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Location: Darboy USA | Anyone been out hitting the reefs or shorelines for walleye yet? I'm anxiously awaiting on the fish to come back to the UR lakes, I don't have the patience to fish the run on the river, too many knuckleheads.
Will be taking the boat out for the first time tonite just to run the cobwebs out, might throw a few jigs on the east shore rocks to see if me and the boys can pick up an eye or 2. Any reports from the big lake would be appreciated.
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| Let me know I might head out in the am I also am a east shore guy
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Location: Menasha, WI | Fished west side channels yesterday. Caught well over 100+ fish, mostly crappies, but some gills, perch, and even some largemouth. Too bad only 10 were worthy to make it into the basket. Trolled some shorelines as a I moved between channels but didn't get bit. Lot's a green weeds made it through the winter. It's going to be thick out there this year. |
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Location: Darboy USA | Ran the boat and got the bugs out, all went well. Didn't pitch any jigs, but fished a creek opening with the boys and caught some smaller crappies, 7-9". Looked like a bunch of shad were spawning as well in there, tons of splashing going on and quite a few of them swimming up on top of the surface. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | I fished an Upper Lake today. Started out hot, put a 19" and a 20" in the boat within 45 minutes (along with a perch and a half a dozen white bass). Once the sun came out it shut off; 2 more hours passed before I got a 3rd eye -- a nice 24" girl spawned out girl that went back. Tried a bunch of combos but all eyes came on a Firetiger Flicker Shad 20' back at 1.5 mph. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Nice report Viking!! I'm off Thursday and I have room in the boat if anyone is interested in trolling up some eyes on Poygan or Winneconne. PM me if you're interested. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Only had a few hours tonight, so I stayed close to home and fished the NW corner of Bago. Trolled shorelines 4'-7'. No eyes but 6 decent smallies and HUGE sheephead, I've caught few that big over the years but never multiple 8#-12# fish on the same outing. It was actually kind of fun. |
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| Viking, are the buoys in at Jefferson Park. Thanks |
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| Not yet. Not in the channel nor on the Lighthouse Reef. Navigate with caution |
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| Fished Lake Wnneconne this morning. 3 walleyes between 19 and 20" on chartruse and pearl 15 feet back. |
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| Launched at rainboow,as we were going under the 41 bridge they have the new supports 4 the bridge in, and they have like a 3D look of fish in the supports.looks pretty cool.moved around butt, in the pack, alone,in the pack,alone, etc. 7 walleyes 5 perch, all on bobbers and leaches.Seen what i thought was a rocket going across the lake ? Nope it was the bass cat and that sucka can GO. lol Ralph.  |
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| Went to the upper lakes on friday and spent the day trolling. We caught walleyes, a northern , white bass, sheephead, a perch and a few crappies. Planned on doing jigging and slip bobbering thing but the trolling was so good we decided to not do that. Ended up with a limit of nice eating walleyes 13-18 inches. ALL of the walleyes were spawned out but were very well fed after spawing based on the fat on them when we cleaned them. Amazing thing happened, well something that I haven't had happen before. Bought a few new crankbaits that I thought would produce which usually isnt the case when buying what I would think would be a new "hot bait". But...in fact it was...90% of the fish came on that one bait. Just hope it continues to produce like that.
Heard from numerous others who were out in various places across the lakes and up river area who did just as well as we did and better on friday.
Good luck and let those big ones go!! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Nice reports, folks. Thank you. I was unable to get out this weekend and now I feel even worse knowing the fish are biting. No worries, though, I'll get out soon. |
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| Spent friday morning on the upper lakes again and did very well. After trolling in various areas and switching baits and colors, we found them and what they wanted. Brought home a 2 man limit of walleyes to make me fatter than I already am. Released 8 fish that were over 19 1/2 biggest being 22in. Very windy. My eyes and face are wind burned but it was worth it. Fished for 5 hours.
Time to make some fries and a brandy 'ol fashioned!
Let the big ones go!! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | guest - 4/5/2012 8:55 AM
Viking, are the buoys in at Jefferson Park. Thanks
The buoys are on the barge sitting in the Menasha Channel. I suspect they'll be put in place Monday. |
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| Trolled Poygan Saturday 4-14. Very slow for me. 3 white bass. Tried Flicker Shads, Salmos, Nils Masters and Raps.......could't get an eye! Weather was nice though. Fairly light (no where as stiff as the weather report suggested it would be) SW wind and it was 71 when we got off the water. |
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Location: Darboy USA | Was up on UR lakes as well yesterday. We did ok, trolled from 2-7 and pulled an 18, 19, 27.5" hog!! Biggest fish ive seen on the Bago system personally, easily 7 lbs, maybe more. All fat and muscle as she was post spawn. Few sheeps, nice 13.5" crappie, catfish and lost another eye as well. Tried about everything and bright colored flickers, shad raps and tsticks did the eyes in. Hopin it will only get better with time, really had to cover water just to get what we did.
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | My son and I trolled Thursday for 6 hrs on Poygan and Winneconne. We pulled chad raps and flicker shads. At high noon we got one 17" eye. Very slow for us. |
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| Do the Chad raps come in come in custom colors too? He he he |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | LOL....make that shad raps!!! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | FYI: The buoys are in on the North End -- Menasha & Neenah channels, Jefferson Park, Lighthouse reef, etc....I know I'll feel a little more comfortable with the water still as low as it is. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Got out a couple of times over the weekend on the big lake. Did great Friday drifting the reefs getting 9 eyes from 17"-22". Could only scrape up a single 20" eye on Sunday. The drop in surface temperature from Friday to Sunday was 5-6 degrees, so the tough bite Sunday wasn't too surprising.
With the predicted temps this week, the water temp should rise nicely and I think the bite is going to take off. In my 10 years fishing Bago, I've never caught so many eyes on the main lake in April -- the bite is typical of late May. Not only that, I've caught about 3 times as many eyes as sheephead recently, but I'm sure the goats will start biting too with the warm up.
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| If you have any baits that work good in chocolate milk, now's the time to pull them out. Wow did we get the rain last night.
The upper lakes will be filthy this weekend...every feeder creek/river is overflowed with mud, and more rain to come tonight. Winds at 10+ mph forecasted through Monday won't help either. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Shore bite has been good at dusk the last few nights. Sometimes th rain helps, but that much will probably screw it up.
Try driving around Oshkosh this morning. I could've used my boat to get through some of the flooded areas on Cty A.
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| Which launches do you recommend if coming from SE WI? I'm worried about road closures do to flooding. Is the water chocolate now or what? |
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