Episode 33
Fishing with Tex
Show Date: August 12, 2023
Location: Hayward, Wisconsin
This week we are in the Hayward area fishing a small backwoods lake, and our guide is Pete Maina’s dad “Tex.” We’re getting around like they did in the old days, just a small aluminum boat and a pair of oars to get around. We try a few presentations as we slowly move around this small lake looking for bass. Tex is retired from guiding, but still has a ton of information to share to help us catch fish.
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7 Comments
Wonderful show John Just like always.. Shout out to my old school mate Ryan the Photographer
When's Blake's baby due???? 🤷♀️
So many great memories….when I was about 16 (over 40 years ago now…), my buddy and I were fishing a little tiny lake like that by Manitowish, filled the big lillypads. You'd rent a rowboat for 10 bucks and row the lake. We were catching largemouths even a little bigger than you folks were catching. I was using my old Mitchell 300 and throwing a Silver Spoon up onto the pads. Well, on one cast my spoon landed on top of a pad, and from about 10 feet away, the lillypads started to part like Moses parting the Red Sea! Something VERY big was parting the pads towards my spoon..I pulled it off the pad and instantly whatever was coming grabbed it and headed straight down into the pads. There was so much weight it was immovable. After a few seconds trying to fight it, my line broke. Must have been an old remnant Musky in that little lake, the queen of the lake, I had no chance with that gear in the pads. Being young and dumb, we never went back to try to catch her again….but it helped fuel my passion for Musky fishing for the next 40+ years….I've been wracking my brain for the last 20 years, looking at maps of that area trying to figure out what the heck little lake or pond it was so I could go back there!…..
I always love your shows but this was one of my favorites due to the simplicity of the approach as well as having Ol' Tex as a guest host. Sure like seeing these folks who have been in the area for so long and know it's history and secret spots.
Tex is a true Wisconsin gem!
I understood nothing what the old guy was saying at all
Texaroo ! Great show guys ! We were Tex’s first customer when he bought Balsam Lodge
I’m 69 now. I seen Tex a couple years ago at the Tiger Cat Flowage. I told Tex, I Remember when you got back from guiding you would slam a beer and make a big burp. He replied, I still do today ! Crack me up !