Best...day....ever!!!

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Best...day....ever!!!

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Wow...I just got in from my best day ever on the Ottawa. I was supposed to go for bass today but since I filled my empty seat with my buddy Pat who only owns spinning gear and likes to eat fish, I thought we'd try to get walleye...at least pike.

Well, as fate would have it, the walleye fishing was the best I've ever seen since moving out here. The day started off great with a walleye within the first 2 mins of trolling. Soon after, bang, big fish! I land a 4lbs 10oz eye. Back he goes. More trolling, more keepers. After an hour or so we have 4 eyes and 2 crappie in the well. Two dry trolling runs and we decide to waste an hour trying to get topwater bass...no takers. As we're slowly getting out of the slop, "Fish On!" says Pat. Must be a pike, we're still in the weeds....nope, keeper walleye #5. That's it for the keepers, he's got enough for tonight and one meal in the freezer. Then we spent the next 3 hours, hooking, fighting, and releasing fish after fish, after fish. When all was said and done we had gotten: over a dozen walleye including a 4.10, 4.6, and 3.1, and a couple more in the 2 to 2.5 range, a dozen or so pike, 4 crappie, 1 largemouth, 3 channel cats, 1 sheephead, 5 or 6 bullhead, a few bluegill and pumpkinseed and at least 30-40 perch.

UNREAL!!!

4.10 walleye
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4.6 walleye
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    Still smiling ear to ear...what a day!
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Post by Chevy Champagne »

awesome report man
some Beauty eyes there
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Post by Sportspal »

Great report....glad you got into some action.
The Ottawa is constantly a mistery for me whenever I get out there!
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fisherguy33 wrote: dinner guests
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I don't like the way these buggers are eye-balling me.

Kinda gives me the creeps!!

Craig

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Great to hear that the day we went out is now only your 2nd best day EVER!!
:cry: ... now I get the feeling that you say that to every one you fish with!

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In fact I think I have seen them before. They are actually famous from this music video:

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Good luck getting this out of your head!

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Post by Codysouth9 »

wow! great report and great eyes! sounds like one hell of a day.
I hope some day soon I will be able to post a report like that..
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Post by Yannick Loranger »

Don't worry Craig, you still have the best day of pike fishing I've ever had...but this is the equivalent of catching a dozen 10lbs+ pike in a day...Maybe we'll do that next year.
As for telling everyone I've had the best day ever, well for every fish-hawker I do well with, two think I suck...ask Mick and Dan Smyth!
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Post by baz fish »

Congrats on you great walleye day you had Yannick :) .
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Post by fiiish »

Yup. Sounds like a pretty perfect day to me. Nice work man. :D
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Post by marc613 »

Crazy report Yan!!

Please tell me that's not the day I couldn't go lol!
Anyways congrats!
Keep those reports comming
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Post by lifeisfun »

Nice, I'm glad that that chunky is back in the water :D
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Post by DropShotr »

Congrats on you best day..........ever!!

A great day on the water and you managed to get some nice looking company for dinner too, well done!!!

Hope to hear of more "best day ever" stories from you.

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Post by highlander »

Yan,
Too bad I was out of town this past weekend -- looks like you had a blast...

I have to mention that Musky snuck into another report of yours -- as expected:
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See you soon I hope.
Ian
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