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walleye express
Posted 11/10/2007 8:53 PM (#63186)
Subject: Man it changes quick.



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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay.		Last Saturday on the Saginaw, the water clarity was about 9 inches and the walleyes were nowhere to be found. Tonight the clarity was 4 feet. I caught 6 decent walleyes and kept 3 for the table.




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How Big
Posted 11/12/2007 8:30 PM (#63212 - in reply to #63186)
Subject: RE: Man it changes quick.


Nice fish, were those the cookie cutters? Curious how big they are getting and what other year classes were in the catch?

Thanks
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walleye express
Posted 11/12/2007 9:39 PM (#63214 - in reply to #63212)
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay.		I had one close to 4 pounds I let go and heard a guy caught a 10 pounder Sunday (the next day) in the same run. Some other friends caught 15 today, but not a single keeper. Some were 5 to 7 inches Young of the year from this last springs hatch. So there is quit a varied year class mixed in the system right now. Another thing I found interesting is the amount of fish being caught on plastic this year versus live bait. That new 3" Power Bait Realistix Minnow (smelt) is kicking azz and taking names. That along with the Northland Mimic Minnow. I got just about every kind of jig known to man, but have depended on using good live bait all these years. Why the plastics are making a better showing is a mystery to me.

Edited by walleye express 11/12/2007 9:42 PM
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sworrall
Posted 11/13/2007 7:50 AM (#63218 - in reply to #63214)
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Location: Rhinelander		Nice fish. Dan, what causes the water to clear that fast, was it muddied up from washoff from rain?
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walleye express
Posted 11/13/2007 8:24 AM (#63220 - in reply to #63218)
Subject: RE: Man it changes quick.



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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay.		Steve.

In general there are two river systems that dump into the Saginaw at it's headwaters. The Tittabawassee from the North and West, which has the Chippewa, Salt and Tobacco river systems adding their water to it. It also has a close major upstream Dam that settles out lots of the particulates from literally hundres of square miles of Tittabawassee's run off. And all these rivers (for the most part) run through rural/small town/country type settings, are largely sand and gravel based streams for the most part and keep the Tittabawassee running on the clear side virtually 90% of the time, even during some heavy rain events.

Whereas, the Shiawassee system, collecting water from the South and East, which includes the Cass, Bad and Flint river systems has a mud/clay type bottom. And virtually all of these river systems collect waters from a lot more metropolitan areas and bottom land type farm areas that make the waters continually run a lot cloudier.

If you ever fished the Saginaw at a place we call the Convergence, where these two systems come together, you'd see the cloudy and clear waters split right down the middle of the river for a ways before they mix together. When the flows from the cloudy side rivers can't match the volume of the clear sides flow, the whole system becomes clearer, the fish bite better and all is good.

Edited by walleye express 11/13/2007 8:40 AM
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