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| Sunday brought another guide trip to Petenwell, usually my last weekend till July over there, unless Miss. floods,
We had a great day with fish almost constantly. Went through 6 dozen minnows like water.
Almost all of our fish were caught slowly moving up, down, and across the little current there was with a wolf river rig with 1/4 oz. bell sinker, and colored hook w/minnow. Bite was steady throughout the day with some nice
bonus keepers coming after 2:00 PM when strong winds started out of the south. Obviously it made boat control and sensing bites tougher, but the feeding made up for it.
Largest five fish went just over 11.5 lbs. Largest was just short of 20 inches. Almost all the larger fish came in 14 to 18 feet of water, with good numbers in almost all depths.
Edited by Mountain Man 4/19/2004 9:06 AM
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| Looks like you should have fished the RCL on Sat.You would be $4000 richer.TO BAD
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Larry did fish the RCL on Sat. He fished as my non-boater, but we fished the lake(my call). We had two fish(for 28th), lost a couple fish that might have put us in the money. The high skies and flat water didn't help my bite.
Larry was a great partner and never pressured me to make the run up the river. | |
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| Bob beat me to the post.. I had already started to write it down and was intending to add it right after last post, when I had to handle a phone call from the repair shop I left the boat and trailer at last night. Two lug nuts worked loose and literally wore through the wheel. I thought I had a UV joint or rear end was going out, but it looks like this will be a lot less expensive.
Next to the important stuff...and I'm not just saying this to make Bob feel good. I've mentioned it before that there are times that you just feel at home in a boat with a fellow angler and this was one of them. He keeps apologizing for not running to the spots I have pre-fished and guided on up in the river... but his very first spot had fish on it and it didn't take long for them to bite. The two fish we weighed came from there. I have probably only fished with bottom bounsers four or maybe five times in my life, but as the day continued on I actually felt comfortable with them. Actually they are similar to the the riggin jiggin and dragging wolf river rigs I have been doing, just a lot heavier. Well now that I have my excuse let me say that it was "Me" who lost a fish and if it was a walleye it would have cashed a check for us.. Never saw it but based on the keeper I got 10 minutes later it was over 15" and probably a walleye. A friend of mine later said they were able to net several fish that were just hanging on to the minnow, but in this case I think my sweep sets didn't do the job, because the slam sets and sometimes double sets like you do on Musky , that I did later kept the fish on. I also lost another one early, but based on fish caught later in the day it's weight was in the 10-13 inch range.
I purposely in my first post mentioned time of day and the wind picking up, to kind of say, since I knew some would be seeing another "motive" in my post that I felt it did have a bearing on the previous day. Although it was cloudy or partly cloudy nearly all day Sunday there was little or no current up in the river and the surface was very calm. Up until 1:45 when the skys got more threatening and the wind picked up we only had 2 keepers in the boat and when I moved to my third area, (yup the sand banks), just after 2:00 PM I caught nice fish... one as I said earlier just about out of the slot and some other 17 inch range fish. I'm nearly positive based on the bite others experienced during the tourney that if the partly cloudy skys with 10-20 MPH winds had come to pass based on the weather forecast for tourney day that Bob's locations would have put a big smile on both of our faces at weigh in. Even with the conditions placing 28th and a lost fish that might have cashed us a check says we were in good lacations. Add to it the fact that you could look for miles in every direction and the only place you saw locals were the spots Bob had chosen told me right away that they had been catching fish there , too. Later in the day several tourney boats did fish through our areas, and they went right to some of the areas we had fished so they had caught fish there, too. There was definitely a big change in the bite when the water got glass calm, and the sun got high and heavy about 10:30.
Might point being that who knows if the river bite would have even been as good?? Some sticks that I respect a lot and that have proven themselves in tourney fishing didn't have a very good day up north.
But I do have "Great news", no unlike the Geico Insurance commercials I didn't save money on my car insurance... But Don's Auto and Truck, ( corner of Hwy 21 and 173), called and the bill is $65 and it will be ready when I drive to Tomah for my son's baseball game. Great service hey!!! And like so many other "coincidences"/blessings in my life and many of yours I don't even have to make a special trip.
Anyway Bob thanks for the trip, and hopefully we will meet and fish again... I hope that one lost fish doesn't hurt you in the series points.
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Petenwell Sunday