the one that didn't get away

so two mondays ago i went fishing with a friend of mine. we took off from the cities and headed north about 45 min, and picked up phil's boat so that i wouldn't need to haul mine. we got on the water by about 5:30 pm. it should be just about perfect for the fish to be biting. we went into one of the bays on the lake (were i have had lots of success) and began casting for bass. dustin got a nice bass on his third cast. wow this was going to be a good evening. from that point on we never found another bass. after moving around a bit, the crappie and large blue gills began biting. okay so we didn't find any large mouth, but the fishing was still good and the pan fish were large enough to keep.

toward the end of the evening i decided to move the boat to the mouth of the bay and cast a rattle trap into the opening. i was hoping to find a northern cruising through the area. one big fish would be nice to see. keep in mind that the sun has already gone down and we don't have any lights on the boat. there is still daylight, but we are quickly running out of time. after casting for about 20 min and getting a few hits here and there i finally got a solid hit. while i was fighting the fish my thought was that this isn't a northern. it didn't feel right. it took a little while to bring him in and the fish at the end of the line was the best case scenario that a fisherman in minnesota could ask for. i caught a 4lb, 24 1/2in walleye!!!!! my fishing was complete!! needless to say, by this time i had so much adrenalin that we only managed to measure the fish and put it into the live basket. i wasn't going to take any chances on loosing the second largest walleye that i have ever caught.



without further ado: here is the fish.

ps - the walleye tasted really good!!