Fishing, Ice Fishing, and Waterfowl Hunting short how-to videos, viewer question videos, and short equipment review videos. Also, a full length educational and entertaining show, "Fishing and Hunting the North Country." Check out the playlists for each of these features. Troy Smutka is a central MN professional fishing guide as well as a walleye tournament fishermen. Troy is also a monthly staff writer for Midwest Outdoors Magazine, and writes fishing and hunting reports in the Forums and Fishing Reports Clubs for Fishing Minnesota/Hotspots Outdoors website. Troy is a member of the Lund Boats Pro Staff and Mercury Marine Pro Team. Other sponsors include Rapid Marine, Amped Outdoors, St. Croix Rods, Rapala, Pure Fishing, and Dakota Decoys.
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Today I went out a lake and it was raining on us, after 20 minutes I caught a bass on the frog and I missed 4 of them! I set the hook very hard Quick question do you think we will able to catch bass on top water lure on hot days?
conditions. Once water temps are in the 70s cloudy days are better than sunny ones generally. Otherwise early in the morning before the sun gets too high.
No I haven’t. I have run a 1800 Pro V Gary Roach Tiller, a 1775 Pro V tiller, a 1900 Pro V LE, several 1875 Pro V Sports, and a 1875 Impact Sport. Will be running my second Impact this year.
Sadly, the jumbos are getting more and more rare in Big stone. 10"s are about as big as they get now, as people keep everything. It's good to see fathers and sons fishing,,, making good memories!
On pressured metro lakes I like to use one ounce safety-pin style bucktail spinnerbaits. They work over and through weeds well and the smaller size seems to trigger more strikes instead of follows from fish who have seen and followed a lot of big musky baits by the time July rolls around. They also catch pike and bigger bass. Even popped a few nice walleyes on them along weed edges.
Yeah I sold that in September 2019. Running a 2021 1875 Impact Sport for the second season right now. That is for sale, available in September. Ad on Craigslist and on Facebook (Great Day on the Water Guide Service) or I can email the ad to you as well if you are interested. Video tour of this boat is in the Equipment Reviews playlist on my RU-vid channel.
You can go to wingitfishing.com or Amazon carries them and I have bought them at Fleet Farm and Scheels. Three sizes-I use the small for panfish and the medium and large for walleyes depending on wind and water depth/jig weight.
I use these rods for panfish, and I am using 1/64 and 1/32 ounce jigs for super light biting sunfish and crappies most of the time. The strike indicator comes in handy for this situation. We did use these rods with 1/16 ounce tungsten jigs for pounding bottom for jumbo perch this past weekend (see my latest Fishing and Hunting the North Country show on this channel) and they worked just fine for that. I have used spoons that heavy for perch and crappies with these rods as well. You can run your line through the end line guide on the rod and not use the wire strike indicator if you wish for heavier lures and more aggressive bites. That versatility is the beauty of these rods. Good luck!
@@MNFishingGuide Thank you for the detailed response. I currently have a 24" 'medium' legend, but I am considering getting an 'ultra light' or a 'light' while they are on sale. I mostly go for perch, but there are days when they bite so lite that it's nearly impossible to know they bit without an underwater camera. Sounds like you have been pretty happy with them and would recommend them. I have looked at the St Croix CCI rods and the G Loomis IMX pro ice rods, but I'm not experienced enough to know if I would benefit from those rods over a legend.
