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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Well.
The brother and I finally broke the Stink-Jinx this morning ending our short trip with 5 for 7. Neither one of us thought we were going to, when we were met (once again) by 2 and 3 footers at the River Mouth. Our plans of heading out to 12/14 FOW were replaced with the same shallow water Game Plan we used with success last spring. But even that plan had us trolling into what seemed to be 30+ WSW headwinds. The boards spent as much time in the air as they did in the water. And the false releases (Given the way we set our In-Lines) were starting to get very annoying. The wind and wave stress were simply to much.
I talked Dave into heading into 4 FOW from the 6 foot where we started and all of a sudden his fish finders started marking fish after fish. We immediately had a double and another fish that got off after we left it drag to long, because of the Chinese Fire drill we had to deal with in the fierce wind. Trolled a little ways more and turned around and hit 2 more fish, a walleye and a pike. Turned around again and had 2 more on, loosing what was the bigger fish when Dave tried to keel haul it in, because mine was in the net while I tried to keep the boat straight. All this happened in about 30 minutes. After that we never marked another fish or had another strike. These fish were (IMO) all together in one big schooling ball for some reason.
Oh, and by the way. 5 of the 7 strikes came on the new Capt.Dan (Fire Perch) Elite Series Bomber. Only 13 Feet behind the board, running at 1.8MPH. So I'm gald to say they do work. Well, at least this color does. :wink:
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Location: Berlin | Looks like you had fun! This weather is unreal and the word "stable" seems to be a myth only talked about by older folks referring to the "good 'ol days". Keep posting pics so I remember what a walleye looks like. |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Rich S - 5/7/2011 8:58 AM
Looks like you had fun! This weather is unreal and the word "stable" seems to be a myth only talked about by older folks referring to the "good 'ol days". Keep posting pics so I remember what a walleye looks like.
Rich.
If this would have been a calm day, I would have taken that first walleye and held it above my head like the Lumbardie Super Bowl Trophy for a picture. As the skunk streek me and the brother had going starting from last fall was starting to make me question my own fishing ability. And the weather has been what I think is a major part of what has been going on since last fall. Winds almost constantly, very Hot Summer, Very Cold spring, Low Great Lakes waters fallowed by spring floods. You get close to establishing a pattern in stable conditions and the whole thing changes drastically.  |
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Location: Berlin | Dan,
We have a very similar thing happening here. Frustrating no doubt. There is a abundance of smaller aggresive fish but anything over 20" is rare during the day time. |
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