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| Fished the river a few times this past weekend.
Fished Friday afternoon/evening, hooked, 2 sturegeon and 0 walleyes
Fished saturday afternoon/evening hooked, 1 sturgeon and 0 walleyes
Fished sunday afternoon, hooked 1 sturgeon and 0 walleyes.
I'm convinced all the sturgeon are eating all the walleyes!!! The DNR should do something about this!!!! |
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Location: Freedom, WI | Fished for 2 hours on Friday, managed 3 eyes, 14,15,17, then again in the same area for 6 hours on Saturday and only managed 2 that were 14.5 and 15.5. All fish caught in a deep hole where the river bends. I will be out Tuesday with the anchors, trying the old "pump a pair" technique. Anyone been doing any good this way? |
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| Thanks for the report.... I'm stuck here in my office and have not even given too much thought to uncovering my boat. I'm off next week and considering a trip to the wolf to do battle with those monster 12 inchers I seem to catch.
If you need a partner next week.... let me know, I promise I won't break anything in your boat.
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Location: Berlin | With the current moving so fast, we found all our fish in current breaks. Just make sure to stay several hundred feet away from any people fishing off their dock or anchored. I found out they changed the law now and some people really do own parts of the river 
I am also amazed at the number of "big" fish up there. Although my experience with that stretch of river is limited, I thought hooking 15 un-riseable fish a day was a bit much. It must look like a goth convention with all the piercings these fish are swimming around with. |
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| I have been doing ok double pumping jigs. Have been fishing the inside bends/shallow. Late last week was really good with some big females landed especially after dark. Has been slower since Sunday for the big girls.
Yes, lots of Hoovers around-some look like Christmas trees with all of the ornaments hanging out of their mouths |
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| Me too. some nice fish after dark on inside bends. |
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Location: Freedom, WI | Was out last evening in the rain and snow. Anchored up and only managed 1 male, but watched another guy get his limit in about 2.5 hours, with 1 20" female in the mix. Tried after dark a bit with no luck. You guys that night fish, how do you feel your jigs hit bottom? Also, do you still jig the same way as during the daylight, or do you do better on rigs? |
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| This year I have been pumping 1/4 oz jigs. You dont really feel the jig hit the bottom. Again I am fishing shallow in low current areas.
I always jig at night out of my boat. Only use rigs off of the raft |
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| If you have a good rod you can feel the jig hit the bottom, at least I have never had a problem. If you are in a high current area you may have to use a heavier jig. |
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Location: Freedom, WI | On the river today, what a waste of time! Fished from Gills up to Guths and only managed 1 13" male. Not very many boats out and for good reason, the fish weren't biting! The current was ripping faster than I've seen in years, and there were debris hindering my jigs all day. Oh well, at least the forecast looks good, let the sun and warm temperatures come baby! |
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| The 3 of us fished yesterday 4/13. We started up at New London and after 4 hours of no bites and not seeing any fish caught, we moved to Fremont and drifed in the fast current. We caught 3 eyes. One in front of Chicos, one by the Rat and one in the mouth at Poygan. Also got 3 cats (small), a sucker, a sheep and a sturgeon.
Water was 37 degrees at Fremont and 36 at New London. |
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| A bunch of spawned out fish were caught this morning near New London in slower current . Anchoring in about 8' of water and bouncing jigs across current is working. |
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| Waupaca County has declared the Wolf river slow-no-wake down stream of new london under emergency rule til further notice. FYI.
Edited by Jayman 4/16/2008 8:33 AM
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Where does Waupaca county end?
Or does this run all the way to Poygan? |
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| It ends at Chico's |
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Fished from 6 til 4:30. Poygan to Red Banks. Caught 0. After 10+ hours saw only one fish hooked and it looked to be a sturgeon by the size. Hope better days are coming. Water was 48* |
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| So does that mean as long as you're in Winnebago county you can still go faster than slow no wake??
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Location: Neenah, WI | Winnebago County has no restrictions in place at this time. |
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| Kendall was up in Shawano yesterday morning tagging along the river all the way to the dam. His therory is that the marshes were frozen downstream early in the run so the fish continued upstream to Shawano. So far they have tagged 10,000 Eyes, all healthy with no signes of VHS. My business partner was on the boat yesterday helping net fish.
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | winnebago county has enacted as of april 16th a emergency slow no wake. That will be a slow no wake with 500ft of any pemanant dwelling. Fishing rafts are not permenant dwellings. The whole river is now under that emegency order.
Denny
Also, for future reference, the guest that posted stating that waupaca county ended at chicos missed it by 3 miles. It is on a line from gala resort across the river to the ditch just upstream. That is the county line.
Edited by stacker 4/17/2008 1:55 PM
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| The fishing has been very good up nort for the last 10 days. Should be a repeat of last year. but the fish that hang in Freemont and south will be an inch bigger uping your weights Denny!
Good Luck |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | guest, when was the last time you were on the river? hard to say where the biggest fish will be, they are on the move all the time in the river as they will move back to lakes, but you knew that, LOL,..... just joking. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Just an FYI for all the new people. The tounament was was won up river from fort fremont and anyone who went down did not get a whole lot. Remember that it is very hard to call where a win will take place, feel for it when on the water and use your intuition. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Gentlemen,
Are the "no wake" rules for the river above Orihula still in effect? |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Jerry
The slow no wake rules have not yet changed. The emergency rule is still in place.
Denny
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Today is May 1 and the emergency slow no wake rules are still firmly in place and looks like they will be there through the weekend with rains that are predicted. |
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| What's with the lack of fishing reports on this thread? Is it tight lips due to tournaments?
This is the first year in over 15 years that missed the spring run... thankfully for a good reason- sold the Yar-Craft and bought a Ranger. Itching to get out but with the lack of posts I am completely unconnected as to where the bulk of the fish are. Any advice out there?
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| Brother Otis,
Good choice on the boats, hope you went with a merc or yammy though. My e-tec failed me last weekend in the MWS tournament for the 2nd time in two years. On the fishing side there are still a lot of walleyes to be caught in the wolf mostly milkers. If the weathers stabilizes and warms up look for the trolling bite to get good on the upper lakes, it was pretty good last week until the cold front came in. Winnebago is good, close to the mouth right now on the humps. Sunset point was giving up some decent fish also until the cold front last week on slip bobbers and leeches.
Good Luck and Report back if you get out |
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| Wolf above Fremont has been good the past few days for male walleyes.
Nice thick fish.
Have been drifting w/jig crawler. Orange jigs have been working best. Have also been throwing shad raps to wood and working the slack water of the inside bends. |
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| We were casting above New London the other night and picked up 4 on Shad raps also. |
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| All Merc, all the time!
Thanks for the tips... I will play the wind a bit and see what I can scratch out. I will report if anything good transpires.
Mark |
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| FYI. Waupaca county no wake is lifted for now. |
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2008 Wolf River Reports