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Location: Loves Park, IL | Craig Born and I fihsed last weekend with Jerry Sondag on Big Detriot and Little Detriot Lakes, Mn. Wow! What a big fish holding pen. Jerry did a great job of putting us on big fish spots and giving us the advise to make them show themselves. Although Craig boated the only fish, a nice 42 inch spotty, we now have a nice milk run on a new lake with lots of pigs in it. We fished 14 hours Saturday (9:00 am to 11:00 pm) and 12 hours Sunday (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) with the following stats as a result:
Saturday - Very warm, mostly sunny and somewhat calm with slight wind from the east-southeast.
Craig boated a 42 incher
17 legitimate follows (no ghost fish) with 5 of them 50" - 52"ish. The other 12 follows were from 41"ish to 48"ish. NO SMALL FISH! Nice!
Sunday - Cooler, cloudy and windy (20-25mph) from the east. Jerry did a great job of keeping us on the spots, even adding a few new ones to the ones that showed fish the day before. The follows were not as consistant with windows throughout the day and the dead sea between windows. The smaller fish were out Sunday...I say smaller but they were all still very nice fish.
16 legitimate follows with 1 solid 50 incher. There was one about 36 inches and the rest were all between 42" - 45".
Fish were following Squirly Phantoms, Suicks, DC Girls, Shallow Invaders and one came in on a Doc surface bait (Phil's suggestion. Thanks man)
It was easy to keep your head in the game for two reasons...one is that you knew you were on big fish spots and the other was that the northerns would keep you in check. We caught about 20 pike...usually right after you had a nice follow and you thought it was "her". Sometimes while fishing we say, "...pike water, we're outta here...". Not on this lake! If the pike showed up, you knew that you were casting into bait fish and the pigs were not far behind!
Craig and I discussed the weekend during the ride home Monday and agreed that Jerry did an outstanding job and was well worth the trip up/over there. He was very professional, calling the day before to make sure the drive up was going OK and to confirm where/when to meet. No guessing on time or location. He was right on time at the dock, fueled up and ready to go. The lake information that was shared was great, giving us the knowledge we would need to return in the future for more action. We had access to what seemed like an endless selection of baits, sharpened and ready to throw. I had never gone north "pig" hunting in the spring before. I usually do the July thing and fall trips for the big ones, but this will surely be added to the trip list as we were showed many great spots/tactics for early season big fish waters. Might sound like I'm gushing, but I've fished with a lot of guides on many different waters and this trip rates right up there at the top.
Thanks Craig for sharing this trip with me and thanks Jerry for a great weekend, and showing us the area. I look forward to another trip, most likely the fall live bait trip we talked about.
Jeff Blanck
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Jeff, it was great having you guys up! Good times! Hopefully next round, more of those pigs will open their yappers!
Oh, and leave the bananas on shore! Still can't believe you never heard of that superstition!
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Location: Loves Park, IL | What are you talking about!!!??? That's clearly an orange! |
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| I think this really shows how good Jerry is. You guys had bananas in the boat and you still had great action and caught fish! Amazing! |
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Location: Illinois | follower - 6/14/2011 9:53 PM
TKopke would tell you that you did something wrong with that many follows and only one boated.
Duh it was the b-a-n-a-n-a man! Like Spence said, quite the accomplishment to even get one boated!
Obviously he used some anti-bananer reverse curse. Probably learned some black magic during his vision quest. Every guide goes on one. Common knowledge.
Hey Jerry is there a way we layman can counter a banana's curse upon our doomed vessels? Any more vision quests and I might not return if you know what I mean!
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | It was pretty funny, I made him throw half a dozen or so overboard... and low and behold he stuck a fish within the next 40 minutes... Although.... Whoops, I hope they don't take hold in the lake! It would be really crappy to have a new invasive - banana mussels or Illinoian Chaquita milfoil. That would suck!
Hopefully old "Banana Boy Blanck" won't make that mistake again - It was a classic moment! Wish we had a camera rolling! |
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Location: Loves Park, IL | I wish the camera would have been rolling, too. It was like watching something from the Louisiana underground world seeing Jerry react to a food product. He started shaking and twitching (and he wasn't even working a Phantom at the time) and he broke out a bunch of beeds and insence, chanting a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. His head spun around twice and he puked up some purple and white stuff (I thought maybe it was something from his date the night before). I thought I better neutralize the situation so I threw them overboard. A strange calm came over him and he shook his head and said, "what happened?". I replied, "Nothing..." and we continued to fish. Whew. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | ha! that's hilarious! |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Good to hear! I'm on with Jerry for a few days in September. I was a bit skeptical, but Spencer and Jonesi vouched for him...so, I'm gonna go out on a limb and give the big man a shot..... LOL
And remember Jerry, I'm relying on you to put me on what may be my first fish of the year. This #*^@ broken leg has me sidelined right now, so I'm counting on you....but no pressure! |
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Location: Loves Park, IL | Bring bananas! He'll puke stuff up! It's really cool. The chant is a little freaky, though. I've been googling it all morning..."eeh ga ga ooom ba yay...eeh ga ga ooom ba yay". I thought it was some dialog from Dances With Wolves or something. |
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