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Location: Neenah, WI | I haven't been able to get out since Otter Street (wife had surgery). What's happening out there? Looks like I'll be able to get out this week. |
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| Dale,
A friend of mine has been catching fish way up on the North end in the mud. Nothing fancy, just pulling cranks. Mainly deep diving reef runners. I did pretty good last weekend on the reefs off Garlic Island. Mainly trolling up on the reef on the side that had the wind blowing into it. No particular crank seemed to work better than the other. As far as I know, they are still catching fish in the mud pretty consistently. I'm willing to bet that any spots that produced for you last year, should work again this year. The reefs are going good when you have the right wind as well. I haven't been catching anything real big though, just nice eating size fish. Good Luck! |
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Location: Neenah, WI | Thanks Mark. Good to hear from you. |
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| Dale,
I have a good bite going the last 3 days on Bago, pm me if you are looking for details. I was out the last 3 days with guests and we found a pretty good consistant bite on Cranks.
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| You cant go wrong with Dom and mark. You know both know this lake very well.
With the FLW Tour event a week away or so, big things are expected. Should be fun. What the water temp and hows the bloom looking? |
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| Decent bit still going on south end of lake trolling like it has been all spring and summer..... Picked up about a dozen eyes over 2 days all 16-24" eaters way south of oshkosh near long point area and straight across the lake on east shore has also been producing. |
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| Like Dale, it's been awhile since I've been on Bago, (Ok 2 years for me). Has anyone been having any luck with the big Reef Runners or are 600 and 200 still the way to go? (the boat can only hold so much tackle)
How is the Crawler bite?
We are going to be out there Thur-Sun, I'm not fishing the FLW, It's just a good week for Kim and I to get out.
Thanks
Ed
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Location: Menasha, WI | I just got home from a two week fishing vacation in northern MN and was thinking about heading out tomorrow. If anybody has some info they want to share, I'd appreciate a PM. |
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| Bob... check your pm
Edited by Purple Skeeter 7/7/2009 7:43 PM
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Location: Menasha, WI | Got it, thanks Dom. |
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| What a Lake, 200's for hot for us, Couldn't keep Six lines in, OK most time didn't have more the 3 in, Most were 18-22 One over 10lbs (OK it was a sheephead)
I would have to say the bite is on.
Ed
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Location: Omro,Wi. | xtackle - 7/9/2009 9:23 PM
What a Lake, 200's for hot for us, Couldn't keep Six lines in, OK most time didn't have more the 3 in, Most were 18-22 One over 10lbs (OK it was a sheephead)
I would have to say the bite is on.
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You forgot to give the LOCATION of the fish. Just an oversight on your part I'm shure...lol
Thanks for the bait tip! |
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| hey everyone i am finnally one of the few.... or not. i bought a boat, not much but something. it came with trolling rigs and i was hopefully going to try this weekend. i have tolled cranks often with a friend but never harnessess. any info on trolling harnesses like how far back the boards from the weight should be or how far back the weight should be from the spinner, any tips would be greatly appreciated. i live south end of the lake and will soon post on my results. if anyone was willing to give a suggestion on where to try pm me. as for the report i had some luck early in the week casting cranks along shore near weeds but only ended with 2. tried tolling cranks in 16-17 fow in the mud straight out from pipe up to brothertown on wed. with only sheeps to show for it. baits were 80- 120 feet behind the boards. hope this helps. jay |
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| Al right Jay..... here we go...
In my experience... #5 Colorado Blades (Northland Tackle is a great choice) run anywhere from 1.0-1.5 mph and anywhere from using an 1/8 oz inline weight and runnning 25 feet back to using a 1 oz weight and running 65 back. I will use a bottom bouncer on a sunny flat calm day during the mid afternoon and crawl with a rod with fireline in my hand. I've had 23 inch Walleyes hit a harness so light you would swear they were Perch.
The key for me is to stager 6 lines and figure out where the fish are. If you are catching too many Whitebass, go lower, if you're catching Sheephead and catfish... you're in the zone. Weather does not seem to mater, water temp does as does wind. I always start in the top 7 feet of the water column regardless of the weather and work my way up or down.
My first choice is a Crank bait, and if I can't seem to get them to go, I'll switch over to harnesses.
I attached a pick of my fav harness for bago and a few other colors I use.
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| thanks for the tips skeeter really appreciated. i havent tried yet but after i make a few i sure will try. as for the bite i got out yesterday and only found 1 18"er running thundersticks 60feet back north of the third reef. saw fish but not many takers. |
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| As usual PS is spot on. Also, do not be afraid to run smaller baits like 4 and 5 shad raps, flicker shads and tots. Run them from 3 foot down and thru the water column. For some reason, I have had better luck with the smaller baits this season.
Colors may vary, but as usual the firetiger, perch and golds have been good.
I hope the fish cooperate with your outings.
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| Fished the upper lakes today. Caught 3 Walleyes on Winneconnie and 4 on Big Butte along with a mixed bag of Crappies, Northerns, Whitebass and Sheephead. My best bait the last couple of days has been the #5 Flickershad in Citrus. It's funny how you can have a color in your box that you never use and all of a sudden over a 2 week period, that's the hot bait. I've been hitting 8 feet of water and trolling 1.6-1.7 mph running 30 feet behind the board. I've been hitting the water after 5pm, which is a first for me in several years.... but it's working.
I sure have a new appreciation to everyone who has ever tried to set up a Walleye boat on a budget... my new 2.5 HP Merc runs like you would expect a 1 cylinder motor.... 80% of the time fine, 20% of the time, I swear at it.... It's no T-8, but it works. By tying the motors together, I fixed the abrupt turning of the big motor when you let go.... I have to keep reminding myself that this is only a temporary rig that my brother has let me use.... he will be getting it back with all new rodholders, a new color Lowrance GPS/Depth Finder and a new kicker motor... and a new bilge pump... that died on me today.
How in the world can you rate a 16 foot Sylvan Aluminum boat for a 115 HP motor... the boat goes 41 MPH with a 2 stroke 70, I can't imagine how fast this boat would be if you hung a 115 on the back. That would just plain scary!
Sorry to the person that called me early on Saturday looking for eaters, I only got a portion of the message and could not tell who called me. After trying a half dozen of my friends at 6 in the morning.... I gave up due to the unpleasant greeting I was receiving.... and I thought my friends got out of bed every morning to fish... guess I was wrong!
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| got out tuesday and trolled east shore near fishermans road up to pipe and brothertown up to quinney and got 4 in the 17in range. all fish were 8-10 fow with cranks 30ft back. slightly slow since i was out for 4hrs in the morning. good luck to all, vacations over time to get back to evening fishing, seems better for me anyway. |
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| May have missed that part,(now that the FLW is over here it is). Fished again last Sat (Same results lots of fish), Ok Here is what we did, East side of the lake Stockbridge and South to windmills, Worked the 10 to 14 Foot break. It didn't seem to matter there were fish everywhere we would run in to big groups of fish every mile or so. Some bigger fish here and there. Biggest Walleye on Sat was 6lbs. Only fished for a few hours, didn't get out until after 11. The wind was blowing just a bit, Kim didn't puke but she was threatening too (may have been an excuse , but she did look a little green).
200 Series Ripshad is all we pulled on Saturday 65 to 85 feet back, mainly 75 feet back. XT Gold Banana was our go to bait, and no I'm not trying to sell the color, I have had good luck on this color for years on Winnebago (we had 3 out). Other colors that worked were Paralyzer, Gold Fish, Shrimp, Barenaked Fire Perch, Fruit loops. We had no luck on White based baits, and I tried, with all the white bass one would think that white would work. Kept 10 on Sat to have a fish fry.
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Location: mille lacs, mn. | I rarely read any "Bago reports" etc. but just saw this posting by Dale
today about Ginny having surgery? What's up? Not bad we hope......we pray!
Sending a PM wouldn't go through for some reason.
Steve Fellegy (and Joan)
651-270-3383
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Location: Menasha, WI | Ginny is in a neck brace, but she is about and around. She served as the secretary today for the tourney Dale runs and seemed in good spirits. thank goodness Dale had somebody watching over him 
Edited by Viking 7/18/2009 4:33 PM
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| My son and I fished Bago from 8am-1pm today. Nice walleye chop with cloudy skies. We kept 10 walleye's jigging shallow water on the east side. All fish were 16-23 inches. Then we went to one of our sauger spots and got our 2 sauger 17 and 19 inches pulling cranks in rather short order. Also hooked many bonus goats. Never had another boat by us until we got back to the landing. One fella at the dock tried to tell me the waves were 3 to 4 foot. I'd say 1-2 foot at best.
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Gman:
If your account is accurate you were over limit? |
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Location: Menasha, WI | No he wasn't. As of now the limit is 5 walleyes plus one sauger. The rule will be changed to 5 including one sauger.
Nevertheless, WFT and the folks that are working hard to bring the saugers back encourage everyone to continue to release saugers.
Edited by Viking 7/18/2009 6:56 PM
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| Sunshine - 7/18/2009 5:48 PM
Gman:
If your account is accurate you were over limit?
Sunshine, please explain? |
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