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Official TOO Catch Thread

"J"

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Yes sir! Normally “big” swimbaits aren’t my thing but they’ve been working so may need to switch up the mindset. Jerkbaits on the other hand, definitely in my top 3 favorite techniques.
Friend of mine is throwing some swim baits that reminds me of musky baits not bass baits! He has great luck with them also!
 
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Creamer

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The river crappies were fired up last night.







The fly that did most of the damage.

 

TinyTucky

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Spent a couple days on St. Clair. For sure my favorite fishery. Average size of fish seemed to be smaller than what it was in the past- 3.5-4lbs, now closer to 2.5-3lbs. But I won’t complain, nearly nonstop action on quality fish is incredible. Between my buddy and I on day one, we likely boated 80-90 fish maybe more, I also lost an easy 50”+ muskie on a crank bait (can’t believe a 7’ Medium rod with 10lb mono wasn’t up to snuff(also had the GoPro rolling so I at least got it all on video)). Day two I went up with a different buddy, he caught a 20” muskie on his first cast, and only half a dozen-ish smallmouth. According to his fish counter I landed 33 smallies in only a few hours of fishing. Day 1 biggest fish was 4.5lbs, day 2 biggest fish was 5.5lbs. Hoping to make it back up there a handful more times this spring/ early summer before the smallies disperse.
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Isaacorps

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Spent a couple days on St. Clair. For sure my favorite fishery. Average size of fish seemed to be smaller than what it was in the past- 3.5-4lbs, now closer to 2.5-3lbs. But I won’t complain, nearly nonstop action on quality fish is incredible. Between my buddy and I on day one, we likely boated 80-90 fish maybe more, I also lost an easy 50”+ muskie on a crank bait (can’t believe a 7’ Medium rod with 10lb mono wasn’t up to snuff(also had the GoPro rolling so I at least got it all on video)). Day two I went up with a different buddy, he caught a 20” muskie on his first cast, and only half a dozen-ish smallmouth. According to his fish counter I landed 33 smallies in only a few hours of fishing. Day 1 biggest fish was 4.5lbs, day 2 biggest fish was 5.5lbs. Hoping to make it back up there a handful more times this spring/ early summer before the smallies disperse. View attachment 177647View attachment 177648View attachment 177649View attachment 177650View attachment 177651View attachment 177652View attachment 177653
I see your buddy wore his face mask fishing 🤣 great pics!
 

giles

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@"J" slow rolling the 6” swimbaits in 5-9’, trying to keep them mid-water column. With the jerkbaits I sweep the rod twice to get it to depth, then 2-4 hard jerks and maybe 3-5 second pause. I’ll try to post a link whenever I get these GoPro videos put together.
Yes, keep the tikietok videos going. They are hilarious. Like a modern day bill dance blooper reel🤣🤣🤣
 

finelyshedded

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My BIL and his son love it up there and slay them football sized smallies like you guys are every year around this time. They went up this week and might still be up there. I’ll share pics when they get back. I shared a trip they went on 6-10 years ago when they floated up to and met Mark Zona and the owner of Shimano fishing together and Mark handed them hand fulls of fishing tackle. Pretty cool trip for sure!
 

TinyTucky

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My BIL and his son love it up there and slay them football sized smallies like you guys are every year around this time. They went up this week and might still be up there. I’ll share pics when they get back. I shared a trip they went on 6-10 years ago when they floated up to and met Mark Zona and the owner of Shimano fishing together and Mark handed them hand fulls of fishing tackle. Pretty cool trip for sure!
I’ve ran into/ met KVD and Zona up there. Zona has got to be one of the coolest “fishing pros” ever
 

finelyshedded

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I’ve ran into/ met KVD and Zona up there. Zona has got to be one of the coolest “fishing pros” ever
It was extremely foggy and David’s son Brandon saw way off in the distance one boat in the dense heavy fog. Brandon told his dad, wouldn’t that be crazy if that was Mark? David said, as big as this lake is no way, what would be the odds?!?! Sure as shit, as they drifted closer Brandon said, Dad!!!! I see Z-Train written on the side!!!! Lol
They met him a month or so earlier than this at the Bass pro in Fairfield at a met and greet and knew he loved fishing LSC and David’s wife shared some pics of fish the two have caught on Marks FB page. During the above encounter Mark found out it was their fish shared on his FB page. Lol
David wish he would have thought to show Marks friend the 35 year old Shimano rod/reel combo he still fishes with but being so in awe of the meeting he forgot. Lol
TOO GOOD moment for sure👍🏻