All right, folks, we’ve got us quite the update this week courtesy of our 2014 Top 5 Champ as he provides a multi-species report from a recent trip north of the border.

Weight: 2-5
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: May
Location: Canada
Lure: Rapala X-Rap
Angler Comments: All bass were caught on Xraps.

Weight: 4-0

Weight: 3-4

Weight: 5-4
Angler Comments: The following day I thought the smallies were finally going to come on only to be disappointed by a quick little flurry and then no more. On the plus side the first fish of the day was this 20.5 5.4lb pig of a smallie.
Top 5 Weight: 22-1 (5-4,5-2,4-1,4-0,3-10) culls 3-7 and 2-1

Walleye

Length: 20”
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: Late May
Location: Canada
Bait: Jig and minnow
Angler Comments:   All bass were caught on Xraps and only one walleye on them as well. All other walleye were caught on a jig and minnow.  I didn’t keep an official count but I would say I caught 3-400 walleyes and they averaged somewhere between 18-20 inches.  

Length: 20”
Bait: Jig and minnow

Length: 26”
Bait: Jig and minnow
Angler Comments: And my first walleye over 24″. This one went 26″ and 6 lbs! The best part of the walleye fishing for me was catching them all on an ultralight with 4lb line.

Length: 25.5”
Lure: Rapala X-Rap
Angler Comments: The next day the weather cleared and I decided to try trolling the Xrap in hopes of maybe getting into some walleye in the day time. I only managed one but it was a dandy, this one went 25.5 and 5.8 lbs.

Length: 26.5”
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: Late May
Location: Canada
Angler Comments: Another flurry of walleye capped by this spawned out 26.5″ 5.7lb walleye.
Top 5 Length = 118” (26.5”,26.0”,25.5”,20”,20”)

Muskie

Length: 24”
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: Late May
Location: Canada
Lure: Rapala X-Rap
Angler Comments: This was the very first cast of the trip which netted me this 24″ tiger muskie.

Weight: 29”
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: Late May
Location: Canada
Lure: Rapala X-Rap
Angler Comments: 10 casts later I caught this 29″ tiger.

Weight: 31”
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: Late May
Location: Canada
Lure: Rapala X-Rap

Weight: 47”
Angler: Jake Bresson
Date: Late May
Location: Canada
Lure: Rapala X-Rap
Angler Comments:  This 47″ pig that I had seen the day before in the area of the 31″ muskie.  I literally had just called out that this was where I saw the monster the day before when I look down as I’m about to bring my lure up to recast and watch this behemoth lunch the Xrap at boat side on the surface!
Total Length = 131” (47”,31”,29”24”)

 
Outstanding report, Jake, and thanks for the multispecies contribution, been a little lean for 2017.  Keep ‘em coming when you get a chance to visit your regular stomping grounds.  Good luck to all and talk to you later. Troy