05-10-2009, 02:55 AM
Well I got a schooling in the infamous walleye today. Along with quit a few other people! We left the ramp at 0 dark thirty after meeting alot of new friends and some old ones.
My fishing partner (in my case today fishing teacher) and I started hunting for bass which proved to be unsuccessful. So we moved to the all elusive-eye! And I gotta say I thought that was going to end up the same way as the couple hours of bass! But school was now in session Phil proceeded to show me how to bottom bounce for the eyes. We both started out missing a couple hits and then he pulled in a slightly small one that "accidently" fell back in the water without a tape getting put on it. Weird. Well after that he couldnt keep from pulling them in. I could though. I managed to rip a few lips right off of them fish, and two of my hits were freight trains! Massive fish, that I needed to pull the hook away from for some reason. After pulling up everything from the small unmeasured one to some 20 inchers we decided to go try the bass out again. And again couldnt find any that wanted to play with us.
All in all I learned TONS about the eyes and made a great new fishing buddy!
We handed out about 1500 buck in cash to the winners and tried to hand out some rod discounts but no one wanted them apparently.
The winning man walked with close to 800 bucks I believe. I would like to see everyone elses pictures so i can put a few up on the website too. Here is a few of mine.
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My fishing partner (in my case today fishing teacher) and I started hunting for bass which proved to be unsuccessful. So we moved to the all elusive-eye! And I gotta say I thought that was going to end up the same way as the couple hours of bass! But school was now in session Phil proceeded to show me how to bottom bounce for the eyes. We both started out missing a couple hits and then he pulled in a slightly small one that "accidently" fell back in the water without a tape getting put on it. Weird. Well after that he couldnt keep from pulling them in. I could though. I managed to rip a few lips right off of them fish, and two of my hits were freight trains! Massive fish, that I needed to pull the hook away from for some reason. After pulling up everything from the small unmeasured one to some 20 inchers we decided to go try the bass out again. And again couldnt find any that wanted to play with us.
All in all I learned TONS about the eyes and made a great new fishing buddy!
We handed out about 1500 buck in cash to the winners and tried to hand out some rod discounts but no one wanted them apparently.
The winning man walked with close to 800 bucks I believe. I would like to see everyone elses pictures so i can put a few up on the website too. Here is a few of mine.
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