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| I was a long-haired up north walleye fisherman. And a part time rock star!
Check this one out . Found this in my drawyer.
1977
33.50"
11.75 lbs
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Location: Lake City MN | Awesome pics dude. Old photo's are great arn't they.
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Location: NW Illinois | Hey Beaver, great pics. I don't think I'd have the guts to put any of my pics from that era up on the board. Looks to me like you had a lot more hair than what I remember you having when I met ya a few years ago. You probably don't remember me, but I met you at a get together for another board we used to be associated with, and you sent me a pool 13 hotspots map. I do remember you were one heck of a grill man!
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | beav, we gotta get together and catch some river eyes !! |
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Location: Chicago IL. | It reminds me of when I had my hair in a ponytail!!!!! Wait,,,,,,, it reminds me of when I HAD hair!!! Rock on, John Mannerino #473 |
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| Rooster, I remember. This place is a much better fit. There's lots more head room.
Larry, I was going to come out this weekend until I saw the weather report. I'll be up for a 3-day weekend next week and then my daughter and I will be up from the 9th to the 18th.
I have 2 pony tails of mine in my drawyer. I stick them inside of my hat in front of ears and look like an Orthodox Jew.
Good thing I have pictures to remind me of everything that I did back then......well, not everything......that would be too scary!
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Location: Annandale, MN | Cool pictures! and couldn't agree more on the headroom comment Beaver. Nav |
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Location: NW Illinois | Hey Beaver, I read some really great articles that you wrote in the past. There are some, like the one on ringworming the river, that I would love to read again. Do you have them published on the web somewhere, or available? It seems to me you wrote one on fishing wood for walleyes too. That is something I am very interested in learning more about. Are they still out there, and if so, how do I find them. You really have a knack for putting it down in a way I can follow.
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| http://walleye.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/03.31.2004/150/Ring.Wormi...
http://walleye.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/03.31.2004/152/Totally.Tu...
http://walleye.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/03.31.2004/151/Things.are...
http://walleye.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/03.31.2004/255/Don't.Be.A...
http://walleye.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/03.31.2004/254/The.Long.A... |
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| good writing! anybody that meticulous has gotta catch some fish, jeez
talk about payin attentionnnn
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Location: Rochester, MN | This is the man that taught me all about and how to pitch ring worms and plastics. He's damn good at it I will say that much!
He has a few other tricks up his sleeve too though (as evidence by playing the drums) he's not a one trick pony and meticulous would be an excellent word to describe Beav. You should see how organized Beav keeps his tackle.
Now I have to tell this story because I think its fun and needs to be told. I will never forget the first time I met beav. He was going to meet me for a day on the mississippi river throwing ring worms. It was in may of 2000 I believe and we met for the first time at the launch and headed out in my boat on pool 7 to throw ring worms mostly on wing dams for eyes or whatever bit.
So here we are out there and beav trots out this fishing bag with rows and rows of plastic sleeves full of plastics and of about every color you could imagine. So Im used to fishing dams by trolling or facing up with them and casting. We get to are first wing dam and beav says lets stop here and fish this one. Im thinking to myself this wing dam sucks...I never catch anything on this one come to think of it I usually just drive on by. So I pull up and beav is directing me where to locate the boat. Get way out here on the end of it and I will get on the anchor. So we do that and after a few of forward and reverse and him letting rope out we stop to his preferred boat position on the dam for casting.
As I recall the weather was perfect that day for casting light tackle. Not a stich wind, overcast, late May...what more could you ask for! So Beav gets a few bags of ring worms out and tosses them on the deck. This one's a great color...its called tequilla sunrise!. Im thinking sounds like a good drink to me. So I put on a chartreuse pepper and we start chucking these things. My first cast was right near the dam. Beav meanwhile launches one into orbit way upstream and at a different angle. Im thinking what in the heck the wing dam is over here. Then all of a sudden he starts doing this bob and weav with the rod and the line. At this point Im thinking where is he going with this technique. Beav says nah hougie you gotta trow it upstream and let the current take it to em.. Im like...oh..allright beav. So I follow Beav's lead and then he starts walking to the back of the boat where Im at and Im like you mean to tell me in a 17 foot boat this guy cant just fish up front?. Beav says you gotta do the ring worm dance! Im thinking what!?. Yeah he says you go to the front of the boat so I can stay even with my bait while its driftin down stream. Ok so we go on about this for a few dams or so maybe an hour passing buy without so much as a strike and Im thinking. Is this guy kidding!
But then all of a sudden we pull up to this dam and after jockeying to get in the perfect position with the anchor I make the first cast...half heartedly I might add. WHACK!!!.... And I know Beav could describe this way better than I could but Im like holy crap...I got one! That fish hit that thing so hard I swore I could feel it in my toes. A nice 19 inch walleye and Im just about shaking going Beav...that was phenomenal...I never would have believed it. You never saw a guy smile and giggle like that. He was so happy to have been able to pass that experience on. Later on Beav put on an absolute clinic throwing plastics to some smallies that were stacked up on the inside corner of a wingdam. He was catching them on rings, tubes, grubs, cranks, spiders flukes and just about everying he had in the box. That is certainly one day I will not forget.
Beav has also been very clear to point out that others before him such as Larry Erickson of Stoddard, WI really put ring worms on the map. Hutch is another guy who should be mentioned here as well. I will tell you this. It is my opinion that Beav has indirectly had a big impact on these ring worms being marketed lately. I know it.
The guy is a riot and a blast to fish with and Im proud to call him my friend. He is truly one of the good guys in fishing.
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| Come on Hougie, I'm blushing and laughing both. You described it to a T. I knew that I created a monster when you set into that first fish.
You're right about giving credit where credit is due. I never would have tried ringworms if I hadn't read about Larry Erickson in Walleye In-Sider. I had fished the shallow, natural presentation technique, but mostly with tubes and other plastics with a slow sink rate that float well in the current. I'm sure lots of people tried the ringworm technique after the article about Larry was published. 75% probably tried it once or twice and gave it up. 25% tried it and gave it a decent try and out of that 25% maybe 5% really stuck with it. I'm glad that I stuck with it, because it accounts for the majority of my fish every year.
Besides Larry, I have to tip my hat to Hutch. We spent a day at Red Wing in November one year and he took me to school with ringworming, hairjigging and more. He even went so far on one day, that he reeled in a couple of keeper sized saugers without ever setting the hook! Those fish had that ringworm in their mouths and they just wouldn't let go. He reeled them slowly all the way to the surface, and they just sat there with their jaws clamped around that worm. I remember him saying, "I think he likes that one." and then he'd wiggle them off and make another cast.
Now my ringworm box is a 10 gallon Rubbermaid container with bags and bags of 100's of worms. On a good day, you can go through 20 of one color, and you never know which color it's going to be.
I believe in giving credit to the people that pioneer techniques. Every time I get into fish, I should send thank you cards to Larry and Hutch.
Prime ringworming time is coming up fast, and so is the river. I'll be spending almost 2 weeks up there with my 8-year old daughter in the weeks to come, and she's already excited about being out on the river throwing worms around. But she's disappointed that she's not going hand-lining with Hutch.
I'll remember that day Hougie. Your first walleye on a ringworm and my first walleye trolling spinner rigs and crawlers on wingdams. You learn something new every day.....unless you're stupid!
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Location: Annandale, MN | I think ANYBODY that reads the articles and the story that hougie tells will enjoy & benefit from it. I also think that it shows never under-estimate methods for catching fish. For one, fishing plastics for walleyes breaks a number of paradigms, in that eye's can only be caught on livebait.
I thought I was the plastics king, as far as owning every color imaginable. Guess I need to work on it. Nav |
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| Any chance you could show me those wingdams?  I live on pool 7. |
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| Here's a pair caught in November on the same wing dam, 10 minutes apart. Both on hairjigs. My wife and I caught 22 walleyes in 3 days on that one dam. A bunch of eaters and a couple 4's and 5's that went back. You should be able to tell where I am just by looking at the backround of the picture.
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| Beautifull fish Beaver. Cool head gear too. I think I recognize the place, but won't say for sure. No matter anyways. |
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| I recognise the place Herb. You and I have been there before. Matter of fact Beav and I have been there before too. Matter of fact the "rockman" and i have been there also. THANKS for the kind words guys, I'll pay ya latter. On the subject of ringworms i had a client last night for a trip in the dark. If you didn't have on a motor oil chartreuce tail you didn't get squat. I bet I threw a good 50 different colors last night and did not catch a fish on anything else but. Go figure. Tell me Beav what model of depth finder is that in the last photo. I swear I used to have one like that "many a year ago" and just can't think of what it was. Hutch. B.T.W. Beav we are fishing next week!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Yup, I thought so. That's why I didn't want to say anything. Now ya got me 'homesick'. |
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Location: Chicago IL. | Know the place all so well Hutch. One of my favorite spots. Awsome smallmouth spot also. John (rockman) Mannerino. |
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| Now ya got me 'homesick'.
Herb, c'mon up anytime! I'll supply everything. I may even show you how to corral some willow cats. |
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| That was an Eagle something or other. Hell, that was ten years ago.......I don't remember what I did 10 days ago.
Taylor and I will be up from the 9th-18th. We'll go if you don't have clients. If you can book a trip, then by all means, do it. We'll just follow you around...LOL Make hay while you can!
We'll see you out there someplace. I just hope that my favorite spot cleans up enough to get a worm through the leaves, or we'll wind up going upstream.
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