Pre fish report

 Out of town club tournaments (July 27, 28, 29)

Our tourney’s this weekend are on Big Thunder Lake by Remer, MN and on Sun. Lake Roosevelt near Outing, MN I have never been to either one of these lakes or even heard of them until this year so this could be interesting. My son A.J.(Anthony James) left very early on Fri. morning so we could get up to the lakes by sunrise and scout them out, we got to Lake Roosevelt in Outing, MN and prepared to launch the boat seeing as we were the only ones there I decided to let A.J. back me and the boat into the lake, he did fine until he pulled the truck out and almost jumped the dock with the trailer then he went on to park the truck just fine and that is when we noticed a naked female manikin thrown up into a tree we laughed are asses off and took pictures with are phones. We set out to fish the north end of the lake because it had a little more structure then the southern end we stopped at our first spot which was a long submerged point with good depth around it and A.J. hooks up with a beautiful 3 ½ lb smallmouth bass so we fish the whole structure to learn it better and I must have had the right lure and color on because I smoked two largemouth on back to back cast’s both about 1-11/4 lbs nothing special but I knew there were plenty of fish there so we left and ran down to the far north end and everything looked the same, fast breaking shoreline to about 20 ft and caught plenty of fish up to 1-3/4 lbs but it was one here and one there caught a couple on crank baits but most on a 3/8 oz. All-Terrain finesse jig (brown/black/orange) with a Voodoo chunk(brown) as a trailer, A.J. was catching fish on a wacky rigged Voodoo stick, while working around the north end we came to a shallow creek and I trimmed the Mercury up and proceeded thru the narrow channel and into an attached lake I was instructing my son he had to promise to not tell anyone about this spot if we caught fish and as we came into the lake three other guys from the club were already in there so my secret was not so secret and the fishing was not that good either caught some on Voodoo Zombie toads one pretty good one 3 lbs or so and another good blow up but we spent a lot of time in there and not that many fish so we decide to leave and go to Big Thunder and check that lake out.

 On the way to the next lake we had a big Timber wolf cross the road right in front of us, never seen one in the wild, way cool.  A.J. and I arrive at the landing to Big Thunder lake about 1:00 pm and star on a mid lake rock hump with a point on it and A.J. catches a small bass on his first cast with a rattle trap and proceeds to catch just about every specie’s in the lake on successive casts (crappie, sunfish, perch, walleye ,and northern) during all that I caught a couple of 1-1/2 lb bass running a crank bait out deep, man that was so cool watching my son(16yr old) get into a frenzy like that, you could tell he was having a blast. We hit a few other spots and caught a few fish the weather was brutally hot and no wind and not a cloud in the sky so fishing was slow as expected before we left to go check into the motel and get everything ready I found a deep mid-lake hump with some grass on top so I wanted to try fishing a drop-shot and see if I could pick up some fish this way if tomorrows conditions were going to be the same I worked that hump for about an hour with one bite and missed it so I was pretty disappointed, with that we left for the motel.