A Weekend on the River

[Eric]

Whisker didn't want to follow along on this trip, but I twisted his arm and talked him into it. Hope he isn't mad at me, he had to spend his whole weekend sorting fishshrug We caught a ridiculous number of walleyes(100+), a dozen pike, a half-dozen smallmouths. Now my arm is sore from fighting fish, and Whisker keeps twisting it to go fishing again:D

I had clients Sunday, and Whisker was a big help in making the whole trip a success- Thanks Whisker, I really appreciate everything you did to help out!
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Hope you enjoyed, thanks for looking!

[PaJNS]

Great Photos and looks like you will be having a Fish Fry soon. Congrats on the catches. Good Job both of you Guys. Thanks for sharing the Photos Eric.

[whisker]

Part two....Eric and I did another camping / fishing marathon this week. I took lots of pics but a few multi species will do the job. Eric is still out guiding clients and will probably have some more pics when he gets home! Since he was guiding this week, I took my own boat and ventured off by myself.
Put maybe 15 northerns in the boat.
(for some reason my camera decided to be constipated on this fish)
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The smallmouth bite was phenominal,..I quit counting.
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A few tastee morsels were caught too!
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Eric with a chunky eye. 15-18" limits were "easy" with Eric's custom jigs, in fact most all fish we caught were on his own spinner jig design.
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Took a break when I found a pocket of rockies,...caught dozens of them and way too many "nice" sipjacks.
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Wind died down and I broke out the bow for some buff shooting. Took down a pile of them just to round out the trip

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(*insert education -- largemouth buffalo on left<--->smallmouth buffalo on the right)
It was another "action packed" few days and I left satisfied and tired.
Time to get caught up at home so's I can hit it again

[PaJNS]

Thanks for posting the photos. Great Photos !! Looks like you caught a mixed bag of Fish. Congrats !!

[bass or bass?]

Holy Mackerel, what a load of fish!! :eek: You guys would hate fishing in Arizona! :( Sometimes the white bass/ striped bass can be a big numbers game, and sunfish as well, but that's it for numbers like you showed. Thanks for shareing your catch with us.

[sharps4590]

You two guys have my profound sympathy. To have to put up with such activity.

GREAT!!!!!!!

[Eric]

I'll try to get some pics added this evening, I need to recover a bit and get some things taken care of first. My "fish" camera showed 66 new pictures when I got back home last night!

[FISHERMAN154]

Nice fish. What kind of fish is in the first picture

[bass or bass?]

Nice fish. What kind of fish is in the first picture
White bass.

[bdpeters]

thats a pretty nice whitey, at first I thought it was a wiper.

Very nice pics.

[dugger]

Wow nice pics wished i would have been wiyh you!

[Eric]

I'll try to get a few of last week's pictures up- Not certain on the species here, it looks like a muskie but the biologist says it's probably just an oddly colored northern or even possibly a hybrid pike/grass pickerel
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[Eric]

Some of the walleyes we've been catching, couple sauger and perch in there too
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Rock Bass
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Perch
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SMB
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Pike
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This pike struck at boatside and the whole fight happened right before our eyes
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Carl with the best walleye from Sunday
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Lorna caught the best walleye Friday
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pike
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Friday's catch
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30 lb buffalo taken bowfishing
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We sight-fished for northerns and had pretty good luck
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Tyler with another 30# buffalo
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The 'eyes were really easy when there were cloudy skies
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I released some better fish too!
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I did a little nightstalking for bighead carp last week
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The sauger love my spin-jigs
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[FISHERMAN154]

Anyone know what this is

[Eric]

Looks like big-fish bait:D A salamander or newt but I'm not sure the exact species.

[FISHERMAN154]

Is it a hellbender

[PaJNS]

Looks like one to me. I also have heard them called Mudpuppies.

[bass or bass?]

Mudpuppy. Hellbenders have very wrinkled, folded skin, mudpuppies have smooth skin.My two cents

[Eric]

This thread seems to have gotten a little off track. Anyone know what THIS is? I caught it yesterday afternoon...
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[mr bill]

looks like lunch to me:D:D

i'd say about a 12lb female northern and will weigh about 9lbs after she is done spawning;)

[JoeW]

[QUOTE=Eric;14157]I'll try to get a few of last week's pictures up- Not certain on the species here, it looks like a muskie but the biologist says it's probably just an oddly colored northern or even possibly a hybrid pike/grass pickerel

My two cents That pic might be a "Norlunge"- Pike X Musky. Never caught one or saw one- but have seen pics. they are nice looking, aren't they! Best---- JoeW

[dugger]

Nice trip !ya only needed one more thing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,me in da boat dadgumit!,, congrats nice pics

[PaJNS]

[QUOTE=Eric;14157]I'll try to get a few of last week's pictures up- Not certain on the species here, it looks like a muskie but the biologist says it's probably just an oddly colored northern or even possibly a hybrid pike/grass pickerel

My two cents That pic might be a "Norlunge"- Pike X Musky. Never caught one or saw one- but have seen pics. they are nice looking, aren't they! Best---- JoeW


If you Google Tiger Musky the photo I seen looks like the fish you caught.

[Eric]

I agree- I released the fish without doing any pore counts on the lower jaw because I was certain it was a muskie or tiger muskie. I caught the same fish twice, about an hour and a half after the first catch it bit again. I released it without photos the second time but I could see my previous hook mark in it's mouth.

The NE biologist saw the pics and thought it was probably just a pike with odd coloration, or possibly even a hybrid between a pike and a grass pickerel, a small esocid we have a few of in the river. I'm not sure, it was not as dark as tiger muskies I have caught in the past, but I have a hard time believing it was a pike. The fins were clear, not a spot of black or red/orange anywhere on them, and it had big teeth like a tiger muskie, bigger than any pike I have seen at that size before.