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Location: Rhinelander | What was your big 'eye for this year? Submit a picture and the story here, and at month's end, I'll send a WalleyeFIRST hat and coffee mug to the one our judges decide is the best.
This will be the start of a regular feature at WalleyeFIRST, the monthly photo contest. Walleye related shots from each month should be submitted, as many as you want, taken during the contest month. There doesn't HAVE to be a fish in the picture, either. Some of the best shots over at MuskeFIRST have been scenery or mood shots.
So did you get a big walleye this year? Let's see a picture! |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Steve.
I'm assuming you mean personally caught best. Thats going to be tough for me even though I have some nice pictures. Because 99% of the time my clients are reeling them in. 
I'll probably have my best shot at it, when the Saginaw Bay freezes over. 
Edited by walleye express 12/6/2004 9:07 AM
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| I'll Bite....
Here's a picture of me (on the left) and my friend Kyle, a select few know him as 3XL and size has nothing to do with it. I'm holding a 29-3/4" fish that went 10 - 14 lbs/oz, Kyle is holding a 31" that went 10 - 14 lbs/oz. The fish I landed would of went back but lost an eye in the fight and I felt it would of been a waste to let her go and become seagull food she will get a resting place on my wall. The 31" is Kyle's first over 30" and his personal best. Now for the "big one that got away"......the next day Kyle lost a fish that would of easily topped both of these fish.
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Okay I'll bite..............
This picture does not reflect the biggest fish of the season or the nicest weather. It's a picture that reflects this obsession and addiction that I call walleye fishing. It's cold, it's windy, it's wet, and it's snowing. BUT you can tell by my smile that I would not want to be anywhere else in the world than right there doing what I'm doing. Thank You "Someday" for capturing the moment. Boy, I really love that Bay de Noc area.
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| Your face looks like it hurt the next day. |
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | Earlier this spring pre fishing for the RCL league event on Green Bay myself and two friends boated 7 fish in about 20 minutes ranging from 27" to 31". We caught close to 25 fish that day and the smallest was 25". I am not kidding when I say the one we lost was probably 34" and went close to 15 pounds. All three of us saw it and we all agreed that it was the biggest walleye any of us had ever seen. My one friends Dad is a Taxidermist and he said he never saw one bigger in his Dads shop. This fish snagged up twice on the weeds and rocks on bottom but we still got it up close enough to get a look. Our jaws hit the floor. All of those fish came on harnesses except for one.
My personal best this year was a 30" and a 31.75" that won the Gannett Midwest Newspapers Master Angler Standings in the Catch and Release division. The 30" held third place for a long time. The picture of the 31.75 is the same fish picture in my avatar image. Again these were harness fish.
Jon Piette
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | Here are some pictures of the previously mentioned fish my friends Jason and Todd caught with me while pre fishing. One big gold fish too.
sorry about the first post I forgot how to use the computer.
Jon
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Location: Plover, WI | Here's my favorite big fish of the year in my boat. This is my dad with his personal best. 30" and went 11-2. Kyle up above in Jayman's post had caught that 31" the same night in my boat less than 2 hours earlier. Fact that it was my dad, his personal best, and a great sunset shot makes it my favorite.
Yep Sunshine, you have to love LBDN.
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| Since I know Carrocr is too modest to post his own picture......I'll do it for him 
Here he is with a pair landed as a double, although I'm sure it's not his biggest for the year. It was one of those great days on the water with a good friend
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Location: Rhinelander | Dan,
Your client's best would be just fine. Kep them coming, everyone, nice fish! |
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| Here are two pics from my trip last week. The first shows my personal best walleye at 14# (32") and the other shows that Sunshine doesn't whup me in the commitment department.
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Location: Germantown and Land O Lakes, WI | Don't even know how big, brought them back for pics then let them off to be free and multiply!
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | Lund dude, that is committment and or dedication for sure. Some people that don't understand the thrill and excitement of catching a big fish would call that stupidity but I think that is an awsome picture.
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Location: Rhinelander | Come on guys, MORE!!! If you don't know how to post aq picture. email me at [email protected] and I'll give you a hand. |
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| I've got a number of nice photos I'd put up, but they are all over 200kb.
I'll see if I can figure out a way to resize them so I can post them up here for you. |
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| Well, its not my fish but I did get to net it so I think I should get partial credit:
[img]http://www.wilen.us/images/fishing/irrigon/lonnie18p2.jpg[/img] |
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| Well, its not my fish but I did get to net it so I think I should get partial credit:
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Location: Isle MN. | Not a huge fish by any means but the top fish came from Cass Lake while prefishing with Mike Gofron. 26 1/2" to bad he wasn't on the Mille Lacs diet. The bottom pic is an hour and a half of crankin on Mille Lacs. We released 2 others that were over 22" and 4 under 14"s.
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| Here's a couple of fish I got this year. Fished some bigger waters this year, with some great friends, and caught some awesome fish!
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Location: Berlin | Here are two fish that I caught with my buddy Big Grass. We were pre-fishing on the Wolf River for an upcoming tourney. Just so happened it was a couple days before the PWT Winneconne. The water was muddy and fast so thumper jigs were the way to go. We had hooked several smaller fish in the 18-20" range and then the big one hit. I fought it all the way up and just as it broke the surface she came un-buttoned. With one of the greatest net jobs ever witnessed the fish was in the boat. Definately not the biggest fish of the year but one of the funnest.
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| I still can't get my photos small enough to post!
That at least tells you how BIG my fish were!!! 
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Location: Berlin | Holy crap, anyway you guys can shrink that pic I posted? Nobody should have to have that close of a look at me! |
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Location: Appleton wi | Awsome fish guys.....very impressive . Maybe next year i'll remember to always keep a camera with tackle....til then you guys rock! |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Here's one of the biggest walleye in my boat this year... its was my Dad's 29.25 incher caught on LBDN on December 9th. First board of the day went back and my Dad started to wrestle in a fat 27.5 inch LBDN walleye. This fish hit about 30 seconds later and got drug around for 5 minutes while we landed the "little" one.
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Location: Isle MN. | Here are a few more of my favorites. This is my little cousin "Louie", he was a fish catchin machine this summer racking up his first 6 walleyes and dozens of sunfish and perch. The big walleye just about pulled him out of the boat.
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| This picture was taken before a day of prefishing for the Spring Walleye Classic on Potholes Reservior in Washington State. I was getting ready to launch the boat and thought that this would make a great landscape shot. After I got the boat in the water I was able to locate some larger fish moving in and out of a spot where two spillway channels formed a Y. It was just one of those spots that makes a person all warm and fuzzy inside. Because basicly all the fish I was catching were over 3lbs, with the occasional kicker in the 7-8 pound range. I ended up fishing the spot both days of the tournament and on day 1 we were able to get a limit of 6 fish for over 18 lbs putting us in 5th place. Day 2 was a diffrent story, many, many boats decided to fish the same small area, and there was a lot of baot traffic. We managed to land 4 fish for a little over 12 lbs. We ended up in 6th place overall.
This picture just set the tone for a great tournament and fun time.
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| Not my biggest, but my daughters.....and my favorite picture.
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Location: Saginaw, MI | Here are some great pix from this year, my best big walleye year ever. All caught in Lake Michigan and it's drowned rivermouths. I just found the site, looking forward to participating.
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Location: Nazareth,Pa | Quinte fall of 04,roughrider
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Location: Laurel, MT | My 29.5 - 10 lber from Last Mountain, Sask.
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