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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | There was 27 boats anchored just outside the river mouth at 9:20am, and doing what can only be described as "still-jigging" straight up and down as we past the crowd and headed out and along the shoreline to our fist spot. Seen one fish being landed at that time. Me and the brother sat up shallow and started trolling. I started using a new type of Yo-Zuri crankbait that I bought used from a guy and almost immediately had a vicious rip. Then another almost right after it. Played this fish within a few feet of the back of the boat, seen it was a really nice walleye and then it got off. Usually the hooks on Zuris are what one could only call oversized. The ones on this crank are what I'd call undersized. I ran the cranks anyway until the brother got his first one on a regular Tiger Zuri and then I changed over to full size ones. We ended up going 3 for 5. Got back to the ramp and 3 guys jigging had 11. So jigging was better today then was trolling. Would have taken more pictures of the fish, but with only two of us in the boat and with the wind as brutal as it was. Every time we left the steering wheel we were almost blown sideways.
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Here's those new, weird Yo-Zuris I had some hits on yesterday but would not hold the fish. I kept the Gamagatsu hooks but went to a size bigger. See the bottom lure in the second picture. I think those will work better without changes the running dynamics to much.
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| Almost every lure out there has hooks that are too small. They are designed for the average Joe who would not like the hooks sticking together; they are built for the masses, the pro's make the change. I wouldn't be afraid to go even one more bigger. Nice color on those cranks!!!
Tight Lines,
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Looks like I may have judged to soon that jigging outfished trolling yesterday. Seems my buddy was out fishing by those Ice Burgs yesterday in 11/12 FOW, while we stayed in close in 4 to 7 FOW. Here's what they caught yesterday by the burgs only another 1/2 mile out from us. 
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Location: Saginaw Bay | What a CLEAN boat that Skeeter is.... |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Got out and "still jigged" up a few this morning. 
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| I may be wrong mister express, but those shad baits from Yozuri (hardcore shad?) were more for bass casting... might want to try a different hook on it, maybe a sureset. I've seen those lures in the catalogs and wasn't impressed. your pics make me think again... how deep they run? that top yellow color looks like something they've never seen before.
great reports as usual. I see your 20# power pro in red is not around. checked ebay too and nothing... |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | iceman35 - 3/25/2010 6:55 AM
I may be wrong mister express, but those shad baits from Yozuri (hardcore shad?) were more for bass casting... might want to try a different hook on it, maybe a sureset. I've seen those lures in the catalogs and wasn't impressed. your pics make me think again... how deep they run? that top yellow color looks like something they've never seen before.
great reports as usual. I see your 20# power pro in red is not around. checked ebay too and nothing...
Yupper, those two brighter colors on the top were the ones I had the fish on right away. No real surprise as the water visability near the river mouth was only 1 foot. And I just recently found out myself they are called "Hard Core Shads" from Yo-Zuri. And the bills of the cranks, even though looking quit aggressive are basically narrow and small, and only take them down to about 10 feet max. Which ironically, is exactly what I wanted in the areas I fish them in. We troll in waters sometimes as shallow as 3 feet deep, and troll a lot of cranks (including Crystal Minnow size Zuris) as little as 8 feet behind the boards. They also have pretty lowd rattles inside of them. And the Power Pro Red I use is 8/30. And yes, it's getting harder to find.
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