breachless
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A buddy and I headed out to Chisago Lake yesterday morning for a guilt-free morning of fishing (it's Fathers Day so this is the one day of the year I can go fishing without any chance of catching flak!)
Anyway, neither of us had ever fished this lake, but we learned that the DNR is grooming this lake to be a great bass lake, so no one is allowed to keep bass, and based on the fishing, it's working **** well! We caught bass all morning long, and quite a few of them were pretty decent fish. Here is one of them, and is about the average size of bass we were catching:
and my buddy with a nice Northern Pike he caught:
It was a great day: as you can see by the pics, the lake was like glass... Just gorgeous! And there is a lot of great structure to fish. We caught most of our fish pulling the bass up out of a submerged stump field in about 12 feet of water. I was using a weird purple french fry worm rigged texas style with a splitshot, and my buddy was using the same thing but fishing it whacky worm style.
We even managed to catch a nice walleye on a freaking plastic worm! Never seen that happen before... a pleasant surprise! I might come back here with some minnows at a later date and see if I can't put some walleye fillets in my freezer.
It was definitely some of the best fishing I have seen yet this year. Glad to know there is such a great lake so close to home: easily my new favorite lake.
Anyway, neither of us had ever fished this lake, but we learned that the DNR is grooming this lake to be a great bass lake, so no one is allowed to keep bass, and based on the fishing, it's working **** well! We caught bass all morning long, and quite a few of them were pretty decent fish. Here is one of them, and is about the average size of bass we were catching:
and my buddy with a nice Northern Pike he caught:
It was a great day: as you can see by the pics, the lake was like glass... Just gorgeous! And there is a lot of great structure to fish. We caught most of our fish pulling the bass up out of a submerged stump field in about 12 feet of water. I was using a weird purple french fry worm rigged texas style with a splitshot, and my buddy was using the same thing but fishing it whacky worm style.
We even managed to catch a nice walleye on a freaking plastic worm! Never seen that happen before... a pleasant surprise! I might come back here with some minnows at a later date and see if I can't put some walleye fillets in my freezer.
It was definitely some of the best fishing I have seen yet this year. Glad to know there is such a great lake so close to home: easily my new favorite lake.
