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| What weight will it take to win the Green Bay MWS tournament? Remember it is a four fish limit. Who will be team of the year?
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| It will take 36#to win there are some big fish being caught in the last week or so. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | ok 34..6 with good weather... 24.6 if there are 6 footers rolling |
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| I'm gonna go with 26.42#'s |
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| 38.25# if the weather stays nice and the wind dosent blow hard tournament day
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Actually, I am going to say, 22#'s. Doesn't matter if the wind blows or not.
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Location: Green Bay, WI | The bite's going to be tough - keep your first four 18"ers and go in 
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | That may be closer to the truth than you think Bob. |
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| The only chance 4 18'' er's win is if it is a snow storm and we are stuck in the river and even then it probably wouldn't be enough but the bite has been tough but look for it to take around 34 lbs to win. |
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| I will say 39# if the wind is not to bad. |
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| that sounds about right to me 34 should do it |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Kinda far away to predict with any confidence for me. I'll chime in next week when we know what the weather is going to be like. |
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| Yeah, what he said.
39? 4 10's? I want to see that. I may even delay my departure to Moline to see those fish weighed in. |
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| i would expect more weights in the 30# category if they were launching out of marinette/menominee area......there are big fish south this time of year, but it's been proven this time of the year the north dominates on big fish......if there is any wind out of the north (which is the most common wind in September) don't look for huge weights.
Seems silly to me the tournament in the spring was out of marinette, when the majority of guys/gals are fishing south, and then the fall tournament is in the south when the majority of guys/gals are fishing the north.
This makes for some huge runs on big water. Just doesn't seem practical taking all things in consideriation. Just my opinion
Good luck to everyone who fishes it, and be safe if your making the big runs. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | hey shep ,, i can see you pulling up on your favorite honey hole ,,, first pass you have one board dragging strait behind the boat about 60 yards as you net a 8.9 lb fish,,, about 8;30 am you have an 8 and a 9 in the boat and you decide to hang out over the deep edge drop down to 20 to 30 ft and a 40 deep strait off the back bends over and gives you that big 11 followed by a 10 on the inside board,,, now what do you have at 9;30 in the morning? looks like 39 lbs to me,,, its been done... just about 3 weeks or so late in the season..on the bay if you ask me but with a little luck ive seen it happen ,,, just need it to get hot!!!!!! outside all week.. |
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| Yup! Shep wopuld have 39 lbs by 0930 in the morning with 3 cats and 2 sheephead. LOL! |
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| And don't forget Sheps favorite CARP oh but htey got off next to the boat |
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| Ah, carp never get off. Just like sheepies and kitty's! Another stupid anon poster who doesn't know squat!
I'm not saying 39 can't happen. I'm saying I would like to see it. I think 30#+ is a good bet. Somebody always figures out a great bag. I'm looking to solidify my place in the standings to make the Championship. Will I make the long run up north? Depends on what I find this next week, and the weather. I'm not going to pound my boat the day I leave for Moline.
Either way, if I had 39 at 9:30 in the morning, I'd be getting an early start to Moline. I'd let wolf walleye get all the play time on stage!
Edited by Shep 8/31/2007 7:49 AM
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| Wow, Shep! You have quite the fan fare, gotta love arm chair fishermen eh? 
4 fish for 30+#'s will be challengeing, the BIG weights just haven't come in this year. 7# averages have been "big" weights this year. And you got the usual calling for the 9+# avg. I haven't seen consistent 8# avg baskets in about 3-4 years.
Fish seem to be moving into a fall transition on the bay, the fish are on the move. The good news is, the big fish are going to continue eating til ice up. A 6+# avg will go along ways, but will still be a tough basket to come up with.
Good Luck to all the WF'ers that are competeing in the MWS. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Yep, I know I don't usually do this, but I will run over to back up Shep. Remember, some of us been fishing the bay longer than the last 2 or 4 years. We know whats coming. I will stick with my prediction and feel pretty good about it.
Edited by stacker 8/31/2007 8:57 AM
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| Thanks, Denny. Glad you didn't say you'd back up to run over me! You want to fish this weekend?
Jayman, I got fans all over. I had a guy come all the way from New Mexico to fish with me two weeks ago! We did squat in the tourney, but prefishing was good.
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| I think tha Jim bought stock in Exon when he wrote out the schedule because if you want any chance in this one it's going to require 30 to 40 gal. of gas and all for a snowballs chance to win. |
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| The bite is tough right now on the lower bay, at least for me, but there are enough big fish, around that burning less than 10 gallons of gas and bringing in 30 lbs is more than possible. I was out last night and didn't do much, a couple of 5 lbers. I got to the landing and there were a couple of younger guys there shooting pictures of there catch, and lets just say by the size of there boat I do not think they were out to far unless they drove down from door county to take the pictures and release the fish. Oh yeah they had 3 fish all around 28-29''s. It made me think even less of myself after seeing there catch.
Good Luck this weekend!!!
It should be nice weather for the weekend. My partner caught a 11.5 lber yesterday, he was salmon fishing when he caught it though 75 ft of water. |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | 4 fish of that quality in a 1/2 day on the water are pretty tough to come by. Sure, it can happen, but it probably won't. Your fishing time is just too short when your making 1.5 to 2 hour runs one way.
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | oh we have the boys stired up a bit now... i wish this was a two day event,,, its always nice to see all the boys that fished the south running north the second day and the majority of the boats that ran north the first day fishing the river and south the second..... grass is greener on the otherside theory ,,,, 20 lbs 39lbs im still calling it at 34.9 but anyone who is predicting the weight a week or so out is grasping for straws... too weather related ,, a lot of water to cover... here today gon tomorrow kind of water... need a good program and a bit of luck to find those big girls... i shouldnt say here today gone tommorrow i should say here at 7 am gone at 8 am ,,, back agian at 1;30 gone at 1;45 , if you can handle big fish on at the same time... you got a shot... |
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Location: Appleton wi | 27.9lbs |
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| Looks like a cold front coming in on Sunday. Windy???? Could affect the weights. |
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Location: Menasha | 22.5# |
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| 30#+.....I don't recall any green bay MWS Tourney where somebody hasn't pulled 30#+, even when they were held in the river this spring.....good luck |
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| 27 pounds won the tournament on the menominee river this spring. 29 pounds and some change won the 2006 May tournament out of GB Metro. |
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Location: Manitowoc WI | the team that will win, will be a team that gets 4 fish up north.. I predict alot of gas will be burnt. a nice stiff south west wind would make this tourament more interesting and keep the weights low..
Honestly your crazy if your heading past chambers from metro.. but im sure 10% of the field or more will be trying it.. |
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Location: DeForest, WI | Shep,
Shouldn't you be prefishing for this tourney?
Instead of studying this web page! Just kidding.... hehehehe
Good Luck, hopefully you will have your partner this time. |
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| I prefished last weekend. Did well both days. Went out yesterday, and didn't do so well. OK, I only got two. Medium sized ones. Not going where I want them to go.
I do have wolf walleye back for this one. I need to get four good fish quick, go weigh in, and leave for Moline! Is this thing here already? Not one weekend off this month! I'm going to sleep in October! |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Just took a look at the forecast......if the wind and wave conditions are true you can forget the bite up North. It'll be less than 20 lbs to win....just my guess. |
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Location: DeForest, WI | I was sitting here as an armchair (tourney fisherman) handing out a jab. Wish I didn't have a charity golf outing tomorrow otherwise I would have fished this as my first mws tourney.
Good luck and safe travels to all. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Yes with Friday's weather it would take less than 20, but Saturday and Sunday look OK for now. Nothing over 8mph. Looks good to me  |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | 24 pounds |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | wow... a bit windy today,,, i am ichy to fish this sunday , trying to get off of work saturday sounds like we could have a pretty good north wind for sunday,, still dont know.. the wind can bring the weight down under 20lbs either way it looks like its going to be a sweet finish to the mws season ,, cant wait to find out who is going to the petonwell |
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| Upon further review......the weather looks to be better than previously stated. I'll up my total to around 23 lbs for the win. |
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| I'll take 23 and head for Moline! |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Hey Shep! Wouldn't it be faster to take 41 South to Moline? LOL!
Someone will put together a 30 lb basket. Hopefully me! Now that's funny! |
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| Really wanted to fish this one... hopefully weights are high so i dont kick myself in the a$$. 26.25 lbs to win!!! |
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Location: Manitowoc WI | NNW all day 10-20mph... this is going to be an interesting one. |
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| I agree buds bud i think i'll change my predicted weight to 16lbs! |
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Location: Manitowoc WI | if that is true i will cry.. i have too many small fish spots that produce no matter what the weather is.. but they are worthless in touraments unless the weather is like this.. i made the decion last week that the winners will be coming from chambers and it will be impossible to compete with those guys.. .. 20lb mark should be broken today.. but i bet 25th for last place in the money will be around 13lb's |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | 26.6 pounds won. 14.3 pounds for 25th place. Looks like Jayman was the closest with hit prediction of 26.4.... |
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| mmmm my original guess was 1.2 lbs off not bad for a wanna be!lol |
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MWS winning weight for Sept 9th?