Wiped out at Mac

  • sharkbait
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    The mud puddle in western Ks
    Posts: 347
    May 25, 2007 at 12:54 pm #1226938

    Thursday night is one of those you dream about at Mac.Had to work til almost 7.Got home changed grabbed the waders and on the water about 745.By 8 fish were everywhere.At one point I hooked 5 wipers in 5 casts.Big bucktials are the ticket right now.The wipers are feeding on alewives that look like they are close to 5″ long.I would have to guess I caught and released close to 20 fish in an hour and fifteen minutes.All were wipers from around 5LBS to around 9Lbs.Sorry no pics I was in a hurry to get on the water and didn’t take a camera.Still fishing wind blown shorelines in waders.They came in so hard last night that I lost 4 jigs while fighting fish and it felt like another fish bumped the line and roughed it enough to cut it loose.Usually I only change line a couple times all summer but that one is getting changed again before it hits the water again.Love the drag on the new pflueger for the wipers.

    zachary fries
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    Central Nebraska
    Posts: 1435
    May 25, 2007 at 1:23 pm #574900

    I can’t wait to get out there tonight Thanks for the report sharkbait

    love2fish
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    Shoreview, Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 1024
    May 25, 2007 at 1:37 pm #574912

    Excuse my ignorance but I can’t keep up with you Nebraska guys. What is a wiper?

    John

    jason-cyboron
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    Lincoln, NE
    Posts: 487
    May 25, 2007 at 1:47 pm #574917

    I wiper is a hybrid cross between a white bass and a striped bass. They are a lot of fun when you get hooked up with one. Here’s my most recent wiper caught on Milford Lake in Kansas.

    papajon
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    Grand Island Ne
    Posts: 175
    May 25, 2007 at 2:11 pm #574931

    Wiper by far the hardest fighting fresh water fish I have ever caught

    sharkbait
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    The mud puddle in western Ks
    Posts: 347
    May 25, 2007 at 2:45 pm #574948

    All hail the WIPER.I still haven’t figured out why so many people talk crap about them.They are awesome fighters.Better than alot of saltwater fish for there size and when the frenzy is on it is amazing.Only fish that can destroy so much gear in so little time.But you can always keep catching eyes and have all the glamour of bass,I’d rather have wipers any day.

    sharkbait
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    The mud puddle in western Ks
    Posts: 347
    May 25, 2007 at 2:46 pm #574950

    That pic is about what most of the fish on Mac are running right now also.

    zachary fries
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    Central Nebraska
    Posts: 1435
    May 25, 2007 at 3:07 pm #574960

    Here is a wiper from last weekend at Mac. ALL HALE THE WIPER The most fun fish to catch out of fresh water that I have found They can get better than 20lbs and will put one of BK’s 60lbers to shame

    trevor nation
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    Elwood/Johnson Lake, NE
    Posts: 55
    July 10, 2007 at 5:25 pm #588690

    Do they all look like that up there? lol looks a little out of proportion……..or ate a gull

    zachary fries
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    Central Nebraska
    Posts: 1435
    July 10, 2007 at 7:29 pm #588750

    That’s how all the ones that I caught out there looked this year. Does look like a gull though, doesn’t it

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