The gift that keeps on giving: MCR 5/25/14

[Jigman13]

Headed back up to MCR w/ Dale on 5/25/14. We left a bit earlier than the last few weeks to avoid holiday wknd congestion at the ramp. Plan worked out well. Scooped 5 dz herring and launched quickly. Off we went. Hit the same area we've fished the last few wknds and results were slower. Until Dale bagged a beaut. 21.5" smallie... I think it was his pb. She's def getting entered in the SMB contest. And she owes him a new digital scale! Lol...I caught a few small SMBs in there area and we decided to shove off.

Next spot we had a mixed bag of LMBs, SMBs, and a slimer. I'm 3 for 3 on slimers there after never catching one there before. All nice healthy fish, too.

Hit a section we havent fished and we had a steady pick through out the day fishing livies on drop offs and around weed beds and timber. We hit one spot where the drop off was drastic. Prob 20 ft from the shoreline, we could see rocky out-crops but we were anchored in 30+ ft of water. That place is nuts.

My first cast in that spot I had a submarine LMB follow my herring to the boat. Pitched it back out and BAM! She slammed it. After a pretty long fight Dale netted the slob for me. She was 21" and change and faaaaaaaaatttt!! Easily over 5 lbs. Snapped some shots and off she went. Forgot to mention--while I was fighting the fish, Dale had a fish on too. Nice 16-17 inch SMB that he set the hook on and let linger while I battled my fish. Bigger fish take precedence on the GetANet!! That's for sure! After we got his to the boat, he actually managed another smaller fish in short order. Then it slowed. Just as we're getting ready to relocate, Dale starts reeling up some slack line. Then his rod doubles over. I ask, "are you snagged?" he responds eloquently with "why the f*ck do you have to say that?!?" LOL... Short answer was no... He reels up and twirling new specimen comes up from the depths. It got a look at the boat, shit itself and went ape shit down and out into deeper water. As it's ripping drag, I'm pulling the anchor and Dale is handling the motor to get away from the shoreline. After a pretty decent fight I netted his fish--a beautiful 22-24" laker! Odd that the fish hit in less than 30' of water.

After that we had a few more SMBs and LMBs, and a yellow perch. I messed around with rock bass on small jigs at the launch while Dale was getting the trailer. Good day for sure... We had 15 or 16 fish. A mixed bag and some heft to go along with it. Good stuff Dale... That's 3 trips in a row! Let's keep the mojo flowing!

Here's the fish porn... catch em' up!

Jimmy and Wilson, good seeing you guys out there. Check out the cameo in one of the pics! Photo-bombed by JimmyTheGreek! Lol...

[Jigman13]

couple more pics...

[flatcreek]

Beautiful fish there guys. Dale is that one of those mini bic lighters or is that fish just that big. That just might put you at the top of the heap in the SM contest, I hope so.

[AndyS]

All nice healthy fish.

[GetANet]

Once again, a quality day spent with the Jigman on GetANet! I think the effort paid off today for sure. As the day went on the bites came longer and longer in between. This is a bite that is starting to slow way down so don't think one can just show up and load the boat based on the pics. We put alot of hours in and were very fortunate to catch these beauty's. I always put the big fish first no matter who is hooked up. We fish together so much that it's a routine when one of us is lucky enough to get a big one on that we clear lines, get the net ready, and don't hesitate to pull anchor to turn a battle in our favor! We have done that several times already. I must say as for my laker, not catching one in quite some time that this fish provided alot of entertainment for us. As it saw the boat it did NOT want to know anything about it let alone the net. It made several good runs peeling my 6lb test off. At one point I said to Jeremy I can't stop this thing! Trying to bulldog to the bottom, it went around the boat as we traded rods for a brief moment and finally after a few more shorter runs it came to the net! Don't know about you but I was quite impressed by the fight! Was glad to see some fellow NJF'ers out there as well.
Ended up with some nice fish today as the sarcasim Flowed like a fine bottle of wine today! And topped off the evening with the OT win for the RANGERS!!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

That's an AWESOME day of catching fellaz. Very nice fish once again. Beautiful fish all around!!! Looks like Dales on top with that BEAST Smallie!!! Great job!!!

[Wilson]

You guys were on fire compared to Jimmy and I.
We had a slow pick, I caught a decent LMB.
Jimmy caught a Laker that fought well, mine not so much.
All my fish hooked and landed on 4lb. test.
Great day out weather wise but with a finicky wind/breeze.

Thanks for letting me ride along Jimmy




Long range shot of I think Jigmans big large mouth.

[Bicey]

Good catching fellas.......Jeremy you gonna try to keep Dale there all summer lol. SR was up to 70° on sunday lol.
That's a nice laker jimmy.

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by bicey

Good catching fellas.......Jeremy you gonna try to keep Dale there all summer lol. SR was up to 70° on sunday lol.
That's a nice laker jimmy.

Lol... I have to remind him to not let his truck turn left onto van syckels when we're heading up 31 by Spruce. It always seems to want to turn left there!

[GetANet]

Na, she still has a special place in my heart! This is just a piece on the side that I'm having some fun with for a while till she stops putting out!LOL!!!!!!