Illinois Lunkers (Fish Pics)

[purduephigam]

[OCBassman]

Just found this thread. Picked this girl up in the summer fishing with dad at a little pond by my house.....

She looked About 3 1/2lbs.....

[Gale1980]

heres a few of the nicer illinois fish i caught last year one was 5 on the dot and the other was 5.9 and the 1st pic was 6.8 and of course just spawned a big old belly full of eggs wish i had caught her when she was full of spawn.... :(

[purduephigam]

I'd hate to do any flaming on this forum with such a nice community of fine fishermen, but please tell me you didn't keep that 6.8 away from her nest, let alone remove supreme genetics from the water she was in......

[Gale1980]

nope she went right back where she came from after she was weighed :) zero limit brother

[Fat Basser]

Here is a Chain O Lakes pig caught on a teaxs rigged brush hog last summer. The fish weighed 6 lbs 11oz and is the biggest bass I have ever caught out there. Unfortunately we were not fishing a tourney I searched for that fish for the rest of the year...no luck, but maybe this year

[Cheech]

WOW, super fish. What time of year did you catch that bass? Looks great.

I started fishing the chain for the first times last year. Big place, all looks the same to me. I need help.

[Fat Basser]

I think it was end of May, beginning of June on Lake Catherine. What we did was focus on 1 or 2 lakes and fish the hell out of them. It took us 2 years to figure out a pattern. There is a lot of water out there and heavy fishing pressure. Try some BIG worms and texas rigged brush hogs this summer.

[purduephigam]

[Fat Basser]

SWEET! Who needs to live in texas?

[purduephigam]

[Cheech]

Nice one purduephigam. What lake?

[Cheech]

These muskies are from the Chain of Lakes this spring. Not really lunkers, but good fish.

[purduephigam]

I cheated, that pike is actually out of Geneva - close enough to Illinois right? Nice 'skies by the way!

[Cheech]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by purduephigam &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I cheated, that pike is actually out of Geneva - close enough to Illinois right? Nice 'skies by the way!</td></tr></table>

Yep, that's waaaay cheating. Get rid of it

Nice fish.

[Bwell]

Here is a muskie I caught at Lake Shelbyville

[Cheech]

Nice fish. Is that a really long boga grip?

Is that a "no fishing" sign right there??

-Cheech

[sgt93]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Cheech &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Nice fish. Is that a really long boga grip?

Is that a "no fishing" sign right there??

-Cheech</td></tr></table>

"Danger, slippery surface and toothy critters. Lip at your own risk"

[Bwell]

Yeah someone used a regular boga grip and put an extra long handle on it with a rope to use the grip to reduce the chances of getting bit and being able to get in the water to grab the muskie.

Lol not its a danger slippery when wet sign.

[Bwell]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by sgt93 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">

"Danger, slippery surface and toothy critters. Lip at your own risk" </td></tr></table>

lol that also!