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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Looks like the other thread has been taken over by another important discussion. Anyone have any new fishing reports they want to share?
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| I'll start.... Monday, East shore, 19 feet of water, trolled South to North, 19 feet of water, 2.1mph, 125 back, Pink & Gold 1/4 oz Hot n Tots, lots of Whitebass, a couple of Sheephead, 6 Sandpike, and a couple dozen Walleyes. Walleyes were from 4 inches to 20, looked skinny. Sandpike were 17+/- and looked healthy.
Spent an enjoyable morning in a 2050 Skeeter....
Purple Skeeter
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Location: Omro,Wi. | I'm next....I was out all of last weekend and twice this week so far. Did some jigging and slip bobbering on the points and shallow reefs on the west shore, from Jesuit to Garlic Island. Caught 1 to 3 on each reef, had to move around alot. Trolled shallow reefs and points 8 feet or less with #5 shadraps and did about the same as jigging and slip bobbers. Tried the mud off Oshkosh a couple times, not any real big schools anymore, not many fish active in the mud with the cold nights and larger forage to feed on. I am going to try the East shore Friday, since the wind finally went down, I'll let you know what happens. Good idea to split the threads up, the last one was turning into a battle of views between a few of us. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Someone mentioned that the USCG has an area of Bago blocked off near Oshkosh for the EAA float planes to land. Can someone confirm this? If true, where exactly is the area? Thanks in advance. Going out tomorrow. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Yes, there is an area of the lake blocked off for EAA floatplane traffic. It is just south of Oshkosh, apparently it is quite visible and the Coasties are on duty. |
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| I've been trying to learn the lake I'm building my house on. Last night I was out on the water from 6 till dark, I boated 4 Walleyes in a new spot all 23-24 inches... as I was reeling in my first board, the second went back and I ended up with a 23 and a 24. On the next 2 short passes, I put another 2 23's in the boat. I ended the night with a 17 as I was on my way back to the dock. Released all 4 big walleyes. It was the best 4 Walleyes I have ever caught on the upper lakes. All my fish came from 7:30-8:30.
Citrus #5 flicker shads, 15 feet behind the boards, 2.1 MPH. Shallow water less than 5 feet.
Purple Skeeter
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Location: Omro,Wi. | Today we went to the east side out from Calumet got 2 18 inch and 2 12 inch eyes, one small school 3 passes, next we went off the mouth of the river and got 1- 18 inch and 1-12 inch eye, then we went North off carp ponds found a huge school a little slow at first till we swithched to the DLR's then got 6-18 and 1-15 in 2-hours out of that school. Hot n Tots,rip-shads and deep little rippers were bait, no hot color today, hit and miss, but all fish were tight to bottom. Fished from 8 till 3:00.
We also got to watch that HUGE airbusss 380 do the air show on the way back to the dock, that thing is not only massive but as agile as a stunt plane. Some of the turns at slow speed were amazing.
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| Went back to the same area on Friday... zero Walleyes, lots od Sheephead. |
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| Does anyone have any idea why you can mark 1000 walleyes and not get bit? Had such a goood thing going both in the weeds, rocks, and mud a couple weeks ago, now it seems you need a stick of tnt to get a fish. This lake is good for this later in the year, but seems a little early for the switch over. What do you guys think shuts them down so quick? Why did the fish we caught in the last two weeks have empty bellies, and if theirs were empty why aren't the rest biting??? |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | All I got to say is "I'll figure my wife out before I figure Bago in the Summer out". |
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Location: Omro,Wi. | Horshak
Thats Funny......and very true...lol
I too am having my share of problems with these fish this week. Marking lot's but can"t get the numbers that are there???? |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Summer on bago is easy... go fishing, catch very few fish, go home, take a bag of fish out of the freezer you caught in june, and BAM! fish for supper. |
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| out tuesday afternoon, was calm at first so i went out in the mud.northwest of red can by long pt,nothing.went on 2 different rock piles with slips, nothing.went 2 a weddy bay and casted, nothing.went back 2 mud where i started,wind picked up and got a 20" & 15"plus 3 little ones.didn't mark many fish just stuck at it.all on 200 ripshad 115' back. |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Must be a tournament coming to town  How do those fish know? |
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Location: McFarland, WI | Humps have seemed to become one fish wonders whether you take a fish off by trolling or jigging and they reload very slow. Minnows are so abundant that lake flies rarely get to take flight. I couldn't get a sheephead on Tuesday but the Muskies are hitting crankbaits. It was almost like fishing for rainbows. |
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| I blanked the last 3 days on the water on the upper lakes. The only fish I caught was a Sheephead off my dock on a crawler and a cane pole.
I'm usually on the bay of GB this time of year.... but without a bigger boat, I'll have to just keep trying on the Bago chain.
The upper lakes are loaded with lake flyes and tons of minnows right now. I watched swarms of 1 inch minnows swim past my dock for 2 hours tonight under the lights.
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Purple Skeeter:
If you wanna hit Gb next week let me know. Thinking of heading up for a few days. The 620 has room for both of us. |
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| Dennis,
Thanks for the offer... I'm out of town all next week and then my daughter is getting married the following week so I'm off the water (per my wifes instruction the week of the wedding) for the next 2 weeks.
I'd like to take you up on the offer in September... if the fish are still biting. Looking at my notes for the last 5 years on the bay, the fish were very scattered in early September.
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Location: McFarland, WI | My weekend report. Rather than join the people catching big fish, I stuck to jigging rock humps. It was hard to locate fish on most west shore humps. The key seemed to be good clouds of baitfish on top of the hump. Humps south by Long point seemed to be empty. East shore artificial reefs and natural rock piles were more productive but they either had small fish(14-16") or the ones that I missed were the big ones. Quinney area had the most fish. I did not get south of Pipe. Too much water, too little time. Pink 1/16th oz jigs worked the best but purple and chartreuse had some action. Time to hit the bay |
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| Dennis, let me know if you need to fill a seat. |
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| LATE REPORT FROM THIS WEEKEND. TRIED TONS OF REEFS AND SLOW SLOW SLOW. DID FIND OUT THAT THE SHEEPS LOVED THE ORANGE JIGS!!! FISHED WEST SHORE REEFS FROM LONG POINT TO ABRAHAMS DID CATCH 1 JUST SOUTH OF KALBUS. THAT WAS ABOUT ALL I COULD SHOW FOR MY EFFORTS ON SAT. SHOULD HAVE BEEN TROLLING. BUT YES THERE WERE A LOT OF FLOATING DEBIRS ALL OVER, MADE HAND TROLLING VERY DIFFICULT. IT MUST BE THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER FOR ME. I REALLY NEED HELP OR SOMETHING. . . . GOOD LUCK AND TIGHT LINES |
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Location: Menasha, WI | It was a saugerama along the north shore today; ~10 saugers, almost all came on Purple Prism Deep Jr 125' back in 14'-15'. Plenty of sheeps and whities too. Couldn't get an eye to bite no matter what I threw at 'em. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Trolled this am. Neenah and the north shore; Sheeps, whities, a few saugers, and a trip to the emergency room to have deeply embedded Deep Jr. removed in my index finger. Not my day. |
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | I bet that hurt as much as losing one's quarterback to the competition!
Just stirring up trouble. Almost make you wish you were at work?
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Location: Menasha, WI | It didn't actually hurt that much until I tried get it out. No matter which way I pushed or pulled, there was some significant pain. Still managed to trailer the boat and get in backed into my driveway before I headed off to the doctor.
...and, no, I'd still rather be fishing 
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Location: Berlin | I have used the Fireline trick to remove hooks several times. Once it was from my boys hand and it was in there deep. I also had to do it to myself which is not fun but they pop right out. It is a very usefull tip to learn and does not hurt a bit if you do it right. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Rich,
Is the Fireline trick the same as the "String method" in this article?
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010601/2231.html |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | well here is a report .... Monday Morning started fishing just before 7 , hit about 15 humps on the east shore and NOT A SINGLE WALLEYE... JUNK! stopped and talked to about 5 perch fisherman we knew and all were scratching there heads and these guys are all retired and out almost every day.. so we were back home on the porch by 12;30... it was nice out though.. water was dirty enough yet no wind for days now. tuesday my buddy had 2 and missed a couple and the guys out perch hunting can have a good day about 1 in four attempts with the poor days being a fish or three... Nice fish though! Should have went to the bay and threw 70 miles on the boat looking for some hungry ones.
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Location: Greenville Wi | Fished Sun 7 till 3 west reef drifted with crawlers ended with 3 eater eyes ton of goats and a few bass.Fished Poygan on sat from 7 till 6 no eyes lots of sheep crappies perch and even a 4' sturgeon all on flicker shad and harness. |
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| sorry it has been a while for me. That is posting a report.......
What a difference a week makes! The best weather in weeks arrived and lake conditions changed drastically on Lake Winnebago. The water clarity transformed from “chocolate milk” to “slightly stained” over the week. Water temps spring boarded back into the mid to upper 70 degree range. There is a lot of floating vegetation in the water column, especially on the south end. Labor Day Monday was an exceptionally busy day on the lake.
Perch fishing is the concentration of most anglers on the lake currently. There are pockets of good activity around the lake, but they tend to be hot for a day or two and then shut down. The average trip is producing somewhere between 5-10 keeper size fish in most areas. Crawler pieces, waxies, hellgrammites, red/leaf worms and Gulp all seem to be working. The fish are tight to the bottom, and presentations need to be in the bottom 6-12 inches of the water. Using a small yellow or orange bead just above the hook has been producing better than a plain hook. The morning hours are by far the best and the bite typically shuts down prior to noon.
Areas producing the best are one mile west of the Fisherman’s Road launch, Kalibus Reef, east of the lighthouse in Fond du Lac, ¾ of a mile south of Abrahams Reef, the Brothertown area, and near Lakeside West launch.
Walleye were scarce for the majority of anglers. The best luck has come either in shallow water weed beds or on the reefs. A half crawler worked with a jig had the best results (pink was a hot color this week). Slip bobbers did pick up a few fish also with either a crawler or leech. The hwy 41`bridge on the Fox River had some positive reports this week. There were very few limits reported anywhere.
We attempted trolling the mud outside of the mouth of the Fox River. The fish were thick in the area, but had a bad case of lockjaw. The south end is weed choked, and very difficult to troll in currently. The area from Abrahams to Stony Point was also exceptional slow. North Shore Country Club area has reported some success recently in the 18+ foot ranges on large stick baits in a purple or fire tiger color at 2.3 mphs.
White bass continue to have the feed bag on system wide. These fish have excellent size and can be found in large numbers in the shallows of the west shore, especially near the bait fish schools. The evening sunset has been an excellent time to target these fish. Spoons, cleos, jigs with twister tails and top water lures will provide a lot of entertainment. Cowling Bay and the Supple’s marsh area have had consistent schools of white bass for the last week.
Sheephead are everywhere. They do not have lockjaw! Small mouths have also been very active near the shorelines and on rocky structure. Crappie fishing on the Wolf River has been going strong. Check the deep holes with minnows to get good numbers of big fish.
With many of the hunting seasons starting in the near future (and the Packer Season), you can expect much less fishing pressure. I plan to scale back the frequency of these reports slightly (about every ten days or so), as there will be less information available. If something hot is happening, be sure to check the Twitter feed and the forums for up to the minute information.
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