On the evening of May 3, David Selle was fishing the 200-acre Cedar Lake within sight of Minneapolis’ skyline. He and his pal Dylan had been catching good-sized crappies and some largemouth bass during a bug hatch that had turned on fish to feed late that afternoon.
“It was a perfect night for fishing, and there were bugs in the air that we call ‘fish flies,’” Selle, 48, told Wired2fish. “The fish were so turned on coming up to feed on the flies they were like sharks.”
The Day’s Grand Finale
Most of the feeding fish were crappies, but there were some largemouth bass rising to gobble up the flies, too. The pair of anglers were catching both crappies and bass, when Selle hooked a heavy fish around 6 p.m. He was in six feet of water using spinning tackle and a plastic body jig of his design from a bobber.
“It was the last light of day when I hooked the fish, fought it to the boat, and Dylan netted it,” said Selle, a resident of Lino Lakes, Minnesota. “We knew it was a big one, and we weighed it on a scale we had in the boat — and it showed the fish was 4.17 pounds.”…