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My buddy and I had a blast this past weekend up in Bemidji. We went up for a 3 day weekend and rented one of Matt's fish houses. The fishing weekend started slow with a lot of marked walleyes, just really hard to get them to bite. We'd pick up a fish here and there but many more fish marked than caught early in the trip. Friday evening around that prime 4:30pm to 6:00pm range we iced a couple keeper eyes and two hard fighting burbot! What a blast. My buddy also caught a healthy pike on a bobber set up at 5:45pm. We were hoping it was a nice eye but fun either way.

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Saturday was a highlight of the trip. We had a guide trip booked with Matt and spent a few hours on a backcountry lake going for crappies. Fish were super aggressive at first but by around early afternoon you really had to do some hole hopping to mark and locate the more active fish. Great afternoon on the ice and we managed to get out limits of 11" and 12" crappies with a couple nice gills mixed in.

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Saturday evening the walleye fishing picked up a little more as we managed 7 fish in the couple hours at sundown. A few eaters with a couple small ones mixed in as well, along with a couple nicer fish that I missed...

The overnight hours last evening were slow but we were both snoozing pretty hard til about 6am this morning. Not much early but picked up 3 hungry eyes around 8am before packing up and making the trip home.

Pic of about the size of eaters we were keeping in that 14" to 16" range.

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Great to get home and see the family, and my 3 year old son got in on his first fish cleaning session tonight! He insisted that his plastic Home Depot saw was the tool for the job...

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Thanks again Matt! Already looking forward to planning another trip!

Ryan

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very nice!! myslef and three friends are headed up the end of jan. got a rental fro a day and a half of hopefully slamming eyes. may be the weekend of more jigging than drinking!!!! lol. thanks for the report. looks like a blast. any perch mixed in there?????

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Excellent hanging with you guys, Ryan! Despite being exhausted and sore going into our trip, it was fun! Glad you guys caught some good eats and made some memories! Cole should come clean fish for me I think!

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Looks like a lot of fun, Glad to see you got into some fish!

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So, what does one them there Guided backcountry lake crappy outings go fir? confused

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So, what does one them there Guided backcountry lake crappy outings go fir? confused

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