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Location: Manawa Wiscowsin | Poygan was hot for the last couple of weeks in the area of the old Duck Inn. It shut off Saturday (5/6/12). We trolled harnesses for an hour without a hit. A buddy called from Winneconne. He had picked up a 26" and a 27" eye and also had a limit of eaters. The bite had eased by the time we arrived but the three of us did limit out on eaters and released five small ones. We also picked up a couple of slab white bass and a nice size catfish. Only one sheep.
One of the eyes was bad. There were no outward signs but when it was filleted the meat was off color and stank. This is the first time I have seen this. Has anyone else? Ideas? |
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| Perfect Color - 5/8/2012 8:06 AM
Has anyone tried trolling the mud in winnebago yet? I know it seems kinda early but this spring everything seems to be ahead. I know that there are fish along the shorelines reefs and rocks but there are also a lot of boats in there as well.
I was thinking of trying the mud if I'm able to get out in the next week or so. What do you guys think? Is it worth the time or no? Cranks or Spinners?
Yes and both.
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Location: Freedom, WI | Fishing has been rock solid on Poygan for the past 2-3 weeks, despite all the rain! The fish seem to be all over and looking for food! We have cleaned 20 Walleyes in the past 3 weeks and have yet to find a minnow in their stomachs!
All of our fish have been caught trolling crankbaits in 6-8 feet of water going 1.5-2.0 mph. We have been increasing our trolling speed as the waters warm. Lure selection hasn't been that important, as we have caught fish on Salmos, Shad Raps, Flicker Shads, and even Ripshads! Color has been key, and has been changing on a daily basis. Starting with a good variety of colors and fine tuning throughout the day has been working for us. One day its firetiger, the next purpledescent, so keep switching until the fish tell you what they want!
For a more detailed report and pictures of our catch, check out http://midwestfisherman.blogspot.com/ |
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| Lake Winnebago must be a ghost town this time of the year with the lack of reports. Oh ya, Shhhhhh!, it's tournament time. This's where everything is "James Bond kind of stuff" and everyone's on "double secret probation" like Animal House. He, He, He |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | I haven't fished since Sunday in the MWS event and with the number of limits caught - all I can say is, go fishing and you'll catch fish.
Pick your favorite tactic and you'll get bit! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | what BE said -- go out, catch fish, it's really that simple right now. I've been out a few times in between wind swells, killed 'em several different ways in numerous areas. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Bluegills are staging to spawn. I caught the biggest gill of my life tonight -- just shy of 12" and super broad across the shoulders, looked kind of mutant like. I don't have the funds for a mount and want those genes in the pool so she is still swimming.
Tons of 5"-6" crappies tonight, too. I can't wait until this year class matures. |
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | I caught a big gill trolling this morning. Had the board in the splash well while I messed with another fish - it rattled the board out of the splash well - invasion of the mutant blue gills! |
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| out sat am west side trolling, about 10 got the first fish just stayed there and picked up 10 total.I never put out green baits, but thats what they all came on,4'-6' water'.took 3 hrs to get the last one.Off to buy some tiger baits as i only had 6 of them and it took awhile to get the dust off of them.Ralph. |
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Location: Manawa Wiscowsin | I was out on the 16th, east side by the wind farm. Picked up some nice eyes up to 24". Fire tiger and bright color Hot-n-Tots, 30 back at 2.0mph. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Was out yesterday from 3-6pm. Planned to start in an area on the north end that has been producing well, but I got out there to find a massive, thick slick of blue-green algae. Surface temp was 85 and flat calm.
Moved south a couple of miles and pulled harnesses. Just after I hit a double, the wind went from zero-to-20mph before I could reposition for another pass. Motored back to the north end -- the wind had broken up the algae slick and I was able to find a few more moving parallel to the north shore in 15'.
Fish seem to be really tight to the bottom. Purple Cisco Blades carried the day again. |
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| I was out from the river in Oshkosh today, scum covered and gross would describe the water today. I started in 17 feet of water and headed north toward Garlic Island. My last pole I threw out was a long line 25 feet behind the boat with a # 5 Chartreuse Pearl Flicker Shad for White Bass. To my surprise, a 23 inch Walleye inhaled the bait. Thinking this was a fluke, I threw it back out 25 feet behind the board and within minutes, I had a second 20 inch Walleye. I quickly reset all my lines with #5 Pearl Flickers, 25 back and over the next 90 minutes caught and released an additional 12 Walleyes all over 20 inches. The water was so gross that I CPRed all the fish. Everything including my baits, boards, line, net and boat were covered in green slime and flies.
Fished for an additional 5 hours in the area and could not catch a Walleye. Very weird experience.
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| Lots of dead northern floating on the upper lakes. Some nice fish too.
Cooler temps may help, but we need rain more than anything. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Lots of dead fish in the Bago, too. Probably looks whole lot worse than it is. Mostly smaller fish, perch and rock bass, but I did see some decent eyes floating as well. The algae is by far the worse I've seen it in my 10 years living here -- and we've still got 6-8 weeks of summer. The wind the other evening along with the breezes of the last couple of days have helped, but I'm sure it'll be back in full force.
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| Over the last 2 weeks, I've had lots of 36+ inch northern floating by my dock. Yesterday, I pulled a 42 and a 41 inch northern. I stopped fishing for Walleyes in the river and on Butte... Still lots of big fish, but can't revive them no matter what I try.
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Does anyone remember the summer of 1988?
I guess the area had 34 days of 90 degree weather. Had to cause issues with the fish then too? |
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Location: Manawa Wiscowsin | Was that the year that the golfers broke through the slime and drown?
I was in Ontario the second week of June that year and spent the days swimming in the shadow of the houseboat and fished at night. We had 100+ degrees most of the week. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Sharing from elsewhere:
Lake Winnebago Anglers,
I have a request of you to aid in the management of our great fishery. We are currently conducting a limited creel survey of anglers, and we need your cooperation to get the best information we can to manage the fishery. During July, August and September, we will have creel clerks at randomly selected landings and days around Lake Winnebago asking anglers how long they were fishing, what they were fishing for, what they caught and what they kept. We are primarily interested in perch and walleye, but are also collecting data on other species as well. We need to measure and determine the sex of a sample of your perch and walleye to obtain a sexed length distribution of the harvest and percent females and males. This is important management information that we have not collected in a long time. While this is not a full blown creel survey, it will give us insights into what anglers are actually harvesting.
To get these sexed data, we need to cut into some of your fish to examine the gonads. While I realize that this will cause you a slight delay and may affect how you normally process your fish, I ask that you cooperate with the survey and allow us to get this critical management information.
You may be curious as to the reason we are interested in collecting this information, and that’s a fair question. In a nutshell, we are curious as to why we don’t see larger numbers of 9 – 12 inch perch in the system. Since 2001, we have seen perch year classes that are 4 – 10 times larger than those observed in the previous decade and a half, yet we rarely see perch larger than 9 inches during our community assessment trawling. In addition, this past spring, we set fyke nets to assess the size structure of spawning adult perch. The nets were packed with perch, sometimes >1400 per net, but 97% of these fish were less than 9” in length. We’ve documented huge year classes of yellow perch from 2004 – 07 from trawling, but these year classes have not produced good numbers of jumbo perch, which we should be seeing by now.
Some of you may jump to the conclusion that this is the first step in reducing the bag limit for perch, but this is not the case. Rather, we are collecting data to understand more about the dynamics of the perch and walleye fisheries. After we’ve collected and analyzed the data we will hold public meetings with anglers to discuss the results of our survey and together, determine the best management approach for the Winnebago system as we have always done in the past.
So please, be patient and cooperate with the creel clerks and allow us to get this important information for the best management of our great system. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kendall Kamke Senior Fisheries Biologist |
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| walleye spawn sucess for 2012 was "non existant" reports say. KEEP THAT IN MIND as you venture out next year as the exploitation rates were very high also!
Good Luck
Tyee |
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| Totally agree tyee! The Wisconsin meat hogs need to realize its OK not keep a limit every time out. I personally kept less than 1 out of 10 fish I caught this year and didn't keep a single fish the month of June...It was actually kind of nice to just go fishing and not worrying about how many were in the box or cleaning fish when I got home.
It's tough to expect culture change I suppose, but wishful thinking. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Tyee, you got the actuall report yet? |
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| Its ugly, wont be available till november |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Thanks for the warning Rod. Be sure to post it when it becomes available.
Edited by Viking 10/19/2012 12:46 PM
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