View Full Version : Sometimes the fat lady sings off key!!!
BrushApe
06-09-2007, 10:32 PM
Saw a guy with a couple walleye off the bank a few nights ago so thought I would give it a try Saturday evening after a day of "chores". Tried below the dam, overcast and raining, no one else dumb enough to be down there. Started around 8P, caught a 12" bass that was just about as deep as it was long, getting ready to spawn, released it and missed another. Now it is dark and I am on about my 20th "last cast". Felt a thump on my 4" blue pearl grub, fish on:yay:, no bass this time, heavy, fighting deep, walleye tussle all the way, finally worked it in close and hit it quickly with a light, all right, 5-6 pound marble eye. Finally up on the bank, grabbed it behind the head, hhmmmmm, dosn't feel like a walleye, back on with the light, aaaawwwww horse puckey, biggest pikeminnow I have ever seen. Seen in one publication that 24" was about tops, I have a 9+" hand span, fish almost three hand spans or just under 27". :smash: His smolt devoring days are over. Was quite a let down, was really looking forward to some fresh fillets, maybe next time the fat lady will sing on key!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wished I was signed up for the squaw fish reward thing but not sure even is running yet.
BarroomHero
06-10-2007, 07:35 AM
Oh yeah it is running. Glad to hear is smolt slaying days are over!!!
Dave Smith
06-10-2007, 09:13 AM
Ahh, heck, that's fun, anyway! Great job and great way to help the upriver salmon stocks! Yeah, some of those NPM's get really, really big. Dave
Basscaster
06-10-2007, 10:24 AM
That's the pits Joe. I could see how one of those big pikeminnow could look like a Walleye, especially in the dark. That is a hog. Glad to hear its days are over. Keep at it, you'll get a marbleye.
wanafish
06-10-2007, 07:44 PM
Glad to see I'm not the only "sucker" catcher in the family!
ExBassGuide
06-11-2007, 12:18 PM
That was a native fish it belongs in the river:clap:! and I think we should stock them:yeahthat:. more fish for us all:meme:
Bill:smirk:
UnameIT
06-14-2007, 02:08 PM
please tell me you are joking about stocking those. :laugh:They might be native but stocking them is the worst idea ive ever heard in my life. Its okay im sure that was a joke and a good joke at that. Nice story though, those pikeminnow have fooled me a couple of times too.
crabking
06-16-2007, 03:48 PM
pikeminnow are good eating!
BrushApe
06-16-2007, 05:04 PM
You bet, sturgeon I am sure like them, crawdads and crab to, suppose if I was really hungry and in survival mode, but then again they are just a fish eating predator no different than a marble eye, so who knows.
Tommy T
06-16-2007, 11:27 PM
About three weeks ago, I was fishin the CR for smallies above Hood River, and hooked 3 pikeminnow all in the 4-6lbs range. If I'd known I was going to catch that many, I would have kept them for the bounty. I did C&R though, since I see them as feeding the smallies with their offspring.
bassin newbie
06-17-2007, 03:18 PM
About three weeks ago, I was fishin the CR for smallies above Hood River, and hooked 3 pikeminnow all in the 4-6lbs range. If I'd known I was going to catch that many, I would have kept them for the bounty. I did C&R though, since I see them as feeding the smallies with their offspring.
releasing pikeminnow...thats a big no-no:grin: