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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | I don't know why you are so confused prple skeeter, think it looks just like ya' LOL! |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | I try to help when I can and dont mind. So, who's gotta winnebago report. Neighbor says they are still rippin... |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I went out from 10 am to noon today. No time to think as I had to work tonight. Went straight to the mud off of Stockbridge. Pulled cranks for the 1st half hour. Nada! Was running one board off each side and a long liner straight off the back. Had to do something quick as I only had an hour and a half left to fish. I hate that. Reeled in the long line and put a crawler harness with a Mack's Smile Blade (purple) on it and a 3/4 oz snap weight. Slowed to 1.3 mph and dropped it straight down until it hit bottom in 19 fow and locked the bail. Wham! They wanted meat. 18 incher. Set it back out and started pulling in the boards to change them to harnesses also. Set the first board out with a holographic bait fish colored Colorado Blade. While the board was being let out, I started to reel in the other board. ZZZZZZZZZ back went the board that was on it's way out. All in all a great hour and 45 minutes on the water. 2 17 inchers and an 18. By the way the other two harnesses were set back 75 ft and 95 ft with a small split shot. Hope this helps. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | I blew my knee out riding my kid's skateboard and will be out of action for a few weeks  keep the reports coming so I can fish vicariously through your experiences.  |
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| After reading the reports of good fishing I thought I'd give Winnebago a try last weekend. We only caught 1 19 inch fish that we kept.. the rest were all pretty small. I heard a troubling report from a woman at the campground where I stayed tho. She lives on the east side of the lake and says there are lots of dead fish floating up on the east shore. Has anyone else seen that? I hope this great fishery can survive the virus.
Good luck fishing.. I'll give it another try sometime soon.
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Location: Neenah, WI | This is only a rough guess because I really don't keep track. I think my boat has caught about 400 walleye this year along with a dozen or so sauger. I have yet to see a fish with any symptoms of VHS. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's my understanding that the Virus manifests itself in cooler water temps. I live on the shores of Lake Winnebago and currently there are NO dead fish on my shoreline. (I'm on the west shore). According to the local bar room talk, there are dead fish all over. I haven't seen it. This fall, when temps cool, could be a very different story. |
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| Viking - 6/25/2007 10:29 AM
I blew my knee out riding my kid's skateboard and will be out of action for a few weeks keep the reports coming so I can fish vicariously through your experiences. :o
Well, I guess you kinda deserve that, Viking. Trying to copy the Extreme Boarding on the half pipe, or whatever they call it!
I'll be out on GB the next week, and will be thinking of you nursing your knee. Heal quickly! |
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Location: Neenah, WI | I live on the west shore also, south of Blackwolf. I haven't seen any dead fish on the shoreline for well over a month. Just heard a report on the radio yesterday that the VHS virus isn't as bad as they expected by this time. Could be the warmer water, but who knows?
As for a report, I haven't been out for a week, but they were hitting on tsticks & shad raps a week ago. Had to care for my wife who's been ill and hospitalized, but she's now home. Hope to get out soon. I'll post a report, as I do read the valuable reports from everyone, and appreciate all comments. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Shep,
I wish I had been doing some cool trick, at least my kids wouldn't think I'm such a dork. As it happened, I was just putzing along at about .2 mph put my foot down to stop and my knee gave way.
Thanks for thinking of me, good luck up on GB next week. I hope you and all the WFers do well at the FWL League event there on the 7th. |
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Location: Oshkosh | I was out Saturday out from Quinney in the pack of boats that was there. Action was pretty good early on junior deep thundersticks tipped w/ crawlers- blue/chrome and purple prism 20 to 40 feet back, 1.8 to 2.2 mph. Got four nice ones (20, 18, 17, and a fat 15) in about 90 minutes, along with tons to sheeps and whities. Once the waves laid down, the walleyes quit for me. Tried shad raps on one side, I can never seem to catch anything on a shad rap unless I am in Poygan! Pulled out some spinners toward the end, with nothing to show for it but rough fish.
I had the wife out with me for the extra 3 lines, but that was about all the help I got! (chase lounge chair, tanning lotion, books, extra snacks, water, soda, radio, change of clothes for a full 3-day expedition... oh, and the kitchen sink!) Makes for an interesting day on the water! But it beats sitting home mowing the lawn... good to get back out there. Will be back out Saturday again, but I traded my wife for my brother this time!
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Location: Oshkosh | Successfully traded my wife for my brother today... started out about 5 miles north of long point, trolling spinners north. Very calm and BUGGY in the morning, but managed to catch 4, biggest was 19-1/2", smallest was 16". Here I also caught 2 saugers, one was a fat 18" and the other a healthy looking 16". The 16 had the last hook on my snell in its gullet, and it started bleeding profusely. I cut the line, but it sucks that I couldn't legally keep this fish, as it wil most likely die.
Lots of sheepies, no white bass.
Moved about 10 miles north and trolled south again with spinners, scratched-out one more eye. Then the wind picked up, and we switched to cranks. The fish really went on a tear, as we trolled east toward garlic island and caught 5 more eyes and loads of white bass and sheeps. I lost a really nice eye a couple yards back from the boat... it was plowing water with its huge mouth and then a bigger wave went across it and it was gone. Would've easily been my biggest fish of the year (previous was a 24" in Poygan in May).
Set-ups were as follows- Cabelas #5 spinners in chartuse/silver scale pattern/chartruse beads on 3/4 o snap weights, 50 foot lead, and varied 10, 25, and 50 feet back from the board. The 25 foot setback was by far the most productive. Cranks were DJ thundersticks in metallic rainbow trout and gold/black/red bill. 40 feet back was the best for me, at about 1.9 to 2.3 mph. My brother ran hot 'n tots, his best let back was 25' on a gold/black/red bill. All cranks were tipped with crawlers. It was fun getting soaked trying to go back to Oshkosh parallel to the big waves!
Lots of boats out in the morning, they seemed to congregate due east of Oshkosh in the mud, but by 11:00 everyone was scattered. We couldn't seem to locate a definitive school of fish until the end of the day due east of Garlic. Still, we took home 8 nice eyes for our efforts.
And by the way, none of them had any suspicious markings on them, at least not until my filet knife got to them! 
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Fished yesterday evening with the 6yo outta calumet. Walleye divers 40 to 65 feet back. Darker colors, ie gold/black, etc. He got his biggest this year, a 20 1/8. Got 8 fish yesterday, 12 to 20. Kept 4.
Fished this afternoon for a few outta pipe. Pleasant, no flies. Trolled for a while, but got some smaller fish. 2 legals. We decided to jig a reef for a few. 6YO gotta a 14 inch smallie, and a chunky white bass. Thought the smallie was gonna pull him in.
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Location: Menasha, WI | Great pictures Mark -- well, except for that Bears jersey, that's almost as bad as a Packer's jersey 
Keep the reports coming -- after 8 days my knee is still as big as a cantalope so it will be a while before I'll be able to fish and the reports are helping to keep me sane. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Was thinking about you yesterday Viking. Boy wanted me to try his skateboard in the pipe parking lot. Had a flashback to your episode. Plus with the brewers game this weekend, we had a full agenda. We went fishing in the 2nd inning, after that 9 run fiasco, got some fried chicken, powerade (.99 at pipe express) and a couple of big cookies for desert.
We had 6 boards out, and the boy is getting the hang of it. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I think the smiles in these pics say it all. I had a Great weekend. Nothing like fishing with my 6 yr old and my 4 yr old. The other two guys are Ralph and his friend Bob. They are 79 and 78 yrs old respectfully. I had a blast with these guys. Sorry, I got to resize pics. Will be up later.
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | As promised, here they are.
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| Good stuff there Mark. I knew you would get into them this weekend. Gotta love that yard bird. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Great pictures Brother Otis, Mark, and Bob!!!! It looks like a good time was had by all!!! There's nothing better than getting kids involved in hunting and fishing. |
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