Anglers Approach

Had a absolutely amazing bass opener on one of my goto lakes for largmouth. Got into a all these throwing my favorite largemouth bait. A watermelon/red flake senko worm on a 5/0 trokar hook on 20 lb floro on my Ardent tournament pro rod with the ardent ranger baitcaster just to pull those big girls outa the slop.

Well musky opener sure didn’t disappoint this year. I managed to get into two new personal best fish. A beautiful walleye and a tiger musky. Caught another nice tiger as well. After all the pike I’ve caught this year it’s only fitting that the musky I caught were pike hybrids. The muskys were caught casting the blue fox inline spinner in pink and the walleye was caught trolling a northland bootycall spinner bait in perch color. I was fishing with 80lb braid on my bps baitcaster combo 6”6 medium heavy.

Very few presentations stand the test of time as well as a Williams wobbler trolled across w**dy flats for pike. whether it was the red devil or the yellow five diamond it was best trolled at 4-4.5 km around 7-9ft deep. Had the Ardent bolt 2000 on a 7ft Ardent tournament pro medium action with 24lb gliss and a 1ft leader.