN41wLPAVbicwJ3hyphenhyphenVWu67O9t9Z-7EM_uOc_LJBgQS8-yIg9fv7y_EQAtn/s1600/A+walleye+portrait.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWH48jnKyhc97C-Zijn-XjB3GRd6uAgaIQNYsQCmNpz3OjCo6vt2IkSJ88G2TTprPEMchODdmGvaUj6J3FF6BN41wLPAVbicwJ3hyphenhyphenVWu67O9t9Z-7EM_uOc_LJBgQS8-yIg9fv7y_EQAtn/s400/A+walleye+portrait.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474995442926646130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKv8s0CyDl9RQdLozZU4a9wNZggdveJDpyfJlPbXY0Uabe_B3Ye_uM-k-yhhC_syXlDh4DvY2NtfMAF9M7hsBjdzqjAl3J90uRkToNdgtpkS4EA85DjLLSkr2M21WVDq0oHr4hA5Z8pT1p/s1600/C+walleye+macro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKv8s0CyDl9RQdLozZU4a9wNZggdveJDpyfJlPbXY0Uabe_B3Ye_uM-k-yhhC_syXlDh4DvY2NtfMAF9M7hsBjdzqjAl3J90uRkToNdgtpkS4EA85DjLLSkr2M21WVDq0oHr4hA5Z8pT1p/s400/C+walleye+macro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474995434923478370" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Walleyes look so cool close up!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kTbgh0DnDPcEw7JOlQCQ14xKJOt9e5epW8nWFkfZKLoKfFNYYH_a1irwHQ7oayG9xxezpmqQxfz7ahI61GQ6AEJYtjx29sMLOBwZRMLcpB-sk7z8CUBq6qUVXo47hKf60nn0i_uoKf9s/s1600/D+walleye+macro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kTbgh0DnDPcEw7JOlQCQ14xKJOt9e5epW8nWFkfZKLoKfFNYYH_a1irwHQ7oayG9xxezpmqQxfz7ahI61GQ6AEJYtjx29sMLOBwZRMLcpB-sk7z8CUBq6qUVXo47hKf60nn0i_uoKf9s/s400/D+walleye+macro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474995434375911698" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7UU9cf-PdphD6ML0OpldXGqAAn_V2XCmfuH_V6QjCHUsfOftwN1hr3VhLCqbPk5z5P-vBOt2wrUGJcf00Ia9FgvVyBINNdMNA8oSCGK6WOYuMWeR5cmD70bU5zMMqhvYZKHN0IoFI6nd/s1600/E+walleye+macro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7UU9cf-PdphD6ML0OpldXGqAAn_V2XCmfuH_V6QjCHUsfOftwN1hr3VhLCqbPk5z5P-vBOt2wrUGJcf00Ia9FgvVyBINNdMNA8oSCGK6WOYuMWeR5cmD70bU5zMMqhvYZKHN0IoFI6nd/s400/E+walleye+macro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474995424658745890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBX-bXSVtgI5ZUXK8fTi931h0FMV3-mlo7SFiNqKsR19Glk8hTEAlb-MsFN20HN3Whowkm3pwbmzrY-vC6tWXys_UMrvwna6c0mv0P3Gt17Xd-9WmoA0PS2Ov287hYVef2q7Sp3Fo6joIu/s1600/I+walleye+on+arm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBX-bXSVtgI5ZUXK8fTi931h0FMV3-mlo7SFiNqKsR19Glk8hTEAlb-MsFN20HN3Whowkm3pwbmzrY-vC6tWXys_UMrvwna6c0mv0P3Gt17Xd-9WmoA0PS2Ov287hYVef2q7Sp3Fo6joIu/s400/I+walleye+on+arm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474995419723995266" border="0" /></a><br /><br />These next three pictures are of the 26" walleye I caught. The first picture was all washed out so I did some photo editing to give it some color...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXkosBW2rTLMObaGotYvf_td3uGGcitARkWEyKzE3JUZBztdHoL0oL-qKQPYvOtvw3KdfBM8ecPFvPwmvYG560zo0t9GgrA4Io_xx5bmyMerHE9Q3S97P045c78u4iwhMknkis4KdpHQx/s1600/G+26+inch+walleye.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXkosBW2rTLMObaGotYvf_td3uGGcitARkWEyKzE3JUZBztdHoL0oL-qKQPYvOtvw3KdfBM8ecPFvPwmvYG560zo0t9GgrA4Io_xx5bmyMerHE9Q3S97P045c78u4iwhMknkis4KdpHQx/s400/G+26+inch+walleye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474996549575477842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQo0mXQS7FmmO0s1oxb0_uzQpCZbXMVEQJZF87RUw_NCc5uG708l5HKY-BJYgKJiMqDpQkcfNCmg6JZUwxmd7dpkNCgsigv0wYbUzkZ0E9F3m-UPsIQ6_FS-8gKXWAcqW4UiDH74DgF8j8/s1600/H+26+inch+walleye2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQo0mXQS7FmmO0s1oxb0_uzQpCZbXMVEQJZF87RUw_NCc5uG708l5HKY-BJYgKJiMqDpQkcfNCmg6JZUwxmd7dpkNCgsigv0wYbUzkZ0E9F3m-UPsIQ6_FS-8gKXWAcqW4UiDH74DgF8j8/s400/H+26+inch+walleye2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474996539526866914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAOeCSPxCAWng8YtpDmU48bYjTjiZfdKZjS0RboJVuk6sGD-K9tNNUinmMzkFaO9pr5df0e1G-btN-4ZJ7oV4Hmf-1JEaAhsMxwOwOZ3rb340GtGLMSbd9ps6eGz8X9kbUSJI_F1ji92I/s1600/HH+26+inch+walleye.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAOeCSPxCAWng8YtpDmU48bYjTjiZfdKZjS0RboJVuk6sGD-K9tNNUinmMzkFaO9pr5df0e1G-btN-4ZJ7oV4Hmf-1JEaAhsMxwOwOZ3rb340GtGLMSbd9ps6eGz8X9kbUSJI_F1ji92I/s400/HH+26+inch+walleye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474996534526034978" border="0" /></a><br />Perch eye...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_S6jvnbmseoz1XwQsYKEEOmfEXz4X71WI59bMuF2srfnKM9IgGtCv1O7N4yb8q57fJJ24akoSgP0w56AvrqJqYUgPmQQRKriA_PoBdtlpldnDLNQ9gcBVuwEzAPrFQHaohooZtLpCore/s1600/J+perch+eye.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXAyZiosYx7jmXZ0d3Lwpyg4H2YE7p0RpTGcQJQGiFPaDgepzVRX5i7oxPVoSov6HupVMdV8ojylHpsS6xjgAfLyGeF2t7rEMuutPJGfVDxHDjTWkA4gzGoH5tyb-FZXP4v85R1QVyBlv/s400/K+walleye+macro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475000238457547490" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwphMvpcoO_OrbI6xxjqITspHubp3WGCPkqjY4KqcNxxp6gcq0gL8IJjXSSUwVvT32ZhEyqqjntoE6ZaAg_sIdwydjDMIEAPME2Z7VfjwruILdRo-csUIaHLsjqzoJIE2CX8Mqlz8_-bQp/s1600/L+walleye+macro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwphMvpcoO_OrbI6xxjqITspHubp3WGCPkqjY4KqcNxxp6gcq0gL8IJjXSSUwVvT32ZhEyqqjntoE6ZaAg_sIdwydjDMIEAPME2Z7VfjwruILdRo-csUIaHLsjqzoJIE2CX8Mqlz8_-bQp/s400/L+walleye+macro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475000230787237602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihektAqw7OPLyqOsXmzzkgqAK8MRX_i1U1NMeVuQbNhtJydIfQmEyVMBhwPE0OE0l0SjbgaOuAbiB2xg_2TYINXZ8c9yirV6xPiKLSKyhd0b6d0cSrI2nS4GNZJPW8xmO4jqYJlZCmDCfd/s1600/M+walleye+macro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihektAqw7OPLyqOsXmzzkgqAK8MRX_i1U1NMeVuQbNhtJydIfQmEyVMBhwPE0OE0l0SjbgaOuAbiB2xg_2TYINXZ8c9yirV6xPiKLSKyhd0b6d0cSrI2nS4GNZJPW8xmO4jqYJlZCmDCfd/s400/M+walleye+macro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475000220329112066" border="0" /></a><br />By the way, the weather was beautiful all week long, with sunny to partly cloudy skies, and mild winds for the most part. You couldn't ask for more perfect weather; well, we could have benefited from a bit more wind though, to produce a "walleye chop", but regardless, the fishing was still really good. Just about the time the sun got close to the horizon the warm colors dancing on the water was just beyond description. These snapshots don't do it justice...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwh3jjsO8iPRXHUIPaEDFOyAdikCgWEMub5WCl1l1zy65jfsKkoenqQo4T48Vhvxa0Iv2HQBYCsgbVQE7uhS9jn8ahg5fGw0HXhnGALHPJsG_NDySlpns-H-PPtsHPRgWdE4wGdBooS-y/s1600/FF+sunset.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwh3jjsO8iPRXHUIPaEDFOyAdikCgWEMub5WCl1l1zy65jfsKkoenqQo4T48Vhvxa0Iv2HQBYCsgbVQE7uhS9jn8ahg5fGw0HXhnGALHPJsG_NDySlpns-H-PPtsHPRgWdE4wGdBooS-y/s400/FF+sunset.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475000252643054178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSyXMLwvvUxhD7bEGdCWZYEKkELZi48Op2Nii27mo7EcGOwO_9Ngk-35dmHeTjUvElAnWiIiYXGlBayZvqsXm15cojS45_Nl0bt3LzFllRiarcxRb6KKY1CGAQ1DQW-2biMYrI4Svjypft/s1600/F+sunset.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSyXMLwvvUxhD7bEGdCWZYEKkELZi48Op2Nii27mo7EcGOwO_9Ngk-35dmHeTjUvElAnWiIiYXGlBayZvqsXm15cojS45_Nl0bt3LzFllRiarcxRb6KKY1CGAQ1DQW-2biMYrI4Svjypft/s400/F+sunset.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475000245595210226" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The plan was, I would fish monday through thursday at LOTW, and then hit a Bemidji area lake on the way home for some large panfish. Andy told me of a lake I should try, so I researched it and studied the lakemap and thought that I had a good chance of getting into some good fish.<br /><br />I left the cabin around 5AM in the morn and arrived at the lake around 7ish. The lake was 4 miles long, and I thought I would to try the far end of the lake, thinking it would not be as pressured as the south end where the launch was. I got all four of my panfish rigs all ready to go and started searching. I started fishing a deep hole, but that didn't produce so I started working the shallows, starting out a couple hundred feet from shore and working my way in. I didn't get anything except a pike bite off and a perch, so I started working the shoreline, casting in with T.H.E. jig under a float.<br /><br />After working the shoreline for fifteen minutes I made my way onto new ground. I cast toward shore and instantly my float pops. I set the hook and fish on. It was a huge bluegill over 9 inches long! Was it just a fluke? I casted out again and BAM! another big bluegill! Wow, I was amazed at how fat and tall these gills were. I continued to fish there catching at least twenty gills, not much under 9 inches with a couple close to the 10 inch mark. And the fought hard! I discovered they were concentrated in that one area relating to some emergent lily pads.<br /><br />Once things died down there I started working the shore again and found another active spot a hundred yards away with the same results, big, fat bluegills! I even popped a couple crappies, although they weren't too big. Again, the fish were relating to some emergent lily pads. That spot wasn't as good as the last, so I worked my way down some more and found an area, almost a small point, that held lots of big bluegills with some crappies mixed it. By this time the fish were active enough to take my tight line offerings of Charlie Brewer Slider tails. I caught a 10 inch bluegill at that spot too! I had a chance use my 9' Shimano Clarus rod with a Tica UL reel and it was a blast catching big gills on it. Very versatile rod.<br /><br />After 2-3 hours of great panfishing they seemed to disappear from those spots. I tried a few other spots but couldn't connect. I had my fun with huge bluegills, now I wanted to find some slab crappies and was drawn to a little backwater bay that had some murky water. By now it's getting late in the day, probably five o'clock, and the sky is starting to darken with what, a storm? I started working the shore with the Slider, catching the occasional bull bluegill, when I cast parallel to the shore but out about 30-40 feet from shore...BAM! crappie! It wasn't a slab, but were they in here thick? I cast again BAM! another crappie. Now I know I am onto something. I cast to the same spot and continued to catch more crappies, but they were not big. I decided to switch up to a white 2" Berkley Power minnow to see if I could get some bigger ones to bite and sure enough on my first offering the crappie was bigger than any I caught thus far, about 10". The Power Minnow was the ticket to catching bigger crappies. So the crappie fishing was really good there catching one after another in the 10-11" class when I look back and see the clouds looking even more threatening. I got to nine crappies in my keeper basket and I decided to head back to the launch, even though there was still 2-3 hours of sunlight left. I didn't want to get caught on the lake in a lightning storm. It turns out those clouds were just that. No storm! DANG IT I missed out on some great crappie action, wondering how many monster crappies I COULD have caught! 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Never caught one that big on open water<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju07B_jJd2o1utztMgrrAzW9jM0gZTBMNKSjGYszAZ9S6607GADBFRM-fJoS4cWd55aRWg0EcKN05FjMQXumNX4AXq_-72tiG5qZqN2GhhK9KW-Z-nBpKat_-EcgyMHxq0TnP56Gc0Orc4/s1600/ZZ+10+inch+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju07B_jJd2o1utztMgrrAzW9jM0gZTBMNKSjGYszAZ9S6607GADBFRM-fJoS4cWd55aRWg0EcKN05FjMQXumNX4AXq_-72tiG5qZqN2GhhK9KW-Z-nBpKat_-EcgyMHxq0TnP56Gc0Orc4/s400/ZZ+10+inch+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475022589951633458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaix58ydIK1x_hwrtDvOkbgxyyCGb8D1dGJGaDBka_2P3fzOXj0uQogbe6Zpa1g-HlKKaeIJHiX-7wxJ2xGw2VNzy7zIl4T_XKgMKw7e0CUpDukwd9P2ztrzDEIt5Wbfq6WYKEaZd_EWl_/s1600/RRRR+gill+in+hand.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaix58ydIK1x_hwrtDvOkbgxyyCGb8D1dGJGaDBka_2P3fzOXj0uQogbe6Zpa1g-HlKKaeIJHiX-7wxJ2xGw2VNzy7zIl4T_XKgMKw7e0CUpDukwd9P2ztrzDEIt5Wbfq6WYKEaZd_EWl_/s400/RRRR+gill+in+hand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475159880492879602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSTs0mU19lUkTyPT6GUB1UfIs7gxt4SuqORHDZv4OzHZlPIyunY_IQN3Bxjv3yOtRrX-o8UdKpW7xPUIW3MI4Ild8_zXzxChppBB2G4awjqeNfwTiySq5B9Bxw_w8CBBLO-zxMGFzJ-UOe/s1600/RRR+gill+in+hand.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSTs0mU19lUkTyPT6GUB1UfIs7gxt4SuqORHDZv4OzHZlPIyunY_IQN3Bxjv3yOtRrX-o8UdKpW7xPUIW3MI4Ild8_zXzxChppBB2G4awjqeNfwTiySq5B9Bxw_w8CBBLO-zxMGFzJ-UOe/s400/RRR+gill+in+hand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475159879231555506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5o_4WKqyyfk8zpyOjROcPT5jzHEJK-wlbffI1ienTLH0d-iwE-bHb_jnw7m24QOL3v5Js7KCEUzdqjvRk3sL24bob_RbvkP02lLJX7H8jSO3aX3z5K7oSSgo8aJWd2NT9aAb5WyJv4An/s1600/YY+gill+and+jig.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5o_4WKqyyfk8zpyOjROcPT5jzHEJK-wlbffI1ienTLH0d-iwE-bHb_jnw7m24QOL3v5Js7KCEUzdqjvRk3sL24bob_RbvkP02lLJX7H8jSO3aX3z5K7oSSgo8aJWd2NT9aAb5WyJv4An/s400/YY+gill+and+jig.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475022581969085074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjORwl241V9WyGSedII8TpyP5iwf9HkpoZlYfZNRZolinen_PabDXYeZqFmVjzP5jwezsPe9TKwJvyvb1OLEwS71kb2t8sUGCHmdHuypJKcdonwOnrV_lKzXqVRkU0oj_Lk2sea6PtgFEEV/s1600/ZZZZ+crappie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjORwl241V9WyGSedII8TpyP5iwf9HkpoZlYfZNRZolinen_PabDXYeZqFmVjzP5jwezsPe9TKwJvyvb1OLEwS71kb2t8sUGCHmdHuypJKcdonwOnrV_lKzXqVRkU0oj_Lk2sea6PtgFEEV/s400/ZZZZ+crappie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475023436781615426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRWSUQGd6G5qvAi3doe-SJcyM41sAXz_l5y7P9hX732H1b0R9ACEmLLFqU46dAgGHkRI2ckzUdAjk4rT_qII5cq4bBpFj5kpWWQoL7xq9bLzs9L0BC1bH0NyIC7JwyMd_pv7qe9XN0owh/s1600/ZZZZZZ+crappie+and+water.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRWSUQGd6G5qvAi3doe-SJcyM41sAXz_l5y7P9hX732H1b0R9ACEmLLFqU46dAgGHkRI2ckzUdAjk4rT_qII5cq4bBpFj5kpWWQoL7xq9bLzs9L0BC1bH0NyIC7JwyMd_pv7qe9XN0owh/s400/ZZZZZZ+crappie+and+water.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475023437924822322" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-75443905393052324872010-05-15T19:31:00.000-07:002010-05-15T20:16:05.542-07:00Ryan catches a forty inch muskie!Even though it was the 2010 walleye opener I didn't want to fish today at all, but my nephew Ryan stayed over night and really wanted to get out fishing. I relented and reluctantly brought him along with Genna and Lucas to Lake Waconia. I was dang crabby all day long! I had been in contact with Mike Thompson and he said he would be out there in the pontoon with a bunch of GEM kids. We were fishing between the marina's, not catching much but some small panfish. We saw one dude had on a huge fish which turned out to be a muskie, quite large too. <br /><br />Lucas and Ryan were not content with panfish, and wanted to go trolling for bigger game (we knew there was a possibility of a token muskie). So Lucas was using a Buzzbait and Ryan a Chatterbait. We were trolling along in front of the marina in about 12 FOW when something smacked Ryan's Chatterbait. It didn't take but a few seconds for me to realize it was a muskie! He fought it like a pro for close to ten minutes and we got it in. 40 inches. Well, it measured 39" but I forgot to pinch the tail! Lucas filmed with Ryan's camera, you can paste the link into your browser to see the vid. I'll warn you that the fish wasn't handled all that well with some squirming in the bottom of the boat plus a couple drops...ooops! We released her and she swam away relatively unharmed so that's good. Ryan was very proud of his muskie. I don't know what it is about my dead brother's kids....they always catch big fish! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgav8V-VtE1LOkHp-kLKfQAYNtTIiW-40il_VqLzOz59BT4QGtNesrfmFTudrhhrbQXKZJ6KRieUnTMZBbKfzeOxJ-iHfos1rs6bMTPvmrl_kFe0v5AyGxtmf0Z2P1rNGzvlgbUYSyP5E1_/s1600/muskie1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgav8V-VtE1LOkHp-kLKfQAYNtTIiW-40il_VqLzOz59BT4QGtNesrfmFTudrhhrbQXKZJ6KRieUnTMZBbKfzeOxJ-iHfos1rs6bMTPvmrl_kFe0v5AyGxtmf0Z2P1rNGzvlgbUYSyP5E1_/s400/muskie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471696208570628530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-MeP6DtcMlo0jQA1OG3a9HfgmuQPVf-XaRJUVV52JniJmlQ8sLFcG_BKpvNlq_0gz2CFgti89_UlhyphenhyphenWJ7oxOjKCxjdiC2Z42J2IDSxyOxwj__-yjku-BvWGdNoDwWomHzZSdMTNxTQXTs/s1600/ryan+muskie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-MeP6DtcMlo0jQA1OG3a9HfgmuQPVf-XaRJUVV52JniJmlQ8sLFcG_BKpvNlq_0gz2CFgti89_UlhyphenhyphenWJ7oxOjKCxjdiC2Z42J2IDSxyOxwj__-yjku-BvWGdNoDwWomHzZSdMTNxTQXTs/s400/ryan+muskie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471696203999234066" border="0" /></a><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9XCXm_jLVg<br /><br />This next picture is from Lucas. He composed the elements and took the picture. I don't know what it's all about but it's pretty important to him so I had better post it!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlODPK_mBZu_bVctH9q6I3i1GN9TAZBFDUScc3zO7UFPkVRGI_vbm5-gG759eVyE7WSlfe-LcMWhPNh_PT5qLZ0dJLYyBU35WMIDEkENPCbY4KKoB5jVt-jlKqfDzPWGrIme_GICYBA-5/s1600/luke+and+fathead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlODPK_mBZu_bVctH9q6I3i1GN9TAZBFDUScc3zO7UFPkVRGI_vbm5-gG759eVyE7WSlfe-LcMWhPNh_PT5qLZ0dJLYyBU35WMIDEkENPCbY4KKoB5jVt-jlKqfDzPWGrIme_GICYBA-5/s400/luke+and+fathead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471696202045504338" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-69255447092016380642010-05-12T03:31:00.000-07:002010-05-12T04:19:21.398-07:00getting things ready for opener week!The 2010 fishing opener is this saturday but I really don't have any plans to go out opener day. I used to do opener day up in Cambridge with Mitch. But now that the Lord has called him home I just don't have any desire to fish that day, at least not this year. I might go chase some panfish somewhere, but that's about it. Maybe next year I'll find a lake I can fish on the opener. <br /><br />The real fun begins monday morning when I blast off for Lake of the Woods for a few days. I'll be meeting Jim Schwandt at his cabin right on the south shore of the lake. I'll definitely get my fill of walleye fishing up there. Right now weather looks to be favorable. The plan is, to head up there with my boat early monday morning, fish through thursday, then get up early on friday and hit a lake on the way home in the Bemidji area. I have a lake in mind that boasts trophy bluegills and crappies. I plan on exploring that lake and fishing it all day long. It looks to be a secluded lake with very very little lake shore property. So if I fish it on friday, my guess is that I'll pretty much have the lake all to myself. Plus, if the weather is warm all week, the panfish will probably be in the shallows.<br /><br />However the fishing is though, I will cherish the friday when I fish that secluded lake surrounded by the beauty and quiet of God's creation. It should be a great week, and my camera will be working overtime to get some awesome pictures. Until then I am just getting all my stuff together and organized...Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-86994403140232431782010-05-08T05:05:00.000-07:002010-05-08T05:16:59.082-07:00Cold damp weather...I knew I would be busy over the weekend, so I got out for a couple hours in my float tube after work today, friday. It was cool, cloudy, with showers here and there. The curly leaf pond weed on this lake is making it more and more difficult to fish...man, I hate that stuff!!! The fishing wasn't all that great either, the weeds making a good place for the fish to get snuggled in with the cool weather. I did coax a few hungry fish though, some anemic crappies, gills, perch, and tiny bass. Here's a couple decent gills I caught...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TQ0GegIVGEu0j-scUkBCh19Fa_CUn435BkIJH5u7gRjIUVQ7czzruvY9pZcRxQ0OYxYEMXT_URX6cV42G-Sc3d9GI7phPodVeXW4drL-kBtsORKJkkot1WNTLpokMtmKzf1VfS1jNIgG/s1600/a+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TQ0GegIVGEu0j-scUkBCh19Fa_CUn435BkIJH5u7gRjIUVQ7czzruvY9pZcRxQ0OYxYEMXT_URX6cV42G-Sc3d9GI7phPodVeXW4drL-kBtsORKJkkot1WNTLpokMtmKzf1VfS1jNIgG/s400/a+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468871738936428098" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOWv5iHb_lbXxYRulphoeVTqSExrZNoZP8PGQ8py-t3WWqr0utSPTMFb8354F7qQVTNWRdOtogfOIYXMzMqcplvdxL2D06pJTIlR_L9uxSfvHdWr7HGlalF_XH1jEGiARx_cK6Ws5JGuj/s1600/b+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOWv5iHb_lbXxYRulphoeVTqSExrZNoZP8PGQ8py-t3WWqr0utSPTMFb8354F7qQVTNWRdOtogfOIYXMzMqcplvdxL2D06pJTIlR_L9uxSfvHdWr7HGlalF_XH1jEGiARx_cK6Ws5JGuj/s400/b+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468871736277759682" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-47722105807505006952010-05-04T04:26:00.000-07:002010-05-04T06:41:44.243-07:00Saturday tubin' with MTSaturday was a very windy day and I didn't think I would get out fishin', but then, I like fishin' and found my way onto the water with Mike Thompson. We tried a lake about an hour north that he said had a reputation for some big panfish so we headed up there, put in our float tubes didn't catch anything except for a tiny bass I caught. We fished there for probably an hour and a half, but this lake wasn't going to put out anything for us.<br /><br />Then I remembered talking to a friend just last week. He mentioned a small lake about a half hour from where we were that he said had some good panfish in it, so I talked MT into giving it a try. It was more of a pond than a lake, under 30 acres for sure, and curley leaf pond weed was growing like mad at our launch site. But once we got out a bit and off the weed edge I popped a couple crappies, then some gills, pretty nice ones too. We stayed the rest of the efternoon, catching lot's of crappies and bluegills tight lining, trolling in the tube, or vertical jigging plastics. Nothing huge, but not annoyingly small either. These fish were decent.<br /><br /><br />The size of the gills we caught, around the 8" mark with some a bit bigger...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegEQVMVkq6cQRRaDQwqS_HLTKxTTCUdkpUpUQW5yivwslNla5erXb_c6OMvpWygQD23mZSUN5Y3H9dKyZwXx4wXMt5XBuEzgJQACuXRc9w1cAhTpHvDQtNs1W__i86Bn2kGLs7193cn3_/s1600/1+gill.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375486194359090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 277px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegEQVMVkq6cQRRaDQwqS_HLTKxTTCUdkpUpUQW5yivwslNla5erXb_c6OMvpWygQD23mZSUN5Y3H9dKyZwXx4wXMt5XBuEzgJQACuXRc9w1cAhTpHvDQtNs1W__i86Bn2kGLs7193cn3_/s400/1+gill.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgha7zcRz53CTVgvbHvqLHUwNfKuUsUWYjfLcAdv6y5SrMOmruG3uVWu8OBfhn9B1tlfruF6yup4XIaRzme2DrI5qeO_IusUeZo-THXojT52Y0S5I2aijrtTXnxxbccZd_uwB8EN-j2yDPS/s1600/2+gill.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375492447945570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgha7zcRz53CTVgvbHvqLHUwNfKuUsUWYjfLcAdv6y5SrMOmruG3uVWu8OBfhn9B1tlfruF6yup4XIaRzme2DrI5qeO_IusUeZo-THXojT52Y0S5I2aijrtTXnxxbccZd_uwB8EN-j2yDPS/s400/2+gill.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Crappies ran between 9 and 10 inches. A couple might have exceeded the 10" mark.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwrBSojcue-itwPJojk8SQTVaiBQT3YifF3voit_aqECFtzT6baOyGJBPo4TPje-VwHo5_UunTyRB9b9lY9oYcgsucjTi3aycwjx4s6kmJQ0yYFkwsihi8NnGkTUUZ3-eCYu09IoBa_j-/s1600/5+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375530515874322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwrBSojcue-itwPJojk8SQTVaiBQT3YifF3voit_aqECFtzT6baOyGJBPo4TPje-VwHo5_UunTyRB9b9lY9oYcgsucjTi3aycwjx4s6kmJQ0yYFkwsihi8NnGkTUUZ3-eCYu09IoBa_j-/s400/5+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />MT's glow tubes really incited bites...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNG-RBLn0iKt1NKQgGQPNHQf7yMPf75ZxawDwL0yHnwafAJjxb73AfQ1YVLXAh6aSq8HSaDeHThVp1HefxvkWpQmHYTodIbcNLS3BkHAyCJ4UgH4av6EOhVXsGp5EXrx_YXJyqBrn5FQL/s1600/7+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375715290927490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNG-RBLn0iKt1NKQgGQPNHQf7yMPf75ZxawDwL0yHnwafAJjxb73AfQ1YVLXAh6aSq8HSaDeHThVp1HefxvkWpQmHYTodIbcNLS3BkHAyCJ4UgH4av6EOhVXsGp5EXrx_YXJyqBrn5FQL/s400/7+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdfIwbBPxgpR9FUuJ_E2ZWT5NpEadhhkQsh0vJ6PJJcCblQHbyKBDjWZkgUtqee6Zsaz2MrSKiTwPSGkTlgvOqsfGp1A8_wfiWp3b-bhLogK9UoWLeFqPZfMJ74tLqmH5itwEpL2doRw2/s1600/6+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375704440729010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdfIwbBPxgpR9FUuJ_E2ZWT5NpEadhhkQsh0vJ6PJJcCblQHbyKBDjWZkgUtqee6Zsaz2MrSKiTwPSGkTlgvOqsfGp1A8_wfiWp3b-bhLogK9UoWLeFqPZfMJ74tLqmH5itwEpL2doRw2/s400/6+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />MT and his floating orange pumpkin...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVt0dS3P5_Y3o4eLmyZRJM7YNo06JZRijCU6Q7tj0L3bkC8Ox9cNSeJW8w1BbpNrcJLQaSS8FgpfOiYCRr52SubO6MTLka5Xd_tUr_6aLygyP8dLrS1x15Bm6nitkuYgbFHHXR1iTHc6k8/s1600/3+mt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375504059685794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 319px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVt0dS3P5_Y3o4eLmyZRJM7YNo06JZRijCU6Q7tj0L3bkC8Ox9cNSeJW8w1BbpNrcJLQaSS8FgpfOiYCRr52SubO6MTLka5Xd_tUr_6aLygyP8dLrS1x15Bm6nitkuYgbFHHXR1iTHc6k8/s400/3+mt.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2kDUXmlbtnrcGZWZ-AdAWR3dRJ6Ii1wELT5v1g9vOphgUeLvPh03oqKYY0vcksk6va2PuPEF2hXHFSft4G6W3aVmR4Y1GAcCGSLSN1l17udqPwSyOuI9u9NqzdZGCjChMtAs3SrGiKaDB/s1600/4+mt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375525588487938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 261px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2kDUXmlbtnrcGZWZ-AdAWR3dRJ6Ii1wELT5v1g9vOphgUeLvPh03oqKYY0vcksk6va2PuPEF2hXHFSft4G6W3aVmR4Y1GAcCGSLSN1l17udqPwSyOuI9u9NqzdZGCjChMtAs3SrGiKaDB/s400/4+mt.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Last gill of the day for me was this beautiful bluegill that checked in close to the 9" mark. It was getting dark so the picture didn't really capture the vivid colors...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2Z1jOu3SGqJk2MGVMhlyzNALY_BJv_Br_ark4Ra0SjpLAP4-bx7JRxMG4JoJ1i7_QQ241YrBfs04v6vjeqE8oFyiIgfU1GmbxKft8bNXgbD79kDSUC46RVurFvE54oTl1QpO_9sDnuKG/s1600/11+gill.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375811824132930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2Z1jOu3SGqJk2MGVMhlyzNALY_BJv_Br_ark4Ra0SjpLAP4-bx7JRxMG4JoJ1i7_QQ241YrBfs04v6vjeqE8oFyiIgfU1GmbxKft8bNXgbD79kDSUC46RVurFvE54oTl1QpO_9sDnuKG/s400/11+gill.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIA5OHw4jOqoSBozEa6FhxyylSPdicenf89fJnzMyY78LydaUOzg9ibGB3UuhMLi15bdjl70OcorRBt6ySPqfTnWhs1u8q0pAtdXK_vysjg0BZPr4mVPDxAVFRrp5MU5GHVUs4_EO3Nalt/s1600/8+gill.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375728595787474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIA5OHw4jOqoSBozEa6FhxyylSPdicenf89fJnzMyY78LydaUOzg9ibGB3UuhMLi15bdjl70OcorRBt6ySPqfTnWhs1u8q0pAtdXK_vysjg0BZPr4mVPDxAVFRrp5MU5GHVUs4_EO3Nalt/s400/8+gill.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />MT walking up from the lake at the end of the day....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQA30DvYWYKOM7Ti6GqQbLoBDCHsUsWClBJynqb8akoEy6iiEIEiAaf7pCT5q8rYtBKRJEqNyaydQz3wvEeXA06XFIoVuUXESxNaeoLg7w02khpekwSonPgxu7XiNSncds0d1-Yiyl8Oo/s1600/10+mt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375738843669922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQA30DvYWYKOM7Ti6GqQbLoBDCHsUsWClBJynqb8akoEy6iiEIEiAaf7pCT5q8rYtBKRJEqNyaydQz3wvEeXA06XFIoVuUXESxNaeoLg7w02khpekwSonPgxu7XiNSncds0d1-Yiyl8Oo/s400/10+mt.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />He reminds me of some sort of creature emerging from the primorial slime...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JoU9iXqIQjwl0vl5FXyxWE00jLmOKK4Ybt-fOEcIyMxNqFKFnoTugRjPT69ccsZpoLDz0GCcSvbIqcKAOtWpXWvyQBc7eGsh5n4vd6dyDM86R2i9ZJrxLcpnf4IbKSUjcMkdQHA3Rdtk/s1600/9+mt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467375729812355602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JoU9iXqIQjwl0vl5FXyxWE00jLmOKK4Ybt-fOEcIyMxNqFKFnoTugRjPT69ccsZpoLDz0GCcSvbIqcKAOtWpXWvyQBc7eGsh5n4vd6dyDM86R2i9ZJrxLcpnf4IbKSUjcMkdQHA3Rdtk/s400/9+mt.jpg" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-4393240969044690062010-04-30T04:00:00.000-07:002010-04-30T05:08:20.372-07:00Good fishin' with Jeff...I got out on a little lake last night with Jeff a.k.a. Fishuhalik (Moniker from Fishing Minnesota) for a little fishing out of my canoe. The canoe deserves the name "Big Bertha" or "The Iron Maiden" because it weighs a ton and is a beast to handle! Fortunately, Val brought a little flatbed cart home from work so I could roll it to the launch site, since carrying this monster is out of the question! It worked really well.<br /><br />Judging from weather reports earlier in the day, I thought we were going to be hampered by storms or be blown off the lake, but we were pleasantly surprised that conditions on the lake were quite perfect for our little outing. Jeff had never fished this lake before and was amazed by the size of the panfish being caught, with gills up to 8.5" and crappies up to 11". We pounded the fish, practically getting one on every cast. Jeff was using my new 5'6" St. Croix UL and having a blast with it. We started out using floats with plastics but soon took off the floats and just tightlined instead. Jeff even took a few crappies home to eat.<br /><br />Here's some pictures I took...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WlKBuV08aNANa7yKngQ5xEYi04UkbYFqlKKd0k8YmcCBcl-tOVqF-oEO3I43s9BlB3g8P6cLfzxFRO0E1AGbN0wwfRUmR8rnotkes51rURG647wBqutg9bKIdZVJmNMBzyzJL58i5f3A/s1600/5crappiemouth.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WlKBuV08aNANa7yKngQ5xEYi04UkbYFqlKKd0k8YmcCBcl-tOVqF-oEO3I43s9BlB3g8P6cLfzxFRO0E1AGbN0wwfRUmR8rnotkes51rURG647wBqutg9bKIdZVJmNMBzyzJL58i5f3A/s400/5crappiemouth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897822860455330" border="0" /></a><br />Jeff and gill...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlsBEzcbt76kvBTWiH0tMx6bbdYjAb1e2-bb9lb1blMojdMg-ZDdJ6KHS1P0ZhjjpO9xhrQ3bkQxmLnQosaQ7Zppg9a_aeTr-BCc3Dl05TAzGyYvk9jeJi3LDGIxxLj43oC-hhmyXML9yE/s1600/8jeffgill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlsBEzcbt76kvBTWiH0tMx6bbdYjAb1e2-bb9lb1blMojdMg-ZDdJ6KHS1P0ZhjjpO9xhrQ3bkQxmLnQosaQ7Zppg9a_aeTr-BCc3Dl05TAzGyYvk9jeJi3LDGIxxLj43oC-hhmyXML9yE/s400/8jeffgill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897819549360338" border="0" /></a><br />This is the skinniest crappie I have ever seen in my life! It needs to check into an eating disorder clinic immediately!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLBKJso7ZlwkPzBVKslbpNE_w8fQbs4uAxJaNb63eoGvpXgMuUhfLu2qzcnCQTHArUPOUOY0AZImWLNH8TubJnbXv2E0CXmSijmLDoIlPhXI9ihLimpUDakfx-IFnYIKb9Bof3tpFB6HJ/s1600/3skinnycrappie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLBKJso7ZlwkPzBVKslbpNE_w8fQbs4uAxJaNb63eoGvpXgMuUhfLu2qzcnCQTHArUPOUOY0AZImWLNH8TubJnbXv2E0CXmSijmLDoIlPhXI9ihLimpUDakfx-IFnYIKb9Bof3tpFB6HJ/s400/3skinnycrappie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897491830746642" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk81cfNDKrEhAnS5tOmemVKxQJo6fPZtm_JBoPCVZ28IPeEVEsU0sUaQf3EWt7A2Bbznj75OYqumlEtEhRVKxY6f1O0wKYWqcpBww_fXqRfskyhmPMYeVATn-CAzQlGKD8fK3zEyK0x7yM/s1600/4skinnycrappie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk81cfNDKrEhAnS5tOmemVKxQJo6fPZtm_JBoPCVZ28IPeEVEsU0sUaQf3EWt7A2Bbznj75OYqumlEtEhRVKxY6f1O0wKYWqcpBww_fXqRfskyhmPMYeVATn-CAzQlGKD8fK3zEyK0x7yM/s400/4skinnycrappie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897488270714738" border="0" /></a><br />Pretty colors...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9i8wZPN04Hgv2JCR-_mjMyqm0StrU7lpnWIHlWFUSKa2v1zvIu_arbRuWtRkJBHgxUgz98bkjSfd9hcq9Lz2s6Rv0YtXdCMiMS15t04ywpNZwcGaf3c8sJzvl6ybsDbnsVMnFjsL4KpH/s1600/6gill+head.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9i8wZPN04Hgv2JCR-_mjMyqm0StrU7lpnWIHlWFUSKa2v1zvIu_arbRuWtRkJBHgxUgz98bkjSfd9hcq9Lz2s6Rv0YtXdCMiMS15t04ywpNZwcGaf3c8sJzvl6ybsDbnsVMnFjsL4KpH/s400/6gill+head.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897480490474978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5EINr1R6IuIxnugB3bSFa6d6Fdfysbh4RqHnICTjAdcHoCuTzT7MdHc6a8Hdp05ToonXwDLKxG39LvuJHqquUJRAPlFBRNnxbLzLkn1qyiHz3O37EOkowk5XtQPtvFr7XG14xWYITdAs/s1600/2jeffandgill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5EINr1R6IuIxnugB3bSFa6d6Fdfysbh4RqHnICTjAdcHoCuTzT7MdHc6a8Hdp05ToonXwDLKxG39LvuJHqquUJRAPlFBRNnxbLzLkn1qyiHz3O37EOkowk5XtQPtvFr7XG14xWYITdAs/s400/2jeffandgill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897465540832306" border="0" /></a><br />Here's three more pictures I took from a prior outing in my float tube.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxV8pn2z6_M7eV420jIcOaj8oXxS7u1wveFq6_kAnHbJe883EqDSZuNLsCbj94KkhXUGktn-t2V6DUBvx1i-JgygvEZE7C3CD2yZI-CqEgWOqdz3yIPDfURK6wKzQLivcVCPJ6SPNTEkm0/s1600/tubejig+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxV8pn2z6_M7eV420jIcOaj8oXxS7u1wveFq6_kAnHbJe883EqDSZuNLsCbj94KkhXUGktn-t2V6DUBvx1i-JgygvEZE7C3CD2yZI-CqEgWOqdz3yIPDfURK6wKzQLivcVCPJ6SPNTEkm0/s400/tubejig+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897842646647026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOc4MoWk8ay07gHBc8BtnEyoLnWVoz8XwXsP6B9JcTZrW1Zxu-qKxNLRF1ygMuJu96mKBsKgkDFXaquGgtiD7_TLIPt4-e9EhBnQr2O8OTGBRYROqgWKGmwIDCvmdrkjoEWAX8pNRLrmjA/s1600/9handgill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOc4MoWk8ay07gHBc8BtnEyoLnWVoz8XwXsP6B9JcTZrW1Zxu-qKxNLRF1ygMuJu96mKBsKgkDFXaquGgtiD7_TLIPt4-e9EhBnQr2O8OTGBRYROqgWKGmwIDCvmdrkjoEWAX8pNRLrmjA/s400/9handgill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897837334111570" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicv_kEwtGK9O9Hjsz5QoiwIIz_TbrzX-CP7jCiYYMaN4pr1a77u-lkLQrFC25Lee0otI5LcCGGpEmOftqcAfqrlzEXddxU6g8gI-NyFYOxnvEF0XTNGX4czTbx9q1xi72gxjNz2pDzkkks/s1600/1handgill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicv_kEwtGK9O9Hjsz5QoiwIIz_TbrzX-CP7jCiYYMaN4pr1a77u-lkLQrFC25Lee0otI5LcCGGpEmOftqcAfqrlzEXddxU6g8gI-NyFYOxnvEF0XTNGX4czTbx9q1xi72gxjNz2pDzkkks/s400/1handgill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465897831335541186" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-59912793949378342732010-04-18T10:32:00.001-07:002010-04-18T10:39:50.278-07:00More shore fishing with kids....I bought Genna, Lucas, and my nephew Ryan out for a little shore fishing last night. Action was non-stop with some nice gills and a couple decent crappies mixed in. I didn't get alot of pictures, you know how it is fishing with a bunch of kids trying to keep things going. Here's a few though...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_we8EI21ZpNXvOwHufwH9ZOn1er6KDENgZ1v3R_A3AF4mcpl0qpOpJtvuvt8_ytl4oZMH9bpPZ7_0dEm9-EG3ioSErs3yVhYS1e1q4qpCS6fuSnCdup_K4ISQOXzbx-A71y4jDrv5nc4t/s1600/genna+green.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_we8EI21ZpNXvOwHufwH9ZOn1er6KDENgZ1v3R_A3AF4mcpl0qpOpJtvuvt8_ytl4oZMH9bpPZ7_0dEm9-EG3ioSErs3yVhYS1e1q4qpCS6fuSnCdup_K4ISQOXzbx-A71y4jDrv5nc4t/s400/genna+green.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461532825563637378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz70zhsbmqycabMjbQ-IyYMMKZW-hHlRhnzCLPJ919S7Zd2jR4Isy3-x2yW4AoMZZ3thZdJZ15XaDRm4LveoQZvJmGK6Rc9IyAL2Ou9-4azMNpUoKIKAt6Mgua8z3hyMin5_ChqyF9qIya/s1600/gill+on+sand.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz70zhsbmqycabMjbQ-IyYMMKZW-hHlRhnzCLPJ919S7Zd2jR4Isy3-x2yW4AoMZZ3thZdJZ15XaDRm4LveoQZvJmGK6Rc9IyAL2Ou9-4azMNpUoKIKAt6Mgua8z3hyMin5_ChqyF9qIya/s400/gill+on+sand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461532822285776594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcPyyKwPSSi0wuCi0ThvzVAUDkP9fHkhflmxRuA2zzyMJ53uA4-IZvluR0KH4qdwaZ7eFD87_MUvhuW_LoV_lZdAjDtWoSV62ssGOoqdDGSGgwFZaez3thxKkYmTDAtk5pR3Ll4US7Wmt/s1600/lucas+bass.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcPyyKwPSSi0wuCi0ThvzVAUDkP9fHkhflmxRuA2zzyMJ53uA4-IZvluR0KH4qdwaZ7eFD87_MUvhuW_LoV_lZdAjDtWoSV62ssGOoqdDGSGgwFZaez3thxKkYmTDAtk5pR3Ll4US7Wmt/s400/lucas+bass.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461532816984461266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNK2VGS-aCGheHR-Spv6mQhQ1tyzdgxhre8u5upgIUi9NVaBCJ8vJPUDOgN2POciYbXSnA3afdyxtZCClIsQWpQc4HGOQR1FrfqkcP4aqSIMa-cRQEc73e6mOcAug9TdmHPM2us8u1Opgw/s1600/ryan+greenie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNK2VGS-aCGheHR-Spv6mQhQ1tyzdgxhre8u5upgIUi9NVaBCJ8vJPUDOgN2POciYbXSnA3afdyxtZCClIsQWpQc4HGOQR1FrfqkcP4aqSIMa-cRQEc73e6mOcAug9TdmHPM2us8u1Opgw/s400/ryan+greenie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461532918794047010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWE2zYM546sKJFghbncX6IcHQ-IW3nW_2d2SigHFbPp_O0bbd31yrVCViU0ia3Ns8GxI286HdWUhyphenhyphen-oLeeC2jeTkWgTEfB4J_WpQbH4uTD0WxIv1W6C9_4jZ8FE3XTVEc3Qf8DlekcDA0/s1600/genna+unhooking+bass.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWE2zYM546sKJFghbncX6IcHQ-IW3nW_2d2SigHFbPp_O0bbd31yrVCViU0ia3Ns8GxI286HdWUhyphenhyphen-oLeeC2jeTkWgTEfB4J_WpQbH4uTD0WxIv1W6C9_4jZ8FE3XTVEc3Qf8DlekcDA0/s400/genna+unhooking+bass.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461532811363632962" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNYvf0ORlOUGg3lwaz9qbOYLgYadsAn6mdQJZnQyGjvuVd1op55I2CQQty5BQ7iGtQ7Zc6ubZ30_AqO2qAojubAEU4KWnLqyxSbnOwyWozvPO69X82_QIOMP6f6ehz1OTThw6ukQ_dvPpq/s1600/ryan+bass.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNYvf0ORlOUGg3lwaz9qbOYLgYadsAn6mdQJZnQyGjvuVd1op55I2CQQty5BQ7iGtQ7Zc6ubZ30_AqO2qAojubAEU4KWnLqyxSbnOwyWozvPO69X82_QIOMP6f6ehz1OTThw6ukQ_dvPpq/s400/ryan+bass.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461532806337113250" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-54593965228476436612010-04-17T05:04:00.000-07:002010-04-17T05:42:05.265-07:00The cold front didn't affect these fish!I had a half day of work friday and got off around 1:30 in the afternoon. A cold front came through the area yesterday and conditions were very breezy and temps about 10 degrees colder than the day before. I couldn't decide if I should go fishing in my float tube or forget about fishing and do something else....I thought the fishing would suck with the post-frontal conditions. Well, I decided to go fishing and I made the right choice. I was surprised that the panfish were very active and eager to bite anything that was put in front of them. I caught probably 75-80 fish in about two hours. Mostly gills but a few crappies mixed in. <br /><br />I started off with a 1" Berkley micro tube. I also used Culprit paddletails...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFS_BZXZgVlxZIMYONd9_-uyoraYGLegZnLxyeM7l7vW_YeNWw363AvMt7HYtTkb7PcdU-p8I800y4dPMhFhOx1dzQTmmntdPBSVzH84J7Sm7LXoZ4Wy-hYCEoycObkqbTteTyXHpWbolB/s1600/1tubegill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFS_BZXZgVlxZIMYONd9_-uyoraYGLegZnLxyeM7l7vW_YeNWw363AvMt7HYtTkb7PcdU-p8I800y4dPMhFhOx1dzQTmmntdPBSVzH84J7Sm7LXoZ4Wy-hYCEoycObkqbTteTyXHpWbolB/s400/1tubegill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461078262801183586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TqBZPKlop1kQQPh0THCVbRRRvU8vUDBxSfZmnSaupxlmiGo90rwJvaMNynhmaJBNtbiBA01YJi0o9yDaOp5zoV4VV_CkqE84gh5S1J8Eo0xRB9DdYYPfPl5SjpPzOv3aqe3rtsX5Sy__/s1600/2tubegill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TqBZPKlop1kQQPh0THCVbRRRvU8vUDBxSfZmnSaupxlmiGo90rwJvaMNynhmaJBNtbiBA01YJi0o9yDaOp5zoV4VV_CkqE84gh5S1J8Eo0xRB9DdYYPfPl5SjpPzOv3aqe3rtsX5Sy__/s400/2tubegill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461078255354353458" border="0" /></a><br />Working the presentation about 18" under a float...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0bw9bcT7kvJ5_3SrSSndn-6ZdcT06Co5clilj7umWiDUyCU5XNYa9o7oWgFIZMVF4JeN6o15p89doKcwR0VnH5lSZxSOT4M5IyulBDq2MpXMN8O6kQ-ULtwRVj6vpX4lS4cjnBNNydGQF/s1600/3crappie1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0bw9bcT7kvJ5_3SrSSndn-6ZdcT06Co5clilj7umWiDUyCU5XNYa9o7oWgFIZMVF4JeN6o15p89doKcwR0VnH5lSZxSOT4M5IyulBDq2MpXMN8O6kQ-ULtwRVj6vpX4lS4cjnBNNydGQF/s400/3crappie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461078252773003954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0c1t8WTS-KRNIENOlzo0cnWg5f3pWuakMjKwz2c-EXjXm5ShGuYDMylrW0en5G4hmPR-Q6LaD-Hv7ZGL5i-J7GMskejkcfyNjFzfPLFChiW8rqUMtAhpM0fJ7XK0NW3y9BiuJB1BaZxC/s1600/4crappie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0c1t8WTS-KRNIENOlzo0cnWg5f3pWuakMjKwz2c-EXjXm5ShGuYDMylrW0en5G4hmPR-Q6LaD-Hv7ZGL5i-J7GMskejkcfyNjFzfPLFChiW8rqUMtAhpM0fJ7XK0NW3y9BiuJB1BaZxC/s400/4crappie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461078246988077298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGpizM1H-s1-ANjoknI2y_Ba1y0qsf2stnpth1JwqRS8QpYBiNRbeggxvmLoAAM9zTj66dA1hL1CA6usg6Fv37byXzRWYry_qAvazu1FOExHbUdtsT1_gg4Kt7jPTK7FyZqSbD4DZ6VG-/s1600/5gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGpizM1H-s1-ANjoknI2y_Ba1y0qsf2stnpth1JwqRS8QpYBiNRbeggxvmLoAAM9zTj66dA1hL1CA6usg6Fv37byXzRWYry_qAvazu1FOExHbUdtsT1_gg4Kt7jPTK7FyZqSbD4DZ6VG-/s400/5gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461078239222849058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5qS-qAy_x6Ksi7oKpp3FmQnAEirno5ZZk6-20nsxGRG1FvBhLPDCXUMj2C9QK3Bmo2zoHz7pO5RioVcKIXlj3_7gf09Oqow7w9i9JqEfYqOZvDND_8ijjHPNOOF74hfMWkL6UfZe1jpL/s1600/7crappie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5qS-qAy_x6Ksi7oKpp3FmQnAEirno5ZZk6-20nsxGRG1FvBhLPDCXUMj2C9QK3Bmo2zoHz7pO5RioVcKIXlj3_7gf09Oqow7w9i9JqEfYqOZvDND_8ijjHPNOOF74hfMWkL6UfZe1jpL/s400/7crappie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077710161745730" border="0" /></a><br />Lots of bluegills between 8 and 9 inches long....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8T4QDHbhgz0QXQPFnP8MPVJ1VuRzW_V1Iu9MwRx795bb8yIQxG8YVPVoH68UX3tI2s_q4muuPl5YpnU2-628BovuSptvFDjbHSAKQJTJRjaeSl-LGatQJTI4QCNpxMc4MGiAnaESugwH/s1600/9gill3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8T4QDHbhgz0QXQPFnP8MPVJ1VuRzW_V1Iu9MwRx795bb8yIQxG8YVPVoH68UX3tI2s_q4muuPl5YpnU2-628BovuSptvFDjbHSAKQJTJRjaeSl-LGatQJTI4QCNpxMc4MGiAnaESugwH/s400/9gill3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077705201099650" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybidhMp4QdDMFAeoYWKW3tF9nbqqw7dSzSMG2ORzM1r5Ld4yKUCOW4HvCscu6JMjq6jsAg7vaR7uRklTWRt6wXUwABnd-VsjQY4UwX_hbaq0QesSgmcAbaNJ0BgjFR-gor2EhvWHO-kX1/s1600/6crappieportrait.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybidhMp4QdDMFAeoYWKW3tF9nbqqw7dSzSMG2ORzM1r5Ld4yKUCOW4HvCscu6JMjq6jsAg7vaR7uRklTWRt6wXUwABnd-VsjQY4UwX_hbaq0QesSgmcAbaNJ0BgjFR-gor2EhvWHO-kX1/s400/6crappieportrait.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077699099972834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50H0DVyeepyUt742BMA9BEZZKuFqZii8CYrDwM_cuY5YoFclVva7oRy7Tg1TqSH9bRzPjA-nexwsQbHp3BJij9N4RBgX1FnlRJoX6Vt_kxRBn7l51Knt6rhNvlUQ31p1qSVpwgMM4Ynx5/s1600/8gill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50H0DVyeepyUt742BMA9BEZZKuFqZii8CYrDwM_cuY5YoFclVva7oRy7Tg1TqSH9bRzPjA-nexwsQbHp3BJij9N4RBgX1FnlRJoX6Vt_kxRBn7l51Knt6rhNvlUQ31p1qSVpwgMM4Ynx5/s400/8gill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077691515909746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dKSWQW7UE4Ow3ADea67SMhvkeUVqEogcI4ut2h1HsF4xkwiemqwhPyrllZb3hN8_pe_ovUh0mGDcnZvUaL4fEUheRs5sCBo2obk-aYkqLiQFGXMxPZaYpxbXsxsM_g8ZBqNKUtvmZj7m/s1600/13gill3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dKSWQW7UE4Ow3ADea67SMhvkeUVqEogcI4ut2h1HsF4xkwiemqwhPyrllZb3hN8_pe_ovUh0mGDcnZvUaL4fEUheRs5sCBo2obk-aYkqLiQFGXMxPZaYpxbXsxsM_g8ZBqNKUtvmZj7m/s400/13gill3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077682902922498" border="0" /></a><br />Crappies were ok. Largest was probably 10.5". Not very thick though...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWQ-LTsPPS_BTjn5RfNF-FdvfgV5BCCCIiQLZEAeqWEuTro-4nthmOgAdyON06YjmC0y-5Zt3FZzI6n-6v0R5q_U_qY_dSKrWNjoPKRz6VHs4mb5Is85bqIQ9UIHH9BZG3Z0IFJsI6uYb/s1600/10crappie3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWQ-LTsPPS_BTjn5RfNF-FdvfgV5BCCCIiQLZEAeqWEuTro-4nthmOgAdyON06YjmC0y-5Zt3FZzI6n-6v0R5q_U_qY_dSKrWNjoPKRz6VHs4mb5Is85bqIQ9UIHH9BZG3Z0IFJsI6uYb/s400/10crappie3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077237045950562" border="0" /></a><br />These next four pictures I took of the same fish. Pretty cool me thinks!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNzKHRs74XG8U_VXAoZTW96I-8rge3NXT0mXwvbfIQy4alCvNUWSaMflzMV1G-TxTH7SeRNw4gLHIyKEZFUWP9VMtFqSqPzbpQto4G7j3RXgKPggCx1ZUWdLxPUiR5fVSBxgeXkaJYuOw/s1600/9watergill1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNzKHRs74XG8U_VXAoZTW96I-8rge3NXT0mXwvbfIQy4alCvNUWSaMflzMV1G-TxTH7SeRNw4gLHIyKEZFUWP9VMtFqSqPzbpQto4G7j3RXgKPggCx1ZUWdLxPUiR5fVSBxgeXkaJYuOw/s400/9watergill1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077234046068194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUYBvStLm1zjljTLN9xF9rL6_KdG12FcN5y2z2BL1-QWeC1-MGwn3ZwELWywIrOuT-4N0RjsehryL9IwM9zKJWrPGfx_YPFl3K40omLpkNmIqdMptcTqwo1TTlFgDOS032eNk_t6VvOqb/s1600/10watergill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUYBvStLm1zjljTLN9xF9rL6_KdG12FcN5y2z2BL1-QWeC1-MGwn3ZwELWywIrOuT-4N0RjsehryL9IwM9zKJWrPGfx_YPFl3K40omLpkNmIqdMptcTqwo1TTlFgDOS032eNk_t6VvOqb/s400/10watergill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077224503581666" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvvvuUxbT7-rOEgsLBNM2B5Dy6o26EntDmMj6uUnk27AVcti22oXnwiNySk1NZxrKPwLiT0KD-KPcwfZZhtY7Px8DuROEKmWDmyk04IXBafc8H9CyUhhrhyJhekREuEJO7p-JNiKEnM04/s1600/11watergill3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvvvuUxbT7-rOEgsLBNM2B5Dy6o26EntDmMj6uUnk27AVcti22oXnwiNySk1NZxrKPwLiT0KD-KPcwfZZhtY7Px8DuROEKmWDmyk04IXBafc8H9CyUhhrhyJhekREuEJO7p-JNiKEnM04/s400/11watergill3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077220391891826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbe_zIjBDZXx9jLPigV0o98_gBt144UaC1FrevxE9jdrXKBzEtmhcMyPaJ-ZY7OIKdQOHPwGQz82og0kbv2zxhRVZ6-Db_81xPvblz-CyYOHNciO4phiEiGMeuofv_WxCF_NT9k6xeG0n/s1600/12watergill4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbe_zIjBDZXx9jLPigV0o98_gBt144UaC1FrevxE9jdrXKBzEtmhcMyPaJ-ZY7OIKdQOHPwGQz82og0kbv2zxhRVZ6-Db_81xPvblz-CyYOHNciO4phiEiGMeuofv_WxCF_NT9k6xeG0n/s400/12watergill4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461077216456269810" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-69860431273679093362010-04-14T05:25:00.000-07:002010-04-14T12:07:29.064-07:00Springtime slammin' with Crappie KeithI had a couple days off from work after working the weekend, so I paid a visit to Crappie Keith for two days of fishing. Keith lives about 2.5 hours north of the metro area in Palisade. Being just a few days after ice out on the lakes up there, it's traditionally a tough time of the year for fishing. Once the shallows warm up, then panfish are generally active in those areas, but things were too early and we knew fish would be tough to locate.<br /><br />Monday morning we tried a proven spot of Keith's, but that didn't produce much except for a couple big perch and a couple slabs, so we decided to try another lake. It was quite a ways away, but Keith heard of a good bite there and we decided to drive the miles and give it a try. There was a small cove off the main lake, so we headed over to the cove and started killin' the crappies in the shallows, most fish between 9-11" with a few in the 12" class. The wind was key. If the wind died down, so did the bite. We tried a few other spots on that lake, but with little to show. The cove was where it was happening. It was absolutely crawling with crappies. Blueglls and LM bass also caught.<br /><br />A good way to start the day with some big perch...<br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXotvRmqwJJ-4SVktaxjH9pyYQXAL8oy-dbovtCwd2za-21jsa6DDE80pCCNVVQZvd0RryCllBzkK5YijnEf8W6K2gnTQ6JERGywxn67FGtUleCMQ5AYtTyJpNAv8j5Rp8Ep__kT-4suz/s1600/big+perch.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459968975647009058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXotvRmqwJJ-4SVktaxjH9pyYQXAL8oy-dbovtCwd2za-21jsa6DDE80pCCNVVQZvd0RryCllBzkK5YijnEf8W6K2gnTQ6JERGywxn67FGtUleCMQ5AYtTyJpNAv8j5Rp8Ep__kT-4suz/s400/big+perch.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMUryOr_pZa7Xm-H8Nuqy0nRTbEPd4p5sVQm5zj5AoMcwusHDmxMnUFt64a6m5G3kSmpO23JbDDP8Xb1MpVeUEruNN5A0xFjpw1-1q1St5MzqHPNYXMzms1KozGtYsXUFoq9Fc840nnQoo/s1600/big+perch1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459968981416356594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMUryOr_pZa7Xm-H8Nuqy0nRTbEPd4p5sVQm5zj5AoMcwusHDmxMnUFt64a6m5G3kSmpO23JbDDP8Xb1MpVeUEruNN5A0xFjpw1-1q1St5MzqHPNYXMzms1KozGtYsXUFoq9Fc840nnQoo/s400/big+perch1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Keith get's a sumo too...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDFKtnXH9LK1YxipMh1PxpdGfLJ4SXKL_tcc6JO4rjHs3naO6XAgcG53_tAX_XCFXTiGEojRWCzUgNrxeRP-1b84LiLAt1849ewMeJnXE0i4us5vwxwEC-SNKtT03A4RCLLk98K3m4pK5/s1600/ck+perch.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969234038610098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 357px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 302px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDFKtnXH9LK1YxipMh1PxpdGfLJ4SXKL_tcc6JO4rjHs3naO6XAgcG53_tAX_XCFXTiGEojRWCzUgNrxeRP-1b84LiLAt1849ewMeJnXE0i4us5vwxwEC-SNKtT03A4RCLLk98K3m4pK5/s400/ck+perch.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We caught a couple crappies too at that spot before we buzzed over to the other lake where we caught hundreds of crappies over the two days. Here's some more photos I took of my trip...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOPGgO5pmv1ajJIsF9IwOK8M6j7o3qfAcsIRMuYGxPGjNMK0Izzw0iZ1Q_trGX1vfhh1D3Ao6iMR9Yx3thczOZqbPkgOqXBg2EMTLO04eYwJPJHn2V2x03wC8riVT9k7BgYE_L2IkYjTr/s1600/hand+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969690713444018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 296px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOPGgO5pmv1ajJIsF9IwOK8M6j7o3qfAcsIRMuYGxPGjNMK0Izzw0iZ1Q_trGX1vfhh1D3Ao6iMR9Yx3thczOZqbPkgOqXBg2EMTLO04eYwJPJHn2V2x03wC8riVT9k7BgYE_L2IkYjTr/s400/hand+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3zq4XGaGp6o0roeJHkokzfBJZK97qSgidvbjypp5DFU-LCcE2ezsbRZq4ZNvfhXZMCQ_a47-vrXwJf_-bPzArmPR1U6nGnAVkuFylYBYiJzQwgF1nuDKsJUl0Cje5ivAjFJL7Z5nYPotS/s1600/crappie+portrait2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969492095570706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 325px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3zq4XGaGp6o0roeJHkokzfBJZK97qSgidvbjypp5DFU-LCcE2ezsbRZq4ZNvfhXZMCQ_a47-vrXwJf_-bPzArmPR1U6nGnAVkuFylYBYiJzQwgF1nuDKsJUl0Cje5ivAjFJL7Z5nYPotS/s400/crappie+portrait2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg08U0sgVKk5Tu1m7M5z7tI81y0r3XpWBG1OfzbzCj3MZHLUPzNAQyLjedDrVMt9auxc7WfFV5nA7D7VmoyLur3ClMD8ko1WkIFB8TASFe0ByjFUXGRYQtARHS8cgJ1UZtNmgyjuGAImOqN/s1600/lipped+crappie2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969709367467762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg08U0sgVKk5Tu1m7M5z7tI81y0r3XpWBG1OfzbzCj3MZHLUPzNAQyLjedDrVMt9auxc7WfFV5nA7D7VmoyLur3ClMD8ko1WkIFB8TASFe0ByjFUXGRYQtARHS8cgJ1UZtNmgyjuGAImOqN/s400/lipped+crappie2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3u1F6LqFedvJTM-aaK_J7nloq_GpjbfiAGAraxTtNjwisHE9beSGuB-GlHjZvKGOjUu2YdF5W5ZR7JpwNLBxPAtopHXhN4bsCJ4t5JkUgGYIxe2O22q4Gz97GZMPZfG0GI8MnxMppdgjh/s1600/ck+crappie3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969229856906626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 276px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3u1F6LqFedvJTM-aaK_J7nloq_GpjbfiAGAraxTtNjwisHE9beSGuB-GlHjZvKGOjUu2YdF5W5ZR7JpwNLBxPAtopHXhN4bsCJ4t5JkUgGYIxe2O22q4Gz97GZMPZfG0GI8MnxMppdgjh/s400/ck+crappie3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQlk-Epv1KvulTPCvGDkvSDJjpI7ZoqrDzkwAvGwKAuPnf7sjlS7BFCYsrUKGUZjZfUpMun7zbMgupl4988x8U83cORXG1LUuTRdcjwVX9nHkbJQ9vIUW-owc0d9UmPAdPZU36CGfqw0E/s1600/crappie+in+water2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969479073267170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 289px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQlk-Epv1KvulTPCvGDkvSDJjpI7ZoqrDzkwAvGwKAuPnf7sjlS7BFCYsrUKGUZjZfUpMun7zbMgupl4988x8U83cORXG1LUuTRdcjwVX9nHkbJQ9vIUW-owc0d9UmPAdPZU36CGfqw0E/s400/crappie+in+water2.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p></p><br /><br />There were alot of bass in the shallows and were easy to catch. Here's the biggest I caught...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdJfqARptzo9gEjHJn8vePYoVRk0CA7InT75foxZo0yFgN_5ghJeMC49RkAR4cAtgHkSCSl499kl7yfZO_h-LC9I6oXHE2AfDkNV_5cIkyrODZ0-0MsmghLqOx2ozAsdTTae-Aob6nQPxF/s1600/DSC00304.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460068924804477458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdJfqARptzo9gEjHJn8vePYoVRk0CA7InT75foxZo0yFgN_5ghJeMC49RkAR4cAtgHkSCSl499kl7yfZO_h-LC9I6oXHE2AfDkNV_5cIkyrODZ0-0MsmghLqOx2ozAsdTTae-Aob6nQPxF/s400/DSC00304.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSsRxGumksUbZGnE61QtQM-OOoVyZCYuLuR91Hs2AwCCTXqTB9mJ5qt0ZPiHG4JZJQWVOXhPzlwx-HwK2TXYB0Gifv-xcpHyKx2Zcj5hmdLYbhx7LzU98bR17H7v9sY6WPzx3c5TMghYd/s1600/ck+crappie2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969224243100914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 354px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSsRxGumksUbZGnE61QtQM-OOoVyZCYuLuR91Hs2AwCCTXqTB9mJ5qt0ZPiHG4JZJQWVOXhPzlwx-HwK2TXYB0Gifv-xcpHyKx2Zcj5hmdLYbhx7LzU98bR17H7v9sY6WPzx3c5TMghYd/s400/ck+crappie2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Crappie cancer?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgweFW9GQDGTn5cNIYMBRY4A1Xf8J4dzSLVflZ2rbJidTJg5alrk57aER5OXlRsT0xcb7iDUeWbL1M4Lgq78fcy8-Ucng6Rei6jJHYY762X3YkiHVYhC6dWQ6hDxnpqltu9s0Ab5O5euo5M/s1600/crappie+cancer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969242879962274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 227px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgweFW9GQDGTn5cNIYMBRY4A1Xf8J4dzSLVflZ2rbJidTJg5alrk57aER5OXlRsT0xcb7iDUeWbL1M4Lgq78fcy8-Ucng6Rei6jJHYY762X3YkiHVYhC6dWQ6hDxnpqltu9s0Ab5O5euo5M/s400/crappie+cancer.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ6nq5RLgCoMPtpb-cLXb4Q2uC_pRLqvDghYe33arH_cknbCO9hJ6Mz6umdlGkreWvZlLRQGcVQvwgG1KixRm87PGEG8sE9b7GdIsvPbvm5D5GZAFlGBrJJ329GkcpJ_lzD_uL0tKRWMeF/s1600/crappie+cancer2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969467648315282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 318px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ6nq5RLgCoMPtpb-cLXb4Q2uC_pRLqvDghYe33arH_cknbCO9hJ6Mz6umdlGkreWvZlLRQGcVQvwgG1KixRm87PGEG8sE9b7GdIsvPbvm5D5GZAFlGBrJJ329GkcpJ_lzD_uL0tKRWMeF/s400/crappie+cancer2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />T.H.E. jig strikes again!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVI7KbfUPpty0LgtJEftpHKS19e9I2FQobKdre3bON5G5ewdhEvFQqEjN9ip7G43gU9vrQoPvmfbADzbsjIHPLyZT7wHKIq-DPi4u3AUBjdZzINGhTA-X37E_JR3_YrGGPFn8xURhRmqT_/s1600/jig+in+mouth.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969694011230610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVI7KbfUPpty0LgtJEftpHKS19e9I2FQobKdre3bON5G5ewdhEvFQqEjN9ip7G43gU9vrQoPvmfbADzbsjIHPLyZT7wHKIq-DPi4u3AUBjdZzINGhTA-X37E_JR3_YrGGPFn8xURhRmqT_/s400/jig+in+mouth.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />CK living up to his name...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifBsLDQXGi7JjqWd7qsYHd0vT5q51uB59dMFabow59A8Dm5rcQjA25XXfPIT9MqnP8HpPOcLEKneZA5xhGOgl6bg7DY8OqaR8Oo0Dz0ggPu1UlLIOawvVcaXMoMMzDHv7TruDkqQWtrz2e/s1600/ck+rearin%27.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969241296010226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 321px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifBsLDQXGi7JjqWd7qsYHd0vT5q51uB59dMFabow59A8Dm5rcQjA25XXfPIT9MqnP8HpPOcLEKneZA5xhGOgl6bg7DY8OqaR8Oo0Dz0ggPu1UlLIOawvVcaXMoMMzDHv7TruDkqQWtrz2e/s400/ck+rearin%27.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here's a cool eagle's nest we found complete with a pair of eagles!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIhgg2WQrNpu5GCpsfnX7oaCQqyx-d_-W8oDuuI14rbhqoHZMit-MuelBot62vmfCdNUspexyBGRjE-xJ2v_f-cXAkBqCHxvMXvS766eNrjHmrFSi4Lhq9WJHXNfgW21dGBBgaQ-J6Hfhc/s1600/eagle+nest.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969684675331778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 244px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIhgg2WQrNpu5GCpsfnX7oaCQqyx-d_-W8oDuuI14rbhqoHZMit-MuelBot62vmfCdNUspexyBGRjE-xJ2v_f-cXAkBqCHxvMXvS766eNrjHmrFSi4Lhq9WJHXNfgW21dGBBgaQ-J6Hfhc/s400/eagle+nest.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Another slab for the fry pan...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBLNtNFZgensBCK3M28kdGMDjIEAz7xntosz1UfmVjMUeJGQz1CSNUtfEb7jCSjuP9GJrs0fUtt7SjySI7TWQzN6aL0EzKG_-LL_HELZFZ5vGOA4gTg_yPrCkVscwH0qbizPTO6XvV0Sxb/s1600/lipped+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969702082122546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 293px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBLNtNFZgensBCK3M28kdGMDjIEAz7xntosz1UfmVjMUeJGQz1CSNUtfEb7jCSjuP9GJrs0fUtt7SjySI7TWQzN6aL0EzKG_-LL_HELZFZ5vGOA4gTg_yPrCkVscwH0qbizPTO6XvV0Sxb/s400/lipped+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p><br /><br />Here's two fish I snagged within about five minutes of each other!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNm5IfzrUTSqVB-iYGH5h4Cxbwi9eKsCO1kX22d-eKQWVvCH5m-OhRnHngJoCP2UgwcEiNLG7BmNyeUWFQztvCKQTv12Bs3uuKB4f8vsK5EjhWrRuY6szYWHytCB5YaKmcjKdRjXB-oQh/s1600/snagged+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969832208163842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNm5IfzrUTSqVB-iYGH5h4Cxbwi9eKsCO1kX22d-eKQWVvCH5m-OhRnHngJoCP2UgwcEiNLG7BmNyeUWFQztvCKQTv12Bs3uuKB4f8vsK5EjhWrRuY6szYWHytCB5YaKmcjKdRjXB-oQh/s400/snagged+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0QFbzNVTUG6bwc_H7r9VjvKtp-dtSEyUlip1Ty6eIxMLLbRAcmjAx-dHenRRTZIkjzdWXcSkcpxa5_jg42j460wdNceFeznQF_F2ZvxLr7uoHX_mD4la0LdOHWf0w5DRbQyKAPuBOuxy/s1600/snagged+bass.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969828364310434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0QFbzNVTUG6bwc_H7r9VjvKtp-dtSEyUlip1Ty6eIxMLLbRAcmjAx-dHenRRTZIkjzdWXcSkcpxa5_jg42j460wdNceFeznQF_F2ZvxLr7uoHX_mD4la0LdOHWf0w5DRbQyKAPuBOuxy/s400/snagged+bass.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88pSMc48jCteutAsnaCA-COwMk-zABerhsO8bCV3icT6WF-H3FdiYmhNNs37-Xp3160KV-nvhuYRPnoCFs8GiTSmgQkPk4WJlPMOjRw8yMxS1Up5tGDdSkwUUAKAWo51ALgCls80e-kwH/s1600/ck+crappie1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459968993620057154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 357px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88pSMc48jCteutAsnaCA-COwMk-zABerhsO8bCV3icT6WF-H3FdiYmhNNs37-Xp3160KV-nvhuYRPnoCFs8GiTSmgQkPk4WJlPMOjRw8yMxS1Up5tGDdSkwUUAKAWo51ALgCls80e-kwH/s400/ck+crappie1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1EacIlUGvUArP80lH6YniV-6kRjP273jidYsCb-2MgCkyz8sf_ruJ1LD7r82ze_zWdmm7D2QE7lihl_gsjUtkT2h4N-FCR4M9EZBaJxgRd1VepD0_zUBz8p-pX8m0RSDXonxCWlxEe90w/s1600/crappie+in+water.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969470176292802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 276px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1EacIlUGvUArP80lH6YniV-6kRjP273jidYsCb-2MgCkyz8sf_ruJ1LD7r82ze_zWdmm7D2QE7lihl_gsjUtkT2h4N-FCR4M9EZBaJxgRd1VepD0_zUBz8p-pX8m0RSDXonxCWlxEe90w/s400/crappie+in+water.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDw0LFBs4kK9GCbR_vQ-1pzjl7o2E-0qiwO3LZiPy2qgByhN0U7_Vx-SYS-Y1HjZU4I9emaf1R8YToTbaGe-ld_x7VNkfwr7zPGU8KthEhfDDgH4f422Xa8OmCSDxx7sb5cHQ9y5veczHw/s1600/ck+and+crappie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459968988002720546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 391px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDw0LFBs4kK9GCbR_vQ-1pzjl7o2E-0qiwO3LZiPy2qgByhN0U7_Vx-SYS-Y1HjZU4I9emaf1R8YToTbaGe-ld_x7VNkfwr7zPGU8KthEhfDDgH4f422Xa8OmCSDxx7sb5cHQ9y5veczHw/s400/ck+and+crappie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I think I got the "Mike Thompson" method of self-portrait down...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBf1wcMXO44V9qCf2IFat8_hv50JYc610hqUgCmw_5mNMuYC25Qepeg9-5fljQQlcKLzIdJoxlPkRb_NIfAWOuZ1Hc67rHxVTK6IRdScIhHY9KLpG0DSd_1F4egN6B99Fog6qrVy1HeqGC/s1600/crappie+portrait1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459969486526979906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBf1wcMXO44V9qCf2IFat8_hv50JYc610hqUgCmw_5mNMuYC25Qepeg9-5fljQQlcKLzIdJoxlPkRb_NIfAWOuZ1Hc67rHxVTK6IRdScIhHY9KLpG0DSd_1F4egN6B99Fog6qrVy1HeqGC/s400/crappie+portrait1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></p>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-54783480299284870362010-04-11T19:21:00.000-07:002010-04-11T19:44:29.784-07:00Shore fishing with Genna and LucasDespite trying to get things ready for a fishing trip up north tomorrow the kiddies were pressuring me to bring them out for a little fishing, so I brought them to a little lake for about an hour. The fish were active, and both caught fish. Lucas can cast, he can work the float and catch fish all on his own. Genna on the other hand is pretty much a novice when it comes to fishing so I had to teach her some basics and she still didn't really get it. Here's a few pictures I took...<br /><br />Genna didn't want me to publish this picture. haha too bad Genna!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5l6VOH5knwILEeynTHt4H-BtLF5WE-aJpcp5kTfKdDlrpHOd1L9llqt0ppuEw1WTbmg1GBELg6nc4y7KduCbiEpB-5G42Ynw7sBzgYVUrdUPSyASobCMUAE7m2zeixPloSoZBPPJliBNq/s1600/genna+perch.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5l6VOH5knwILEeynTHt4H-BtLF5WE-aJpcp5kTfKdDlrpHOd1L9llqt0ppuEw1WTbmg1GBELg6nc4y7KduCbiEpB-5G42Ynw7sBzgYVUrdUPSyASobCMUAE7m2zeixPloSoZBPPJliBNq/s400/genna+perch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459072561067156962" border="0" /></a><br />BIG BASS LUCAS!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNmwe98IY5nIHnNDye-DblY5uPvrl7rGbCNMaG6z_wyvkYoTbpS4YaLvgcawQ1puYWqpzwL249oodTD77NGGN3rgH9po7vwxO515EO3LlxC9stnDHADfs4_K3dszBd28kAiUMrXOwAsFQL/s1600/lucas+big+bass.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 333px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNmwe98IY5nIHnNDye-DblY5uPvrl7rGbCNMaG6z_wyvkYoTbpS4YaLvgcawQ1puYWqpzwL249oodTD77NGGN3rgH9po7vwxO515EO3LlxC9stnDHADfs4_K3dszBd28kAiUMrXOwAsFQL/s400/lucas+big+bass.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459072552703150802" border="0" /></a><br />This gill was a real metro lunker, about 9.25"<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dKBUhREU-j4-n3eX56FxtwnexCpf7nNdUZg_FaJVUK2jlzgwmBrYKYBkVmMyzJbNftpD5aE5OoEyLi6hu86cqDoTZKrw9nkc2A2XKZUE84byuRqfUb9PN9rFrmCaJnMEv11ZI1dOqLJQ/s1600/genna+big+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dKBUhREU-j4-n3eX56FxtwnexCpf7nNdUZg_FaJVUK2jlzgwmBrYKYBkVmMyzJbNftpD5aE5OoEyLi6hu86cqDoTZKrw9nkc2A2XKZUE84byuRqfUb9PN9rFrmCaJnMEv11ZI1dOqLJQ/s400/genna+big+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459072545042236482" border="0" /></a><br />Green sunny. What a face Lucas!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQeD38Bly0JolYiqjrs5dHTdFJwMF-gWNvRmvdwqK3HXiAHtGnj9-bftJvI1f-3db2ltxtE7B37oDK5LM_wCf7LpgHrDHM_7FW-gsOPxgG69fXKxRFRIJWCMk9EQ-K-9xDlEK3Oi5QRp4E/s1600/lucas+greenie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQeD38Bly0JolYiqjrs5dHTdFJwMF-gWNvRmvdwqK3HXiAHtGnj9-bftJvI1f-3db2ltxtE7B37oDK5LM_wCf7LpgHrDHM_7FW-gsOPxgG69fXKxRFRIJWCMk9EQ-K-9xDlEK3Oi5QRp4E/s400/lucas+greenie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459072530842497394" border="0" /></a> <br /><br />Tomorrow I get up bright and early and visit Crappie Keith for a couple days of fishin'. I'll be bringing my boat for it's first outing this year. Weather looks to be a bit unstable with some wind and a possibility for showers and thunder. Yikes! Oh well, you know what they say, bad weather=good fishing.Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-85056604745982457742010-04-09T04:14:00.000-07:002010-04-09T04:56:48.660-07:00First time out this springI got a chance to get out for the first time this spring and do some tubin' on a local lake. I was anxious to try my new 6'5" Cabela's Prodigy ML panfish rod coupled with a Tica Cetus SS500 UL reel spooled up with 5lb Gamma Ice. It was funny, as I made my way to the launch area I found Andy there fishing away on shore. He said it had been slow. I decided to try the bay where I really pounded 'em last spring. The water was really low, probably down two feet from last year, and I had to work hard to get to that bay. I popped one gill around 9", but there wasn't much there except for a bunch of little gills and some dink bass. No crappies either.<br /><br />I decided to make my way out onto the main lake. There was alot of algae up shallow...yuck! And that made fishing difficult, so I went out a bit deeper and sure enough, the crappies and gills were everywhere! There was quite a bit of movement on the surface from the fish underneath, and they were smackin' my float with vigor! I was getting fish on practically every cast using a Culprit paddletail about a foot under a float. Color didn't matter. Caught lots of gills, a couple in the 9" class, with plenty between 7.5" and 8.5". They looked healthy with bright colors, but the crappies were thin, with nothing much larger than 10".<br /><br />My Cabela's Prodigy rod was awesome, it casted great with the Gamma line. The only thing that sucked was this terrible thumping and vibration I got when reeling in a fish. I figured it was the older Tica Cetus reel I had on. When I got home I tested it out and discovered it was the reel after all. I put on a Cabela's Fish Eagle UL and now it should work fine. I never was impressed by Tica reels, although lot's of people are. IMO the Cabela's UL Fish Eagle is the best reels for about $30. <br /><br />I didn't get a whole lot of good pics, but here's a few from my outing...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQKLha5NBOSAHLnOspO-Cp1uG0FbWr80fFC6jjpyNpWl7t3fOVr79d2a9AJCZLncJ0BYvieLef9CrpZjiXNuNj-89cpVARCU0MEBlian64ftFVCyqY4WINu2T_6i47dImlJm-l308o0J7/s1600/nice+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQKLha5NBOSAHLnOspO-Cp1uG0FbWr80fFC6jjpyNpWl7t3fOVr79d2a9AJCZLncJ0BYvieLef9CrpZjiXNuNj-89cpVARCU0MEBlian64ftFVCyqY4WINu2T_6i47dImlJm-l308o0J7/s400/nice+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458098940302991762" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPvBF9uGrP13MpMZNiHejaSPcM1bEaz45JFtGPimuPruoszxjxDel8emQRwb7QKCCbRGkOQkTqTRFjTzIYmsLQnZD_uylNUgEQjyZOFYQRIT5S2MsslSotfG1T_dt_bZ7vc1kTVgtpiOJ/s1600/lipped+crappie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPvBF9uGrP13MpMZNiHejaSPcM1bEaz45JFtGPimuPruoszxjxDel8emQRwb7QKCCbRGkOQkTqTRFjTzIYmsLQnZD_uylNUgEQjyZOFYQRIT5S2MsslSotfG1T_dt_bZ7vc1kTVgtpiOJ/s400/lipped+crappie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458098934141331202" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWE9ia42O4fYEzEKrjhYeZ72YFSEEsWZRb53aoDs1xmBuDn3BVHUL1mhGvPrzVmPFxfjBx6sNlohGyLRgAVdjH_ZwkCqkh9bDdrZoesgfsWvNc7crWlB5iENBiYwP542qhp6XGSWrzbQP/s1600/hand+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWE9ia42O4fYEzEKrjhYeZ72YFSEEsWZRb53aoDs1xmBuDn3BVHUL1mhGvPrzVmPFxfjBx6sNlohGyLRgAVdjH_ZwkCqkh9bDdrZoesgfsWvNc7crWlB5iENBiYwP542qhp6XGSWrzbQP/s400/hand+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458098928055876674" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-87574957397911275802010-03-04T06:38:00.000-08:002010-03-04T07:18:53.711-08:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCAS!!!My son Lucas is 10 years today...Happy Birthday Lucas! He doesn't do alot of ice fishing, so here's a picture from last year on Waconia. Check out the smug look on his face! Lucas' favorite fish is the bowfin, but he generally likes any fish that is big. He also likes to fish for panfish too. As long as they are biting, Lucas likes to fish. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8HLjSxetwCGAkrNrsTeuC4lPmKKqVChL8UFk6hcCQDWguelGe4r9AuWTVudceZORyTNfYPSKJD3uWzRzl7ZuVPa0j2wAhBEYCY1qWzMzbmJGBdOQkDm2ulXCM1EkNBBtMFkJIjV5hWYaO/s1600-h/lucasperch-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444788466898616210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8HLjSxetwCGAkrNrsTeuC4lPmKKqVChL8UFk6hcCQDWguelGe4r9AuWTVudceZORyTNfYPSKJD3uWzRzl7ZuVPa0j2wAhBEYCY1qWzMzbmJGBdOQkDm2ulXCM1EkNBBtMFkJIjV5hWYaO/s400/lucasperch-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-38185018539849429702010-03-03T04:12:00.000-08:002010-03-03T10:35:31.166-08:00February Grand Rapids reportI got back on sunday (it's wednesday as I write my report) from my little fishing adventure in Grand Rapids. I was a tad bit weary after 30 hours of fishing in three days, but now feel up to the task of reporting my results.<br /><br />Fist of all I didn't even know if my vehicle was going to make it up there. I have been loosing radiator fluid, and found out that my water pump was leaking like a sieve and was losing about a gallon a week...yikes! But I did make up and back without a disaster, so I thank the Lord for answering my prayers in that regard. Fishing buddy and friend Andy drove up seperately because he had to leave saturday afternoon, and I would stay until sunday late afternoon. I found a really cheap motel to stay in both days, so that helped out with the overall cost of the trip.<br /><br />Weather-wise, we expected clear blue skies, high pressure, warm weather in the lower thirties for all three days, and virtually zero wind, and that is exactly how it was. Absolutely georgeous fishing weather! We stopped at the bait shop on the way to the lake and the report was that the fishing has been slow on our target lake, but I had a feeling we would do better than "slow". We got to the lake about 8:30 friday morning. It turned out that the lake was more snow-covered than I expected, and that would hamper our mobility. There was an unplowed, barely used road going out to the main basin, so that had us a little worried, especially since the road was a tad bit high by the landing, but we made it onto the lake ok. The snow depth was inconsistent, so we had to stick to the road otherwise we risked getting stuck. We were fortunate in there was another little used road that led to the area we wanted to fish. We even got stuck on a patch of ice, but got out of it. Whew! Our area of focus was a flat area in the 14-16 foot range. There was little evidence that others had hit the spot, so we were glad of that.<br /><br />We started out deeper and I started drilling toward shore. We found some bluegills after some searching, so I drilled a bunch of holes in the general viscinity. My Strikemaster auger was not cooporative either. The throttle got stuck, so I had to drill holes unable to throttle down. Then, my pull rope decided to not go in the final 8-10 inches too, so I was not able to drill as much as I wanted to. I was beginning to wonder if my auger would just fail me completely! Fortunately the throttle cable was just frozen, because with the warming of the day it got "unstuck". The pull rope didn't get any worse either.<br /><br />Andy found a good spot to set up his Eskimo Quickfish(3) on, and was onto some fish with very little moving around. With my fish-trap, I did alot more hole-hopping than Andy, but we probably both caught about as many fish. He caught some slab crappies along with a mess of decent bluegills, nothing huge though, except for a one-eyed gill he said was close to 10". The crappies were loners, coming about a foot off the bottom. Andy favored his Fiska's Balance loaded on both ends with spikes, or T.H.E. jig. He caught his crappies on T.H.E. jig.<br /><br />I started out using the red-glow Fairy jig and the larger L.A. Atomic Stealth jig, both good producers on this lake in the past, but the panfish wanted nothing to do with those presentations. I also tried the Lindy Flyer jigging spoon, but no interest there either. So I decided to try a small #12 Fiska's Marmooska style jig in black with glow dots with a Gulp! waxie in either pink or red and the fish really took a liking to that. I also had pretty good luck on an olive colored Gill-Getter with glow green-bottom and Gulp! waxie threaded on. I caught my crappies on this presentation, as well as bluegills. So I pretty much stuck with those two presentations the whole three days, but did catch some fish on a #12 green-glow Diamond Jig too. Basically, the fish didn't want larger profile, so sticking to small stuff was key.<br /><br />The bite started out slow on day one, and by the time Andy left saturday, the bite picked up with many active pods of fish that would charge my presentation. Now that's fun! I had to hole hop to keep on active schools.<br /><br />Averall, the size of the bluegills were a bit disappointing for this lake on this particular trip, with the majority of the gills in the 7"-8" class. The 9-10" class were few and far between with no catches bigger that 9.75", which I caught at least a half dozen. Because of the snow cover we (I) stuck to the same general spot all three days. So I don't know if the smaller fish were just dominating the flat we were fishing with the larger ones relating elsewhere, or if the overall size-structure was down. I tend to think the former. I would classify the fishing as "good" not "great", but much better than I had produced down here in the metro area the past few weeks. <br /><br />That's the report, now for the pictures. I have much to learn about taking fishing pictures, but am getting better and better. I have a difficult time keeping my ugly fingers out of the way. That, and holding the camera away from my body while holding the fish close to my mug and taking a pic that way. It's tough getting into the right position every time. 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Waconia has been slow, plus, one of my favorite little lakes close by my home has been taken over by dink perch! Other outings have been relatively fruitless. Yeah, sure, there are pathetic little fish I could take pics of and post, but why bother, really! <br /><br />Fortunately I will have some relief from the ice-fishing blues, because friday I hit the road for 3-day trip to Grand Rapids. Andy will be driving seperately, will fish with me friday and half of saturday before he returns. I'll stick around through sunday. <br /><br />What can I expect? That's a tough call. Weather is forcast to be seasonably warm, with daytime highs around the freezing mark. But as I understand there might be some good 'ol high pressure lurking, which will make the bite a bit unpredictable. Hopefully I'll be able to catch some quality bluegills and crappies, and if things stabilize, I could get onto a really good panfish bite. I look forward to trying my new Ice-Stopper fairy jigs in glow red and the Lindy Flying Rattler jigging spoon. Weather will definitely favor outside fishing adventure. <br /><br />I'll have my camera ready to go, so look forward to pictures and my report upon my return.<br /><br />CaseyCasey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-16334399422730034692010-02-07T05:01:00.000-08:002010-02-07T06:03:03.826-08:00friday reportI had the day off work friday so I headed to a small metro area lake that supposedly had some big gills in it. It was snowing lightly and the temps were in the upper twenties, so it was pleasant fishing weather. I dragged my stuff out there and drilled a bunch of holes covering deep to shallow. I found active gills in every hole, and they were easy to catch, the only problem was the size. Small, potato chip sunnies no bigger than the hand.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqySPPlXZivbLheTgJ8J2k_RD9-jTzeXE3UvwPGbAdh8I8PaE5zHpeABGjMnMtj-lLurVgZmmENkoy3j5XOsHrYtwRSOqJO9WceV2zepzGxCJRwnRLwnIMeoHv5uUHA23h8uR6VQlZoGWP/s1600-h/hand+sunny.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqySPPlXZivbLheTgJ8J2k_RD9-jTzeXE3UvwPGbAdh8I8PaE5zHpeABGjMnMtj-lLurVgZmmENkoy3j5XOsHrYtwRSOqJO9WceV2zepzGxCJRwnRLwnIMeoHv5uUHA23h8uR6VQlZoGWP/s400/hand+sunny.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435487370371833442" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOrfEPPMSXx3om9DgcOnSYIbQU6L04H4bUp5dm5LqO1qzDc2I2n1Cr61fdYFX_pqWZaosoZYEaiz-j3St091PYxTxus1JVyhcA3eQevT5h8siTbrjuqksH0hcZ8mSgoLd_RJVLzeQvb2sN/s1600-h/pumpkinseed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOrfEPPMSXx3om9DgcOnSYIbQU6L04H4bUp5dm5LqO1qzDc2I2n1Cr61fdYFX_pqWZaosoZYEaiz-j3St091PYxTxus1JVyhcA3eQevT5h8siTbrjuqksH0hcZ8mSgoLd_RJVLzeQvb2sN/s400/pumpkinseed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435487278529756690" border="0" /></a><br />Well, after a couple hours of that game I decided to head to Waconia to see if I could vindicate my last three outings there. I tried a couple different spots, fishing in the weeds, without anything to show for it. So I decided to head to the Pillsbury Reef area, an area I had struggled in this year but had caught some quality panfish there last year. I found an area with some deep weeds and sure enough found some active bluegills. They were on the bottom, mixed in with the weeds, but were eager to bite my offering of an orange Berkley Fish Fry. It was a bit slow at first, but as it got closer to dusk they became much more active. I kept a couple close to the nine inch mark.<br /><br />After the gills shut down, I decided to switch gears and try for crappies. I put on a red Glow Demon tipped with a Gulp! waxie; I managed a couple crappies this way. They were slow, coming off the bottom slowly sliding up to my offering. Here's one at 10.5".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOtUq4ajX2LP5jchOqgZL7n8IlpJLNlyLQbt1d7pYc9CJWbf1MFJs6428btJzUUK-j1Edc8FlSRXkfEC00RAHzBe34Sjxe1ESIh-3MSKZg0HN0KFO7Y7ETs4tVkjVMMp2wqpmNtlYUFSk/s1600-h/crappie1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOtUq4ajX2LP5jchOqgZL7n8IlpJLNlyLQbt1d7pYc9CJWbf1MFJs6428btJzUUK-j1Edc8FlSRXkfEC00RAHzBe34Sjxe1ESIh-3MSKZg0HN0KFO7Y7ETs4tVkjVMMp2wqpmNtlYUFSk/s400/crappie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435487270512595762" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDCJMEW7oq3ud4j-ncFrQ8OI8X3syHDpOk5T_XINm_cIxYOpFuN9pvXqstPedZLyIGAURsa8DIQLb_-mlszJfJ3YtIXYtpshpg945gOzhKiL2WJmSRzKsif2uQ16CB2N9ogtw3QNvRHDD/s1600-h/crappie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDCJMEW7oq3ud4j-ncFrQ8OI8X3syHDpOk5T_XINm_cIxYOpFuN9pvXqstPedZLyIGAURsa8DIQLb_-mlszJfJ3YtIXYtpshpg945gOzhKiL2WJmSRzKsif2uQ16CB2N9ogtw3QNvRHDD/s400/crappie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435487275153264402" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-43876753784391027642010-02-01T04:22:00.000-08:002010-02-01T04:34:40.920-08:00not much happening...Since returning from Grand Rapids I have nothing noteworthy to report. Fishing has been very tough for me the last four or five outings, trying some new spots in the TC metro area, with only a few embarassingly small panfish.<br /><br />Coming up: I am looking forward to a two day panfish trip to Ottertail county at the end of February, and then there is the late ice period in March when the bite should pick up. Between now and then I'll probably spend most of my time on local lakes trying to locate a decent bite.Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-4644866256603269242010-01-13T05:00:00.001-08:002010-01-13T05:46:36.508-08:00GRAND RAPIDS REPORTI recently returned from Grand Rapids after four days of fishing for pannies, mostly targeting giant bluegills. Me and Andy stayed in a really nice clean resort cabin (Wildwood Resort) on Bass lake on thursday and friday ahead of the rest of the crowd...they arrived on saturday morning. We did all of our fishing on Bass lake.<br /><br />We knew we were in for very cold weather for the first three days with temp highs barely getting above zero. It turned out that the first day we had the best fishing with overcast conditions. I also did really well on day two, but Andy didn't fare as well. Day three high pressure really affected the bite for me (Andy did better than me). And by day four the weather was actually back to respectable limits and found the fish a bit more cooperative.<br /><br />We caught most of our fish in around 20 FOW. All in all I caught a few big gills close to the ten inch mark. I also registered a tie for my personal best bluegill that measured 10.5" We also found occasional slab crappies roaming the basin. I had the best luck on a Little Atom Atomic Stealth jig tipped with either Gulp! Alive waxies in red or spikes. Andy was hammering fish on a Fiskas jig with hooks coming out of either end and loaded with a couple spikes. Here's a bunch of pictures I took, so enjoy! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRg-O7pZRXxk17WVEeVgI1nkHlRS3nYO0WFSyEsArMomqSklAvSe7HWc82Cz8OxhZea4609kz2Xjd_g95ei2HQ6IAuEe0KVS4Vd2TOnnZMefq3C9NcV8tgQ7fXeVHmerWZrEouO2J3aym/s1600-h/gill7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRg-O7pZRXxk17WVEeVgI1nkHlRS3nYO0WFSyEsArMomqSklAvSe7HWc82Cz8OxhZea4609kz2Xjd_g95ei2HQ6IAuEe0KVS4Vd2TOnnZMefq3C9NcV8tgQ7fXeVHmerWZrEouO2J3aym/s400/gill7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209760458252242" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Dyr1xG2_N3ae3biCVzxyqSu5-6VqDKddHJatL2LfoFsVWmzngUi21tytdSiRzGyxkXd2AhMrvEMDVy77HTvCN2kPt9dXOZCOY7we65cQn1hXPZMEzMaBgfH4wJtZF5O5oto4hSeQVQRu/s1600-h/hand+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Dyr1xG2_N3ae3biCVzxyqSu5-6VqDKddHJatL2LfoFsVWmzngUi21tytdSiRzGyxkXd2AhMrvEMDVy77HTvCN2kPt9dXOZCOY7we65cQn1hXPZMEzMaBgfH4wJtZF5O5oto4hSeQVQRu/s400/hand+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426213330717536098" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzqX-xv1ZNAQJKM-4OPdYE9gwTCyrgD15ok0CFUtPNEpSHLJTc9_TNmR0_WlyandSdOcmuzeuKSA-dbu6qy6DIBG6zlKYPqGOxy5RlSL7hcy8hoNKFEU8S_fvbkN93i6uXZAk1GHElcB9/s1600-h/holegill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzqX-xv1ZNAQJKM-4OPdYE9gwTCyrgD15ok0CFUtPNEpSHLJTc9_TNmR0_WlyandSdOcmuzeuKSA-dbu6qy6DIBG6zlKYPqGOxy5RlSL7hcy8hoNKFEU8S_fvbkN93i6uXZAk1GHElcB9/s400/holegill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426210030606450434" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Andy nabs a big gill<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLPvvMX15zKss7tnb4fKB0Py4FFF_NdpVZPT_3H9JD0gWWTG0q7zBRdsOBiI3Pq939eAWP5Mi_S8UDtdI5G-Ecc6wvZ9L1wHI-judyFLfdw42vHCwlUXKS9jIv2NYIhWZ0YOhWBnk8c_st/s1600-h/andygill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLPvvMX15zKss7tnb4fKB0Py4FFF_NdpVZPT_3H9JD0gWWTG0q7zBRdsOBiI3Pq939eAWP5Mi_S8UDtdI5G-Ecc6wvZ9L1wHI-judyFLfdw42vHCwlUXKS9jIv2NYIhWZ0YOhWBnk8c_st/s400/andygill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209040849995218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rVZ-tKlhBjoOZlr1wO5ioR690AJ-rEIlxHWFpvanyvRHbyMOfDT-Y7MLzjSK4yUtvvEK35eV3UFTr3hlS4DPX9WPpP4Jgc2-NjSGn2fTI2sQUTlsr6hqScx8xi-fSeTV-SoyCEjINgRx/s1600-h/gill+on+ice.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rVZ-tKlhBjoOZlr1wO5ioR690AJ-rEIlxHWFpvanyvRHbyMOfDT-Y7MLzjSK4yUtvvEK35eV3UFTr3hlS4DPX9WPpP4Jgc2-NjSGn2fTI2sQUTlsr6hqScx8xi-fSeTV-SoyCEjINgRx/s400/gill+on+ice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209768325101602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhig_3iYOwmZzI-SqCzmnLaTSMEBzQISxy_i3JyHKT4CKDVGMw23G6akNrvJrYcpiSnx10yxBsBxb0Xo-CfmBBc_7wI0u9mZB1kTT6WJ7N-Ro6CjXZt-dPsAik5xL_7mJYql84o1oLSeqA_/s1600-h/gill8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhig_3iYOwmZzI-SqCzmnLaTSMEBzQISxy_i3JyHKT4CKDVGMw23G6akNrvJrYcpiSnx10yxBsBxb0Xo-CfmBBc_7wI0u9mZB1kTT6WJ7N-Ro6CjXZt-dPsAik5xL_7mJYql84o1oLSeqA_/s400/gill8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209764577270338" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mike Thompson with some slabs!<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsPgw3zzF0gdTMqQCdU5oC1I3FGjmFJWCvxhIOsY0S7nGapz5BCk3a0K3QQbR9a9ZHdYxRSkxqrb5PBICpPhzOMCNaS83fXaqErCO8y3vv2zSwRyeVZZFEWCXKLBA6GsCn6Kt0gHuen_i/s1600-h/thompsonslabs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsPgw3zzF0gdTMqQCdU5oC1I3FGjmFJWCvxhIOsY0S7nGapz5BCk3a0K3QQbR9a9ZHdYxRSkxqrb5PBICpPhzOMCNaS83fXaqErCO8y3vv2zSwRyeVZZFEWCXKLBA6GsCn6Kt0gHuen_i/s400/thompsonslabs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426210046488324530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyHc2QQ74su39T54Bbpg2izFPwOWv0hvB0V7nk2FgJlBXsVSxUWfSuQAbDYDeC0Y0pThyiwTXBgbSCsD-LaplKtXQhRHS8AwQtcRKXkihY1_gbAgSYCBbrhbe5vdvtWRVax9FYII7Fizq/s1600-h/gill6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyHc2QQ74su39T54Bbpg2izFPwOWv0hvB0V7nk2FgJlBXsVSxUWfSuQAbDYDeC0Y0pThyiwTXBgbSCsD-LaplKtXQhRHS8AwQtcRKXkihY1_gbAgSYCBbrhbe5vdvtWRVax9FYII7Fizq/s400/gill6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209757208359506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsmIzlH5ZcVarSIHFxqugsk0XY1hXDDd9vdh4KDXOfCAztUJAD-APlhQSP9W1w-pSUkhWG9ZQNoubxm_kRAiyFn4xFq4DLMrGOUhzzn9X3cWW648bUDBg6KHsrEdnyoNe4GB_K9-bFSDP/s1600-h/closeupgill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsmIzlH5ZcVarSIHFxqugsk0XY1hXDDd9vdh4KDXOfCAztUJAD-APlhQSP9W1w-pSUkhWG9ZQNoubxm_kRAiyFn4xFq4DLMrGOUhzzn9X3cWW648bUDBg6KHsrEdnyoNe4GB_K9-bFSDP/s400/closeupgill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209059796800530" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Another beauty for Andy<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0INCajoTnBLPsW0z6sw20sd84iVZTssx5-oUEPBFEtrD1gSeCS07Jj1212Y-uh2Z9lsLh7Gw4jyqTb92v9F6sc6A2cHNWoLwJKwOWCYTx7rOfRu2lXhnsK-v5W_O0EcGoNYOc7Cxs0Tov/s1600-h/andygill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0INCajoTnBLPsW0z6sw20sd84iVZTssx5-oUEPBFEtrD1gSeCS07Jj1212Y-uh2Z9lsLh7Gw4jyqTb92v9F6sc6A2cHNWoLwJKwOWCYTx7rOfRu2lXhnsK-v5W_O0EcGoNYOc7Cxs0Tov/s400/andygill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209050202423410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpcshtdgE_PCDScGnfeycPMGnNSMKjDDcmHW2PsyHsHN6w-gD8v8TXLPMMZ-kqVRx_lM0MeMhyyAFkVJQxv5dvKosQmGaDgUnQAHPIOhAEqTLP5_fvccsKLU_BjcVW6DQOpH6AiHdwodX/s1600-h/gill5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpcshtdgE_PCDScGnfeycPMGnNSMKjDDcmHW2PsyHsHN6w-gD8v8TXLPMMZ-kqVRx_lM0MeMhyyAFkVJQxv5dvKosQmGaDgUnQAHPIOhAEqTLP5_fvccsKLU_BjcVW6DQOpH6AiHdwodX/s400/gill5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209751094128866" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Good crappie action for Bass lake<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEnlg9MSTuf8iK59J1wtmtl4L60g7rRSkzjg3w-DR6zIMH98XsSuSVyWbK4HyfiGvNgh_klpTJuq9D7KXghbqBT2yDva3ujKAJuLUR6bj6zbZ7lut2faRZguy0jCTvwLrnVN-K4h0lLAU/s1600-h/crappie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEnlg9MSTuf8iK59J1wtmtl4L60g7rRSkzjg3w-DR6zIMH98XsSuSVyWbK4HyfiGvNgh_klpTJuq9D7KXghbqBT2yDva3ujKAJuLUR6bj6zbZ7lut2faRZguy0jCTvwLrnVN-K4h0lLAU/s400/crappie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209418270335090" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's my 10.5" bluegill. I wish I had taken more pictures.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNw6gQHj0vDVpokmd91-APUF6RItQmvzvLah9RRcaeDgQu8IuEhWOj7j70Lfi2xXBqjgy4kWVLdhyezrb_jzDD8Lizw_QyyfwuBJbD_OiU9HOmUXoo2DVr5kkPQY9ZFN8_GD_bC2AdcLJW/s1600-h/ten+and+a+half+inch.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNw6gQHj0vDVpokmd91-APUF6RItQmvzvLah9RRcaeDgQu8IuEhWOj7j70Lfi2xXBqjgy4kWVLdhyezrb_jzDD8Lizw_QyyfwuBJbD_OiU9HOmUXoo2DVr5kkPQY9ZFN8_GD_bC2AdcLJW/s400/ten+and+a+half+inch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426210039626310322" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsL37dLKNLtkoFOYADRHfVaUgjYObOJ4RXU4CNj6b9jUAAVxPPdaw8wgJfQ5NEk3PSiBGZuQwLKURE12Vp3iqyztur-5bQB4V-Ojq3HSqJu2g264VpwlWAEqUFdkzRB0RRJbedvbLZEDZI/s1600-h/gill4-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA10qvWqtMUGBLK6FrSuYgUcHACD7nrkeueJnLaqisGkZ0YD8ZxNdEQ6JZvIgsQ2d0yUSNidLCWq13rTTEbhyphenhyphenstdPuW9NrDVYFWmesIauMylgQf4NRsXqYUyT7nebSP7HERfUAcvYJewwe/s400/gill3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209426706820354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoD1srSoP6j6QLtTC3MKRluWh7XLsUOFDX4WGfe_PsSE9UOgZz-C7VfwRQATYldyc4nfW4nivivaNHm-lRNgEeXvdHZS9R6wbzQtPOHNcGSPTOSVDeiIB4mSrxHPNi22vVw_TVsLLN7tP_/s1600-h/gill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoD1srSoP6j6QLtTC3MKRluWh7XLsUOFDX4WGfe_PsSE9UOgZz-C7VfwRQATYldyc4nfW4nivivaNHm-lRNgEeXvdHZS9R6wbzQtPOHNcGSPTOSVDeiIB4mSrxHPNi22vVw_TVsLLN7tP_/s400/gill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209421329233474" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXvA8a_Dog_TQKZHlSL3t7lOST2TKfNf2c4FvDotezxe_t6HznQWtaEwiyyLQP8kOp7I54Z7_ldI-b0vhCNESCKZ83Cf4x8ayfIv6oIklA6ZUKYFWzhvC8IDaXt7OSOObcZUcGUsluWSuX/s1600-h/crappie1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXvA8a_Dog_TQKZHlSL3t7lOST2TKfNf2c4FvDotezxe_t6HznQWtaEwiyyLQP8kOp7I54Z7_ldI-b0vhCNESCKZ83Cf4x8ayfIv6oIklA6ZUKYFWzhvC8IDaXt7OSOObcZUcGUsluWSuX/s400/crappie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209062229907090" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMgCu_Ug3Ek5bCziBV2Z_fsxpvLCZ1BgzqzL1zY_MwRVEG89f6Nq6PZpnNNOTGgc_ia-p0Ph04UK7dxe8t200kkkyw33UWge-2f7LTBzpMKSBhwQ1q6LIpcsNyqZtFEtl4DaJAE0Oz5dCO/s1600-h/closeupgill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMgCu_Ug3Ek5bCziBV2Z_fsxpvLCZ1BgzqzL1zY_MwRVEG89f6Nq6PZpnNNOTGgc_ia-p0Ph04UK7dxe8t200kkkyw33UWge-2f7LTBzpMKSBhwQ1q6LIpcsNyqZtFEtl4DaJAE0Oz5dCO/s400/closeupgill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209054503046594" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-7492228513317576772010-01-07T02:12:00.000-08:002010-01-07T02:18:57.396-08:00Grand Rapids bound!I'm leaving this morning for a four day fishing trip to Grand Rapids. Me and Andy are heading up today (It's 4:14am now) with a group of about 12 to meet us up there on saturday morning. I expect less than favorable conditions today and tomorrow with highs expected just above zero with some wind forcast for today. We might try some different lakes besides Bass. I really want to give Little Bowstring a shot. My main focus will be panfish, especially big bluegills, but might try to ice some walleyes too.<br /><br />Anyway, look for my report and pictures upon my return early next week.Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-73054982805137994752010-01-01T09:24:00.001-08:002010-01-01T09:48:51.395-08:00A couple quick reportsI visited the lake from my last report with Andy, hoping to cash in on some nice panfish once again, but this time the fish were very NEGATIVE! Very few fish caught, including the only keeper of the day, a nice bluegill over 8 inches. Beautiful fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvxr_x4gwdGzMEWgmMkQmvD32g4lr2QkpOrbHj_OIWAlB6oFhwoD18FeNenPpgDDovx7hMylWwptL62nYFTaKv4AljHaJheJfFhZoNAS5PnmNbpQfMf1UrAV6tcUbB4OBkAPNpO_WfcaOZ/s1600-h/nice+sunny.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvxr_x4gwdGzMEWgmMkQmvD32g4lr2QkpOrbHj_OIWAlB6oFhwoD18FeNenPpgDDovx7hMylWwptL62nYFTaKv4AljHaJheJfFhZoNAS5PnmNbpQfMf1UrAV6tcUbB4OBkAPNpO_WfcaOZ/s400/nice+sunny.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421824439643268402" border="0" /></a>I had to leave just at prime time, just as the sun was going down, in order to make it to a New Year's party. The panfish in that lake seem to be in that negative winter pattern and don't see myself going back there for quite some time. Amazing how fish patterns can change in a week.<br /><br />This morning I scouted a local lake I have fished many times before. I caught a few keeper crappies, nothing huge, and lot's of small bluegills and lot's of dink perch. This lake is never the same year after year. Where you catch 'em one year, the next they are not there. And now there are tons of small dink gills and perch in spots where there were decent gills before minus the perch, probably in response to a huge LM bass die-off last winter. I couldn't find a single gill over 8"... I know they're in there though. I found the fish pretty aggressive in broad daylight...usually they are tight lipped during the day. Weird!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXwGNADErkXhiuTqSi6E8yt0h4SBtcyXj0hDWOSqPITyMVzh-GLKHREFgkKL2-xON5qfiUMrSd4h91IDctPSWlJo6iVHoaai8X1iSJfwJ9EQ3i-OyYQfm_exw_EGKbFODq6If4Ox8jhyphenhyphene0/s1600-h/crappie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXwGNADErkXhiuTqSi6E8yt0h4SBtcyXj0hDWOSqPITyMVzh-GLKHREFgkKL2-xON5qfiUMrSd4h91IDctPSWlJo6iVHoaai8X1iSJfwJ9EQ3i-OyYQfm_exw_EGKbFODq6If4Ox8jhyphenhyphene0/s400/crappie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421824428249629714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8I2DCSkCjq7Z5XvOA_XXl5F_FvXQNrEPlufNrJ0Tdf2ZuYFiQoUNbV219tl8ZFsjUmN5Eoo1o3QNYtsom5YLPs4UB5vn5HItPbY91YM_kDqq5FkKpcRWNg4XJZhteUUZk2K4MXw6-32qa/s1600-h/small+sunny.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8I2DCSkCjq7Z5XvOA_XXl5F_FvXQNrEPlufNrJ0Tdf2ZuYFiQoUNbV219tl8ZFsjUmN5Eoo1o3QNYtsom5YLPs4UB5vn5HItPbY91YM_kDqq5FkKpcRWNg4XJZhteUUZk2K4MXw6-32qa/s400/small+sunny.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421824437228205970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcj3evReNdDMkTgWbGdq_7yqSM2UdmOifddyQX2pvfdx7ygDK_xzQkw0uasSw9CRRNEGA7gysusegQ8Kq5-rS9hTP_DfuzGoYRVJMBBxR6T1dGGzjurYXbwPz6JzTlAE-nfnZp_pEEljf5/s1600-h/crappie1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcj3evReNdDMkTgWbGdq_7yqSM2UdmOifddyQX2pvfdx7ygDK_xzQkw0uasSw9CRRNEGA7gysusegQ8Kq5-rS9hTP_DfuzGoYRVJMBBxR6T1dGGzjurYXbwPz6JzTlAE-nfnZp_pEEljf5/s400/crappie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421824424897293138" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-14804585230686527742009-12-27T13:05:00.000-08:002009-12-28T04:49:10.715-08:0012-28 ice fishingIce fishing if finally here! Actually I already went on a two day ice fishing trip to Big Sandy and another lake 3 weeks ago. That's the good news. The bad news is that I thought I had fresh batteries for my camera but discovered at the worst possible time that my charger didn't work, so my batteries were dead and I had to get another charger. Well, now I got my fresh batteries and am ready to go!<br /><br />Big Sandy and the other lake produced a few nice fish, Big Sandy I caught some slab crappies, although it was a finesse situation and had to really work for them. On lake x the fish were even more tight lipped, but managed some crappies and a few gills. Others in our party fared better than me with a 10" gill and 13.5" crappie.<br /><br />Let's fast forward to yesterday. I went to a metro area lake teamed up with Mike Thompson, hoping to ice some nice panfish. The weather was in the 20's, the lake had snow with a layer of slush under it, winds were light...a very delightful day to be on the ice. We drilled quite a few holes and we could not find any fish. I started drilling closer to the shore before I started connecting with the crappies, bluegills not far behind. They were fairly aggressive and liked my offering of Gulp! Minnow Fry. In fact, I didn't catch anything else on any other offerings, the Minnow Fry killed 'em! I ended up taking home a limit of crappies and about 10 gills although I certainly caught more than that. There are some bruiser gills in that lake....I caught a couple around 9".<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />sweet crappie in the hole...<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzvkdipdnf5hHZS2k1FsD-YtdozO2jFxD1V8B8kTmeOUSAuM8FUMUmf3yQAFAi6gxMSdztQ6xHPg5acK0lxTC-ZDu_bd41hp6lJhGi7LFqXuO6bFP8joqrQTH0zSmaWI6qwC9YwFBSgF-/s1600-h/hole+crappie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzvkdipdnf5hHZS2k1FsD-YtdozO2jFxD1V8B8kTmeOUSAuM8FUMUmf3yQAFAi6gxMSdztQ6xHPg5acK0lxTC-ZDu_bd41hp6lJhGi7LFqXuO6bFP8joqrQTH0zSmaWI6qwC9YwFBSgF-/s400/hole+crappie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029606924299730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EfznNN-0Cnf7kxlj5zjPzzCk9VxtgSWDanChWmwMIo3DhURDDu2becIet96VNsll4sgqyoinYLSPFSesGa9wg1_gM-9WPu-bDaiGEQyr-lxclAsJ_T5UMro15ngtn28ERzEJNbW4l_X3/s1600-h/nice+gill3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EfznNN-0Cnf7kxlj5zjPzzCk9VxtgSWDanChWmwMIo3DhURDDu2becIet96VNsll4sgqyoinYLSPFSesGa9wg1_gM-9WPu-bDaiGEQyr-lxclAsJ_T5UMro15ngtn28ERzEJNbW4l_X3/s400/nice+gill3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029346955331506" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">a decent fish...<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNTf_tmk7sDcgy-ivnpDnjK9mXfZjIx14cm6gkBP-eDbuQyJ8AFErQXlS9ShvpTYxOzUQFctKhUGE6stkFOcYKp9UFQq08eAQ8phEhkBf4ZB4RMXIpYY-Gbp46j2274gMzBDB7RIi2ypD/s1600-h/nice+gill2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNTf_tmk7sDcgy-ivnpDnjK9mXfZjIx14cm6gkBP-eDbuQyJ8AFErQXlS9ShvpTYxOzUQFctKhUGE6stkFOcYKp9UFQq08eAQ8phEhkBf4ZB4RMXIpYY-Gbp46j2274gMzBDB7RIi2ypD/s400/nice+gill2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029107450967538" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">and another...<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7GhNgJ3_IBtPWciO6BmsF8KWxzJDLErhBYX1l5DWQAW1IaUQzL1Iz0lEpmF7RXefenxGkG4TxzdyYTyp89yhSH1gIHLziVKGPLenZGQVwcDGInEHUo6uSplMQjekZmbW9lWCAYCj7RyL/s1600-h/nice+gill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7GhNgJ3_IBtPWciO6BmsF8KWxzJDLErhBYX1l5DWQAW1IaUQzL1Iz0lEpmF7RXefenxGkG4TxzdyYTyp89yhSH1gIHLziVKGPLenZGQVwcDGInEHUo6uSplMQjekZmbW9lWCAYCj7RyL/s400/nice+gill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029104301149250" border="0" /></a><br />caught this little bass too...<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAcSGh4THrRUAt35d_3R-Felt8rq4tzBnV2gDdW3HRRipHI82TRQB-m9WZA6srYPnV5gvqpXpWDTmqoWUj7SXp1Tu_3WbJ9m8UUbtQPVPHvTirhForerf6EuFlINt1bifZxNqoMbXYDXJ/s1600-h/little+bass.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 354px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAcSGh4THrRUAt35d_3R-Felt8rq4tzBnV2gDdW3HRRipHI82TRQB-m9WZA6srYPnV5gvqpXpWDTmqoWUj7SXp1Tu_3WbJ9m8UUbtQPVPHvTirhForerf6EuFlINt1bifZxNqoMbXYDXJ/s400/little+bass.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029099774266018" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYNsyKpXx-YC6bMFsMLTgxTtN1AegHVu6dPyZ5dfdmHXJ70wJtDBSjgWe5M90O9eIVjku02XGZKsGFfCuWhSNmp9niA2oB-qFe-h8nTpJRwG5TRoJii1tk-7_AGaedBHnUsZRs0-w9oa_2/s1600-h/gill4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYNsyKpXx-YC6bMFsMLTgxTtN1AegHVu6dPyZ5dfdmHXJ70wJtDBSjgWe5M90O9eIVjku02XGZKsGFfCuWhSNmp9niA2oB-qFe-h8nTpJRwG5TRoJii1tk-7_AGaedBHnUsZRs0-w9oa_2/s400/gill4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029093024774930" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Biggest crappie of the day around 11"<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg095Nzo3-viCnd6Pe3QF-20qr_0lmKXg6vEV32opLeoyHGGr654utGADeiTgImb0uTOgToFA-1AscgRvDDFhY-MbOUn6VkI84Om2a0_r5oQr1LmOF1RXnhqncACNCrkJtYwiaaZnLUchAe/s1600-h/crappie+in+hand.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg095Nzo3-viCnd6Pe3QF-20qr_0lmKXg6vEV32opLeoyHGGr654utGADeiTgImb0uTOgToFA-1AscgRvDDFhY-MbOUn6VkI84Om2a0_r5oQr1LmOF1RXnhqncACNCrkJtYwiaaZnLUchAe/s400/crappie+in+hand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420029090160411954" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-50357094158925184222009-11-26T04:42:00.000-08:002009-11-26T08:33:21.436-08:00MITCH NYGREN JUNE 3rd 1960-NOVEMBER 21st 2009At 12:30 on Saturday morning of November 21st, my brother Mitch died of a heart attack in Cambridge Mn. He was 49 years old. He is survived by his wife Anita, and three boys, Matthew, Aaron, and Ryan.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGXDylM9qYsBmIhxE74fhADxoyhV7K3hawAYSAV4eIhAu44e6OGz4c4BZzlnjjAcAdlhzB_TITcR92ZFe9Z5YQkW7Vbbw99FEDTGHe_6YDS53EBqpgQBMFm8JQqW1c554SvvodeHnbopNM/s1600/mitchlmb2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGXDylM9qYsBmIhxE74fhADxoyhV7K3hawAYSAV4eIhAu44e6OGz4c4BZzlnjjAcAdlhzB_TITcR92ZFe9Z5YQkW7Vbbw99FEDTGHe_6YDS53EBqpgQBMFm8JQqW1c554SvvodeHnbopNM/s400/mitchlmb2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408408376443659250" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It has been five days since Mitch's passing and I am still in shock. I would have posted this news earlier, but the truth of Mitch's death has just sort of sucked the life out of me and the things that were fun before have become dreary and joyless. By the grace of God I know that over time I will heal, but I will never forget my precious brother. I know with absolute certainty he is in Heaven in the very presence of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You see, Mitch died a Christian man.<br /><br />Since I became a Christian in 2000, I had shared the gospel with him on a few occasions and his response was always one of cold indifference. He just didn't seem to have any interest in spiritual matters. I was worried about Mitch because he had smoked his whole life and I thought he would die from cancer as our father did over forty years ago. He tried to quit on many times, but could never do it.<br /><br />In 2006 Mitch suffered a serious heart attack, and by God's mercy, he survived. He quit smoking for a few months afterward, but soon started up again, rolling his own cigarettes because he was usually too poor to buy packs from the store. Mitch always struggled with drinking, and seemed to go through cycles where he would quit, then start up again, quit, then start up again. His drinking caused problems in his family, but could not seem to quit.<br /><br />Eight months ago, during one of those difficult periods in his life when he was drinking, he called me up out of the blue and told me he found salvation in Jesus Christ. WOW!!! The Lord had turned on the switch and Mitch understood the horrible spiritual predicament he was in; he was doomed to Hell for breaking God's laws, and Jesus Christ was the only way out. Mitch bowed to the Lordship of Christ, confessing he had not done very well running his own life. From that point on Mitch was a different man, a joy-filled and peaceful man. It was so obvious he was a believer just from talking to him. He loved Jesus. And the light of Christ manifested itself in very tangible and significant ways by his undying, self-sacrificial love for his family whom he had hurt many times with his drinking. I an absolutely certain Mitch is in Heaven right now in the presence of his Lord Jesus Christ.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVoKtwFQhTPNefJVZSAoU9GnvvW1adsnh3W6QQC7pCMIVQMOK10gNK6XVBMVjUxBvWvDawg6cVUc6s3o8R36PQNdmn_ssWM7Qv6jpLbNs_zTocARP7n0tteo6nbjVxXe39qA6hbfvd_nBi/s1600/IMG_1838.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVoKtwFQhTPNefJVZSAoU9GnvvW1adsnh3W6QQC7pCMIVQMOK10gNK6XVBMVjUxBvWvDawg6cVUc6s3o8R36PQNdmn_ssWM7Qv6jpLbNs_zTocARP7n0tteo6nbjVxXe39qA6hbfvd_nBi/s400/IMG_1838.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408415771078728962" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The wake and funeral were on Tuesday, attended by well over a hundred wounded and teary-eyed family and friends. There were people there I had not seen for many, many years to say good-bye to Mitch. The death of Mitch is a stark reminder that we are all mortal. We are swallowed up by the fact that we shall all one day become a cold and lifeless corpse. I am so grateful that the gospel was proclaimed at Mitch's funeral, and it is my prayer that friends and relatives will think about their eventual demise and what awaits them on the other side of death. May the Lord cause the lost who attended Mitch's funeral to be "born-again", as He did to Mitch. <br /><br />Here are a few observations on my awesome brother Mitch, although not exhaustive...<br /><br />Mitch was a simple man, a man who never desired great wealth or personal recognition. He never graduated from high school, so he spent his time going from one low paying job to the next. He never had a fancy house, car, boat, equipment, or clothes...that just wasn't Mitch.<br /><br />Mitch was a complex man who had a lot more going on under the surface than he showed. I am certain he often wondered, as I did before I became a Christian, the true meaning and purpose of life.<br /><br />Mitch was very family oriented. He loved family gatherings and game nights. Although he struggled with drinking, family was very important to him.<br /><br />Mitch had a great love of the outdoors and fishing. He spent considerable time on the upper St. Croix river, camping with his family, fishing, and enjoying the solitude. He was a very accomplished fisherman.<br /><br />Mitch was extremely intelligent, and any task he undertook, he did very well. He was a problem solver and strategic thinker who could fix just about anything that was broken.<br /><br />Mitch also had a great sense of humor. He loved to say and do unusual things that would make people laugh. Even when life was tough, Mitch's kept seeing the humor in things nobody else could. <br /><br />Mitch would help anyone in need, even in his drinking cycles he would help anyone who had a need.<br /><br />Mitch was tough as nails. He had survived a lot of sorrow and pain in his life. He never complained about his situation. He just lived life on life's terms.<br /><br />Mitch, I have cried many times just thinking about you over these past few days. I love you and will miss you dearly in this life, but praise the Lord that I will see you again in glory!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9aAWcZinIAeJQZS3LMnoXwTOxwZL1avjqFdsZhYcxuZqax7CiYbVkkayXuCNiYQ08yobo2g-J1uzyorj1FeCOCWUYDFJeFP-Bi6MziCQi77mT72Fth50lgtZtkbtRAGhEWh-OFvGvun0A/s1600/P5090030.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9aAWcZinIAeJQZS3LMnoXwTOxwZL1avjqFdsZhYcxuZqax7CiYbVkkayXuCNiYQ08yobo2g-J1uzyorj1FeCOCWUYDFJeFP-Bi6MziCQi77mT72Fth50lgtZtkbtRAGhEWh-OFvGvun0A/s400/P5090030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408392874085754834" border="0" /></a>Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835442359932247493.post-85086868597633774852009-10-25T20:13:00.000-07:002009-10-25T20:25:00.036-07:0010/25 Minnetonka reportI spent sunday evening fishing on Lake Minnetonka for walleyes, and found the bite starting to pick up pretty good. I caught about 6 walleyes, all were dinks except one at 17" but I'll bet the size will only improve from here on out. I had the best luck anchored up 16+FOW using a blue/glow lipstick-redtail minnow combo. The bigger walleye I got on a slip float. I had alot more bites but didn't connect. Seems you have to really let them take it a long time before setting the hook. Also caught one slab crappie and a rock bass. I don't have any pictures because I forgot my camera so that sucks, oh well. Next time I head out there I'll get some bigger minnows for the slip bobber.<br /><br />Things will only get better for the next few weeks!Casey Nygrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033149174279954160noreply@blogger.com1