Yearly Synopsis

I have not posted on here for a LONG time. So far 2007 has been my absolute best year of fishing yet. i caught many large fish. including a few odd and rare catches.

this year i began fly fishing for carp cand landed my biggest carp ever with 6 lb test tippet! it took 2 hours to finally subdue the fish.

I caught my new PB channel catfish that shattered my old pb of 12 lbs by 10 lbs!!! the cat weighed 22 lbs 6 oz.

i caught this small channel catfish in lake agnes! channel cats arent even know to be in any lakes around here. sorry for the blurry pic

the day after i caught that catfish i caught a 4 lb 6 oz largemouth Bass in the same spot... weird huh? that won me the weekly winner for the Jr. age Largemouth bass section.


i caught a rare mirror carp on lake winona weighing 4 lbs 6 oz.

i caught a 2 snapping turtles in 2 days.
this one while fishing for crappies. he took a yellow twister tail grub.

and this on took a jig and nightcrawler while fishing for bass off the Lake Geneva pier. he was HUGE i would have gotten him onto the peir but there was a little boy and his dad there and i didnt want to take the chance so i cut the line.

i caught this AWESOME bass on lake geneva. set my rod down with the shiner 2 feet under the peir just to get a drink before i recasted and my rod started bending toward the water. pulled it up and brought up this BIG bass.


I caught this HUGE goldfish off lake geneva peir.


i caught my first 2 bowfin
this one was my first weighed 6 lbs 15 oz

and this was my second weghed 7 lb 6 oz.

i caught my 2nd walleye and 3rd walleye ever off the city park peir. (i caught alot of walleyes from other lakes though)

i also got my friend cody into his first carp and addicted to carping

i caught 3 deformed carp. 2 in one day. but all in the same area! in my backyard going to Lake Le Homme Dieu
this one was on of the 2 caught on the same day. he she weighed about 18 lbs.

this was the other one that day. she weighed about 15 lbs. i dont know what that is but it was like an extra appendige.

and i caught this one in august. he weighed 6 lbs 15 oz. and had a deformed mouth but he was healthy so he must have been eating well.


and i won the jr best story and jr best photo on the CAG (carp anglers group) discovery month. the prizes i won were a scorpion tackle 5 play rod pod. and a DAM quick finnesa bait feeder reel and a DAM telescopic green cross power carp rod.
DAM quick finessa bait feeder reel.

rod and reel collapsed

rod and reel together.

rod pod, rod, and reel

A long awaited catch

today I went to a like I like to fish for bass. it is part of a large chain of lakes that we call the le homme deiu chain. I was fishing on a peir surrounded by lily pads and I was casting a slug go. then I noticed a bright orange thing floating on the surface about 5 feet away it was a dead gold fish. and there was one swimming below it!!! I quickly tied on a smaller hook and put on 2 kernals of corn and made a cast toward the fish.
suprisingly it took it and I landed it and took this pic. it was a really fat one.

close up

eventually I snagged the dead one.

I brought both of them home and buried the dead one. the live one is swimming in my fish tank right now. and I just fed it a couple meal worms. and it ate them.

Taters + An Awesome malenistic sighting!!!

July 18th 2007
went fishing today. the bait of choice was... hair rigged potatoes!

i was out there for5 hours until i couldnt bear the heat anymore. it was a good day. caught many carp. but the highlight of the day was about an hour before i left. you'll read that soon.
i had just got down to the lake and got my rod rigged up when i started hearing alot of splasshing in the overhanging trees about 25 feet away. i casted out my line toward the center of the lake. and turned down the drag. then i went to go check it out. The noise was carp tailing carp (as i thought) i was able to get 1 ok picture.

shortly after the i took the pic my drag was shreading off the reel. i ran to it put my hand on the reel and set the hook. then tightend my drag. it wasnt a big carp but it was a carp none the less. i got her landed and took a pic.

then my cameras batteries started to die and i decided not to take anymore pictures. so if i get a big one the batteries arent dead. i continued fishing i caught a bunch more carp around that size. then i decided to move to a spot i just recently discovered. it is a big strip (only about 15 feet across) of land going out into the lake about 200 feet and then widening to make an island. (from a birds eye veiw it would kinda look like a thermometer) i got to the island and went near a big fallen log that extends about 15 feet out. where i usually see carp feeding. i casted out and before long i got a slow run. it turned out to be a really small carp <1 lb. i recasted then sat down on the log over the water. i wasited there for over 1/2 hour and was starting to doze off. but then i looked down and seen a HUGE melanistic carp!!! as black as could be. i froze and tried not to make a move. it came up to the log right by my feet and sucked on the log once then swam off. i was shaking so much i almost fell of the log. it was just so exciting being next to that beast. i hope someday i could hook up to her and do batttle. and hopefully land her.

Flavor Show down... Anise vs Vanilla!!!

July 16th 2007
me and my friend kyle went fishing to day. i just bought a bottle of anise. i decided to have a little experiment i bought 2 cans of corn. and i flavored one can with vanilla and one can with anise. we each got 1 hour per flavoring same rig and every thing. i started with vanilla flavored corn and he had anise. in that hour i caught 5 fish. to his 15. not all were big but they were carp. then it was my turn for anise. the 1st fish ended up to be this awesome carp

at the end of the hour 1 had caught 21 fish and he had 8. so the anise out fished the vanilla by about 300%.
after the 2 hours. kyle had to leave. i decided to go get some on the fly. i caught 2 fish one was around a pound. and then i caught this one. sorry the pic is bad. im not very good at self photos.

Progress

i put together this little slideshow of my new favorite thing to do... fly rod carping. it has photos of my first carp on the fly to the most recent. enjoy!!!
Carp On The Fly Slideshow

July 3rd - 4th fishing

went fishing with my friend cody for the past 3 days. here are the stories of each day:

July 3rd-
Today i took Cody out to get his first carp. all day it looked like it could start raining any second. but it didnt. when we got down to the lake i immediatly had him get down and i pointed to the water. there was swirls from gulping carp everywhere. vthere must have been over 50 gulping. i told him to try and get down to the cat tails but avoid all the goose poop. he mad his way down to the cattails and i stood pretty far away watching with my polarized sunglasses. he almost immediatly had a nice carp on. he battled it for a while before i was able ho get the net onto her. here she is!!! his first carp and a nice one to boot!!!

we got a few more carp that day but not may. and they were small.
so we went down on a bike trail and caught a few bass.

July 4th-
today i went to codys house and we went down to a lake about 300 feet from his house. we were going for bass. we caught alot but none of any real good size. 1lb max. then later cody went home and i caught a few more bass then i seen a bowfin!!! a nice one too!!! i casted my worm she shot at it and missed. i recasted she hit it again. but i set it too soon and it came out of her mouth. i recasted. this time she got it and the fight was on i got her close enought to shore so i was able to grab her. then i put her in my trailer and took her to up[ to cody's house to get her pic taken. she was 25 inches long and 13inches in girth and according to the weight table on bowfin anglers group she would weig 6.1 lbs. pic of her with the tuler

pic of me and her (i look really stupid on this pic beause i was about to sneeze and when he took the picture my camera went dead and we couldnt get it back on.)(it didnt even say low battery)

Todays Carp Expedition

i took my friend, kyle, out carping today to get his first nice carp. we did pretty well the numbers were good but they werent as big as usual. when we first got down to the lake i explained a few things he needed to do to catch these carp.
after i got done explaining he was soon hooked up with a fiesty little guy. then i was hooked up as well about 20 seconds later. and walla a nice double

after they were realeased kyle went to the other sided of the road and dropped his corn in a caulvert. and bam another nice carp. after 5 minutes we were able to take the picture.

then i casted out and set my rod i a shore made rod holder (rocks) and waited. my friend got a small carp and needed me to unhook it. then IT happends my rod almost goes flying out of the rocks but i got it before it went into the water. then i fought the fish for 2 minutes then my line broke from the rocks. i never got a look at the fish. it never came off the bottom.
after a while kyle was hooked up with another good carp. and fought for a while then we were able to get her to shore and take a pic.

then kyle decided to take a rest for a while and just watch so i got 2 carp.
1st one was a 5 minute fight.

and another 2 minute fight

then we started getting alot of smaller ones around a pound. and then we left kyle did very well for his first carp trip. and i am bringing my friend cody down there tommorow to get his first carp ever. i guess im becomimg somewhat of a guide. haha.