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Horseshoe Largemouth Help??

NEBRASKA FISHER

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Hello to everyone. I'm a native central MN resident who has been transplanted in Nebraska for several years so I've become more of a sport fisherman than a meat fisherman like I used to be. I never fished "the chain" for any largemouth bass before and was wondering how it is out there? From what I can remember the structure out there is perfect for them? A couple of friend's and I are coming up next week to do a little largemouth fishing and we were just wondering if anyone had some tips or if there were any better lakes to try out. Any other info on what they're hitting on and area's would be appreciated also. Thanks in advance and really looking forward to getting back up to "God's Country" next week!!!!

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Nebraska: Personally I prefer Cedar Island to Horseshoe. Just my preference but I've caught larger fish more consistently on Cedar Island. The east side is a good spot to start. You can work shallow with spinners and the outside weed edges with cranks. You should also be able to pick up a few Norts as well. Good luck and hang on. Bill

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Thanks Bill, any suggestion is a good one to me!!! There is a lot of shoreline out there and as we all know, it's extremely nice to have a place to start!! I read on another posting that sticking to Krons, Cedar Island, Becker and Schneider would be the right thing to do, so I think we'll start out trying those!! If anyone else has a suggestion it would be much appreciated!!! Thanks again Bill. Jason

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Nebraska: Hope you get into some fish while you are there. Those lakes will all produce. I happen to love fishing docks and will generally start shallow with spinners or very shallow cranks and see whats going one. Don't know why but those docks just keep drawin' me in and also lots of fish. This time of year starts one of the greatest times for big fish as they start to throw on the feed bag. Any good vegetaion should hold some fish as the aquatic growth starts to die off and the remaining weed beds can be hot. Deeper cranks fished parellel to these deeper edges can be good as well. Plastics can also put fish in the boat any time of year and fall is no exception. Really hope you find some good ones. Post your results, interested in how you did. I'm headed to Lake Alexander tomorrow morning and won't be back until next Saturday, I'll look for your results then. Good luck and hang on. Bill

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Bill,
Thanks again for the advice, it paid off nicely!! Day one my Dad who lives in Waite Park and loves fishing for sunnies and has never largemouth fished thought that Krons Bay would be a good place to start...that wasn't the case, sooooo I talked to an old friend when I got up there that said Big Lake just to the west of the chain was the place he'd go, so we went over there and we were hitting them like crazy on the southeast side of the lake along the shoreline from the dock where the old public landing is all around the edges of that cove. Great largemouth lake!!!! Day two we landed on the east side of Cedar Island and we patrolled the shoreline and we had better luck, but it was still a rough outting. Day three we went down to Koronis and tried our luck at some smallies and got a couple of nice 3 pounders, but the wind about blew us across the lake in 20 minutes flat!!! :-) So we went back over to Big Lake and again we had great luck with the largemouth!!! Thanks again for the advice and good luck with all your fishin Bill. Hopefully I'll be up to visit my family around the holiday's and be able to get out on the ice!!! Jason

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Nebraska: Glad you and your dad had a good time. There's something about bassin' that just turns my crank in the summer. They are just a ball when they bust the ole spinner or crank and start tail walkin'. Yes Big Lake is an excellent lake and happy that you got into some fish over there.

My wife released one over 20" last Thursday along with a 17" and several others. I managed one fish for 5 hours of casting,,,,hmmmm. Needless to say I was getting the raspberries the whole time. But man what a beautiful fish. Took 3 quick pictures and she swims again. Continued good luck on your fishing ventures, this is a great time of year for big fish, hope you get a chance to go after them again. Good luck and hang on. Bill

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