Today's trophy tales
Trophy Tales: Last stop of the day nets monster northern
July 4, 2018 at 1:04AM
Jess Louwagie, Minnetonka • 37-inch northern pike • Jordan Lake, BWCA
Near sunset on the third day of a six-day BWCA outing, Louwagie and friends Mark Holehouse and Mark Delaney made one more stop before calling it a day. It took nearly 25 minutes to corral this northern into an undersized net.
Nothing to carp about: Connor Radtke, 11, from Lester Prairie, Minn., was using nightcrawlers to fish for walleyes on Bell Lake near Hutchinson when he caught this 21-pound, 32-inch carp.
Caught his attention: Dave Jakupciak, of Afton, caught this 29-inch splake on a small BWCA lake. Jakupciak realized it wasn't a snag when the fish started pulling his canoe.
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