Red River (North) - Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Red River Walleye Trip #5

It's Fall on the Red River. The leaves on the water provide a beautiful sight (and a pain in the butt at the same time) and with nice comfy temperatures what more could a person ask for? How about a 9 pound Walleye? How about some "eaters" mixed in there for fun? Or what about a few Sauger that are the same size as the bait we're using?

Phil, myself, and Tim arrive at the boat ramp at about 6pm. After a long boat ride, I say enough's enough, we need to fish here or it'll be dark soon! I love it when things go as planned, 3 minutes into the trip and Phil gets the first fish of the evening. It's a little dinky sauger but hey, it "broke the ice" so to speak.

After a few more sauger, Tim hooked a really nice 23 inch Walleye on a Sucker minnow. When I go trophy hunting, I tell ever whoever's in the boat every single time "hey just be prepared to get yours hopes shot down if you hook into a big fish, because it could be a catfish, or a drum". And of course, I got my hopes crushed from a nice drum Tim got.

I like Mike Iaconelli's style. "Never give up". Always think positive and anticipate landing a big fish. It's going to happen, it's going to happen.

WHAM! Zzzzzzzzzt,......zzzt........zzt......That's the sound of the drag being pulled out from Phil's next fish. I see the classic head-shake and we are all 3 in agreement it's a nice walleye. I grab the "big fish net" and stand by the motor. Don't have to do much coaching here, Phil's maneuvering the fish from one side of the prop to the other, preventing it from breaking the line. (Very nice work.)

We get a glimpse of it, "Ooooooh nice Walleye" and the battle is over, Phil won. The fish was 29 inches and 9 pounds 2 ounces. After taking some pictures, Phil did the honors of making sure she went back into the River nice and healthy. A few minutes of resuscitating and she swims away fine.

I hope he meant it when he said "You know, I shot a Moose a few weeks ago, and this Walleye Trip means more to me, and is more special than that was". Because it meant a lot to me also, as does each and every trip on the water.

Thanks for coming guys. See you next time!

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Region: Red River (North)

Categories: Fishing