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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | What a day on the Bay I had today. Everything was working. My Modified Riviera planer boards to S..L..O..W troll with. The weighted trolling attractors and harnesses I bought from Guides Plus. And the real hero of the day, GULP worms. We went 10 for 14 today trolling the East side of the Shipping Channel between the end spark plug and the 5 and 6 bouy. 45 and 65 back trolling 1.5 to 1.7MPH. I'm attaching a picture of what I think is a special fish, along with some others we caught today. This special fish was 31" long and was the biggest male walleye I've ever seen.
Yes... a male walleye that big. Maybe I'm making to big a deal out of something common to others. But I truly/personally have never seen a male over 8 pounds. This bruiser tipped the scales to a little over 10. I'm guessing our 5 big fish today would have weighed 30 or better. Of course with a kicker like this, that really isn't saying much is it?. 
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Location: shawano,WI | Great catch and it looked like a great day on the water.Thats the largest male I have ever heard about.Great job Captain Dan. |
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Beautiful fish, beautiful weather.., Beautiful! |
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Location: Milw, WI | Nice, how many on the gulp? |
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| All I can say is WOW, what a trophy!
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Richfish.
All on GULP. I don't use the real thing anymore. Honest. And why should I. I only saw two other fish landed today around us. I'm really starting to believe the commercial that it outfishes live bait. If you noticed in the second picture, the Natural GULP flavor is hanging on the harness.
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| Dan,
Ever try the colors? I just picked up some red and blue turtle backs? |
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Location: Milw, WI | No worm leavings on the carpet.
That is the way to go.
We were going to try them last week, but failed to get them the night before.
One main partner is very large crawler happy.
Need them to make one size larger yet to make him happy.
We went through around 10 doz. on friday and bedding was every ware.
Thanks for the great reports from up your way.
MWC'ers will be watching close. |
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Location: Wind lake, Wi | Nice fish Dan. I know that GULP works real well. I'll have to give it a go on the harnesses. Later |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Rob Stratton - 7/13/2004 10:40 PM
Dan,
Ever try the colors? I just picked up some red and blue turtle backs?
Nope, not yet Rob.
But you can understand that I'm still in shock and disbelief that they even work, let alone heading off in a different technique or color direction as of yet.
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| Walleye express how do you rig them. It appears to be hooked in the middle of the worm? |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I hook them through the tip of the nose and out the side with the first hook. Then just through the body with the second hook so the hook lays close to the outside skin. Like you would to rig a weedless plastic worm for bass fishing. Also so the worm stays straight and stretched out when running. For some reason the GULPS seem to run fairly straight even at faster speeds than the real thing. Probably because it don't warm and stretch like the real thing does and create that U-shape between the two hooks that gets them spinning.
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