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#1402242 - 05/15/08 09:18 AM
26 and 28
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HotSpotOutdoors Pro Staff
Registered: 12/26/01
Posts: 8800
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
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Was too gorgeous of a night yesterday to let it slip by. I was able to hook up with my good friend Brian Klawitter for our yearly "Catfishing for Walleyes" trip and the game was on! Bait of choice? 5-7" Live Sucker Minnows Equipment? St Croix Classic Cat rod w/ Okuma Epixor spinning reel Rigging of choice? 6/0-7/0 Gamakatsu Octopus, 3oz No-Roll, 80lb PowerPro Location? Shallow slack water adjacent to current seam The result?? First clicker run of the year!  This girl taped out a touch over 26". While I was unhooking this one, BK missed the hookset on another costing us a great double photo opportunity.   20 minutes later... same rod, same bait location, similar result only bigger this time.  This girl was edging over the 28" mark. Next two photos are both of the same fish.   Both these walleyes had spawned out already or we might have been looking at some pretty chunky fish. That 28" would have been over 10lbs carrying eggs. Once again, Brian had to apologize to me for not hooking up with a flathead or two. Crazy to think that boating a 26 & 28 inch walleye back to back within a half hour constitutes a slow night. I said most folks would kill to have a night like that. Fun times!
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#1402269 - 05/15/08 09:35 AM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: hanson]
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HotSpotOutdoors Specialist
Registered: 02/15/07
Posts: 5008
Loc: 37 minutes from Mille Lacs
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Bait of choice? 5-7" Live Sucker Minnows
Not even a channel dude. Ya, it is funny when walters like that are considered a slow night. Nice report and fish Hanson.
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#1402292 - 05/15/08 09:48 AM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: shackbash]
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HotSpotOutdoors Specialist
Registered: 08/19/00
Posts: 5389
Loc: Southwest Metro
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Nice eyes! Isn't this a cat forum? What's next a Bass picture? Nice night to be out there, unless you are soaking wet, it tends to get a bit chilly then. Rumor has it that the Flatty's are beginging to eat.
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#1402534 - 05/15/08 11:56 AM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: dtro]
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Sr FishingMN Family
Registered: 12/01/06
Posts: 846
Loc: Rochester
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Jeepers Hanson! I saw the thread name and figured you got into a 26 and 28lb flathead or something, what a waste of time seeing those rough fish... JK, nice fish man.
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#1402535 - 05/15/08 11:57 AM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: dtro]
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IceLeaders Family
Registered: 07/24/07
Posts: 219
Loc: Chann. Area
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Nice fish Hanson! I went out on a local lake last night for some crappie action....point being it was just incredible weather that was too hard to pass up. How was the current? I haven't been down to the river in a week or so and it was pretty high and heavy when I checked.
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#1402661 - 05/15/08 01:34 PM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: dtro]
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Sr FishingMN Family
Registered: 07/25/06
Posts: 690
Loc: central
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Nice night to be out there, unless you are soaking wet, it tends to get a bit chilly then.
Quit yer crying... you only were wet from the knees down... and you had a little time to dry your socks.... before the sun went down. Sorry for the shower dude.  This might warrent an explanation..... I'm sure some are wondering... 
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#1402696 - 05/15/08 01:57 PM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: LFC]
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Sr FishingMN Family
Registered: 06/15/03
Posts: 1312
Loc: Eagle Lake
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False advertising man. -100 cool cat points for showing those things! :P
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#1402726 - 05/15/08 02:26 PM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: LFC]
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HotSpotOutdoors Specialist
Registered: 08/19/00
Posts: 5389
Loc: Southwest Metro
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Nice night to be out there, unless you are soaking wet, it tends to get a bit chilly then.
you only were wet from the knees down... Isn't that the "area" that matters most?????
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DTroFishOn@Gmail.comKing of the Cats 2007 Champion“In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish”
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#1402748 - 05/15/08 02:53 PM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: dtro]
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HotSpotOutdoors Family
Registered: 06/13/05
Posts: 84
Loc: Jordan, MN
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Rumor has it that the Flatty's are beginging to eat. Up in the Jordan area they are starting to roll got one there lastnight.
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#1403561 - 05/16/08 08:57 AM
Re: 26 and 28
[Re: DARK30]
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Sr FishingMN Family
Registered: 07/22/05
Posts: 452
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Dark, more like nice raccoon bait.
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