Brett McComas

23/07/2024

OUR BEST BIG-FISH DAY EVER!

After some stressful airport shenanigans flying back from Orlando, FL to MSP...I finally got home about 4:35am, hooked up the boat and went to meet Nick Lindner to fish the 2024 United Way Fishing Tournament which kicked off at 6am. We could fish any public lakes within 6 different Minnesota counties (Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Aitkin, Cass and Crow Wing).

This tourney used a length-to-weight conversion and our best 5 walleyes went 56.61 lbs, which was a 29.95” average! 🤯 Even crazier is that bag of a lifetime somehow only landed us in 4th place LOL.

I ended up catching my new PB walleye that stretched to 31” after plopping a 3/16-oz VMC Ned Rig Jig into some thick w**ds where she was waiting to ambush. It was a wild ride!

BIG PROPS to the teams that made our 30” average look silly! 😅 We might have to fish further north next year….

This tournament supports United Way and their mission to transform lives in our communities (boost education, economic mobility, and health resources) by uniting people and organizations to maximize donor impact. 🙌 Thanks to all those involved!

08/07/2024

The dirtiest of 30s! 🇺🇸 Dodging boats and storms all weekend paid off BIG.

14/06/2024

Hope your Father’s Day weekend is full of tiny humans and big fish! 😏❤️👊 Or at least big memories....

30/05/2024

“I caught that one on my own!” 🥹 Proud dad moment.

29/05/2024

Gull Lake got rowdy. 🏆

Gull Lake showed its difficult side last night for most of our 24 teams but she did give up a few of her giants.

Results:

1st- Brett McComas & Nick Lindner 19.14lbs
2nd- Mark Hightower & Garth Askegaard 16.97lbs
3rd- Ben & Sandy Aeilts 16.59lbs
4th- Dan Steffon & Jake Caughey 16lbs
5th- Ryan Churchill & Chris Philen 8.11lbs
6th- Nate Blasing & Mike Ringwelski 5.33lbs
7th- Craig Peterson & Kent Desautel 5.15bs
8th- Matt Magnan & Doug Erickson 3.50lbs
9th- Dan Kurowski & Luke Kotsmith 3.39lbs
10th- Justin Mckee & Dusty Sawvel 2.91lbs
11th- Chris & Arlo Biermaier 1.23lbs

This weeks Sportland Outdoor Outfitters big fish winner goes to Brett McComas & Nick Lindner with a 6.83lbs walleye!

20/03/2024

Turns out if you drive far enough north they actually have winter.

19/02/2024

Few snaps from ice camping on Upper Red Lake. There's just something special about waking up on the ice!

28/11/2023

At least we had great food and company for this wretched game. 😅

When the Chicago-style hot dog is Al Lindner approved 👀 you know it’s done right. Target Walleye’s Chris Philen knocked it out of the park! Oh, and we washed ‘em down with Portillo’s style Italian beef sandwiches, deep dish pizza, brownies…absolutely spoiled for the Vikings vs Bears game tonight. 🙌 Thx so much, Chris!

Now for this last 20 seconds of the game…. 😰

05/11/2023

Don’t get me wrong, I love deer hunting…but I also love having the lakes to myself with walleyes absolutely STACKED up and bitey! 👀 Fresh new vid over on the tube.

22/10/2023

Check out this 5.84-lb giant! 😳 My biggest largemouth of the season so far and it came on the smallest bait…a Rapala CrushCity Ned BLT on a 3/16-oz VMC Ned Rig Jig.

This time of year the greenest w**ds hold the most fish. Any clumps/patches that were still standing in 9-10’ were loaded. I’d pick off the dumb ones with a big jig then work back thru ‘em with a Ned Rig. Caught about a dozen walleyes too…although I wasn’t targeting them this time.

04/10/2023

One of my absolute favorite ways to catch walleyes all year long! And the type of bite where you'll actually catch more fish if you do NOT use forward-facing sonar.... 👀

One of my absolute favorite ways to catch shallow, aggressive walleyes all year long! And the type of bite where you'll actually catch more fish if you do NO...

02/10/2023

I managed to scrape up a 3rd-place finish at the Walleye Alliance, Inc. Fall Classic on Pelican Lake over the weekend! Such a fun, well-ran event by a team of folks who work their tails off to better walleye fishing in the Brainerd Lakes Area.

This derby is a 5-fish limit and only 1 of those can be over 20” long. All 4 of my ‘unders’ were B-E-A-Utiful 19” to 19.75” fish, but unfortunately my ‘over’ was a scrawny 23-incher for a total of 12.56 lbs. Just could not get a BIG bite. 😅 But hey, I’ll take it!

Despite what the calendar say, water temps in the mid-60s still had fish in late-summer patterns. I was junk fishing and running all over the dang lake picking up one here and one there. Ended up catching about 30 of ‘em with a 1-2-3 punch of confidence baits in 10-18’ around cabbage and coontail w**ds

I was cycling thru #7 Rapala Jigging Raps, a 3/16-oz VMC Ned Rig Jig with a ‘crawler in sparser w**ds, and the same jighead with a Z-Man Big TRD when poking around deeper in the w**ds.

Massive props to Dan Steffen and Jake Caughey on dominating with a perfect 16.58-lb bag 🤯 that included ‘big fish’ of the derby with a 7.14-lber! And to Nick Cekalla and Will Pappenfus whose 2nd-place bag went 14.21 lbs which would normally win any other year lol.

19/09/2023

If you’re going to catch your biggest MN walleye ever…might as well do it on game day! 🤯

I swore this 30-incher (8.72 lbs) was a muskie or big pike the way it was peeling drag, but then a few feet from the boat it finally turned into the right species lol.

Caught her poking around the edge of shallow 10-11’ w**d clumps with a 3/16-oz VMC Ned Rig Jig and ‘crawler. I was slinging it on my favorite walleye rod = the butter smooth Elliott Identity ‘Rig & Jig’ (7’4” ML fast) with 6-lb Sufix Performance Braid and an 8-lb fluorocarbon leader.

Overall it was a verrrrry tough bite. That giant paired up with a couple of unders landed us in 3rd place and ‘big fish’ at the Walleye Wackers TOC on Gull Lake. We scrambled all over for the last 4.5 hours of the day and just couldn’t get another keeper walleye in the boat.

Big props to Adam Mord and Brady Sykora on grinding out the win and becoming back-to-back champs. 💪

23/08/2023

Dropshots aren't just for bass 👀 they're a simple and efficient way to keep your bait right in front of a walleye's face and know it's fishing in the strike zone the whole time. 🎯

22/08/2023

Caught a different kind of Gull Lake 🦄 last night while throwing a Ned Rig in 9-12’ and she had a bunch of friends with her.

It’s so cool to see the Gull Lake smallmouth population taking off! This one was the biggest (flirting with the 5-lb mark 🥵) but we also caught smallies from 5 different year classes, in 5 different spots, all in different areas of the lake. It’s just going to get better and better!

16/08/2023

Accidentally stumbled into a Gull Lake 🦄 last night during our local walleye league! Jumped out of the water like a dang tarpon LOL.

Somehow landed her on my Elliott Identity 'Drop Shot' rod (6’10” ML XF) with an 8-lb Sufix Advance Fluorocarbon leader. And Nick Lindner somehow-er got it in the net for a quick pic. 😅

04/08/2023

We brought 6 dozen nightcrawlers with just to catch all of our fish snapping PLASTICS in 7-10' cabbage w**ds...they wouldn't touch the live stuff lol. 🤷‍♂️😅

LATE POST!

Sorry everyone I was traveling for work this week. Big thanks to my good buddy Brett McComas for filling in for me at the weigh in on Lake Edward.

Results:
1st- Jake Caughey & Dan Steffon 11.71lbs
2nd- Brett McComas & Nick Lindner 11.34lbs
3rd- Matt Magnan & Doug Erickson 10.47lbs
4th- Justin Mckee & Dutin Sawvel 8.15lbs
5th- Mark Hightower & Garth Askegaard 7.45lbs
6th- Joe Mowers & Ryan Benhardus 6.95lbs
7th- Brady Sykora & Adam Mord 6.94lbs
8th- Ben Aeilts & Nate Berg 6.40lbs
9th- Chris & Arlo Biermaier 5.84lbs
10th- Chuck & Briella Eggert 5.60lbs
11th- Nate & Butch Blasing 5.01lbs
12th- Preston Windorski & Kris Brose 2.85lbs
13th- Bruce & Beau Erickson 1.94lbs

This weeks Sportland Outdoor Outfitters big fish winner goes to Brett McComas with a 3.26lbs eye!

31/07/2023

Finally was able to get this bad boy on the water.... 🎯

I was able to get my hands on the NEW (coming soon-ish) Rapala Jigging Rap Magnum and it started catching for us right away! This video breaks down what make...

02/07/2023

I hopped in a local bass derby yesterday and was lucky enough to get a few of the right bites on a big 3/4-oz jig. Had one dinky 2-lber I just couldn’t cull, but it worked out in the end.

Thanks to Paradise Resort Bar & Grill for putting on such a fun event! 👊

30/06/2023

Supposedly this lake has no walleyes. 🤷‍♂️ One of those shallow bowl type of waters that folks write-off as a "bass lake." Welp, they were wrong LOL.

Put in the time scanning around with DI and SI before ever wetting a line, and you never know what kind of juicy spot you can find that's not on the map!

21/06/2023

My buddy Christian Hoffman and I snuck out to a local slough the other evening and stuck 5 grown ones in a couple hours, including these 2 giants that combined for 10 pounds themselves! 😳

His freak absolutely demolished a topwater frog. 💥 And my biggest came on the second flip of the trip while poking around with 3/4-oz tungsten.

That was fun! And now back to your regularly scheduled walleye programming…. 😅

15/06/2023

We finally found them...but not until there was only 30 min left before weigh-in 😅 too busy fishing memories, dangit!

BIG props to Mark Hightower and Jeremiah Piepkorn on putting together an 18.04-lb bag (6 fish, but only 2 can be >20") during a short 3-hour derby. Randomly drawn lake + no pre-fishing = seriously impressive around here! 👊

24/05/2023

This was an afternoon I will never forget! Literally lost track of 4-lbers and sacked up 25 lbs without catching a “big” one lol. If you’re heading to Mille Lacs for smallies in the immediate future, I’d fish waist-deep or shallower…. And no, they’re not on beds yet.

17/05/2023

My first open-water walleye of the season was a Gull Lake 29-incher (7.38 lbs) that took ‘Big Fish’ in Walleye Wackers last night! Nick backed it up with a 26” just a couple casts later. Unfortunately we couldn’t catch anything under the 20” slot to go with ‘em 😅 good problem to have sometimes hahaha.

Big props to Nate and Butch Blasing on taking home the win with an impressive 16.02 lbs! 🙌

It was a beautiful night on the water to get our 2023 Walleye Wackers season started. The fish did not want to cooperate as we would have all liked but 3 of our teams ended up with excellent bags for the weigh in. Congrats to our winners Nate Blasing & Butch Blasing.

Gull Lake Results:

1st- Nate & Butch Blasing 16.02lbs
2nd- Justin Mckee & Dustin Sawvel 15.59lbs
3rd- Brett McComas & Nick Lindner 12.64lbs
4th- Chris & Arlo Biermaier 5.93lbs
5th- Mark Hightower & Garth Askegaard 3.51lbs
6th- Terry Strus & Dustin Dorn 3.29lbs
7th- Jason Bahr & Mike Peterson 2.32lbs
8th- Brady Sykora & Adam Mord 1.66lbs
9th- Chuck & Briella Eggert 1.33lbs
10th- Kyle Spay & Mike Oneil 1.19lbs
11th- Cullen Carter & Paul Tatro 1.12lbs
12th- Matt Magnan & Doug Erickson 1.03lbs

The Sportland Outdoor Outfitters Big fish of the night goes to Brett McComas & Nick Lindner with a 7.38lbs walleye!

11/05/2023

1 day 14 hours and 17 minutes until the MN fishing opener…but who’s counting? 😅😮‍💨

Fishing after dark can be a major pain in the tuchus, but it’s usually worth the hassle! Grind all day for 1 or 2 bites 👀 then it can feel like you’re on a whole-new lake after the sun goes down and walleyes show up out of nowhere.

29/04/2023

Time is precious.... Waste it wisely and watch this. 😏

30/03/2023

I'm sure I'll catch flack for this...but it’s just something I needed to get off my chest.

Both in good ways and bad…. 👀 Remember the “crappie boom” on MN’s Upper Red Lake? Some info from this super detailed Brad Dokken write-up: > Crappie populations in Red Lake exploded in the late ’90s and early-2000s in the wake of a collapse in walleye populations driven by overfishing i...

28/03/2023

Because sometimes rattles can be a bit much.... 📵

Please drop a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you SO much for watching!- Brett McComasGEAR USED IN THIS VID:‣ #6 Rapala Slab Rap:https://...

22/03/2023

Probably my favorite video so far! 😳 Doubles, and 30-inchers, and rattlebaits, oh my! Please drop a comment below and let me know your favorite part....

My buddy Nick Lindner and I rented a 21’ Yetti Fish House thru Kris Gaune on Lake Winnipeg (Manitoba) and caught a pile of big greenback walleyes on rattleba...

16/03/2023

My buddy Nick Lindner and I rented a 21’ Yetti Fish House thru Kris Gaune and are staying right on Lake Winnipeg. 💯

This one came in and absolutely annihilated my #7 Rapala Rippin’ Rap! The “green tiger UV” color has been the deal for me.

Gotta run barbless hooks here in Manitoba, and I’ve been LOVING the solid fiberglass blank of the TUCR 38” Vulcan for keeping fish pinned after giving ‘em the beans! And it’s the perfect match for these oversized 7/8-oz baits…and hefty fish hahaha.

We still have another day of hooksets to get in, but it has already been an incredible experience. Kris is soooo dialed and I seriously cannot wait to do it again!