can't take much more!

[fiskyknut]

perfect...the weather, the fishing, does it get any better. after a rather slow to average start to this falls fishing, it all came together about mid-october and deer season was once again fantastic, and oh this weather. anyways fished friday thru tuesday with great success. after the awesome fishing in the gap the weekend of deer opener, of course friday found us there...but the fish were no where near as thick, upstream we went, a fish here and a fish there. 3pm found us just upstream from vidas in one of my favorite fall upriver spots. my partner got 3 nice fish between 3 and 4pm, zero for me...shortly after 4 they turned on major and we got fish till dark, biggest went perhaps 24", smallest no less than 18". stopped at a friends place in baudette on the way in, was told of a hot morning bite going near airport. yes indeed, excellent till 9:30ish sat, sun, monday mornings but when it died it died! nice mix of sizes up here, lot's of eaters, lot's of small ones and a good number of 21-24's. sunday saw our best morning up that way, my biggest went 27", my partner got to release a heavy 28.5" beauty! spent afternoons raking and boarding up my tailerhouse for the winter, bummer! saturday evening we were back at the same hole near vidas. we were there but the fish were not, 2 little ones for me, 3 eaters for partner. still scrathing my head as to where they went after friday evenings tremendous bite? i would have bet money it would have been near as good, weird! sunday and monday evenings found us in the wabanica church area, both nights were good, we caught perhaps 20 each between 4pm and dark. nothing big, nothing small, just easy, fun fishing. tuesday dawned again perfect, had to be back to wannaska by noon so we fished lower end, straight across from wheelers point at daybreak. i get first fish, 25" fatty right after we get anchored, 5 minutes later wham, yours truly gets to release 29" fatty, so full of shiners i'd bet it weighed perhaps 10, maybe even a little more? my biggest since august. so now we are both freaking out, however that first 20 minutes was the highlite of the morning as we only got 5 average fish in the next 2 hours, go figure! still a great morning, it did make the hour ride home alot longer though! weather looking okay thru saturday, the openwater fishing will remain good till the ramps get to icey to launch. 2 years ago thanksgiving weekend was very nice and the fish were biting. we'll see, walleyes over turkey weekend perhaps again this year, sounds like happiness. got alot to do the rest of this week but i'm hoping to be back up friday evening if all goes well, by saturday for sure. the end is near....but the early ice pike fishing in the bays is right around the corner, and soon after that the relaxation of the walleye/perch/sauger bite in the fishhouse...but that can wait, fish are biting now!!! i do love the flats bite thru the ice, but who can complain about getting to fish in the boat with such choice weather as late as this.....hmmmm? never had the boat on the rainy in december, this year could be the first for me. what do you think?<P>bent rods and wet nets....fisky

[mr marbles]

GOD, I WISH I WAS THERE!!