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bowhunter095
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 Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 10:41 am Post subject: Batterson 5/18 |
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Last night my friend and I got back out on Batterson in search of our first ever walleye. We got on the water around 9:30. I trolled a perch color shad rap while my friend trolled a silver original floating rapala. After about 20 minutes I got a hit which I knew wasn't big and landed a dinky little rock bass  Not even 5 minutes later I got another hit. This time my rod bent over and I knew i had a big fish. After fighting the fish for a minute I noticed that it wasn't coming to the surface so my heart started racing because I had heard that walleye tend to stay down. Then about a minute later I got the fish to my kayak and shined my light on it. IT WAS MY FIRST WALLEYE! It was 21 inches long and weighed 2 pounds 13 ounces.
We kept fishing until 11 but we weren't getting anything so we decided to troll the same shoreline back to the boat launch. Around 11:10 my friend got a hit and this fish was staying down to! He brought it to his kayak and sure enough, he got his first walleye! His was 18 inches, 2 pounds 7 ounces!
I couldn't believe we got two keepers in one night! Anyway, we kept trolling back to the boat launch. My friend ended up getting a white perch and another little rockbass When we were about 100 yards away from the launch I got another big hit! I heard a big splash behind me and had a feeling it was a large mouth. This fish put up a good fight for a few minutes until I landed it. It ended up being a chunky 17 inch, 2 pound 7 ounce largemouth. Not the biggest i've caught but it sure put up a fight! I didn't get a picture of that fish though  We got off the water around 11:45 with a total of 2 rock bass, 1 white perch, 1 large mouth and OUR FIRST WALLEYE!
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Fishface
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| Nice job guys. |
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TurtleKiss
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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I was wondering who that was fishing along the opposite shoreline! Nice job on the walleye.
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| What time were you out there? |
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Michael
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Congrats guys |
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PECo
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Nice job, guys! Your keeper to short ratio is WAAAY better than mine! 
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Peco, that's funny you say that because that was the first thing I thought about when I got the fish. I figured I would get a bunch of shorts like you did before you got your first keeper. |
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TurtleKiss
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| bowhunter095 wrote: | | What time were you out there? |
I'm not too good with time...rough estimate 10pm-2am? It got cold out there - 48 degrees!
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| Oh wow I thought we were the only ones out there! Did you hear what sounded light a pack of coyotes attacking something? |
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PECo
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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I actually saw what I think was a coyote pup on the west shore of the pond last year.
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TurtleKiss
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| bowhunter095 wrote: | | Oh wow I thought we were the only ones out there! Did you hear what sounded light a pack of coyotes attacking something? |
Haha, I usually hear some sort of serious nature dispute, but no coyotes. There were 2 of us & some carpers out there.
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Peco, I swear I heard one over there so I paddled away And turtlekiss, i've heard coyotes before and it sure sounded like there was a bunch of them. |
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PECo
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I found a video from 07/26/2011 of what I thought at the time was a coyote puppy. It's overexposed, but here it is:
http://youtu.be/1F17oRM3p2Q
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| that sure did look like a coyote pup! What part of Batterson was that? I can't picture it |
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TurtleKiss
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| bowhunter095 wrote: | | that sure did look like a coyote pup! What part of Batterson was that? I can't picture it |
Left from the launch in the SW corner.
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