GREEN LAKE FISHERS OF MEN
FISHERS OF MEN
GREEN LAKE,MN
JUNE 18TH,2011
Daryl and I will be fishing our second team tournament together hear on Green Lake in the town of Spicer. For this one Daryl brought up his own boat because he was leaving for Spicer to go up to the Whitefish Chain for a family vacation. I got to Green pretty early on Friday morning and launched the Ranger at the main access in town, I drove to the far end of the lake and figured I would work my way back hitting likely spots throughout the day. About an hour in to the morning and I had only caught 2 really small largemouth bass, I bet I had 10 rod and reel combo's strewn all over the deck by now trying to figure something out. Now it was a few hours into the day and noticed the wind has picked up a bit and some clouds moved in, by know I am starting to scramble because I can see a storm brewing in the distance. I am pushing it because I have nothing going and the wind has really started blowing now, I finally decide to pack it in and strap everything down for the rough ride back to the landing, and of coarse my smart thinking was I could beat it back to the truck before it rained. NOPE about half way back it started down pouring and hard, so now I'm digging out my raingear trying to put it on and drive the boat all at the same time(kids don't try this on the water)
I'm now of the lake and heading to the motel to check in and wait the storm out, as I woke up from a nap and looked outside I noticed the storm had passed so I uncovered the boat and headed back to the landing and put the boat back in and went to a new area, this was a large flat with scattered rock. I started casting a Xcaliber xr50 in rayburn red realgill and after fancasting around for a bit suddenly I get smoked by a freight train and after just a few cranks of the reel handle my line starts to rise and then a 4lb smallie launches about three feet out of the water and then digs for the bottom and stays there bulldogging me for a bit, then as I work her near the boat she makes a few more big jumps before I net here and take a quick picture before releasing. I ended up repeating this four times in about a 45 minute span, not lights out and had to cover a large part of this big flat but damn those were some awesome smallies. I hit a couple of other areas and didn't do much at either one so I called Daryl and he was just getting off the lake and heading back too the motel, so I did the same. We went to our dinner/pre tourney meeting and discussed our practice so we can come up with our game plan, Daryl had a spot that he had caught some nice largemouth on in a short period of time early in the morning so we decided to start there first thing.
It's game time now and we are just setting up on the starting spot and D hooks up with a decent fish right away, one in the well to break the ice and after a bit he sets the hook on another solid keeper so two nice largies quickly. I have not even had a bite with what I was doing so I switched it up and started throwing a texas rigged tube and as I chucked it out there Daryl loads up on another fish slow rolling a white spinnerbait off the weedline and this one goes into the net and is a little bit nicer then the other two, I handed him the net and picked up my rod and felt some weight so I hammered back the hookset and fought a three pound snot-rocket(pike) to the boat and quickly released it and and then made another cast and immediately got bit on the drop and set the hook on a nice fish and this one was actually a 3- 3-1/4 lb largemouth that went into the well and the Daryl landed a small 14in largie for our limit fish. This spot slowed way down as we were working it over pretty good so we made a move to go try my flat and see if we could get a few of those big smallies I had found. We fished around for quite some time with no action and then another boat came flying up pretty close by and started fishing, no big deal they were a little farther out and down a ways but I noticed they started catching fish, I knew who they were and I believe they won this same tourney last year. After a bit Daryl decided to throw a jig around and slow it down while continued to chuck the XR50 and then it happened Daryl set the hook on a good fish and it jumped, a big brown bass came unwillingly to the net and culled that small largie out. So now we committed to working the deep flat for along time and only managed to catch two more smallmouth one helped out but not much and the other ended up being culled out, though I did have a giant follow my lure right to the boat and turn and swim off grrrr!! we are out of time and head in to the weigh-in. We made an improvement from the last event but that wasn't hard to do we weighed 5 fish for 13.34lb's and came in 24th out of 45 teams. 1st place weighed in 16.90lb's and our friends Steve Osborn and John Pozarski tied for 7th with 14.95lb's of smallies.
GREEN LAKE,MN
JUNE 18TH,2011
Daryl and I will be fishing our second team tournament together hear on Green Lake in the town of Spicer. For this one Daryl brought up his own boat because he was leaving for Spicer to go up to the Whitefish Chain for a family vacation. I got to Green pretty early on Friday morning and launched the Ranger at the main access in town, I drove to the far end of the lake and figured I would work my way back hitting likely spots throughout the day. About an hour in to the morning and I had only caught 2 really small largemouth bass, I bet I had 10 rod and reel combo's strewn all over the deck by now trying to figure something out. Now it was a few hours into the day and noticed the wind has picked up a bit and some clouds moved in, by know I am starting to scramble because I can see a storm brewing in the distance. I am pushing it because I have nothing going and the wind has really started blowing now, I finally decide to pack it in and strap everything down for the rough ride back to the landing, and of coarse my smart thinking was I could beat it back to the truck before it rained. NOPE about half way back it started down pouring and hard, so now I'm digging out my raingear trying to put it on and drive the boat all at the same time(kids don't try this on the water)
I'm now of the lake and heading to the motel to check in and wait the storm out, as I woke up from a nap and looked outside I noticed the storm had passed so I uncovered the boat and headed back to the landing and put the boat back in and went to a new area, this was a large flat with scattered rock. I started casting a Xcaliber xr50 in rayburn red realgill and after fancasting around for a bit suddenly I get smoked by a freight train and after just a few cranks of the reel handle my line starts to rise and then a 4lb smallie launches about three feet out of the water and then digs for the bottom and stays there bulldogging me for a bit, then as I work her near the boat she makes a few more big jumps before I net here and take a quick picture before releasing. I ended up repeating this four times in about a 45 minute span, not lights out and had to cover a large part of this big flat but damn those were some awesome smallies. I hit a couple of other areas and didn't do much at either one so I called Daryl and he was just getting off the lake and heading back too the motel, so I did the same. We went to our dinner/pre tourney meeting and discussed our practice so we can come up with our game plan, Daryl had a spot that he had caught some nice largemouth on in a short period of time early in the morning so we decided to start there first thing.
It's game time now and we are just setting up on the starting spot and D hooks up with a decent fish right away, one in the well to break the ice and after a bit he sets the hook on another solid keeper so two nice largies quickly. I have not even had a bite with what I was doing so I switched it up and started throwing a texas rigged tube and as I chucked it out there Daryl loads up on another fish slow rolling a white spinnerbait off the weedline and this one goes into the net and is a little bit nicer then the other two, I handed him the net and picked up my rod and felt some weight so I hammered back the hookset and fought a three pound snot-rocket(pike) to the boat and quickly released it and and then made another cast and immediately got bit on the drop and set the hook on a nice fish and this one was actually a 3- 3-1/4 lb largemouth that went into the well and the Daryl landed a small 14in largie for our limit fish. This spot slowed way down as we were working it over pretty good so we made a move to go try my flat and see if we could get a few of those big smallies I had found. We fished around for quite some time with no action and then another boat came flying up pretty close by and started fishing, no big deal they were a little farther out and down a ways but I noticed they started catching fish, I knew who they were and I believe they won this same tourney last year. After a bit Daryl decided to throw a jig around and slow it down while continued to chuck the XR50 and then it happened Daryl set the hook on a good fish and it jumped, a big brown bass came unwillingly to the net and culled that small largie out. So now we committed to working the deep flat for along time and only managed to catch two more smallmouth one helped out but not much and the other ended up being culled out, though I did have a giant follow my lure right to the boat and turn and swim off grrrr!! we are out of time and head in to the weigh-in. We made an improvement from the last event but that wasn't hard to do
we weighed 5 fish for 13.34lb's and came in 24th out of 45 teams. 1st place weighed in 16.90lb's and our friends Steve Osborn and John Pozarski tied for 7th with 14.95lb's of smallies.
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