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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Here is a copy of the latest report from Captain Chris. I had to delete the others because of some personal attacks:
Here's a report from this weekend. Two good friends and I ventured out Saturday with only a few hours to fish.We noticed that the presentation needed to be fished SLOW, really really slow. We managed 108 fish in a little over three and a half hours, a couple times all three of us had fish on at once. I usually dont keep an exact count but the guy in the back of the boat was counting.
Sunday we went out early with longer to fish until mother nature blew us off the river with her frigid wind chill. We found the fish in the same location using the same 1/4 jigs and the action was even better than saturday until the weather changed. On our first drift we boated 23 fish and about halfway through the second drift (when the weather kicked up) we had 17 fish. We decided to go ahead and get off the river as the wind was blowing pretty darn hard and it was snowing at a pretty good clip.
Concentrate your efforts on channel edges, water from 7'-12', it seems that this is where the majority of our fish have been coming from. I will be out the next two days again and will post accordingly.
Capt. Chris
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| Thanks Jerry for the NEW report board...however due to the personal attacks I will not be posting any more reports here or on any other website. As a fisherman who enjoys the sport I wanted to help as best I could by posting reports for other anglers to utilize, keeping them up to date as best I could.
I hope everyone has a great season...good luck to everyone, hopefully I see some of you at the Fox River Classic. My PM will be on through the season but I will no longer post.
Have a great season everyone! |
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| I want to add prior to "unpluging my keyboard" that walleye first is a great site with great members. Zach and Steve, along with the moderators, do a fantastic job on this site making it the number one walleye site on the web. The decision I have made to not post in no way has anything to do with Walleye First, it does have everything to do with being personally attacked. These boards are very well moderated and trash usually gets thrown out in a hurry but posting negativity towards someone should have been left behind on the monkey bars in fifth grade or at high school graduation.
Again I hope everyone has a fun, safe, and succesful season. Good luck and Happy Fishing! |
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Location: Appleton wi | Hey Chris I dont know you but i for one appreciate your post! To bad a few rotten eggs have to spoil a good thing.Funny thing is whats a stake here a few walleyes, no tourny's or is its someones dinner there worried about! Like any spot on that river is a secret! Thanks again chris for your post! |
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| I appreciate ANY & all fishing reports about the Fox.
Ego's are a bad thing to have in non tourney fishing.
What ever happened to the "sport" in sport fishing.
Chris, thanks for all your past posts. |
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Location: Janesville | yeah i too appreciated the reports. when you live 2.5 hrs away its nice to find out if the fish are bitting. srry to see you go. good job on catching all the fish you have caught. |
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Location: Winneconne | i believe something very similar happened here last year to another WFer that was giving detailed reports about fishing certain areas and he too received alot of negative feedback from the so many conceited fools that run amok on these forums. I enjoyed reading your posts Chris, like someone already said, its nice to know if the effort should be made to make the trip or not these days, especially with the price of gas. Its a 1 hour ride for me to Depere, and some days its not worth the $40 in gas to go, but its easier to pull the trigger on making the trip if you know that the bite is better than average.
I know exactly how you feel however, in years past i too was giving out friendly advice and very detailed fishing reports and received the same crap, thus why i dont post ANY reports now. Ive come to realize that being the nice guy isnt always in ones best interest, but on the other hand, to those that insist on attacking people personally on the internet..............as soon as you muster up the testicular fortitude to say something to my face about it, keep your juvenile words to yourself, you arent wanted here. |
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| Perhaps it is time to follow suit with web sites such as The Next Bite where they ask people to register and post using their real names. That gets rid of alot of the name calling. Craig |
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| Thanks Chris for the reports, some people cant keep their mouths shut. |
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Location: Shawano, Wi. | It's too bad things are this way. Things are the usual in DePere. Chris's last report was everything you need to know ,basically. I finally got ice fishing technique off my brain, and upped my jigs from 1/4 to 3/8, and my numbers went up a little. Plenty of fish from the dam to the 172 bridge. That's all I've fished, but I'm sure they're in there past the bridge. I agree w/ Jim on the gas prices making you think twicw, but the knowledge that you have a real legitimate shot at a wall hanger always outweighs any common sense I may have. You gotta love a fishery where your mildly disappointed with a fat 20 in Walleye! |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Anyone have a report about the water clarity? Did the rain effect the river bite much? |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | It has definitely muddied up.
This is just from my daily drive over either Mason Street or 172 and not from fishing it.
Usually this wind from the south clears it up pretty quick, so I would think Thursday the clarity would improve. Unless a northerly wind holds the dirty water in the river longer.
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| fished 2 hours today Thursday.
Caught 9 in about 2 hours from 18 to 24 inches.
Took awhile but finally figured out moonglo 3/8th with chart grub & minnow.
I watched a boat with 2 people catch fish after fish after fish...
Bet they caught 50 to my nine...
I'm still pleased as punch to get out & get 9.
Good luck all, getting a little crowded out there.
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Location: Kaukauna,WI | Fished today for 2 hours and caught 16. Main river channel 20-22 feet straight out from Voyager. 1/4oz jigs and minnows. Water clarity about 2 feet and water temp 40.5 degrees. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Not a report! Just took the boat down to Fox Point to give her the first high speed run for the season to make sure it runs good. All I can say is "WOW". I can't believe the anount of people out there. It took me 35 minutes just to launch. If you are just going for a boat ride, launch at the mouth. The city needs to put some type of launch only and recover only signs at the docks. If I was not a sane person, I probably would have committed my first murder. Have some common sense people. If the ramps are stacked 2 boats deep waiting to recover, at least let one or two of the 6 boats waiting in line to launch get in. Ok I'm done venting. For the most part, most of the people were taking turns and being courteous. Thanks to, I believe his name was Aaron, for offering to help me launch since I was by myself and didn't want to hold anybody up. Have fun, be safe and be courteous out there.
Edited by Horshak 4/5/2008 6:06 PM
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| I thought I had seen that big Tuffy online somewhere before. Nice rig! Fox Point was a zoo today but even being alone you were much faster than most once you finally got to launch.  |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Thanks bobski! It actually takes longer to walk back and forth to the truck than it does to launch. |
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