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Post by Greenedog on Jun 17, 2011 8:39:01 GMT -5
Chase and me went over to Minnehaha yesterday evening to see if we could troll up a rainbow trout out of the Island Pit. We were using various spoons, spinners, and deep diving crankbaits. They ended up being a little deeper than I thought they would be already. We marked a couple schools of what looked like big fish at 20 feet. We ended up stopping and jigging down to them but no luck. We did catch 1 largemouth and had another get off while trolling. When it got dark we could really hear the bass hitting topwater so Chase got out the ol' jitterbug. I told him that if he got any keepers to throw them in the cooler and we'd fry up some bass tomorrow. I don't know how many he ended up catching, but I swear every one was 13 7/8"!   You couldn't ask for a better night weather wise. The gnats were bad but we had plenty of vanilla.  |
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Post by B-rad on Jun 17, 2011 8:48:57 GMT -5
nice, jitterbug is another overlooked bass bait=good walk the dogish style bait but alot easir to fish than a spook type
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Post by strippitman on Jun 17, 2011 14:26:53 GMT -5
Are there any feet in those crocs?  Don't you wish they would lower the bass keeper limit for those of us that would like to keep a few? It always seems like there is an abundance of bass in the 11" to 13 7/8" range. I've never fished Island but it has been on my radar for quite some time now. How'd you like it? |
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Post by Greenedog on Jun 17, 2011 14:49:05 GMT -5
Are there any feet in those crocs? Don't you wish they would lower the bass keeper limit for those of us that would like to keep a few? It always seems like there is an abundance of bass in the 11" to 13 7/8" range. I've never fished Island but it has been on my radar for quite some time now. How'd you like it? Yep. There's stinky feet in those crocs! I agree about the bass. Shakamak has a slot limit where you can't keep anything 12-15 inches and I swear all you catch is 13 inchers.  I like the Island Pit. We pulled up and I wanted to check out the ramp before I backed down and was shocked to find a concrete ramp! Plenty of parking, spots to bank fish, security light, pit toilet, what's not to like? Just a little ways out from the ramp it's 70 feet deep.  We'll be back.  |
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Post by Brian on Jun 17, 2011 21:17:21 GMT -5
Looks like a nice night for some fishing. Those facilities don't sound too bad either! I agree about the size for keeping bass. The fish are never gonna grow when there are hundreds of the same size and nobody is taking any out.
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Post by fmj on Jun 18, 2011 13:38:45 GMT -5
Looks like a great time, even if the trout and keeper bass wouldnt cooperate.
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Post by strippitman on Jun 20, 2011 7:36:23 GMT -5
Are there any feet in those crocs? Don't you wish they would lower the bass keeper limit for those of us that would like to keep a few? It always seems like there is an abundance of bass in the 11" to 13 7/8" range. I've never fished Island but it has been on my radar for quite some time now. How'd you like it? Yep. There's stinky feet in those crocs! I agree about the bass. Shakamak has a slot limit where you can't keep anything 12-15 inches and I swear all you catch is 13 inchers. I like the Island Pit. We pulled up and I wanted to check out the ramp before I backed down and was shocked to find a concrete ramp! Plenty of parking, spots to bank fish, security light, pit toilet, what's not to like? Just a little ways out from the ramp it's 70 feet deep. We'll be back. I kind of thought that pit was pretty deep. It seems like most of the Minnehaha pits are really deep. One of them reaches 110' - I think it's Loon Lake? |
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Don't you wish they would lower the bass keeper limit for those of us that would like to keep a few? It always seems like there is an abundance of bass in the 11" to 13 7/8" range. I've never fished Island but it has been on my radar for quite some time now. How'd you like it?
We'll be back. 
Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
