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| Fishing out from Calumet park was fantastic for several weeks, then it seems like the fish just vanished over night, Where did they go? Any thoughts? |
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They are moving with the wind and the baitfish. I have been moving as much as a mile a day to find the schools, but they are still there. Once you find them, think slower presentation like a 2 oz bottom bouncer with a harness and your electric motor. By holding the rod in your hand, you will feel the every so slight pickup when they are not in the mood to hammer the crankbaits like the last 2 weeks. I know exactly what you are experiencing, it took me 8 hours the other day to get my first nice fish of the day and than an hour to get the next 10.
They are still there in the area between Calumet Co park and Winnebago Co Boat Landing.
Good luck!!
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Location: Orland Park, IL | I can second that. Was out saturday.
12 for 15 trollin. Biggest was 21 inches. Walleye divers at 80 feet out in gold/orange on the 17/18 break at 2.2 MPH downwind. Boards and flatlines. The rest all 15 1/4 to 17. All good eaters. Kept 7. Rest went back. Thanks for the tip guest. Just like you said. Took a little time, but found em. |
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| I will be out tomorrow, trying to find them again. Anybody else out there have any thought? Will post when i return home. |
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| Fairly slow day yesterday, trolled same marks as 2 weeks ago and picked up 3 15-17 inchers on cranks. Moved a bit and picked up one more on a harness in the mud. Marked tons of fish and saw schools of whities jumping on the surface today. Moved over to a reef and picked up 16 nice perch. |
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| Today was another good day we trolled cranks til noon and kept 10 nice keeper 16-19".We release 4 fish over 20". 4-6ft down in the mud 18fow. It was a nice 20lb day if we would have kept the big ones. |
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| You can tell the mud bite is slowing down, been picking up some fish, but really having to work for them. Moving around alot to get a few fish here and there, but I guess they are still there if you can put in the time. |
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| Current, shortening days and cooling waters can draw some schools toward the river. The stronger the current the bigger the draw. TONS of food in the river right now too. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Marked some nice pods of fish over the last few days. Nothing higher in the water column. Did get a few eaters deeper, about 2 foot off bottom. Purple seemed to work. Then again, only spent a few hours each day this weekend. Had the 5yo AND 8YO with me. ADD kicks in after about an 1hour. And they dont get trollin for very long. |
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| Plan on getting out ues. or Wed. this week, will post when I am done. Any thoughts on what to use for trolling? If it isn't to weedy and slimy I will give it a try. |
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Location: Appleton wi | The slim isnt really to bad this year I was actually really surprised. I trolled all weekand it was never a issue where i had to pull the lines due to much slim. Saturday the water temp was over 80 and sunday it was 73 and up river 71 in butte. The water clarity was very good in comparison to years in the past for this time of year |
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Location: Neenah, WI | All the slime washed over to the west shore with the moderate East winds the past several days. Now with the NW & West winds, expect the slime to migrate back east.
Edited by schmidtwi 8/14/2006 11:36 AM
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Location: Appleton wi | schmidty I was on the west shore /east shore and the middle of lake and did not see any slim there either.Went farther south by long point and thats where some slim starting show up on saturday so i stayed north of that.
Edited by eye Lunker 8/14/2006 12:09 PM
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| The slime is not bad at all for this time of year, trolling is slow right now, but should pik up in a few weeks. |
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| Slime is not bad at all, just depends on the winds and from what direction it has been coming from. Fishing remains fairly slow for me, but I keep trying. Seems like alot of guys out there right now, but lots of them perch fishing right now. Some doing good, others, like me, not so good. Maybe I should hire a guide? I love the lake, just wish I knew it better. Anybody give a tip or two? Thank You. |
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| Anybody care to share anything on where they are now? |
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| Reefs and shallow water. I would think the deep, but their shallow. Small jigs and crawlers and leeches will work...but crawlers work better for more fish. Bring enough to battle the sheeps though they love the crawlers. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Fished various NW reefs today from 6am to 11am and caught more than 20 eyes, unfortunately only one was bigger than 14". Lots of 8"-12" fish came anchored & casting jigs or drifting jigs; the one eater was caught pulling harnesses. Almost all fish came in 6'-8' depths, hot pink and chartreuse being the better colors. I did pick-up a few bonus perch though, including a legit 12" - together with the 1 decent eye, I put together a nice lunch. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | I take it the troll bite has simmered down. Does this mean the fish off the mud are transitioning back to the reefs? |
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| The eyes are pretty fickle right now. There is TONS of baitfish available so the bite is pretty streaky. Under the right conditions they're hitting well on the reefs (a consistent wind to stir thins up) other than that, its been hit-n-miss.
Perch are biting well though if you're willing to sort through some sheephead. Best presentation has been a crawler on gold #8/#10 hook laying on the bottom. Hard bottoms near transitions areas. |
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Location: Appleton wi | M komo try rock areas and not just rock piles. Look for areas on the map that huge rock structures(east shore) there are 2 or 3 such areas.Were catching fish in 5ft-12fow. Cranks are producing well 20-55back.let your lures tick the bottom that will often trigger the bite. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | thanks for the tips guys. Perch were indeed busy this weekend. Me and the boy had a blast. Also had a pulled pork and sauer kraut sandwich from the Pipe meat market (brat fry all this weekend.). WOW! Tastee. Didnt think to troll it. Then again, couldnt swing a dead cat without whackin a percher! |
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Location: Menasha | Start just north of Brothertown, on the north side of Winnebago Point. Troll with #5, black & gold shad raps 45-55 feet back, 8-10 FOW, 1.8-2.0 mph.
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Where did they go?