October 2004 Fish Pictures: Mylie's Place Resort


Ok everyone.  This is our busiest October ever so we expect a busy month of pictures.  We're off to a very good start, as you can see.  You want walleyes? We got em.  You want crappies?  We got em.  You want northerns?  We got them too.  We know you want muskies so of course we've got some lunkers for you to marvel at.  Enjoy the photos.  Click the picture for a bigger version.

The Miller Party got things off to a good start in October.  It took almost all 11 of them to get everything filleted and packaged.

Mostly crappies, with a smattering of walleyes for seasoning I believe is the order of this day. (October 2)

                      <== Bloem Party with a nice first day to their week (Oct 2) ==>          Nygaard Party of Seven

                   Obakikon crappies & walleyes       Dave with a nice 47.5" in OB      Nygaards filling out their walleyes

                                                Bloem Party Again (Oct 5)                  Prigge Party (Oct 5)

                                                        More OB fish                           OB crappies & northerns

                                           Brett with a huge walleye from OB      Dave with a big OB northern

                                                 29.5 x 17 1/4 inche Trophy                           38 inches
Ok guys, ya'll gotta save some of those Obabikon Lake fish for the rest of us, eh!?!?
Brett's walleye would be leading the way for the $50 Moore's Lures gift certificate, but it wasn't released so it's not eligible.
 
                                              Prigge Party Again on Oct 6, 2004.  Duane, Wayne, Chris, Earl

                                              Filling out their crappies in OB           A battle scarred crappie.
Be sure to enlarge the Chris's crappie on the right.  Look closely and you can see big teeth marks of something that grabbed onto the crappie on the way to the boat and hung on for quite awhile before it decided to let it go again.  

Could it be?  Muskie Mania III??  It's starting!!!

                                                                Mike Laird & Jordan Dahl (both of WIS)
                                                        43" northen (RELEASED!)      52"x25" muskie
These two beauties were part of 7 muskies and 10 northerns (the other northens were from 34 to 38 inches) that Mike and Jordan boated while trolling the Basil on Oct 8, 9, 10 and the morning of Oct 11.  Mike's northern came on Oct 8, while Jordan's big silver hawg was caught Oct 10.  They ran out of polaroid film or I would have photos of Mike's 41" and 48" muskies from Oct 11 too.  Hopefully, he'll email them or send them through the mail ASAP.  Excellent job, guys.

As promised, here are Mike's two muskies from Oct 11.  The 41" is on the left and the 48 is on the right.  Thanks again, guys.

                                                          41 incher                            48" fall fat one

Stay tuned.  Randy B's boat has already boated 4 muskies (and 6 northerns) this fall and Rich Lehman's trolling trip is starting Oct 13.  I'm feeling their luck already!!

Here's a couple fish from the Beaulieu boat during the Weekend of Oct 9, 10.
                                                    Angee Beaulieu                             <== Julie ==>
 
                                               46 inches - Oct 9/04    38.5" northern- Oct 9  39.5" muskie-Oct 10/04

See what happens when you actually get out of bed and get in the boat in the morning, Ang?  Ang's friend Julie got the big northern on Saturday and then made Ang get up AGAIN on Sunday morning after a bit of a late night.  Julie was rewarded with a nice muskie for her trouble too.  Way to go, girls!  I just heard that both Ang and Julie will be back again for the weekend of Oct 22, 23, 24 so the fish better watch out.  Save a couple for the rest of us though, if you would please.

Weekend of Oct 15, 16, 17
                         Mike Brister (Bemidji, MN)                    Aimee Beaulieu (Coon Rapids, MN)

                                  44.5 inches                         41 inches                                     40 inches
Mike's fat fall muskie was l;argest of the 9 fish boated over the weekend (Fri-Sun morning) by him and his boat partner Ed Rauch (both of the Bemidji/Cass Lake chapter of Muskies, Inc.)  Other fish sizes to follow.

Aimee's 41 and 40 inchers were the two fish in the 40 inch class she pulled in while trolling with her dad (Randy B) over the weekend.  Randy's boat got 9 muskies fishing just Saturday and half of Sunday.  The big news is Ronda finally got another muskie after being skunked since the first week of August after landing her 52 incher.  Randy also got a 39 inch northern out of the 7 northerns caught while trolling for muskies.  The Beaulieu's have two more trolling weekends to add to their already impressive muskie numbers for the 2004 season.  Randy and family have put over 70 muskies in the boat with about 4 more days of fishing to go.  I'm sure they'll be adding more pictures to the board.

Rich Lehman and Friends Annual October Muskie Outing
Jim Day with the big fish of the trip.  46 inches of  fat fall fish.  Oct 18, 2004.

As most of you that follow the site know, I often add a little commentary to accompany some of the photos, but for this fish, I'll just let Rich's words do the job.  He called this fish "Jaws" and it sounds like it was an appropriate name.  Rich was running his boat while Jeff had another boat in the same area.  Here's what happened:

"Jeff's boat was being blown onto the rocks as they were trying to get this fish.  When they got it in the net I jumped into their boat to help with the fish and get the boat away from the rocks.  This was the nastiest/meanest fish I've ever seen.  It even had that look in its eye.  Its tail was even half missing.  Never once did it stay calm.  We didn't want to hurt the fish, so we made Jim cradle it for the picture.  The release consisted of the fish catupulting itself out of Jim's arms right into the water.  Quite an experience for the big fish of the trip."

I'm still waiting for the final numbers, but I know they had a great last day.  The two fish below were also caught Oct 18, 2004.
                          "Captain" Rich Lehman                       Brian Bagen                                    Brian & Rich

                  45 3/4" (only a 1/4 short, Rich!)       43 1/2 inches long and thick.      Same 43" fish, showing off the girth.

More pictures and information from their trip to follow.  Including a 44 inch muskie that looked as fat as it was long!

The Hawkes group had a good time catching fish even though the crappie bite was a little slower than usual.  Here is Brian with a nice 36 inch northern and then Brian and Andrew with walleyes from the same day.
                                                                                  Oct 22, 2004

                                                        36 inch northern               Walleyes from 22-26 feet of water.

Weekend of Oct 23, 24
                                                                     Julie (AGAIN!)          Roger

                                                                         37 inches                42"x19.5"
                                                                       Oct 22/2004          Oct 23/2004

Randy B was at it again over the weekend.  Total numbers to follow, but Julie got another muskie and Roger landed a nice 42 inch muskie that had a 19.5" girth.  Randy did manage to catch a fish of his own this weekend.  He got his 40th muskie of the year (all on Lake of the Woods) and plans to be back one more time to find that elusive 50 incher.

Holy Crap.  Look what Justin caught!!!  I know, nobody will believe me, but I was there and that's good enough for me!!!  

47.5" x 24" - October 25, 2004.  Even dock boys get lucky I guess!  Did I do good, Randy?

                                  Randy B                 The "Scruffy and Shaggy"  Fall Look                 Randy B

                         45"x20" thick fall muskie     40" (3rd ever 40 inch class fish)                38.5" northern

October 27, 2004 was a good afternoon for fishing.  The morning wasn't good to Randy as he trolled solo while Justin got some work done, but when the lucky charm got in the boat, things started to happen.  The 45 incher was the first to strike, with the 40 incher not long afterwards.  There was also a 33 inch muskie for Justin before Randy got the above northern and one smaller (at about 32 inches.)  This is just a taste of how hot the fall action can be.  If you want to catch big fish, October is prime time!

Extra, Extra!!  Stop the presses!!  Randy B finally gets his long awaited Lake of the Woods 50 incher.  It took about 15 years, but the dream finally came true.  After helping wife Ronda put a 52 incher in the boat in August, Randy B got this 50.5" x 22" fall muskie on October 31, 2004.  Nothing like waiting til the last minute, eh Randy??

Now, I know he's not smiling, but trust me, he's happy!!  I wasn't in the boat this day, but I hear his heart pounding from shore!
Week of October 23-30
Another great week for muskie fishing.  On top of Randy B's big one and Justin's fatty, 3 other 50+ fish were caught by our guests.  Thanks for the pictures, everyone!


                                     53" - the biggest of the fall                  a pretty 51 incher            another 51" fall fish