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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | O.K. for you guys who don't know, the 45th parallel is just North of Gaylord Michigan and many miles South of where I spent the last two days walleye fishing through some safe thick ice for walleyes. Started at LBDN Saturday morning. Was on the ice and set up by 8:00am. Went one mile out from vagabond Resort, 27 FOW. Ice thickness was 14 inches and 3/4 ton Dodge Trucks and others were all over. I estimate there were about 700 people in eye sight range on the Bay. Big packs of guys on Third and Second reefs and a few less where we were.
The frigid weather that moved in first of last week must have put the walleyes down though, as we only had on 2 all day and lost both. The biggest, because I wanted to take a neat picture of it in the hole with the Do-Jigger in its mouth. This was early, about 10:15am and before I started to figure out the day was going to be tough. We were not alone on this doomed voyage. We talked to two groups of guys from Wisconsin at the resort after we came in after dark. One group had 11 guys and fished 30+ FOW on third reef. 3 walleyes all together for that group, one 9 pounds. Another group 10 guys, one walleye 5 pounds, tip of Second reef. We stayed the night because of a very nasty snow squall that started at dark and headed for Black Lake (near my buds house) Sunday morning.
Fished Black from 2:15pm till 5:50 pm this afternoon and this evening 1-11-04. Went 4 for 6 on walleyes. Not monsters but nice eaters up to 19 inches. All in all had a great time, even though we didn't get any LBDN roaches. Wasn't really on a meat mission anyway. Still got about 15 pounds of fillets from Huron I want to keep working on. Was looking to fish little Bay and see what the program and the ice launching areas were like. I'll be back with a more serious attitude soon.
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Location: Menominee MI, In Da UP Eh? | And here I thought you were fishing North Korea!
Great report Dan and some nice pics as well! |
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Location: Rhinelander | Sounds like a great trip despite the tough fishing. I spent yesterday on the Crappie lake i like so much, getting enough for a good meal but not exactly tearing them up. Maybe next weekend I will head for Minoqua for 'eyes. |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Originally written by sworrall on 2004-01-12 11:52 AM
Sounds like a great trip despite the tough fishing. I spent yesterday on the Crappie lake i like so much, getting enough for a good meal but not exactly tearing them up. Maybe next weekend I will head for Minoqua for 'eyes.
Steve.
I fished a Crappy Lake Saturday as well......wait a minute.. you ment the specie Crappie, not the conditions and success rate...Opppsss sorry. 
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Great story!
Loved the picture of that freshly caught walleye. There is something about flared gills and stiff dorsal fin that gets me all excited to go fishing!
Pictureofyouwasprettynicetoo.
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