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Episode Transcript
[0:00:00 – 0:00:04] Erik: All right, we’re out here on our secret.
[0:00:05 – 0:00:06] Erik: Walleye lake.
[0:00:06 – 0:00:08] Adam: Secret walleye lake.
[0:00:08 – 0:00:08] Adam: Yep.
[0:00:12 – 0:00:13] Adam: Calling them in.
[0:00:14 – 0:00:16] Adam: We’re getting about to the magic hour.
[0:00:17 – 0:00:18] Adam: Witching hour.
[0:00:19 – 0:00:22] Adam: The sun is about one hand’s length above the trees.
[0:00:23 – 0:00:24] Adam: Yeah, I’ve always wondered about that.
[0:00:24 – 0:00:26] Adam: What if you have a really big or small hand?
[0:00:28 – 0:00:30] Adam: Depends on your arm length more than your hand size.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:31] Erik: Yeah, that’s the other thing.
[0:00:31 – 0:00:32] Erik: How far out do you put your hand?
[0:00:32 – 0:00:39] Erik: Like, you could put it right up next to your eye and be like, yeah, it’s four fingers between the sun and the horizon.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:51] Erik: This magical lake has thus far not provided us with food for the night, so we will go hungry.
[0:00:53 – 0:00:54] Adam: That’s okay, though.
[0:00:56 – 0:01:01] Adam: We’re getting into the time of day where if we’re going to get one, now is when we’re going to get it.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:04] Adam: So we’ve put in the work and we’re out here.
[0:01:04 – 0:01:06] Adam: We’ve fashioned anchors from rocks.
[0:01:07 – 0:01:07] Adam: We’re ready.
[0:01:08 – 0:01:09] Adam: It’s all we can do.
[0:01:09 – 0:01:18] Adam: We have one minnow, one nightcrawler, one leech, and one mini ravioli on our lines.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:21] Adam: We’re going to see what the walleye prefer.
[0:01:22 – 0:01:27] Adam: They will let us know, and then once they designate their preferred bait, we will all switch to that.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:29] Adam: So we have plenty of each.
[0:01:29 – 0:01:31] Erik: Who has the mini ravioli?
[0:01:31 – 0:01:31] Erik: I do, yeah.
[0:01:32 – 0:01:32] Adam: Oh, you do?
[0:01:32 – 0:01:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:33] Adam: Okay.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:34] Adam: I’ve been holding out.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:39] Adam: Yeah, I didn’t tell you guys earlier, but I’ve been sprinkling sauce over the side of the boat.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:43] Erik: I have a poutine on my lure.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:44] Erik: That’s nice.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:44] Erik: So…
[0:01:46 – 0:01:49] Adam: They do like the gravy this time of year.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:01:50 – 0:01:54] Erik: It’s like those little sprays that they used to sell.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:56] Erik: I’m sure they still do.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:57] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:01:57 – 0:01:59] Erik: Where you spray it on your lure.
[0:01:59 – 0:02:06] Erik: The scent attract spray that you would just squirt on whatever you were fishing with.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:09] Erik: What do you think the water temp is?
[0:02:09 – 0:02:10] Erik: Whew.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:38] Adam: 45 maybe 40. it’s not as cold as i thought it was going to be actually well we’re in a pretty shallow bay here and it was sunny today so yeah you would think this would be the warmest water in the lake and that the fish would want to be coming in here and sunbathing and basking in the warmth a little bit they may be here but they are not putting on the feed bag as of now but this could all change very quickly
[0:02:40 – 0:02:49] Adam: So, we will check back with you soon with an update on Tumble Home with special guests, Adrian and Josh.
[0:02:49 – 0:02:52] Adam: I’m Adam, and this is Eric.
[0:02:53 – 0:02:53] Adam: Bye, Eric.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:54] Adam: Bye.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:51] Adam: welcome to another episode of tumble home a boundary waters podcast thank you for being here my name is adam with me as always is eric hello episode 016 of tumble home and we are right on the edge of open water here in the north country yeah it’s good to be there uh we are
[0:03:53 – 0:03:56] Adam: On Fishing Opener today, we’ll be heading out shortly for some fish.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:58] Adam: Hopefully.
[0:03:58 – 0:04:02] Adam: Most of the lakes are now open, but there are still a few large lakes that are not open.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:04 – 0:04:09] Adam: Before we get to all that, Tumble Home is, of course, sponsored by Clearwater Historic Lodge and Outfitters.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:18] Adam: And this week by Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in the green can.
[0:04:19 – 0:04:20] Adam: Nothing wrong with a green beer.
[0:04:22 – 0:04:24] Adam: The old green, we used to call them.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:25] Adam: Greens.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:28] Adam: It’s a standard, really good beer.
[0:04:29 – 0:04:32] Adam: Call us up, Tom, and make a deal here with Tumble Home, Sierra Nevada.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:34] Adam: Let’s make this partnership last.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:36 – 0:04:41] Adam: It’s a very good pale ale at a reasonable price in a beautiful green can.
[0:04:41 – 0:04:42] Adam: Reasonable price.
[0:04:42 – 0:04:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:48] Erik: Yeah, so the ice is just one of those things every year.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:49] Erik: It gets me.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:55] Erik: You’re looking out, especially on some of the bigger lakes, Clearwater, West Bearskin, Gunflint.
[0:04:55 – 0:05:00] Adam: Yeah, I saw a time-lapse video of gunflint over the last couple days on the internet yesterday.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:02] Adam: It was pretty fun to watch.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:08] Adam: It’s the pulsating motion of the ice going in and out a little, and then there it goes, and now it’s back.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:09] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:12] Erik: Well, they got the cross river coming in on the west end of gunflint.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:12] Erik: That’s true.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:13] Erik: That always helps.
[0:05:13 – 0:05:15] Erik: And then the moving water up through magnetic, but…
[0:05:16 – 0:05:18] Erik: Boy, it’s crazy.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:22] Erik: I mean, one day it’ll just look like it’s black and it’s not even there.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:29] Erik: And then the next morning you’ll get up and it’s all white and just throw a rock out on it and it just still is solid.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:31] Adam: Still holding up to the rock challenge.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:44] Erik: Yeah, somebody called Clearwater this morning and wanted to know if their overnight boating motor permit was worth anything on Clearwater.
[0:05:44 – 0:05:45] Erik: It was for today.
[0:05:46 – 0:06:06] Erik: and i was like well you got about 30 yards of open water in front of our main dock but besides that i don’t really know where you would be spending the night or really having that much luck fishing he’s gonna have somebody up front with a big splitting maul yeah chopping your path through the ice and then vigorous application of the outboard motor you’d make it
[0:06:07 – 0:06:14] Erik: It is crazy just how I just get bamboozled every year where I’m thinking like, man, things are just going, like everything’s going on.
[0:06:14 – 0:06:18] Erik: All these small lakes are out and Clearwater just hangs on for dear life.
[0:06:18 – 0:06:30] Erik: Like I said, on Fishing Opener, as of May 12th, Clearwater Lake, you could probably still walk across, which sucks.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:30] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:32] Adam: At least there are some lakes.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:34] Adam: It’ll definitely be out by Memorial Day, though.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:44] Adam: Yeah, I mean, most of the small lakes are wide open right now, so there’s plenty of open water if you’re trying to get out today for some fishing, as we will.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:48] Adam: We’ve got a medium-sized lake picked out, and we’re going to go try it later for some walleye.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:50] Adam: The little slip bobber action.
[0:06:51 – 0:07:18] Adam: um nothing too uh nothing too aggressive a nice easy leech under a slip bobber just relax it’s gonna be really nice there’s a real light wind out here today the sun is out blue skies sitting inside on a beautiful day like today yeah well i was outside this morning and we’ll get outside you don’t want to be out in the middle of the heat of the day like this that’s how you get sunburned it’s too hot yeah got a shelter in here in the shade until it cools off a little
[0:07:18 – 0:07:22] Erik: Yeah, enjoying our midday pale ales here.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:29] Erik: Yeah, so it’s going to be all things fishing this week.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:31] Erik: I think that makes sense, right?
[0:07:31 – 0:07:32] Erik: Fishing opener.
[0:07:32 – 0:07:37] Adam: I haven’t missed a fishing opener since I was seven, and I may have been on them earlier.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:38] Adam: I just don’t really remember.
[0:07:40 – 0:08:03] Adam: i love fishing opener yeah it’s like kind of a almost a holiday grew up in wisconsin it’s usually a weekend earlier uh you could usually count on fishing and then taking a break in the middle of the day to watch the kentucky derby and have yourself a mint julep so that was last week in wisconsin perhaps wear a funny hat yeah nice um it’s always usually the first week in there and then it’s usually the second weekend of may here in minnesota so
[0:08:03 – 0:08:09] Adam: It’s a little bit longer of a wait, but this far north, you know, last week wouldn’t have done us a whole lot of good, honestly.
[0:08:10 – 0:08:11] Adam: So I don’t mind it.
[0:08:12 – 0:08:25] Erik: Maybe the people, the fine folks in government or wherever those decisions are being made have more of a respect for mothers because they put that fishing opener on a weekend that doesn’t conflict with Mother’s Day.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:25] Adam: Right.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:26] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:26 – 0:08:27] Adam: I’ve always found that’s a little odd.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:33] Adam: But, you know, maybe the thing you can give a mother that she’ll appreciate the most is a little…
[0:08:33 – 0:08:36] Adam: Peace and damn quiet in the house.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:37] Adam: Or a fresh fish.
[0:08:37 – 0:08:38] Adam: Or a fresh fish dinner.
[0:08:38 – 0:08:40] Erik: Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.
[0:08:40 – 0:08:41] Erik: Here’s a bunch of walleye fillets.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:43] Erik: That’s what we’re doing.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:45] Adam: That’s what we’re doing tonight.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:49] Adam: We’re going to get some fresh walleye fillets for Mother’s Day brunch tomorrow.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:49] Erik: Yep.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:55] Erik: We’re going to poach some eggs and fry up some walleyes on a local lake.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:56] Erik: Secret.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:58] Adam: Yeah, well, it’s nearby.
[0:08:58 – 0:09:00] Adam: We’re not going to give it away, obviously.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:10] Adam: But we’ve had a lot of success here in the past, just like shore fishing or from any of the areas on shore.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:11] Adam: It’s usually a decent drop.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:14] Adam: You can just sit there and wet a line, which is nice, but…
[0:09:15 – 0:09:24] Adam: I think just because we got a couple other people out, we’re going to go and take a couple canoes and kind of pontoon up out in the bay there and whip some slip bobbers around.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:25] Adam: It’ll be nice.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:27] Adam: We’re going to get some fish, I feel.
[0:09:28 – 0:09:31] Erik: Yeah, it’s really early, but those lakes have been open for a while.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:47] Erik: How do you feel about the sharing and what seems to me kind of like an old school mentality where you keep those lakes where you had really good success or those spots really close to the…
[0:09:50 – 0:10:06] Adam: keep those cards i’m not you don’t let anybody know where hey where’d you get that fish and local lake a little sneaky sometimes i’ll admit it um with this lake we’re going to today like i’m not gonna say it on the podcast just out of respect for the lake because it’s not that hard to get to um
[0:10:08 – 0:10:14] Adam: But I’ve definitely told a handful of people that I know this week that this is where we’re going.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:21] Adam: And so it’s not really a secret like to the people in my life that I know and, you know, interact with on a daily basis.
[0:10:21 – 0:10:27] Adam: Like, sure, people at work, I’ll share with where I’m going if they want to try it and go right ahead.
[0:10:28 – 0:10:49] Adam: yeah so my thinking is it’s a pretty good lake you know it doesn’t have to be a tight lip secret kind of deal um if i’m talking to locals um sure i’ll get it out there but i don’t know i mean and i can even tell them yeah we’re gonna slip bobber with leeches like that still doesn’t you know they’re are they gonna actually go out there and catch all the fish away from me no they’re not there’s plenty of fish in this lake
[0:10:49 – 0:10:58] Erik: Yeah, so I don’t really care at all, and I find it kind of stupid and annoying when people are close to the breast with their information about fishing.
[0:10:59 – 0:11:07] Erik: It’s kind of like the one time I was out on a blueberry hike picking one summer, and the guy was like, make sure you don’t pick them all so there’s some that come back next year.
[0:11:07 – 0:11:09] Erik: I’m like, dude, I’m not going to pick all the blueberries.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:12] Erik: And the same thing with fishing sometimes.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:13] Erik: I get it.
[0:11:13 – 0:11:15] Erik: It’s sort of one of those things where you don’t want to
[0:11:16 – 0:11:21] Erik: be like, okay, yeah, this is exactly where I caught this fish.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:26] Erik: But the lake itself, the name, you know, I don’t mind.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:28] Erik: Like we’re going to get into it in a little bit here.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:34] Adam: There’s a lot of people who like just from the pictures you might post, you know, they can tell, oh, I’ve been there before.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:34] Adam: That’s a good spot.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:56] Erik: yeah yeah no i think the more information that is out there the better and i don’t necessarily think that um telling somebody you know what what lake you caught that fish at is going to affect your experience there in the future yeah like unless it’s a really small lake where i didn’t you know or if it’s like a lot of work to get to it and
[0:11:57 – 0:12:04] Erik: Especially if it’s a lot of work to get to, then it’s like, yeah, I caught it in the Keck Ponds where it’s like, okay, who’s… Well, I’m not going there then.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:05] Erik: Those don’t really get hit.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:06] Erik: You can’t drive to them.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:11] Adam: Even if you just give somebody, like if I just said the lake we’re going to today, like whatever, are you going to really…
[0:12:12 – 0:12:34] Adam: listeners are you really going to show up and catch those fish i don’t know maybe you end up trying it at some point you file away that information like that might be a good lake if i’m in the area but yeah i mean like is it oh i’m gonna notice a dramatic rise in boaters on this lake now no probably not no but you know at the same time like it’s not necessarily a secret amongst people up here i’m sure we’ll see other boats out there this evening
[0:12:34 – 0:12:56] Erik: No, the one thing that does come to mind a little bit more, though, it’s one thing for us or just in general conversation to talk about it, but I think sometimes, and I notice this, when larger publications talk about specific lakes, I have noticed increased pressure due to that.
[0:12:57 – 0:12:59] Adam: Yeah, like if Babe Winkleman films an episode out here.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:10] Erik: No, one lake in particular, again, where you can pronounce this lake however you’d like, but it’s Gogebic, Gogebic, Gogebic.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Erik: Gogebic, yeah.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:20] Erik: That lake, there was a Minnesota conservation volunteer, that little pamphlet magazine, small magazine that comes out, I think, four times a year.
[0:13:20 – 0:13:21] Erik: Did you give the guys a ride out there?
[0:13:21 – 0:13:24] Erik: Yeah, I gave them a ride out there in the towboat.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:33] Erik: They had like a photo article where it was just a bunch of pictures of beautiful brook trout, and they kind of hyped it.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:35] Erik: And then there was also a Duluth News Tribune article.
[0:13:36 – 0:13:44] Erik: And so for a couple of years there, that lake was kind of in more of the public eye, and I definitely noticed more people visiting it.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:48] Erik: And I also think I have noticed the lake kind of diminished significantly
[0:13:49 – 0:14:13] Adam: a little bit in terms of the fishing like it used to be the last few times i’ve been in there it’s not been great yeah so we’ve been there like the premium time of year to fish that lake yeah which of course is uh when the buds of the birch trees are the size of a mouse’s ears which is not not too long from right now actually maybe in a couple weeks yeah we should go back and try that one again that would be a good episode actually
[0:14:15 – 0:14:32] Erik: There is definitely a grassroots conversation where you’re talking about these lakes where then they eventually do maybe meet some of these more mainstream… Yeah, but by the time that surge comes around, we’ll already be on to two other lakes.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:34] Adam: Not that I’ll never go back to Gojibic.
[0:14:34 – 0:14:37] Adam: Obviously, I would like to go back to Gojibic, but…
[0:14:38 – 0:14:54] Erik: I mean, I guess long story short with that question is I don’t mind basically saying some of the lakes that I go to for specific fish, but I understand people that kind of want to keep it a little bit more secretive.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Adam: Yeah, absolutely.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:56] Adam: I can see it both ways.
[0:14:57 – 0:15:01] Adam: I mean, part of it’s like, well, yeah, I can tell you exactly where I’m going and what I’m throwing and
[0:15:02 – 0:15:08] Adam: Not to be a snob, but it’s going to sound snobby like you’re not going to be able to do it like the exact way I’m doing it.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:09] Adam: Well, yeah, that’s totally the same.
[0:15:09 – 0:15:16] Adam: There’s little tricks inside the spots and the tricks and the way you set up and the way you actually go about your approach.
[0:15:16 – 0:15:18] Adam: That’s what really sets you apart as a fisher.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:39] Adam: as an angler i almost uh said fisherman but let’s just go with angler yeah yeah as an angler like you i can give you the gps coordinates and the exact day you should go well and there’s the weather and so what you know you may catch more fish than i would but um i don’t know there’s something to be said for just like
[0:15:40 – 0:15:40] Adam: the technique.
[0:15:40 – 0:15:44] Adam: Once you’re on the spot, it’s not such like, Hey, here’s the exact spot you go.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:46] Adam: There’s so much more to it than that.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:52] Adam: So it’s like, well, if you share a spot with somebody like chances are, it’s not going to really affect the spot one way or the other.
[0:15:53 – 0:15:59] Erik: It’s one very small piece of the equation.
[0:15:59 – 0:15:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:01] Erik: Knowing the exact spot.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:01] Erik: Okay.
[0:16:02 – 0:16:06] Erik: You go out there next week and maybe they’ve moved off or maybe the weather’s changed.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:07] Adam: Everything’s changing always.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:09] Adam: Everything is interconnected.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:13] Adam: One little variable here changes two other variables here.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:14] Adam: So whatever.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:16] Adam: On the other hand, it’s just bobber fishing.
[0:16:17 – 0:16:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:17 – 0:16:17] Erik: Right.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:20] Erik: This real expert bobber fisherman.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:23] Adam: We’re literally going to go sit off the boat launch and bobber fish.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:25] Adam: Like there’s not a whole lot to it.
[0:16:25 – 0:16:26] Adam: It’s pretty simple.
[0:16:26 – 0:16:34] Adam: And that’s kind of my, I’m, I’m reverting to this, like the simpler, the better, you know, it’s just enjoyable to go out there and, you know, float a bobber.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:39] Erik: Well, it’s why we love tip-up fishing in the winter and why we love bobber fishing in the summer.
[0:16:39 – 0:16:42] Erik: It’s not rocket science.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:42] Erik: No.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Adam: It’s just fishing.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:47] Adam: It’s, you know, a lot of people get worked up over sporting events.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Adam: You know, it’s just a game.
[0:16:49 – 0:16:50] Adam: What have you.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:50] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:16:52 – 0:16:59] Erik: So, yeah, with that, we’re going to move into, I don’t know, I think maybe something that’s a little bit more structured.
[0:16:59 – 0:17:04] Erik: We’re going to talk about the four big species.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:05] Erik: The Grand Slam.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:07] Erik: The Grand Slam, as it’s called.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:10] Erik: Walleye, pike, bass, trout.
[0:17:11 – 0:17:12] Erik: And we’re going to kind of go from…
[0:17:13 – 0:17:31] Erik: Top down, what our go-to lake, if we could just be transported from where we are sitting now to the lake that would provide us with the best opportunity to catch that species and the best time of year and what we would use to try to fill a stringer.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:32] Erik: Right.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:38] Erik: So obviously the most lauded and obviously best eating fish had to start with walleye.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:49] Erik: walleye are pretty good yeah it’s always a funny like again it goes hand in hand with the secret fishing spot how hardcore people are about like right only eating and cooking walleye
[0:17:50 – 0:17:52] Adam: Yeah, I’ll eat anything, honestly.
[0:17:53 – 0:17:57] Erik: Especially like once it’s fried, I can’t really tell much of a difference.
[0:17:57 – 0:18:02] Adam: Honestly, a lot of the lakes up here, I could fry up a smallmouth bass and tell people it’s a walleye and they wouldn’t know.
[0:18:02 – 0:18:03] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:12] Erik: I mean, these lakes, the big, deep, clear, clean lakes, I mean, they’re just as good of eating as walleye, honestly.
[0:18:12 – 0:18:18] Erik: I mean, I get smallmouth bass down in the cities where those lakes get to like 85 degrees in the summer.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:19] Erik: Right.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:23] Erik: They’re probably a little bit different kind of eating fish.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:38] Erik: But the only fish, you know, obviously it’s highly subjective, but the only fish for me that I can definitely tell, like taste-wise, is variations of trout and crappies.
[0:18:39 – 0:18:40] Erik: Like crappie has a taste for me.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:43] Erik: Like walleye is just across the board.
[0:18:43 – 0:18:47] Erik: I think it’s more of the texture that people really like about walleye.
[0:18:48 – 0:18:50] Erik: I don’t think there’s really much of a flavor if you ask me.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:52] Adam: That’s the point.
[0:18:52 – 0:18:55] Adam: It’s kind of the, you know, all fish is kind of like tofu in that way.
[0:18:55 – 0:18:57] Adam: You can impart flavor upon it.
[0:18:57 – 0:18:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:58 – 0:18:59] Adam: Uh, walleye.
[0:18:59 – 0:19:01] Adam: So that’s what we’re going for today.
[0:19:01 – 0:19:03] Adam: Um, we’re not going in the boundary waters.
[0:19:03 – 0:19:04] Adam: I’ll be clear on that.
[0:19:05 – 0:19:11] Adam: So we’re going to focus on boundary waters lakes, I think here, but where we’re going today, um, motorboats will be out there.
[0:19:11 – 0:19:14] Adam: Probably it’s outside the boundary waters, not by a ton.
[0:19:15 – 0:19:15] Adam: Um,
[0:19:17 – 0:19:18] Adam: But let’s start with the technique, I guess.
[0:19:18 – 0:19:21] Adam: So it’s really like the ice just went out.
[0:19:21 – 0:19:27] Adam: So for I, you could slowly troll around with like a Husky jerk Rapala perhaps.
[0:19:27 – 0:19:32] Adam: But for me, I’m going with the, like the stillness approach of a leech.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:50] Adam: on a very plain small hook with a fluorocarbon leader a little bit of lead weight uh zinc zinc weight yeah it’s like ingrained in me yeah it’s not they’re not made of lead anymore i mean i think you can still get it but
[0:19:51 – 0:20:04] Adam: a bit of a weight, and then some sort of fire line crystal back in line to the reel on a nice 6-foot spinner rod and a juicy plump leech on the hook there.
[0:20:04 – 0:20:13] Adam: And that’s going in, I’d say, 4 feet of water is where I’m going to throw and try and find that and just lay the bobber in there and relax.
[0:20:13 – 0:20:20] Adam: That’s my approach for opening day, just the nice still approach of a bobber.
[0:20:20 – 0:20:47] Erik: yeah i would say that that’s definitely the especially considering how late generally speaking the ice has gone out and how cold the water is yeah it’s going to be pretty slow presentation i don’t think any kind of trolling activity would be very successful honestly it’s probably a little too early right now to like expect reasonable success i won’t be surprised if we catch a couple in a night but i also won’t be surprised if there’s nothing biting uh it’s just the water’s really cold right now uh
[0:20:48 – 0:20:58] Adam: I guess for slip bobber success for a walleye, if people are familiar with the lupine, I’ve always found that the best time for slip bobbers with the lupine.
[0:20:58 – 0:20:59] Erik: The flower, the wildflower.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:00] Adam: Yeah, it’s the wildflower.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:06] Adam: Because when they first start flowering, they kind of like work their way up to the top of their stem.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:09] Adam: And then eventually the flowers die off.
[0:21:10 – 0:21:13] Adam: So it’s when they first start flowering until they end flowering.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:15] Erik: Yeah, it’s like a natural thermometer.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:15] Erik: It is.
[0:21:16 – 0:21:29] Adam: It’s almost perfect because whenever that is happening with the lupine is when the water temperatures are just in that prime zone for a nice slip bobber approach right at the edge of the weeds or the reeds that are coming off of an island.
[0:21:30 – 0:21:35] Adam: You know, pretty shallow, you know, 11 to four feet of water would be great.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:40] Adam: Some sort of rocky bottom transitioning out into a muddy flat of a bay.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:47] Adam: This is the key things I would be looking for if I was going on a trip or if we’re just going out tonight.
[0:21:47 – 0:22:02] Erik: Yeah, the few times that I’ve had the opportunity to go out fishing on a friendly exchange with fishing guides in the area…
[0:22:03 – 0:22:28] Erik: um was just happened to be out and some of the things that i remember learning from them is to look for that different colored water where you can tell that there’s rocks that’s always a good thing to look for um but yeah it totally depends on the time of year you know i would say in general it’s always live bait i don’t think there’s anything that outfish is live bait nope but
[0:22:29 – 0:22:34] Erik: Um, later in the summer, you know, using, like you said, Husky jerks or X wraps.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:36] Erik: Those are nice to use for walleyes.
[0:22:36 – 0:22:42] Erik: I’ve caught walleyes on those pretty regularly doing a really slow along the shore troll of some lakes.
[0:22:42 – 0:22:44] Erik: But what, uh,
[0:22:44 – 0:22:52] Adam: I think that’s the, like for me, that’s a real, I love catching them just reeling in a husky jerk real slow.
[0:22:52 – 0:23:00] Adam: Just like a HJ9 or an HJ7 and just the perch pattern or like the plain silver and black.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:08] Adam: That’s basically, I mean, I carry like six total lures now and maybe like a live bait rig and that’s all I really fish with.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:30] Erik: yeah one of my favorites outside of just yeah like jigs and slip bobbers for live bait is the uh like the not the the largest version and not the smallest one i think it’s like the whatever the mid-size x-rap in cold steel cold steel that’s a good color too yeah but very similar yeah what’s uh do you have a lake comes to mind
[0:23:31 – 0:23:32] Adam: Well, yeah.
[0:23:32 – 0:23:36] Adam: I mean, if we can go anywhere in the Boundary Waters for walleye.
[0:23:36 – 0:23:37] Erik: We can be there.
[0:23:37 – 0:23:38] Adam: Today.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:39] Adam: All right.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:40] Adam: I’m going to go to Knife.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:42] Adam: I’m going to go to Knife Lake.
[0:23:42 – 0:23:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:42 – 0:23:47] Adam: I’m going to just throw any slip bobber off of any campsite.
[0:23:47 – 0:23:48] Adam: That’s where I would…
[0:23:48 – 0:23:51] Adam: It could be anywhere today, although I assume Knife Lake is still pretty icy.
[0:23:51 – 0:23:53] Erik: It probably is for the most part.
[0:23:53 – 0:23:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:53 – 0:23:54] Adam: Knife… Let’s assume it’s not, though.
[0:23:55 – 0:23:59] Adam: I’ve had a lot of success just sitting in campsites on Knife Lake and…
[0:24:01 – 0:24:02] Adam: Yeah, it’s a pretty tricky one to get to.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:03] Adam: It’s not tricky.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:05] Adam: It just takes some time.
[0:24:05 – 0:24:06] Erik: It’s a day at least.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:12] Adam: I know that I’m not giving anything away that nobody already knows, but Knife Lake’s amazing for fishing.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:14] Erik: Yeah, I don’t think you’re giving anything away.
[0:24:14 – 0:24:21] Erik: I think, honestly, we could just finish up by saying all the next three species we’re going to talk about.
[0:24:21 – 0:24:29] Erik: South Arm of Knife is, I would say, one of the premier, top-of-the-line, world-class fishing lakes of the Boundary Waters.
[0:24:29 – 0:24:30] Erik: Absolutely.
[0:24:30 – 0:24:37] Adam: Why don’t we just go ahead and say that if you really want to get the Grand Slam, just go to Knife in June.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:44] Adam: And you got a slip bobber for when you’re in camp and then trolling like a Rapala around on the breaks.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:46] Adam: Find some reefs or whatever.
[0:24:47 – 0:24:48] Adam: Play the wind.
[0:24:48 – 0:24:51] Adam: You will probably get your Grand Slam.
[0:24:51 – 0:24:58] Adam: That would, if I had to pick one Lake for the grand slam that like, you know, I can actually get to in a couple of days and back, that would be the one.
[0:24:58 – 0:24:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:24:59 – 0:25:01] Adam: And we’ve done this and we’ll do it again.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:02] Adam: I’m sure.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:08] Erik: Yeah, no, it’s like, obviously, I think there’s definitely better lakes, you know, probably in Quetico.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:09] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:09 – 0:25:10] Erik: We also don’t have the…
[0:25:10 – 0:25:11] Erik: I don’t have the expertise on those.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:18] Erik: We don’t have the level of, yeah, knowledge or experience with mid-season paddling or fishing in Quetico.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:26] Erik: Our season is usually late fall, which at that point is basically out of season lake trout and maybe some smallmouth and pike.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:27] Erik: But…
[0:25:28 – 0:25:45] Erik: yeah South Arm of Knife is definitely my answer for Walleye if I could just be I can think of one exact place just to be transported to right now with a slip bobber and tip ripper island if anybody knows where tip ripper island is there you go that’s your spot on the spot
[0:25:45 – 0:25:53] Erik: We’ve gone there multiple times and every time it’s like I almost want to stop going because one of these times… You can’t keep being that good.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:55] Erik: Yeah, we’re going to just be disappointed.
[0:25:55 – 0:25:59] Adam: But yeah, and the spot’s always open for us when we go there.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:01] Adam: And it’s never disappointed.
[0:26:02 – 0:26:03] Erik: Never once.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:06] Erik: I have a trip that I’m guiding in the first week of June and it’s like…
[0:26:07 – 0:26:08] Erik: They really want to catch walleyes.
[0:26:08 – 0:26:12] Erik: So I’m like, well, maybe we should just head out to tip repper point for sure.
[0:26:13 – 0:26:14] Erik: Catch some out there.
[0:26:14 – 0:26:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:15 – 0:26:17] Adam: Uh, yeah, I would go there.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:17] Adam: I would take them there.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:20] Adam: You’re going to be very happy clients.
[0:26:20 – 0:26:20] Erik: Yes.
[0:26:21 – 0:26:30] Adam: So yeah, there’s some other smaller lakes around like, uh, near the old home base, just regular old caribou, really good spot for walleye early seasons.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:33] Adam: Not going to be knocking them out of the park every time, but it’s,
[0:26:34 – 0:26:55] Erik: easy to get to and you’re gonna usually have success i like that lake a lot for walleye but yeah the off of clearwater caribou the off of poplar caribou and horseshoe those are some good mid gunflint trail yeah yeah walleye lakes either of the caribous yes um next down in the uh the hierarchy of of fish in my we have a walleye on the stringer
[0:26:56 – 0:26:56] Erik: Yes.
[0:26:56 – 0:26:56] Adam: We’re moving on.
[0:26:57 – 0:27:00] Erik: Yeah, we’ve got one out of the four in the Grand Slam.
[0:27:01 – 0:27:06] Erik: I think it would probably be not outside of…
[0:27:06 – 0:27:15] Erik: I don’t think it’d be too much of a shocking statement to say that the next one is probably the hardest of the four to get out of the Grand Slam.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:37] Erik: yeah it’s really season dependent yeah and i would say and it’s also my second favorite fish to catch um actually to be involved in catching i think um is right up there with smallmouth in terms of fun and that’s lake trout for me at least yeah and it’s just it’s a special fish to we’re up here
[0:27:38 – 0:27:43] Adam: We have so many great options for lake trout, whereas most of the country doesn’t have that.
[0:27:44 – 0:27:48] Adam: It really is, you know, it’s a real niche fish up here.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:52] Erik: Yeah, there is something very…
[0:27:53 – 0:27:55] Erik: I don’t know what it is about the lake trout.
[0:27:56 – 0:28:01] Adam: It’s like what makes this place special is that we can get lake trout and we can see moose still.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:07] Adam: Even though there’s not as many moose, you can still see a moose up here and you can really catch lake trout up here.
[0:28:08 – 0:28:11] Adam: And that’s just speaking to the quality of the environment we live in.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:12] Adam: This is such a cool place.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:18] Adam: It nurtures these species that really have trouble thriving elsewhere.
[0:28:19 – 0:28:24] Adam: We have the perfect conditions up here for a lake trout and a moose in the same day.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:26] Adam: You can see one and catch the other.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:32] Erik: I think that, yeah, there’s something about the fact that they’re native.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:42] Erik: Whenever you’re fishing for them, whenever you land one, if you’re lucky enough to cook one over the fire at the end of the day,
[0:28:43 – 0:28:56] Erik: There’s some – there’s more of a connection to the past and just nature in general with lake trout that I get much more enjoyment out of than any of the other ones.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:59] Erik: And I think it is just because it’s like these – they haven’t been introduced.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:02] Erik: They’re not stocked in most cases.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:03] Erik: Right.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:04] Erik: They live here.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:06] Erik: It’s not one of those –
[0:29:07 – 0:29:22] Erik: There’s nothing necessarily wrong with catching walleye out of a stocked lake or out of a managed trout lake, but there’s just something really cool about catching a strain, a species of fish that they do it on their own.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:27] Erik: They’re here whether we want them to be or not.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:32] Adam: They are like a rare treasure.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:36] Adam: Every time I catch a lake trout, my heart skips a little bit of a beat.
[0:29:36 – 0:29:38] Erik: Yeah, even little ones.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:40] Erik: I mean, they’re beautiful fish.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:41] Adam: They’re so pretty.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:42] Adam: They taste great.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:44] Adam: They’re just special, all right?
[0:29:44 – 0:29:44] Adam: Yeah.
[0:29:44 – 0:29:45] Adam: They just are.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:46] Adam: All right, we get it.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:47] Adam: They’re special.
[0:29:47 – 0:29:49] Adam: Anybody who has ever caught one will agree.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:50] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:51] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:52] Adam: Love a lake trout.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:54] Erik: I mean, I…
[0:29:54 – 0:29:55] Erik: The laker.
[0:29:55 – 0:29:56] Erik: The laker.
[0:29:56 – 0:29:56] Erik: It’s…
[0:29:57 – 0:30:01] Adam: And I’ve never even caught one out of the big lake, which is where the really big lakers are.
[0:30:01 – 0:30:03] Adam: And that’s a whole other game.
[0:30:03 – 0:30:10] Adam: But the inland laker, when you catch one in a canoe, so as I said before, it’s kind of season-dependent, though.
[0:30:10 – 0:30:12] Adam: To catch them out of a canoe, you’ve got to either be in there…
[0:30:12 – 0:30:19] Adam: early in the season when they’re shallow still, or then at the very end of the season, which ends in the end of September.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:27] Erik: If things cool off enough in the fall, you can catch them before the season ends because they do come up and they spawn.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:33] Erik: It can be hard to not catch them in the fall sometimes if you’re up around moving water.
[0:30:33 – 0:30:36] Erik: We run into that on some of our Quetico trips where you’re like,
[0:30:36 – 0:30:39] Erik: Man, I’m just catching all these lake trout and we can’t keep them.
[0:30:41 – 0:30:53] Erik: But yeah, I think it is really cool to be in an area where a lot of the lakes just naturally produce lake trout.
[0:30:54 – 0:31:02] Erik: And so with that in mind, it’s definitely not hard for me to say that Mountain Lake is my go-to for catching lake trout.
[0:31:03 – 0:31:28] Adam: absolutely yeah i mean it’s close by again it’s one we’ve gotten to fish a lot together i agree yeah it’s if like hey i want to you’re never going to get one that’s well never say never but i’ve seen decent sized ones yeah you get some big ones coming out of there but there’s so many of the nice medium-sized lake trout that are perfect for a dinner and you can basically just hey you want to go get some lake trout
[0:31:28 – 0:31:29] Adam: It’s around Memorial Day.
[0:31:29 – 0:31:38] Adam: Let’s head on up to Mountain Lake and throw some spoons around or perhaps maybe a deeper diving Rapala would be in order.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:45] Adam: But an X-Wrap or a little Cleo thrown around or trolled in Mountain Lake is certainly going to produce.
[0:31:46 – 0:31:51] Erik: Yeah, and there’s so many great places to fish on that lake depending on the exact time of year.
[0:31:51 – 0:31:57] Adam: Yeah, go look at Google Maps and zoom in and out on there, looking at all the different weird reefs in that lake.
[0:31:57 – 0:31:57] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:57 – 0:31:58] Adam: They’re everywhere.
[0:31:58 – 0:32:01] Erik: Yeah, there’s some really nice humps in that lake.
[0:32:01 – 0:32:02] Erik: Key in on that, yeah.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:06] Erik: I mean, in the spring when it’s going, you can cast.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:09] Erik: It’s almost like fishing for bass where you just cast shorelines.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:12] Adam: Yeah, you can see the rocks at the bottom.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:38] Adam: in your canoe then you’re in the right spot you’re nice and shallow yeah because you can see quite a ways down in that lake too so if you can’t see the bottom you’re probably too deep i guess is the alternate way of saying that but uh yeah uh that’s one where it’s like oh as soon as you get ice out and then you got maybe a month of good time in there to like really get out there and cast and troll for those beautiful lakers um
[0:32:38 – 0:32:40] Adam: That’s the time to hit it, I would say.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:47] Adam: You definitely can get them sometimes at the end of the season, but sometimes it’s a warm summer and they just aren’t even close to coming up shallow by the end of September.
[0:32:48 – 0:32:55] Adam: That’s no guarantee, whereas end of May, early June, you can pretty much set your watch to it.
[0:32:55 – 0:32:58] Adam: You’re going to have a really good chance at Lakers.
[0:32:58 – 0:33:10] Adam: And I know we always are extolling the virtues of a fall trip, but if you’re going to get out there for a May trip, you’re probably going to get in some nice Lakers if you’re on lake or water, which there’s lots of.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:12] Erik: And that’s, I mean, I think that’s why they…
[0:33:14 – 0:33:21] Erik: the lake trout that is the hardest of the four to complete because it’s a window.
[0:33:21 – 0:33:31] Erik: You can go out in August and catch a walleye, pike, and a bass, but you’re probably not going to be able to easily find or run into a lake trout that time of year unless you’re really targeting them in the depths.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:46] Erik: So you got to get that kind of perfect mid-June window and be on a lake like – unless you’re obviously on a multiple-day trip where you can catch all four over the course of the trip.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:53] Erik: Like the South Arm of Knife, again, is the one lake that if you were trying to get – if you’re trying to get one in a day –
[0:33:53 – 0:33:53] Adam: Right.
[0:33:54 – 0:34:05] Adam: You could go like early ice, too, and say, oh, well, right when laker season opens in the winter, you could theoretically get a laker and a walleye and a big pike.
[0:34:06 – 0:34:08] Adam: all on the same lake on the same day.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:09] Erik: You never get a smallmouth.
[0:34:09 – 0:34:11] Adam: But the bass, yeah, the bass will elude you.
[0:34:11 – 0:34:12] Adam: You’re never getting the Grand Slam in winter.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:15] Erik: Yeah, fact checker, has anybody ever caught a smallmouth bass?
[0:34:15 – 0:34:18] Adam: If you’ve got that story, I want to have you on the show personally.
[0:34:18 – 0:34:19] Adam: We’re going to Skype with you.
[0:34:19 – 0:34:24] Erik: Yeah, we definitely would want to have that interview because I’ve never, ever seen…
[0:34:25 – 0:34:26] Adam: I swear they must have literally gone…
[0:34:27 – 0:34:31] Adam: They just go hang out next to the snapping turtles and die for the entire winter.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:34] Erik: Yeah, they just lay down on their sides and just actually go to sleep.
[0:34:34 – 0:34:35] Adam: Yeah, I’m back.
[0:34:37 – 0:34:38] Adam: So anyways, I should give a lake too.
[0:34:39 – 0:34:40] Adam: I will go with one.
[0:34:40 – 0:34:44] Adam: It’s just outside the Boundary Waters, but it’s pretty much connected.
[0:34:45 – 0:34:46] Adam: The whole northern shore is.
[0:34:46 – 0:34:48] Adam: I’m going to go with Moss Lake.
[0:34:49 – 0:34:54] Adam: It’s not the most thrilling answer, but it’s really easy to get to.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:57] Adam: If anybody’s listening and really wants to catch a lake trout…
[0:34:58 – 0:35:25] Adam: you have a real real good chance can i make it any more clear especially in the winter yeah winter that i mean go to my spot would be i’m not trying for the grand slam i just want to catch a lake trout go to moss in in march and just any day in march on moss you just find yourself 20 feet of water yeah set up and you can throw a tip up out with a fathead minnow out there and then you can jig with a spoon
[0:35:27 – 0:35:28] Erik: Like a little Swedish pimple.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:35] Adam: A little Swedish pimple, maybe tipped with a wax worm on your jigging rod and then, yeah, have a minnow on the tip up, which is legal.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:40] Adam: It’s not a designated trout water, even though that’s pretty much all that’s in there.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:46] Adam: That’s a good spot, and you will see a ton of people out there, but it’s easy to get to.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:58] Adam: You can go get yourself a nice dinner at one of the fine establishments nearby after you’re done catching your limit, and you can thank Tumble Home for the tip and send us one of the fillets, please.
[0:35:58 – 0:35:59] Adam: No, actually save it.
[0:36:01 – 0:36:02] Adam: Just send us some more Sierra Nevada.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:04] Erik: Sierra Nevada, if you’re listening.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:09] Adam: So that’s my lake.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:13] Adam: There’s many other lakes that I would, if I could go anywhere, you know, that’s the thing.
[0:36:13 – 0:36:15] Adam: I can go anywhere lake trout fishing.
[0:36:15 – 0:36:19] Adam: Like, well, you know, send me up into Quetico then.
[0:36:19 – 0:36:26] Adam: But for serious, you know, like, hey, if I got one day where I can go anywhere, okay, well then I’ll just go to Moss and take it easy.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:30] Adam: It’s an easy portage walk in or you can snowmobile in the winter if you want.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:36] Erik: No, we did fish it last year on open water.
[0:36:36 – 0:36:37] Adam: Yeah, I’ve caught them in open water too.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:44] Adam: You kind of just go to the same spots as you’re ice fishing in March, and you just go back there in June, and you got a pretty good shot there too.
[0:36:44 – 0:36:46] Adam: I do believe they stock that pretty well.
[0:36:46 – 0:36:48] Erik: Yeah, that’s definitely a managed one.
[0:36:49 – 0:36:54] Adam: That doesn’t take anything away from the beauty of catching an ice lake trout, which there are lots of in there.
[0:36:54 – 0:36:56] Adam: So that’s what I’m going to go with, but yeah.
[0:36:57 – 0:37:01] Adam: There’s a wealth of options to choose from up in the Arrowhead.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:09] Erik: Yeah, probably some of the few lakes in the state in general that they are natively found.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:11] Erik: So kind of cool.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:21] Erik: And it’s nice, you know, even though Clearwater is tough to fish for the lake trout, it’s nice knowing that they’re there.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:23] Erik: We’ve struggled over the years.
[0:37:23 – 0:37:51] Erik: they are there that’s a real trophy home run option there yeah no it’s like okay go to mountain and for sure catch your limit of perfect eaters or fish clear water for 12 hours and probably catch nothing but there’s the potential that you’ll run into like a 40 incher you never know yeah like that there are massive lake trout in clear water but you’re not going to run into them as regularly as you will on some of the other lakes so
[0:37:52 – 0:37:55] Adam: What are you going with for our fourth fish?
[0:37:55 – 0:37:57] Adam: So we’ve got our walleye.
[0:37:57 – 0:37:59] Adam: We’ve got our lake trout on the stringer.
[0:37:59 – 0:38:01] Adam: What are we going to try for next?
[0:38:03 – 0:38:14] Erik: Well, we’re probably not going to have to try, but let’s move on to, I think it’s probably a toss-up in general, piker or bass.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:15] Adam: I prefer pike.
[0:38:16 – 0:38:17] Erik: You prefer pike?
[0:38:17 – 0:38:21] Erik: I think I prefer bass just because they’re easier to clean if you do end up wanting to catch one.
[0:38:22 – 0:38:22] Adam: True enough.
[0:38:23 – 0:38:31] Adam: I really would probably not clean a pike if it’s other than winter because you can kind of half freeze them, deslime them a little, and then they’re easy to clean.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:35] Adam: But I do love to – I’m pretty decent at cleaning a pike.
[0:38:35 – 0:38:38] Adam: That doesn’t really bother me, but they are a little tricky.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:40] Adam: I just like the pike.
[0:38:40 – 0:38:41] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:38:41 – 0:38:45] Adam: I mean, if I had to pick like, hey, who do you want to have a beer with?
[0:38:45 – 0:38:46] Adam: A smallmouth or a pike?
[0:38:46 – 0:38:47] Adam: Let’s hang out with a pike.
[0:38:47 – 0:38:49] Adam: I don’t want to invite a smallmouth in this studio.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:51] Erik: Along those same lines.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:54] Erik: The pike definitely seems like kind of a rogue.
[0:38:54 – 0:38:56] Erik: I’m interested in getting that.
[0:38:56 – 0:38:57] Adam: I like their temperament.
[0:38:57 – 0:38:57] Adam: They’re just crazy.
[0:38:58 – 0:38:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:58 – 0:39:02] Erik: I kind of want to know what’s that guy’s story versus the bass, which is just kind of like…
[0:39:02 – 0:39:06] Adam: The fact that the bass go away in the winter and just fall asleep next to the snapping turtles.
[0:39:06 – 0:39:07] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:07 – 0:39:09] Adam: That’s where the tiebreaker is for me.
[0:39:09 – 0:39:10] Adam: At least the pike are around all winter.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:11] Erik: Right.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:11] Erik: All right.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:13] Erik: Well, then let’s do pike.
[0:39:13 – 0:39:16] Erik: Hey, guys, what are you doing over there?
[0:39:16 – 0:39:17] Adam: Fishing?
[0:39:18 – 0:39:18] Erik: What’s that?
[0:39:19 – 0:39:21] Erik: There’s something on top of the water there moving around.
[0:39:21 – 0:39:26] Erik: I’m going to go jump sideways at it and try to like, no, you’ve completely missed it.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:27] Erik: All right.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:28] Adam: I love a good pike.
[0:39:29 – 0:39:31] Adam: And if we’re going to go for pike today.
[0:39:32 – 0:39:33] Adam: I think I mentioned it on the last show.
[0:39:34 – 0:39:47] Adam: I’ll briefly reintroduce the concept of literally just taking like a musky rod with a bait caster reel with a clicker on it with a really heavy line and digging out an old Cisco or smelt out of the freezer you had saved from ice fishing.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:53] Adam: Let that thaw out in the sun for a couple hours and then put that on a large hook.
[0:39:53 – 0:39:58] Adam: And you literally just go throw it off the dock on the bottom with the clicker on and the bail open.
[0:39:59 – 0:40:01] Adam: So then if the pike comes swimming along,
[0:40:02 – 0:40:28] Adam: in this really cold water they’ll take that and just click click click there they go set the hook with vigor that’s the number one way to go for them on may 12th yeah but cold water if you can go anywhere for a big pike if i could go anywhere for a big pike in any time uh i don’t know that’s uh that that one’s probably the one where
[0:40:29 – 0:40:32] Erik: I don’t know if I necessarily would have like a go-to.
[0:40:32 – 0:40:40] Adam: I think I’d go to East Pike, which also has muskies apparently, but I don’t buy it.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:42] Adam: Maybe they’re in there still.
[0:40:42 – 0:40:45] Adam: I think it’s a days of yore kind of thing.
[0:40:45 – 0:40:48] Adam: But yeah, I’ve caught a lot of nice pike on East Pike.
[0:40:48 – 0:40:50] Adam: It’s a pretty good size lake.
[0:40:51 – 0:40:53] Adam: A lot of shallower weeds you can cast over.
[0:40:53 – 0:41:04] Adam: So, yeah, I would go to the west end of East Pike in the shallows where those nice cabbage weeds are, and I would throw a muskie-sized Meps Marabou spinnerbait.
[0:41:05 – 0:41:08] Adam: The Colorado blade and the black and silver feathers.
[0:41:08 – 0:41:09] Erik: Wow.
[0:41:09 – 0:41:11] Adam: That’s my go-to with the big muskie rod, actually.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:14] Adam: I’m going to keep that muskie rod in play for the big fish here.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:15] Adam: That’s what I would go with.
[0:41:16 – 0:41:20] Adam: And then when you hook the big one, hang on and hope it doesn’t capsize you.
[0:41:21 – 0:41:23] Adam: Because there’s a potential for a monster in there.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:29] Adam: My backup would say where I lived on poplars, where I developed the spring clicker fishing method.
[0:41:30 – 0:41:32] Adam: And there are some really nice fish in poplars.
[0:41:32 – 0:41:33] Adam: So that’s my 1B.
[0:41:34 – 0:41:35] Adam: But 1A, East Pike.
[0:41:36 – 0:41:40] Erik: I guess I would go with Winchell.
[0:41:40 – 0:41:42] Adam: Yeah, oh, wow, yeah.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:44] Adam: There’s some real hogs in Winchell.
[0:41:44 – 0:41:46] Erik: I don’t think I’ve ever caught a small pike in there.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:47] Adam: No, they’re only big.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:52] Adam: That’s the nice thing about Winchell is, like, if you catch a pike, it’s a minimum of 38 inches.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:56] Adam: That’s all that’s in there is 38 to 50-inch pike.
[0:41:57 – 0:41:58] Adam: They’re just eating lake trout.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:00] Adam: Yeah, that’s all that’s in there.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:03] Adam: Any smaller pike are immediately killed by the large pike to keep the numbers high.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:04] Adam: Yeah.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:11] Erik: We’re going to definitely have a Winchell-only episode because it’s one of my favorites.
[0:42:12 – 0:42:18] Erik: In the mid, kind of getting over towards the heart of the park to a certain extent.
[0:42:18 – 0:42:20] Erik: Kind of a unique lake in that area.
[0:42:21 – 0:42:22] Erik: But we…
[0:42:23 – 0:42:48] Erik: yeah the the couple of springs ago we were camped out there i remember we were packing up the morning we were planning on heading out and you were just casting from shore and one snap like i think you had like a big pike on and a pretty large pike on and immediately like immediately like cut it like it swallowed a large rapala yeah and then immediately cut the line
[0:42:49 – 0:43:16] Erik: and then you were like cast out in this like cast right out here for this thing and like it was like i think we gave it like a couple minutes and you were like it snapped the line right out here and then i cast out there and ended up landing the fish and did it have the lure i don’t think it did it must never have gotten the hooks like i’m thinking it somehow like grabbed at it and cut the line and the lure is laying on the bottom of the lake so either it shook the lure or it was just another big yeah or there’s a wolf pack of them out there
[0:43:16 – 0:43:17] Adam: Which could have been the case.
[0:43:18 – 0:43:18] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:18 – 0:43:19] Adam: It could have been even a bigger one.
[0:43:19 – 0:43:20] Adam: Who knows?
[0:43:20 – 0:43:25] Erik: And it’s one of those lakes that regularly will have people coming in throughout the summer and showing me pictures.
[0:43:25 – 0:43:28] Erik: I’m like, yeah, that’s the size of the pike out there.
[0:43:29 – 0:43:29] Erik: They’re big.
[0:43:29 – 0:43:32] Erik: You’re not going to run into anything much smaller than that.
[0:43:33 – 0:43:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:33 – 0:43:35] Adam: No, that’s probably the best answer.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:39] Adam: Yeah, there’s solid fishing to be had out there.
[0:43:40 – 0:43:41] Erik: That’s one of those things, though.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:53] Erik: After the water warms up and you’re past that just dead bait on the bottom, I mean, anything that moves and is flashy, the most obnoxious lure you have is probably the best.
[0:43:53 – 0:43:54] Adam: That’s why I’ve always said, like…
[0:43:55 – 0:43:59] Adam: Just get a musky rod and some big Meps Marabou spinners.
[0:44:01 – 0:44:02] Adam: I’m trying to think.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:06] Adam: There’s this bait called the Deviator, which is kind of a glide bait.
[0:44:06 – 0:44:07] Adam: It’s a monster.
[0:44:08 – 0:44:11] Adam: It’s one of my favorite lures for big pike is the Deviator.
[0:44:11 – 0:44:12] Erik: They still make it.
[0:44:12 – 0:44:19] Erik: If you don’t have a heavy rod for that, you’re going to feel like you’re actually in the middle of battling a fish, reeling one of those in or trolling it.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:44] Adam: yeah oh man joe booker’s got a couple nice lures he the the uh i wish i could remember the name of that death the depth booker i’m sure that’s not fact check us later please but yeah there’s some really good big crankbaits you can you can roll out for them or a huge spinnerbait the bigger the better like a small pike even won’t be shy around a muscular i’ve caught plenty of small pike on like a top walker
[0:44:45 – 0:44:49] Erik: Yeah, it’s always hilarious when you catch those tiny pike on lures that are like three-quarters their size.
[0:44:50 – 0:44:53] Adam: Yeah, very ambitious of you.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:56] Adam: So, yeah, that covers it pretty well.
[0:44:56 – 0:45:01] Adam: Again, with pike, a great time of year for those is ice fishing, like early ice for big pike.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:11] Adam: The biggest pike I’ve ever caught was open water in June, but my biggest ice pike was early ice, and it was really close.
[0:45:11 – 0:45:14] Adam: Pulling a big pike in on a tip-up, I mean, nothing almost beats that.
[0:45:15 – 0:45:15] Erik: That’s fun.
[0:45:15 – 0:45:18] Erik: When it’s dangerous to be on the ice, that’s the best time to be fishing.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:22] Adam: Yeah, like four inches of clear ice where you can see the weed beds underneath you.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:25] Adam: Set a tip up and then walk away real slowly.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:27] Adam: So let them just come on into that bait.
[0:45:27 – 0:45:28] Adam: Skate away.
[0:45:29 – 0:45:37] Adam: Yeah, so that covers the pikes, and then we’re getting back to the lowly smallmouth bass who doesn’t even want to bite during ice fishing season.
[0:45:37 – 0:45:38] Adam: That’s fine.
[0:45:38 – 0:45:40] Adam: No, but they’ll bite all year long.
[0:45:40 – 0:45:43] Erik: They make up for it in open water.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:44] Adam: Yeah, they make up for it in July and August.
[0:45:45 – 0:45:50] Erik: By being the only thing you can catch sometimes, even though you want to try to catch something else, you can’t get by there.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:54] Erik: There’s like layers, and they’re at that top layer where they just piranha.
[0:45:54 – 0:45:58] Erik: Don’t let you get down to try to work off of structure to try to catch some walleye.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:08] Adam: All right, I’m going to go with the ultimate smallmouth day is July 20th on Daniels Lake with a MEPS number three.
[0:46:09 – 0:46:11] Adam: And you will catch 50 smallmouth bass.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:13 – 0:46:17] Adam: And or the hooks will break off your MEPS before your day is done.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:19] Adam: One or the other will apply.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:24] Erik: I would say probably the third week of June in the back bay of Caribou would be.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:27] Adam: Yeah, those are some really nice ones back there.
[0:46:27 – 0:46:30] Erik: If you’re going for size, if you’re going for numbers, yeah.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:32] Erik: I mean, if you’re going for numbers, Baker.
[0:46:33 – 0:46:34] Adam: Wow, Baker.
[0:46:34 – 0:46:35] Adam: Wow, the deep cut.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:37] Erik: Yeah, that’s all.
[0:46:37 – 0:46:42] Adam: If anybody can find Baker Lake, yeah, you can never catch more smallmouth, but they will never be above 12 inches.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:44] Erik: It’s not a Bon Jovi’s Lake.
[0:46:44 – 0:46:46] Erik: It’s not a Quetico Lake, but it is in Canada.
[0:46:46 – 0:46:50] Adam: Yeah, I like Daniel’s for the mix of the numbers and the size.
[0:46:50 – 0:46:55] Adam: You’ll catch 50 fish, which I’ve easily done in a day, to the point where I, like, ruined a lure.
[0:46:55 – 0:46:59] Adam: I have it hanging, the remnants of this old Meps hanging on the wall.
[0:46:59 – 0:46:59] Erik: The dulled barb.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:22] Adam: yeah just one hook left like all the all the feathers are gone that the the blade itself is dinged up and yeah it’s just beaten on yeah 50 fish but like you’ll get them up in like the 17 18s you’ll get a lot of like 12 inches in there but it’s just non-stop fishing until your like arm hurts yeah catching smallmouth bass which and you get a couple nice ones in there
[0:47:23 – 0:47:27] Adam: It’s not like Baker where you can get 100 a day, but they’re all like 12 to 8.
[0:47:28 – 0:47:36] Adam: And then you got the caribou equation where you’re maybe going to get 20, but you’re probably going to get a couple over 20 inches in there, which is nice too.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:39] Erik: There’s some hogs back there, and those are fun to catch.
[0:47:40 – 0:47:45] Erik: I mean, everybody always says it, but it’s true.
[0:47:45 – 0:47:47] Erik: Like pound for pound, a battle with a big…
[0:47:48 – 0:48:08] Erik: small moth bass is pretty fun they got the shoulders they got the shoulders they like breach when they come out of the water that’s crazy like you’re never gonna you’re gonna have a walleye like jumping out of the water sometimes a pike will do it yeah and it’s hilarious when they do but like when you get a small moth bass that comes like first of all if you’re top water fishing
[0:48:09 – 0:48:12] Erik: And you get them slamming topwater baits.
[0:48:12 – 0:48:14] Erik: That’s fun and hilarious.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:20] Erik: And then when they come back out of the water and they’re flapping in the air, that’s just crazy.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:23] Erik: They’re the most fun to catch for sure.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:30] Erik: But I think they get a bad reputation just because they’re so easy to catch and you run into a lot of small ones.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:57] Erik: that’s true but uh yeah so the back bay caribou for big ones and then yeah i would say there’s a little bit of a like a chain like daniels and then watop and rove like that those three lakes in there yeah if you just want to go non-stop catching smallies until you get tennis elbow you’re gonna have bass elbow yeah you’re gonna get like carpal tunnel and your thumb is your whole thumb your l your elbow your wrist is gonna be gone
[0:48:57 – 0:49:22] Erik: you’re gonna have tennis elbow break a fishing rod and bass thumb bass thumb get that fuck get that chewed up thumb yeah yeah um so that there you go we got our our grand slam and you can i mean just a quick talk on uh you know the top water for uh calm evenings is my go-to not that it’s necessarily the best but i think it’s the most
[0:49:22 – 0:49:27] Adam: I like a MAPS 3 because you can run it a little slower, and it’ll drop down a foot or two in the column.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:35] Adam: Otherwise, if you’re really on top of some weeds or in some shallow stuff, you can really burn that sucker on the top almost like a topwater if you give it enough.
[0:49:36 – 0:49:37] Adam: So it’s a pretty versatile lure.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:40] Adam: Another one we should probably give a shout-out to the Gary Yamamoto worm.
[0:49:40 – 0:49:42] Erik: Got to shout-out the wacky style Gary.
[0:49:42 – 0:49:43] Erik: Wacky worm style.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:46] Erik: You lose about 90% of them, but… You’re going to get a lot of bites.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:50] Erik: Yeah, it’s crazy how much those lures produce.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:53] Erik: They’re like $10 for like a pack of 10.
[0:49:53 – 0:49:56] Erik: So like each one of those little stupid worms is a dollar.
[0:49:56 – 0:49:59] Erik: And you’re just barely hooking it through in the middle.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:03] Erik: The presentation or whatever is happening with those little… Wiggles.
[0:50:03 – 0:50:04] Erik: The wiggles on the sides.
[0:50:04 – 0:50:09] Erik: I mean, they’re highly, highly effective, but the amount you lose…
[0:50:09 – 0:50:10] Adam: It’s not my style.
[0:50:10 – 0:50:12] Adam: I can’t get into it, but I do respect it.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:15 – 0:50:15] Erik: So there’s your Grand Slam.
[0:50:17 – 0:50:22] Erik: But we all know that there’s no such thing as a Grand Slam without a cherry on top.
[0:50:23 – 0:50:25] Erik: And who’s the cherry on top?
[0:50:25 – 0:50:28] Erik: Who’s got that beady little cherry red eye?
[0:50:28 – 0:50:28] Adam: Obviously.
[0:50:29 – 0:50:29] Erik: Obviously.
[0:50:30 – 0:50:31] Erik: It’s rock bass.
[0:50:31 – 0:50:34] Erik: Where are you going if you get one chance?
[0:50:35 – 0:50:37] Erik: Tomorrow is your death date.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:41] Erik: And you want to go out and catch a barrel full of rock bass.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:41] Erik: Where are you going?
[0:50:42 – 0:51:03] Adam: um obviously knife i mean it’s got everything and it also has the rock bass so if you gotta get them all in one day grand slam plus a nice rock bass or 50 going to knife yeah i mean it’s just non-stop action and you never know what you’re gonna find but over the years i’ve uh i have found for sure that you get a lot of really nice rock bass in there
[0:51:04 – 0:51:07] Adam: And I do love ripping the tips on some nice rock bass.
[0:51:08 – 0:51:10] Adam: A lot of people frown on the rock bass.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:11] Adam: I’m not one of those people.
[0:51:11 – 0:51:13] Adam: I enjoy catching a rock bass.
[0:51:13 – 0:51:14] Adam: It makes me smile every time.
[0:51:15 – 0:51:17] Adam: Honorable mention, I’m going to go with Little Gunflint.
[0:51:18 – 0:51:27] Adam: If you go to the inlet where it comes in from Little North there, there’s like an old cribbing there from like the old railroad portage or whatever.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:29] Adam: And, yeah, I don’t –
[0:51:30 – 0:51:55] Adam: there is like a closed season on there there’s like a sanctuary there you got to be be careful of it’s probably not open this time of year rock bass spawning yeah they want to yeah you got to protect that rock bass spawning bed there but if you go over there in the middle of summer on any hot day with just some live bait and some bobbers or just a little jig head with some worms or something you will nail the rock bass up in there and you might get some others you may get some other stuff in there like a nice bass or a pike who knows
[0:51:56 – 0:51:59] Erik: You’re not allowed to actually keep a rock bass until you throw 10 on shore, though.
[0:51:59 – 0:52:00] Adam: That’s true.
[0:52:01 – 0:52:02] Adam: Those are the rules.
[0:52:02 – 0:52:03] Adam: You know, abide.
[0:52:03 – 0:52:03] Erik: Yeah.
[0:52:03 – 0:52:07] Adam: But, yeah, then I think there’s also the option at Little Gunfund there.
[0:52:07 – 0:52:12] Adam: You can get a nice rock bass, but you might also get some warmouth, which are a subspecies…
[0:52:13 – 0:52:17] Adam: Kind of a hybrid rock bass, small eave, large mouth, who knows, bluegill.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:18] Adam: I’m not sure what they are.
[0:52:19 – 0:52:22] Erik: It sounds almost as delicious as a moon eye.
[0:52:22 – 0:52:23] Adam: Catch the fever.
[0:52:23 – 0:52:25] Adam: Yeah, we’ll get to those moon eyes later.
[0:52:25 – 0:52:29] Erik: We had somebody writing in about their delicious experiences with moon eyes.
[0:52:29 – 0:52:51] Adam: so yeah i think we’ve uh done a pretty decent job of covering the general grand slam topic and some really good options just if you’re getting started on it um but you know we’ve been fishing a long time and it’s like these basics the basic toolkit that you’d use to catching these kinds of fish it never really changes once you’ve established that yeah repertoire
[0:52:51 – 0:53:08] Erik: My tackle box has gone from basically like a full like size like craftsman tool chest that you would find in like Tim Allen’s garage from Home Improvement to basically like a little container of floss.
[0:53:08 – 0:53:08] Erik: Yeah.
[0:53:08 – 0:53:09] Erik: Basically like two or three things.
[0:53:10 – 0:53:10] Erik: Yes.
[0:53:11 – 0:53:16] Erik: And a lot of just the little like implements like beads and knots and bobbers.
[0:53:16 – 0:53:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:17 – 0:53:20] Adam: When I was young, I had like a little tiny child’s.
[0:53:22 – 0:53:33] Adam: tackle box yeah and then yeah by like age 22 i literally had like several cargo vessels and tubs of various uh implements and equipment and
[0:53:34 – 0:53:37] Adam: All sorts of lures, just hundreds of dollars of crap for fishing.
[0:53:38 – 0:53:46] Adam: You never use more than once, and then you kind of pare yourself back down to the essentials in the old age of your 30s.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:51] Erik: I always liken it to dog treats, where it’s like…
[0:53:51 – 0:54:18] Erik: sirloin steak with like the white t-bone in it it’s like the human you’re selling the human it’s like the same thing with lures like absolutely 90 of lures are they’re being sold because they look fancy and fresh and shiny yeah they’re not necessarily it’s a hot new trick yeah the fish doesn’t care that it’s a fancy like fresh little oh look at that sparkle like yeah i get it there are certain base concepts you know you can never get away from like a meps number three
[0:54:20 – 0:54:45] Adam: a nice nine husky jerk nine yeah um live bait on a slip bobber i’ve been on a little glio spinner it’s worked for ages a swedish pimples uh a swedish pimple spoon yeah in the winter time just for jigging i would say the but all i ever buy now only new lure that i’ve like been a huge fan of that i regularly keep with me is the x-rap
[0:54:45 – 0:54:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:49] Adam: Like I went from having a hundred different lures at my disposal at all times.
[0:54:49 – 0:54:53] Adam: So now I have four different lures, but I have probably four of each in my favorite color.
[0:54:53 – 0:54:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:54 – 0:54:57] Adam: Like I have four and I just stock up on that exact lure.
[0:54:57 – 0:54:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:57 – 0:54:59] Adam: I’ll go months without switching a lure.
[0:55:00 – 0:55:01] Erik: Yeah, for sure.
[0:55:01 – 0:55:09] Adam: And yeah, like I could literally go most of the summer with just a Meps 3 or a Husky Jerk and I could catch the whole Grand Slam on a Husky Jerk.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:09] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:10 – 0:55:11] Adam: And I’ll get my rock bass.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:14] Erik: The cherry on top.
[0:55:15 – 0:55:18] Adam: How many listeners out there have caught a rock bass on a Husky Jerk?
[0:55:19 – 0:55:20] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:21] Adam: I’ve caught crappie on a husky jerk.
[0:55:21 – 0:55:23] Adam: If you go small enough, that’s the thing.
[0:55:23 – 0:55:26] Adam: You can get a really tiny husky jerk for those smaller fish.
[0:55:27 – 0:55:29] Erik: It’s an elusive fish for most people.
[0:55:29 – 0:55:31] Adam: I’m giving away too many secrets on this episode.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:33] Erik: Too many hot tips for rock bass.
[0:55:33 – 0:55:37] Adam: Hopefully nobody’s listened this far into the episode because I really regret giving up those rock bass secrets.
[0:55:38 – 0:55:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:38 – 0:55:44] Erik: No, I mean, in all seriousness, like fishing is so, it’s highly subjective.
[0:55:44 – 0:55:46] Erik: If it works for you, it works for you.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:48] Adam: Yeah, I can’t argue with that.
[0:55:48 – 0:55:48] Adam: No.
[0:55:48 – 0:55:50] Adam: It’s just what I, you know, it’s like what I like to throw.
[0:55:51 – 0:55:51] Adam: Well, that’s what I’m going to throw.
[0:55:52 – 0:55:53] Erik: Yeah, I’m used to it.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:53] Erik: I know how it works.
[0:55:54 – 0:55:59] Adam: You know, Grandpa, who taught me how to fish, he literally used one little jig setup.
[0:55:59 – 0:55:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:59 – 0:56:04] Adam: It was like a little two-tone small jig, and we’d catch everything with that.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:06] Adam: That’s all you needed.
[0:56:06 – 0:56:07] Adam: That’s all I used to fish with.
[0:56:07 – 0:56:14] Adam: He perfected that system, and then he occasionally, like, if it was, oh, you want to throw the little Cleo around a little bit, that was the alternate.
[0:56:14 – 0:56:16] Adam: Like, hey, you can throw for pike if you’re bored.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:17] Adam: Let the boy have some fun.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:20] Adam: Yeah, it’s not all jigging for crappies.
[0:56:20 – 0:56:21] Adam: You know, sometimes you got to go for toothy.
[0:56:22 – 0:56:45] Erik: yeah no that’s all i used to fish with my with uh my dad too little tube jigs just a jig and a mr twister or leech if you had them yeah but um i think we got a pretty uh well-rounded uh coverage we had a really great response this week on the social media just reaching out to people on fishing uh people turns out they like to talk about fishing
[0:56:46 – 0:56:54] Erik: We didn’t want to necessarily do big fish stories, but we kind of wanted to just hear the weird ones because those are the ones I think are the most interesting.
[0:56:54 – 0:56:55] Erik: Absolutely.
[0:56:55 – 0:56:59] Erik: That’s part of the reason why I think people love fishing is just some of the weird things that happen.
[0:56:59 – 0:57:00] Erik: It’s so random.
[0:57:00 – 0:57:03] Erik: Some of the anomalies, things that you catch, things that you see when you’re doing it.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:09] Erik: So we’ll start with the responses that we got on our Facebook page.
[0:57:10 – 0:57:17] Erik: And Nathan was the first person to respond there.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:25] Erik: And he has to say that once on Wonder Lake, we were casting spoons and I felt the tap as it was close to the canoe.
[0:57:25 – 0:57:27] Erik: and realized a loon was chasing it.
[0:57:27 – 0:57:30] Erik: So I reeled like hell to avoid that fiasco.
[0:57:31 – 0:57:31] Erik: That’s smart.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:33 – 0:57:39] Erik: I think I responded to that with basically saying it has always been a worry of mine.
[0:57:39 – 0:57:54] Adam: I’ve never had one going on a lure like that, but back when I was living in Wisconsin, musky fishing with, like, suckers in the fall, and you’d have these, like, juvenile loons that hadn’t gone south, but the adults were all gone, and they were just confused, swimming around, chasing our suckers.
[0:57:54 – 0:57:55] Adam: Big gray babies.
[0:57:55 – 0:57:55] Erik: Always.
[0:57:55 – 0:57:59] Adam: Yeah, you’d have to pull them away from him, or yeah, you’d be in for a real fiasco.
[0:57:59 – 0:58:01] Adam: Perfect word, Nathan.
[0:58:01 – 0:58:02] Erik: Yeah, it would have been a fiasco.
[0:58:02 – 0:58:04] Erik: Flying away, you’re dragged.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:08] Adam: Ethan chimed in, my brother caught a duck.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:10] Adam: We had to unhook, which was interesting.
[0:58:11 – 0:58:17] Adam: Somewhere between Wednesday and Crooked on LBF, we had a fish on a stringer in the water, hooked our canoe on shore.
[0:58:18 – 0:58:24] Adam: Snapper pulled fish and canoe away from shore, which we had to go retrieve, minus the fish it was latched onto.
[0:58:24 – 0:58:27] Adam: Yeah, those snappers can be a real handful.
[0:58:28 – 0:58:30] Erik: Do you imagine a snapping turtle?
[0:58:30 – 0:58:38] Adam: We’ve talked about how the wind will be devious and get your canoe offshore, but to have a snapping turtle be responsible for that is…
[0:58:39 – 0:58:44] Adam: I’ve definitely had snappers take fish off my stringer before, but I’ve never had them take my boat with the stringer.
[0:58:44 – 0:58:45] Adam: That’s a new one to me.
[0:58:46 – 0:58:52] Erik: Yeah, we’ve had the stringer down tied onto a tree, and then the next morning you come down and it’s just a head.
[0:58:53 – 0:58:53] Adam: That was dumb.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:55] Adam: You always feel the same way when you find that.
[0:58:56 – 0:58:57] Adam: I feel wasteful and dumb.
[0:58:57 – 0:58:58] Erik: Yep, exactly.
[0:58:58 – 0:59:01] Adam: But at least this one you got your canoe back, so not so bad.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:10] Erik: And then Mark, we use a basketball net tied off one end to hold rocks for an anchor while we bomber fish.
[0:59:10 – 0:59:14] Erik: One afternoon while pulling it up felt a little heavier than it should have.
[0:59:15 – 0:59:20] Erik: There was a large snapping turtle hitching an elevator ride up, scared the crap out of us and the turtle too.
[0:59:21 – 0:59:24] Erik: They took off about as fast as big.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:26] Erik: Here we go, throwing shade at turtles.
[0:59:26 – 0:59:29] Erik: Took off about as fast as big ugly turtles do.
[0:59:29 – 0:59:29] Adam: I agree, Mark.
[0:59:29 – 0:59:31] Adam: I don’t like the way they look at you.
[0:59:31 – 0:59:32] Adam: It’s not the way they look.
[0:59:32 – 0:59:33] Adam: It’s the way they look at you.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:59:35 – 0:59:36] Erik: Something about them.
[0:59:36 – 0:59:37] Adam: And they do scare you.
[0:59:37 – 0:59:45] Adam: They’re so slow moving that then when they appear like attached to your stringer, you’re always like, what are you doing?
[0:59:45 – 0:59:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:46 – 0:59:47] Adam: I don’t like them.
[0:59:48 – 0:59:52] Adam: But, you know, has anybody ever eaten a snapping turtle?
[0:59:52 – 0:59:53] Adam: I think you can.
[0:59:53 – 0:59:54] Adam: Yeah, I think you can.
[0:59:54 – 0:59:55] Adam: Yeah, I’ve never done it.
[0:59:56 – 0:59:58] Erik: Probably make a whole heap of turtle soup.
[0:59:58 – 0:59:58] Erik: Yeah.
[1:00:00 – 1:00:03] Adam: This week at the co-op, turtle stew.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:06] Erik: We’re on to…
[1:00:06 – 1:00:08] Adam: Thanks, Facebook, for those responses.
[1:00:08 – 1:00:09] Erik: Those are good.
[1:00:09 – 1:00:10] Erik: We’re on to Reddit.
[1:00:10 – 1:00:10] Adam: Oh, wait.
[1:00:10 – 1:00:14] Adam: I should say, he was talking about the homemade anchor netting system.
[1:00:14 – 1:00:15] Adam: Oh, yeah, with the basketball net.
[1:00:15 – 1:00:16] Adam: With the old basketball net.
[1:00:16 – 1:00:18] Adam: I found just a quick pro tip.
[1:00:18 – 1:00:25] Adam: We may use this system today as an old, like, onion bag or a potato bag where it’s kind of that mesh.
[1:00:25 – 1:00:26] Adam: Yeah, yeah.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:30] Adam: You sometimes get a package, and then you can kind of cinch the top shut.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:30] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:34] Adam: Because sometimes it’s hard to find a big rock that you can kind of tie a knot around to work as a,
[1:00:35 – 1:00:55] Adam: one anchor so you need several small rocks to hold you in place on a windy day so those bags are really nice they fold down uh anybody can get them for free they come with a free bag of potatoes they also come with potatoes yeah or onions so yeah those are fun um yeah go right ahead and try that for an anchor setup but anyways moving on to reddit
[1:00:56 – 1:01:03] Erik: Yeah, no, they do make like nylon bags that you can do that with too, with like Velcro on top.
[1:01:03 – 1:01:06] Erik: Yeah, some of the stories we got on Reddit I really like.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:08] Adam: Our friend Portage Monkey.
[1:01:08 – 1:01:11] Adam: Not really weird or wild, but somewhat interesting.
[1:01:11 – 1:01:17] Adam: While I usually practice catch and release, I really wanted to try some fresh fried walleye straight out of the water at least once.
[1:01:17 – 1:01:22] Adam: So when I finally got a decent sized walleye on my hook, I took it away from our campsite and got to work.
[1:01:22 – 1:01:27] Adam: About halfway through, I noticed two eagles perched on a tree nearby with their eyes trained on my catch.
[1:01:27 – 1:01:33] Adam: I’d like to say something more interesting happened, but I just thought it was cool to have some eagles checking me out while I was cutting up a fish.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:34] Adam: That’s all.
[1:01:34 – 1:01:35] Adam: Yeah.
[1:01:35 – 1:01:36] Adam: Filet gawkers.
[1:01:37 – 1:01:37] Adam: Yep.
[1:01:38 – 1:01:40] Adam: Walleye paparazzi up in the tree.
[1:01:40 – 1:01:42] Erik: That was, yeah.
[1:01:42 – 1:01:53] Erik: Some of the flying fishing camps that I used to go to with my dad growing up, at the end of the day, there would be the gut bucket, and you’d have to make a run out to the island, and you’d
[1:01:54 – 1:02:12] Erik: like it would you would literally have hordes of eagles and ravens just following you out there and you dump it and then yeah it really takes away from the mystique and majesty of the bald eagle when they’re like there’s like 24 of them gut plucking yeah so oh well yeah gotta eat too
[1:02:13 – 1:02:13] Erik: Aqua Bear.
[1:02:15 – 1:02:18] Erik: I think this is my favorite of all the fishing stories.
[1:02:19 – 1:02:22] Erik: Not me, but my grandpa’s that he has passed down.
[1:02:22 – 1:02:23] Adam: Tail, that is.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:24] Adam: This is a tail.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:25] Adam: Tell us a tale.
[1:02:25 – 1:02:26] Erik: This is a nice little tale.
[1:02:27 – 1:02:32] Erik: They were pulling them up left and right on Hanson Lake and had more than enough for dinner.
[1:02:32 – 1:02:36] Erik: They pulled over to a campsite, which was occupied by the campers who were out fishing.
[1:02:37 – 1:02:44] Erik: Grandpa noticed the small fish on the camper’s stringer and replaced them with the extra larger ones they had caught.
[1:02:44 – 1:02:52] Erik: Never found out who the campers were, but it’s been a popular story to have a laugh around the campfire thinking about what their reaction was like.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Adam: Oh, wow.
[1:02:53 – 1:02:53] Adam: That’s crazy.
[1:02:54 – 1:02:55] Adam: That’s so great.
[1:02:55 – 1:02:58] Erik: That’s so heartwarming and hilarious at the same time.
[1:02:58 – 1:02:59] Adam: I want to do this.
[1:02:59 – 1:02:59] Adam: I know.
[1:02:59 – 1:03:01] Adam: Fantastic.
[1:03:01 – 1:03:06] Erik: I commented, I was like, you know, we always try to leave wood behind and we call ourselves wood gnomes.
[1:03:06 – 1:03:07] Erik: We should start going around fish gnoming people.
[1:03:07 – 1:03:08] Erik: Fish gnoming people.
[1:03:09 – 1:03:14] Adam: Just paddling by really quick and throwing a couple rock bass up into somebody’s camp.
[1:03:14 – 1:03:15] Erik: Yeah, or there you go.
[1:03:15 – 1:03:20] Erik: We just find other people’s stringers and take their walleyes off and replace them with rock bass.
[1:03:20 – 1:03:21] Adam: That’s a good trade.
[1:03:21 – 1:03:22] Adam: They’ll appreciate that.
[1:03:22 – 1:03:22] Adam: Yeah, they will.
[1:03:22 – 1:03:24] Adam: No, that would be hilarious.
[1:03:24 – 1:03:29] Adam: Wow, if you could actually pull that off without somebody seeing it, it’s got to be one of the greatest practical jokes I’ve ever heard of.
[1:03:30 – 1:03:51] Erik: yeah no and like you really wonder like was it just the same species of fish just a little bit larger like how what were they like this i didn’t know there was walleye in this lake how did like do they seem bigger to you or maybe like the the one thing to consider which isn’t as fun was maybe they didn’t even notice they’re just like oh yeah these are our fish yeah we caught these totally
[1:03:52 – 1:03:54] Erik: That’s great, though.
[1:03:54 – 1:03:58] Erik: Not even in a million years would I have ever even thought that could be a story that exists.
[1:03:58 – 1:03:58] Erik: That’s great.
[1:03:59 – 1:03:59] Erik: Thanks, Aqua Bear.
[1:03:59 – 1:04:02] Adam: That one probably takes the show.
[1:04:04 – 1:04:04] Adam: Yeah.
[1:04:04 – 1:04:06] Adam: Dew42, back again.
[1:04:06 – 1:04:07] Adam: Thank you, Dew.
[1:04:07 – 1:04:13] Adam: On the lower end of Chatterton Falls in the queue, my brother and I caught perhaps one of the oddest fish we’d ever seen.
[1:04:14 – 1:04:19] Adam: It was abnormally tall, one to two pounds, and somewhat resembled a flounder mixed with a panfish.
[1:04:20 – 1:04:21] Adam: Interesting.
[1:04:22 – 1:04:25] Adam: At the time, it seemed like a good enough reason for some shore lunch.
[1:04:25 – 1:04:26] Adam: We breaded and grilled it.
[1:04:26 – 1:04:27] Adam: I can only describe it as…
[1:04:29 – 1:04:32] Adam: Mush interspersed with excessive amounts of bones.
[1:04:32 – 1:04:34] Adam: It was a truly unpleasant experience.
[1:04:35 – 1:04:38] Adam: We later learned that the fish in question was a moon eye.
[1:04:38 – 1:04:38] Adam: Moon eye.
[1:04:38 – 1:04:39] Adam: Wow.
[1:04:39 – 1:04:42] Adam: The only thing worse since was an ill-fitted attempt to eat a coot.
[1:04:46 – 1:05:00] Adam: oh my god oh man oh that’s great um i did when i first moved up here i had a poster in my outhouse of all the fishes you could possibly catch in the state of minnesota and i remember the moon eye on there it was uh
[1:05:01 – 1:05:24] Adam: yeah it looks kind of like a mix between a shiner and a sheep’s head it’s like a it’s like a big cisco it’s like a like a tall cisco like a quill quill tail like a dorsal fin kind of deal i don’t know yeah huge eye hence the name but uh apparently very bony and mushy gross very gross
[1:05:25 – 1:05:34] Erik: And do042 commented on that comment with probably a better story.
[1:05:34 – 1:05:35] Adam: How do you top that?
[1:05:35 – 1:05:37] Adam: I’ve never heard of anybody catching a moon eye.
[1:05:38 – 1:05:38] Adam: No.
[1:05:38 – 1:05:39] Adam: But we’ll see.
[1:05:40 – 1:05:44] Erik: So five years back, Memorial Day weekend on Stewart Lake, Great Walleye Lake.
[1:05:44 – 1:05:50] Erik: Midday, my brother and his girlfriend had passed back by the campsite and dropped off some fish.
[1:05:51 – 1:06:02] Erik: I was half awake in my hammock napping, but I noticed they tied off the stringer to a several-foot-long log, eight-inch log near shore.
[1:06:03 – 1:06:12] Erik: As I awoke from my nap, I ventured down to the shore as I remembered the turtle buffets we had provided to the turtles of Stewart Lake in previous years.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:17] Erik: I found the log tied off was floating 10 feet offshore.
[1:06:18 – 1:06:23] Erik: As I calmly grabbed my rod to cast out and hook it, the log darted 10 feet further offshore.
[1:06:24 – 1:06:29] Erik: With greater urgency, I did end up snagging the log and drawing it back to shore.
[1:06:29 – 1:06:35] Erik: To my amazement, one of our beloved stringer attached walleyes had been completely inhaled by a good-sized walleye.
[1:06:36 – 1:06:37] Erik: Still astounds me to this day.
[1:06:37 – 1:06:58] Erik: wowee and that picture they attached a picture with a huge pike with like it looks like a like a snake that has just inhaled a bowling ball anaconda situation here jeez yikes yeah hey that’s pretty easy pike pretty nasty oh man
[1:06:59 – 1:07:04] Adam: Yeah, the pike will also pull that snapping turtle move where they’ll grab something on your stringer.
[1:07:04 – 1:07:07] Erik: Just pull a whole log off of short?
[1:07:07 – 1:07:07] Erik: That’s crazy.
[1:07:07 – 1:07:08] Erik: Gotcha.
[1:07:08 – 1:07:10] Adam: Well, at least he was attentive.
[1:07:10 – 1:07:14] Adam: He snapped out of that hammock dream at the proper moment.
[1:07:18 – 1:07:21] Adam: Brewfish, our friend Brewfish, has a great story here.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:24] Adam: First, I’d like to comment on the bag of wine from last week’s episode.
[1:07:24 – 1:07:25] Adam: Thank you.
[1:07:25 – 1:07:28] Adam: I’m also an avid fan of Slap the Bag.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:30] Adam: It is a must in the B-dubs.
[1:07:31 – 1:07:35] Adam: As for fishing tales, we were out fishing one day and noticed something big floating in the water.
[1:07:36 – 1:07:39] Adam: We paddled closer to investigate, as you would want to.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:45] Adam: It was a 40-plus inch freshly dead northern that had choked on an upper 25-inch walleye.
[1:07:46 – 1:07:49] Adam: On Lynx Lake, we caught a rare blue walleye that was pretty neat.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:52] Adam: I never knew they came in that color prior to catching one.
[1:07:52 – 1:07:52] Adam: I’ve heard of those.
[1:07:53 – 1:07:56] Adam: I’ll see if I can find some pics on the old hard drive to attach.
[1:07:57 – 1:07:58] Adam: I hope he does send them.
[1:07:58 – 1:08:04] Erik: I’ve run into the blue walleye way up in the fly-in fishing territory, but never in the Boundary Waters area.
[1:08:05 – 1:08:07] Adam: Have you ever heard of a silver pike?
[1:08:07 – 1:08:09] Erik: Yes, there’s supposedly silver pike and east pike.
[1:08:10 – 1:08:10] Adam: That’s what I’ve heard.
[1:08:10 – 1:08:12] Adam: I’ve never seen one.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:13] Erik: No, neither have I.
[1:08:13 – 1:08:15] Adam: Someday, perhaps.
[1:08:15 – 1:08:18] Erik: The potential aquatic turducken I thought was an interesting concept.
[1:08:19 – 1:08:28] Adam: Yeah, if the walleye had some sort of perch in its gullet and the pike had the walleye in its gullet, it would be like a perchy wike or a…
[1:08:29 – 1:08:33] Adam: I’m sure John Madden could come up with some kind of a… A walleye, perch pike, or yeah.
[1:08:34 – 1:08:34] Adam: Yeah.
[1:08:34 – 1:08:36] Adam: There’s some way to combo all those together.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:37] Erik: There’s something there.
[1:08:38 – 1:08:43] Erik: There’s a reason that we’re not writers on a comedy show, but there’s a joke there.
[1:08:44 – 1:08:45] Adam: Yeah.
[1:08:45 – 1:08:51] Erik: MuddyFoot1022, this is one that I saw.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:52] Erik: It wasn’t necessarily a fishing question.
[1:08:53 – 1:08:54] Erik: Wants to know…
[1:08:54 – 1:08:54] Erik: It’s on topic.
[1:08:54 – 1:08:56] Erik: What goes into the frying pan and what does not?
[1:08:59 – 1:09:00] Erik: I think it has to do with fish.
[1:09:00 – 1:09:01] Adam: You mean it’s part of the fish?
[1:09:02 – 1:09:03] Erik: Yeah.
[1:09:03 – 1:09:05] Erik: Are there fish that you would like?
[1:09:05 – 1:09:10] Erik: I’m assuming it means like what fish do you fry or which ones do you not?
[1:09:11 – 1:09:13] Erik: And I think there’s definitely an answer.
[1:09:13 – 1:09:19] Erik: I would say that you can fry every kind of fish except trout.
[1:09:19 – 1:09:20] Erik: I think trout is best baked.
[1:09:21 – 1:09:23] Adam: Yeah, trout is best baked, but you can certainly fry it.
[1:09:24 – 1:09:24] Adam: You can.
[1:09:24 – 1:09:30] Adam: It’s not like you’re in the park, especially you’re not like probably filling your whole frying pan with oil to deep fry.
[1:09:30 – 1:09:35] Adam: You’re kind of more like frying them in like a bit of oil or butter pan.
[1:09:35 – 1:09:37] Adam: It’s not like a deep fryer scenario.
[1:09:37 – 1:09:41] Erik: I think a lot of people bring enough oil or butter to like almost deep fry fish though.
[1:09:42 – 1:09:43] Adam: Yeah, I don’t, I guess.
[1:09:43 – 1:09:46] Adam: It’s just extra weight to carry all that oil.
[1:09:46 – 1:09:47] Adam: It seems crazy.
[1:09:47 – 1:09:49] Erik: Next to that cast iron?
[1:09:49 – 1:09:51] Adam: Yeah.
[1:09:51 – 1:09:56] Adam: I don’t want to bring a couple pounds of oil to fill my 15-pound cast iron.
[1:09:56 – 1:09:58] Adam: That sounds ridiculous.
[1:09:58 – 1:10:22] Adam: well i think the main reason why i say that trout is best baked is because it’s kind of you can bake it in its own skin yeah you just basically gut it you basically gut it and then throw down like put a little aluminum foil down to keep it from burning to the the grate cook it till its eyes turn white and then peel back the skin back the skin and eat it with a fork yeah stuff it with some butter yeah that’s why i always used to do them and
[1:10:22 – 1:10:30] Erik: I think that’s why it’s way easier than trying to fillet a trout and then fry it where you end up having to deal with so many bones.
[1:10:30 – 1:10:32] Erik: You just bake it and then the meat just peels right off the bones.
[1:10:32 – 1:10:33] Adam: Use what nature allows.
[1:10:34 – 1:10:37] Adam: You know, nature wants you to cook the fish in its own skin.
[1:10:37 – 1:10:39] Adam: Like a trout, it will tell you that’s the way to do it.
[1:10:40 – 1:10:42] Erik: Besides that, I think everything else goes into the frying pan.
[1:10:42 – 1:10:45] Adam: Yeah, but I mean, that’s more of an existential question.
[1:10:45 – 1:10:47] Adam: What goes into the frying pan?
[1:10:47 – 1:10:49] Erik: Yeah, Muddyfoot’s really throwing us for a loop here.
[1:10:49 – 1:10:50] Adam: Is it butter?
[1:10:50 – 1:10:50] Adam: No.
[1:10:51 – 1:10:54] Adam: Is it like your desires?
[1:10:54 – 1:10:57] Adam: Is it your ideas?
[1:10:57 – 1:10:57] Erik: Your soul.
[1:10:58 – 1:10:59] Adam: Your soul, perhaps?
[1:11:00 – 1:11:00] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:00 – 1:11:02] Adam: What does go into the frying pan?
[1:11:02 – 1:11:05] Adam: But more importantly, what do you get out of the frying pan in return?
[1:11:06 – 1:11:07] Adam: I guess it matters what you put in.
[1:11:07 – 1:11:08] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:08 – 1:11:09] Erik: It’s like that Beatles lyric.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:16] Adam: I don’t know the lyric you’re referring to, but I understand the sentiment, I think.
[1:11:16 – 1:11:17] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[1:11:17 – 1:11:17] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:18 – 1:11:19] Adam: So very deep.
[1:11:20 – 1:11:26] Erik: I think maybe we answered it literally and maybe metaphorically.
[1:11:26 – 1:11:26] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:11:27 – 1:11:28] Erik: We did our best.
[1:11:28 – 1:11:29] Adam: We’re just doing our best.
[1:11:29 – 1:11:30] Adam: Capsus is in.
[1:11:31 – 1:11:35] Adam: I was in the back bay of Ensign with my dad when I was a wee bit of a lad.
[1:11:35 – 1:11:38] Adam: I was tossing a J-wrap going for smallies.
[1:11:38 – 1:11:46] Adam: In what seemed like simultaneous events, there was a bolt of lightning to our west and a northern hammering the J-wrap, breaking the surface on the water.
[1:11:47 – 1:11:48] Adam: I yelled out, what do I do, dad?
[1:11:49 – 1:11:51] Adam: Reel it in, was his response.
[1:11:52 – 1:11:59] Adam: I was bringing the fish in when it seemed it suddenly realized it was hooked and it took off and snapped my line, nearly jerking the rod out of my hands.
[1:12:00 – 1:12:02] Adam: We quickly paddled ashore to seek shelter.
[1:12:02 – 1:12:07] Adam: Given the synchronicity of the lightning, I am betting it was the handle of Thor’s hammer.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:11] Adam: I butchered synchronicity.
[1:12:11 – 1:12:12] Erik: Second week in a row.
[1:12:12 – 1:12:14] Adam: Yeah, I cannot say that.
[1:12:14 – 1:12:15] Erik: Synchronous?
[1:12:15 – 1:12:16] Erik: Synchronious?
[1:12:16 – 1:12:17] Adam: Synchronious.
[1:12:17 – 1:12:17] Erik: Synchronicity?
[1:12:18 – 1:12:18] Erik: Now it’s a joke.
[1:12:19 – 1:12:20] Erik: Like, honestly, two weeks in a row.
[1:12:20 – 1:12:24] Adam: I guess people are just throwing it into the comments to get me to try and say synchronicity.
[1:12:24 – 1:12:26] Erik: Yeah, synchronicity.
[1:12:26 – 1:12:28] Adam: I don’t have it in my vocabulary, apparently.
[1:12:28 – 1:12:29] Adam: It’s just not one of those combinations.
[1:12:29 – 1:12:32] Adam: Yeah, the old lightning bolt pike hammer.
[1:12:33 – 1:12:33] Adam: Oh, boy.
[1:12:34 – 1:12:35] Erik: Yeah, that sounds scary to me.
[1:12:35 – 1:12:38] Erik: A lightning on the water like that?
[1:12:39 – 1:12:41] Erik: At the same time that a fish hits your lure?
[1:12:42 – 1:12:42] Adam: Yeah.
[1:12:42 – 1:12:43] Erik: It would get me.
[1:12:43 – 1:12:45] Erik: I would probably be shaken.
[1:12:45 – 1:12:46] Adam: Yeah, exciting, though.
[1:12:49 – 1:12:49] Erik: Canoe two.
[1:12:50 – 1:12:52] Adam: It’s too bad he didn’t land it, but great story.
[1:12:52 – 1:12:53] Adam: Thank you for sharing.
[1:12:53 – 1:12:55] Erik: The synchronicity.
[1:12:57 – 1:12:59] Erik: Canoe two, finishing it up here.
[1:13:00 – 1:13:02] Erik: Caught a blue, some say silver.
[1:13:02 – 1:13:03] Erik: Here we go.
[1:13:03 – 1:13:04] Erik: Oh, hey.
[1:13:04 – 1:13:04] Erik: Silver pike.
[1:13:04 – 1:13:06] Erik: We got a silver pike sighting.
[1:13:06 – 1:13:06] Erik: Nice.
[1:13:06 – 1:13:10] Erik: On four-town, no spotting, so looked pretty neat.
[1:13:11 – 1:13:17] Erik: On Lac La Croix, we had a northern hit a 14-inch walleye as it was being reeled in and hung on long enough to be netted.
[1:13:17 – 1:13:18] Adam: Oh, foolish, foolish pike.
[1:13:18 – 1:13:18] Adam: Yeah.
[1:13:19 – 1:13:21] Erik: Also on Lac La Croix in Neverfail Bay.
[1:13:22 – 1:13:22] Erik: See, there you go.
[1:13:22 – 1:13:24] Adam: Yeah, that’s a good name for a bay.
[1:13:24 – 1:13:27] Erik: That’s probably the name that he gave it.
[1:13:27 – 1:13:28] Erik: Never tell us where that is.
[1:13:29 – 1:13:30] Adam: Yeah, don’t need to know.
[1:13:30 – 1:13:35] Erik: My canoeing partner and I saw the biggest northern I’ve seen in person, live or mounted for that matter.
[1:13:36 – 1:14:01] Erik: sunning itself in a shallow bay and went right under our canoe looked like an alligator laying in there yeah those big stunning northerns and uh muskies like that you see and it’s like like deadhead floating there yeah it’s the refraction of the light too that makes them look even bigger but like i’m sure this is a large you know if it’s like you can compare it to the size of your canoe
[1:14:03 – 1:14:05] Adam: A large monster alligator.
[1:14:06 – 1:14:07] Adam: Big toothy.
[1:14:07 – 1:14:09] Adam: Oh boy, it’s fun to see big toothy out there.
[1:14:10 – 1:14:34] Adam: mm-hmm one of these days we’ll get big toothy in here in this my best weird my best weird fishing story probably um involves big toothy it was ice fishing and we were set up with a couple tip-ups uh we had a group out there just kind of doing a bonfire on the lake and a couple tip-ups out and i was jigging like a little rattling rapala jig
[1:14:36 – 1:14:41] Adam: And one of the tip-ups goes up, so I drop my jigging rod, leaving it in the hole.
[1:14:42 – 1:14:45] Adam: And I go over to the tip-up, and it’s spinning like crazy.
[1:14:45 – 1:14:46] Adam: The spindle is flying.
[1:14:47 – 1:14:49] Adam: Like this thing’s going to take off the lake like a helicopter.
[1:14:49 – 1:14:50] Adam: It’s flying.
[1:14:51 – 1:14:57] Adam: I get the hook set on it for like two, three pumps, and it snaps.
[1:14:57 – 1:15:00] Adam: I pull it up, and it’s not snapped on the leader.
[1:15:00 – 1:15:03] Adam: I’m using like probably 60-pound fluorocarbon leaders.
[1:15:04 – 1:15:05] Adam: It’s not snapped on the leader.
[1:15:06 – 1:15:09] Adam: The braided line, the backing line had snapped.
[1:15:09 – 1:15:12] Adam: It wasn’t even a knot pull out or anything.
[1:15:13 – 1:15:15] Adam: The braided line broke.
[1:15:15 – 1:15:16] Adam: It was just bizarre.
[1:15:16 – 1:15:17] Adam: You’re just sitting there.
[1:15:17 – 1:15:18] Adam: What the heck?
[1:15:19 – 1:15:20] Adam: I know it’s a pike.
[1:15:21 – 1:15:22] Adam: I know it’s a big pike.
[1:15:22 – 1:15:23] Adam: That’s what we’re fishing for.
[1:15:24 – 1:15:31] Adam: So I re-rigged the whole thing, set the tip-up back down, and go back over to my jigging rod, pretty dejected.
[1:15:33 – 1:15:41] Adam: And maybe 10, 15 minutes later, sitting there jigging, and I’m in real shallow by the fire, maybe two, three foot of water by the fire.
[1:15:42 – 1:15:50] Adam: And this is 15 minutes after that tip-up thing happened, and all of a sudden I’m jigging there, and it almost rips the jigging rod out of my hand.
[1:15:50 – 1:15:52] Adam: It hit so hard, and I go, oh, I got one.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:53] Adam: I got one.
[1:15:53 – 1:15:54] Adam: I’m reeling it up.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:55] Adam: I’m reeling it up.
[1:15:55 – 1:15:56] Adam: And then I’m very confused.
[1:15:56 – 1:16:00] Adam: I just see a leader coming out and then it all happened really quick.
[1:16:00 – 1:16:04] Adam: Then the fish comes out and I grabbed the fish and it’s probably a 28 inch pike.
[1:16:04 – 1:16:05] Adam: It’s a nice pike.
[1:16:05 – 1:16:06] Adam: Maybe 30.
[1:16:06 – 1:16:07] Adam: I don’t really.
[1:16:08 – 1:16:09] Adam: It wasn’t massive.
[1:16:09 – 1:16:12] Adam: It wasn’t massive, but it was a really respectable pike.
[1:16:12 – 1:16:18] Adam: And what had happened if we later figured out after it all laid out on the ice and stopped writhing around.
[1:16:20 – 1:16:28] Adam: It was the pike that broke off the tip-up 15 minutes earlier, but it had the hook from the tip-up and then the whole leader behind it.
[1:16:28 – 1:16:33] Adam: And the way I tie my leaders, it’s got a big loop with a pinch on it.
[1:16:34 – 1:16:38] Adam: And so I’d somehow tried to hit the jigging rod lure later,
[1:16:39 – 1:16:49] Adam: And then I caught the end of the leader that was in its mouth on my jigging rod lure and pulled the whole thing in by the leader from the old tip-up.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:52] Erik: Yeah, or maybe it was just swimming by and happened to, like, snag that loop.
[1:16:52 – 1:16:56] Adam: Yeah, maybe it was a snag scenario, but too bad, so sad.
[1:16:58 – 1:16:58] Adam: You got greedy.
[1:16:58 – 1:17:04] Erik: It’s still probably good, though, to not have a fish swimming around with that much, like… Yeah, I would have felt bad.
[1:17:04 – 1:17:08] Adam: Like, I still don’t know what happened with why that braided line had snapped like that.
[1:17:09 – 1:17:13] Adam: I guess I just need to be mindful of the braided line.
[1:17:13 – 1:17:14] Adam: And it wasn’t like…
[1:17:14 – 1:17:15] Adam: Possibly a little frayed and…
[1:17:15 – 1:17:18] Adam: hit the edge of a rock or something when he took off.
[1:17:18 – 1:17:19] Adam: Who knows?
[1:17:19 – 1:17:20] Erik: It wasn’t a big loop, though.
[1:17:20 – 1:17:21] Erik: That was the other thing.
[1:17:22 – 1:17:25] Adam: I do tie a loop on the end of it, and then I have a crimper.
[1:17:25 – 1:17:27] Adam: I crimp the loop together.
[1:17:29 – 1:17:34] Adam: To have it caught there, it was really the needle in the haystack kind of deal.
[1:17:35 – 1:17:42] Adam: How is that even possible, especially with all the moving pieces you had in play there, and then to land it?
[1:17:42 – 1:17:45] Adam: That story got labeled the parable of the greedy pike.
[1:17:46 – 1:17:52] Adam: you had me you got away with a fresh live minnow and then a whole liter stuck in your mouth apparently and then
[1:17:53 – 1:17:55] Adam: I got you, and we ate that fish.
[1:17:56 – 1:18:00] Adam: I probably just admitted guilt in some sort of poaching scenario because I didn’t really catch it.
[1:18:00 – 1:18:02] Erik: Fishing with two lines there, dude.
[1:18:02 – 1:18:02] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:18:02 – 1:18:03] Adam: Whatever.
[1:18:03 – 1:18:03] Erik: Yeah.
[1:18:04 – 1:18:06] Adam: But it happened, and you can’t deny it.
[1:18:07 – 1:18:07] Adam: It happened.
[1:18:07 – 1:18:09] Adam: It will never happen again.
[1:18:09 – 1:18:09] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:18:09 – 1:18:11] Adam: Never replicate that scenario.
[1:18:11 – 1:18:11] Adam: No.
[1:18:12 – 1:18:15] Adam: If you fish long enough, weird stuff starts to happen like that.
[1:18:15 – 1:18:15] Erik: Yeah.
[1:18:16 – 1:18:18] Erik: I don’t think I have anything that’s anywhere close to that.
[1:18:20 – 1:18:31] Erik: I’ll just say that I have had multiple experiences with losing a fish and then re-catching one where the lure is still in its mouth or even…
[1:18:31 – 1:18:32] Adam: That’s pretty similar, though.
[1:18:32 – 1:18:32] Adam: Yeah.
[1:18:33 – 1:18:38] Erik: But it is, but it’s not catching the fish on the hardware.
[1:18:38 – 1:18:39] Erik: Right.
[1:18:39 – 1:18:46] Erik: It’s like the fish was still, it was like two lures in the same mouth, whereas yours was like you snagged a piece that was hanging out of its mouth.
[1:18:46 – 1:18:46] Erik: Yeah.
[1:18:46 – 1:18:49] Erik: Like a tiny little hole that your hook went into.
[1:18:50 – 1:18:53] Adam: I do have one more story that’s along this lines.
[1:18:53 – 1:18:59] Adam: Our friend Josh was up and we’re on Tuscarora and he was fishing and
[1:19:01 – 1:19:13] Adam: I don’t know what he was doing, but somehow the fishing pole was set on the edge of the canoe, and a fish got on there, and he wasn’t looking, and the whole rod is just in the lake.
[1:19:14 – 1:19:15] Erik: Oh, yeah, I’ve heard this story.
[1:19:15 – 1:19:15] Adam: The whole rod.
[1:19:16 – 1:19:25] Adam: And, like, he was on a Boundary Waters trip with us, and then they were, like, going on to Ontario for, like, a legit, like, fishing trip up in Ontario after that, like, at a fly-in lodge or something.
[1:19:25 – 1:19:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:26 – 1:19:27] Adam: And it was, like, his best fishing rod.
[1:19:28 – 1:19:30] Adam: And I just looked from the back seat of the canoe.
[1:19:30 – 1:19:32] Adam: I just saw the whole thing kind of unfold, and there it goes.
[1:19:32 – 1:19:33] Adam: There’s his rods in the water.
[1:19:34 – 1:19:46] Adam: And so luckily it wasn’t too windy, so I just kind of threw my spoon down on like a spike, just a spike toss into the lake right next to the boat where I seen it go.
[1:19:47 – 1:19:48] Adam: And then I just let it line and let it line.
[1:19:49 – 1:19:51] Adam: Got to go all the way bottom, and I’m kind of pulling it up.
[1:19:52 – 1:19:56] Adam: And this might actually be even better than the first story.
[1:19:57 – 1:19:57] Adam: And so I – yeah.
[1:19:58 – 1:19:58] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:59 – 1:19:59] Adam: I think I feel it.
[1:20:00 – 1:20:03] Adam: And I’m like, I’m pulling it up, and I got some weight here, Josh.
[1:20:03 – 1:20:03] Adam: I think I might have it.
[1:20:04 – 1:20:06] Adam: And I’m not crapping around.
[1:20:06 – 1:20:11] Adam: I pull it up, and it’s by the hook of the lure he had on to my hook.
[1:20:11 – 1:20:15] Adam: I caught that whole rod and just barely pulled it out of the water, and we got it back.
[1:20:16 – 1:20:16] Erik: Yeah.
[1:20:16 – 1:20:18] Adam: So then we, of course, went back to camp.
[1:20:18 – 1:20:20] Adam: We just said, that’s enough fishing for the day.
[1:20:20 – 1:20:23] Adam: We just went back to camp and enjoyed some boxed wine.
[1:20:23 – 1:20:24] Erik: Yes.
[1:20:24 – 1:20:24] Adam: End of that story.
[1:20:24 – 1:20:26] Adam: So that’s two.
[1:20:26 – 1:20:30] Adam: Maybe I found that I have a real skill here that I should utilize.
[1:20:31 – 1:20:32] Adam: But that was a quick cast for me.
[1:20:32 – 1:20:34] Adam: I just kind of, there it was.
[1:20:35 – 1:20:39] Erik: I caught a seven-foot-long landing net one time.
[1:20:40 – 1:20:40] Erik: Wow.
[1:20:40 – 1:20:42] Erik: A single hook went around.
[1:20:42 – 1:20:45] Erik: It wasn’t caught in the actual netting of the net.
[1:20:45 – 1:20:50] Erik: It was hooked around the metal loop of the hole that the net was in.
[1:20:50 – 1:20:55] Erik: And it was like a couple of seconds where I thought I was into like a world record.
[1:20:55 – 1:21:01] Adam: Yeah, when you catch something, when you hook a weird branch or something like that, and it’s coming in all jabberwocky.
[1:21:01 – 1:21:01] Adam: Yeah.
[1:21:02 – 1:21:03] Adam: Yeah, I can feel like you’re really in it.
[1:21:03 – 1:21:06] Adam: Because it feels like it’s moving around like it’s a real fish.
[1:21:07 – 1:21:07] Adam: And it’s got weight.
[1:21:08 – 1:21:08] Adam: Oh, it was very heavy.
[1:21:08 – 1:21:13] Adam: All of a sudden your mind starts racing, and then you see the disappointment that it’s a net or a boot.
[1:21:13 – 1:21:15] Erik: And you see the classic cartoon.
[1:21:16 – 1:21:20] Adam: One time we were ice fishing on caribou by Clearwater with the tip-ups.
[1:21:20 – 1:21:22] Adam: You pulled a nice log through the ice.
[1:21:22 – 1:21:22] Adam: Yeah, the tip-up goes up.
[1:21:22 – 1:21:23] Adam: How does that happen?
[1:21:23 – 1:21:28] Adam: This had to have been a fish took it and then somehow wrapped me into it because then I’m pulling it up and it feels weird.
[1:21:29 – 1:21:30] Adam: It feels like a fish.
[1:21:30 – 1:21:35] Adam: And I pulled up literally through the… And then it somehow came up right through the hole like a six-foot long…
[1:21:36 – 1:21:55] Adam: like branch of a tree it was a trophy branch trophy branch landing that was nice i have no idea how i was able to hook that with a stationary tip-up yeah that was like i’ve never seen something snagged it had to have been a fish assist or some sort of otter playing tricks on me down there something else is going on snapping turtles more than we understand snapping turtles yeah
[1:21:56 – 1:21:58] Adam: So that wraps it up for me.
[1:21:58 – 1:21:59] Adam: I have no more funny stories.
[1:21:59 – 1:22:03] Adam: I think we should probably end the episode now.
[1:22:03 – 1:22:07] Erik: Yeah, we’re pushing our longest episode ever.
[1:22:07 – 1:22:10] Erik: But, you know, the stories that were shared were great.
[1:22:10 – 1:22:19] Erik: That was really fun to have some stories, some things that I never even thought were possible that could have happened.
[1:22:20 – 1:22:22] Erik: Really nice to hear from everybody on that one.
[1:22:22 – 1:22:23] Erik: Appreciate you.
[1:22:23 – 1:22:24] Erik: Yeah, man.
[1:22:24 – 1:22:25] Adam: Thank you for chiming in.
[1:22:26 – 1:22:26] Erik: Thank you.
[1:22:26 – 1:22:32] Erik: Yeah, it’s been, I mean, it’s like been over half of the show at this point is other people’s stories.
[1:22:32 – 1:22:34] Erik: So really appreciate people sharing those.
[1:22:34 – 1:22:35] Erik: That’s great.
[1:22:35 – 1:22:35] Erik: You don’t have to.
[1:22:36 – 1:22:37] Erik: Thanks for listening.
[1:22:38 – 1:22:39] Erik: Thanks for sharing.
[1:22:39 – 1:22:40] Erik: Thanks for commenting.
[1:22:40 – 1:22:44] Erik: We are at tumblehomecast at gmail.com.
[1:22:45 – 1:22:49] Erik: We’re also on Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast on Facebook.
[1:22:50 – 1:22:58] Erik: And we’re going to probably keep our BWCA as a question of the week going forward.
[1:22:59 – 1:23:00] Erik: But, yeah.
[1:23:01 – 1:23:02] Erik: Water’s mostly open.
[1:23:03 – 1:23:05] Erik: People are getting out, getting trips started.
[1:23:05 – 1:23:12] Adam: That midday sun’s starting to get a little lower in the sky, and it’s probably time for us to get out there and wet a line ourselves.
[1:23:12 – 1:23:18] Adam: All this talking about fishing and getting pretty excited to get out and throw a bobber out.
[1:23:18 – 1:23:19] Erik: Yeah, definitely.
[1:23:19 – 1:23:23] Erik: I snuck some people into the back way into Caribou yesterday.
[1:23:23 – 1:23:23] Erik: Wow.
[1:23:23 – 1:23:27] Erik: Because Clearwater is not paddleable, but Caribou Lake is open.
[1:23:27 – 1:23:29] Erik: So they’re the first ones in there this year.
[1:23:30 – 1:23:31] Erik: Season is upon us.
[1:23:32 – 1:23:35] Erik: And yeah, until next time.
[1:23:35 – 1:23:36] Adam: I’m Adam.
[1:23:36 – 1:23:37] Adam: I’m Eric.
[1:23:37 – 1:23:38] Adam: Happy paddling.
[1:23:38 – 1:23:39] Adam: See ya.
[1:24:21 – 1:24:29] Adam: Well, truth be told, we didn’t catch any walleye today, but we’re about to get rid of our anchors.
[1:24:29 – 1:24:31] Adam: Send them back to the sea, Josh.
[1:24:31 – 1:24:32] Adam: Three, two, one.
[1:24:36 – 1:24:37] Adam: And forevermore.
[1:24:38 – 1:24:40] Adam: Never shall you be an anchor again.
[1:24:41 – 1:24:43] Adam: Never shall you be an anchor again.
[1:24:43 – 1:24:47] Adam: Well, they’re going to bite now.
