We didn’t know these fish were world class.” Turtle Mountain Lakes have the right amount of productivity to get excellent zooplankton and macroinvertebrate hatches that fuel body growth, low enough angling harvest to keep a tremendous top-end size on bluegills, and the right mix of predation between pike, bass and walleyes to thin the bluegill population and maintain fast growth. We knew they were big, but what’s funny is we didn’t know how big. ![]() We read magazines and watched bluegill shows and finally figured out how to catch them. And we’d be disgusted! As the fishing itch continued to grow,” Davis continued, “we started watching these television shows and a few of them featured bluegill trips, and it reminded us of those fish that we’d see on the underwater camera. Those big bluegills would swim up, look at our minnows, and swim away. We’d put minnows down in front of their face, not knowing what a bluegill was and not knowing how to catch them. ![]() We’d drop that camera down and see these big bluegills swimming through. “Our dad bought this underwater camera, and my brother and I would sit in the permanent house out on the ice on the local lake, cooking soup and visiting with my dad. As the years went on, we’d start seeing other fishing shows and learning how to target different species,” Davis recalled. “We were buying every walleye book and magazine we could and fishing for walleyes like you’d see the guys on TV doing, like Jason Mitchell or Dave Genz. It was in those formative years, while devouring every bit of information that he could about fishing, that he picked up on something unique about the local area. ![]() Clayton Davis grew up in a fishing family and when ice season came, the family tradition was fishing northern pike.
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