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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I'm planing to take the kids out tomorrow afternoon and hit a few shoteline rocky areas with jigs and slips. Has anybody been out on Winnebago lately? I'm hearing of a few fishing being caught after dark and I hope to find a few while it's still light. Thanks in advance!! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Yep, there's some action along shore at/after dusk. The water is gin clear so a daytime shallow bite might be tough. It looks like there will be a little wind tomorrow to stir things up. Good luck. |
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| FYI, there's a moderate lakeflie hatch underway as of today as well. |
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Location: Greenville Wi | Hit the west side reef last night.Drifted ended up with one 17 1/2" on green 1/16 w/leech.Still pretty slow.Talked to a couple guys at landing now one had anything but had been getting them on slips |
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Location: Appleton wi | Jerry, if your still looking for info. p.m me. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Eyehunter - 4/23/2010 10:29 AM
Hit the west side reef last night.Drifted ended up with one 17 1/2" on green 1/16 w/leech.Still pretty slow.Talked to a couple guys at landing now one had anything but had been getting them on slips
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Location: Menasha, WI | Lakeflie hatch has moved from moderate to major. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | If lakeflies were locusts, the apocalypse would be here. |
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Location: Darboy USA | Big hatch on the east shore as well right now. Eyes should be hitting leeches along the shorelines shortly now...... |
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Location: Greenville Wi | Sorry took so long upnorth for weekend We had 56 to 58 on the ones I was on |
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Location: Berlin | The fish are REALLY fat right now all over the system. It will make these early events very interesting. They are still eating but it won't take much to shut them off. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Thanks eyehunter |
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Location: Darboy USA | Rich- I caught 7 eyes on the Bay last week and they were REALLY skinny for Bay fish. Maybe 5 eyes of equal size will weigh more than GB fish early this year?? Bet the 24 inchers were only 2.5#-3.0#.
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Location: Berlin | Wow, that is not the problem here. I would say a 19.5" fish right now is pushing 3lbs. They look like they are full spawn females...but they're not.
Edited by Rich S 4/28/2010 9:29 AM
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | The fish we caught on the Bay last year in late April/early May were real skinny too. By mid May they had really fatened up. I think that's just from the normal spawning rigors. |
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| out sat morning, started out with slips got 3 walleyes & 1 nice crappie.after over an hour with nothing we started to troll and got our limit of walleyes. 20" bigest.the wind helped as the fish were down the reef from where we were using bobbers.#5 cranks. |
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| Hi there Walleyeralpf! (easy day to lose a board out there!)
Took my dad out for just over one hour, before the waves tuckered him out, and we had two eyes on #5's also. About 5' to 8' of water. West side. Not as productive as Walleyeralph but my dad sure was excited over the fat 20"er. |
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| Good 2 here from u gilman,sat on best spring bobber spot and only got 3 in about2.5 hrs.then started to troll and they were just down the reef a ways,right where i usually dont get any. go figure.I'am still waiting 4 call call from my board that i lost last year,I sure wish u would have found it.lol good luck fishing this year ,I might just c u out there.thanks again, Ralph.  |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Out today from 10:30-2:00. I had 2 bites all day but they were worth it; two fat eyes 24" and 19". Pulling harnesses over hard bottom in 10'-11'; Northland holographic Purple Cisco took both fish. |
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Location: Manawa Wiscowsin | When fishing harnesses has anyone used Gulp crawlers instead of the real kind? How do they compare?
The white bass are hitting above New London. Small spinners and cranks (Mirrolure size SM) are the way to go for the big ones. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Dave,
I've had some success with Gulp crawlers but only on days when they're really biting. In most cases, real crawlers out perform by a wide margin. |
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Location: Janesville | do you guys use bouncers with the harnesses? if you do what sizes do you use? i'll be up there in june/july since my dad now lives in oshkosh. first time fishing up there. should be able to catch some fish. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | There are a variety of weights you can use; bouncers, snaps weights, in-lines, spoons, etc...More often than not I use SnapLoc Dipsey weights
http://www.watergremlin.com/snaploc.html
because I like the versatility.
As for size of the weights, it really depends on how deep you want your harness to run. Running depths are very speed dependent. Out in the mud, I like to start out with a 1/4oz, a 1/2oz, and a 1oz each 30' back from the board moving at about 1.1mph. I always run the shallowest running line on the outside. With this set up, I have the bottom half of the water column covered with one line at ~10', one at ~15' and one right at the bottom. If one depth starts producing, I can quickly change out sinkers on the other lines to get into the strike zone. On the reef, I'll set up in a similar way but use a small split-shot, an 1/8oz, and a 1/4oz respectively. If I get into real shallow water just a split-shot or no weight at all.
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Jeez, I miss the early spring, east side, #4 split shot and 60 feet back harness program on bago. |
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| Mark-Dont forget the east side chicken- |
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