Wired To Fish

What better way to establish credibility as a fishermen than spinning a few fishin tales and showing some pictures! So here are a few of my favorite fishin stories and some pictures of some more memorable fishin trips to boot.

A Canadian Northern Pike

This pike is my largest pike yet, it measured at 36 inches and I believe 12 pounds. I got him trolling real fast through a channel, while burning a 8 inch red and white daredevl spoon behind us. This pike came at the end of a great afternoon of pike fishing, where me and my buddy caught more pike than we could count and we ended up bringing home two great stringers of these feisty fish. Later on this evening a black bear surprised me and my buddy while we were filleting fish in a little screened in fish cleaning station. I may have wet my pants and lost my pride, but we managed to save our fillets, which is all that matters.

Big Manistique Lake

These walleye came at the end of a real slow trip up to Michigan’s Upper Pennisula. We fished three hard days and never caught a walleye. But on our last evening we came on to a 6 foot deep flat and when the “walleye chop” started come across the water things started to heat up. My dad and I nailed about 14 nice walleyes as we dragged 1/8th oz jigs tipped with plastic grubs and crawlers across the sand. It made for a great evening of fishing and an even better fish fry when we made it back to camp. Unfortunately for my uncle, who was along for the trip, he left that evening just before we went out fishing!

Bass fishing ain't too bad from the shore

This bass is one of many that I have caught while shore fishing in a collection of gravel pits across from my home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I fine tuned and really got my bass fishin chops on these gravel pits and I have caught countless hogs out of these waters. I have been able to practice almost every bass fishing technique out on these waters, everything from jerking stick baits, poppin topwaters and finessing dropshot rigs. My all time favorites for shore fishing have been suspending jerkbaits in the early spring, shallow running crankbaits as the water really starts warming up and then sight fishing the shallow coves during the spawn. I snagged this bruiser while pitching a texas rigged spider grub made by Gary Yamamoto.

Here are a few more of my favorite fishing pics…

Millenium Park Hawg