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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I'm still stuck on nights till June, so I'm living through those of you who get to fish from time to time. Has anyone been on Winnebago, Butte des Mortes, Winneconne, or Poygan lately? Just wondering if it's still slow or things are starting to pick up. It would be nice if we had a warming trend so these fish could get it going. I was out Sunday morning for 4 hours in the MWS tourney but we blanked before I left and afterward too. |
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Location: Neenah, WI | If the weather cooperates I'll get out there Sat. I'll post a report. |
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Location: Appleton | Picked up two dinks in winneconne and a 20" by spellmans. |
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| fished Butte Des Mort Today and only had one small one and a big sheepie before the lightning drove us off. Trolling. |
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Location: Neenah Wi | Well we decided to troll off Rainbow beach picked up 4 eyes about 14-15" and a few smaller fish and a big whitey.All fish were caught on wally divers run at 8-10ft down over 10-12fow.Oh yeah we did land a few smallmouth too.Sure was nice to get out on the lake again. |
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Location: Hartford, WI | Made it out trolling on Winneconne last Sat.... Got into The pike( 4 , 26 to 32) 8 eyes 14 to 19...And of course A few Whitebass..... All on Shad raps |
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | The lake was pretty worked up with that northeast wind last night, so I went to Sunset Point and caught dinner. It seemed that slip bobbers and night crawlers were the ticket. The people trolling eventually anchored up. I saw one nicer fish caught, everything else appeared to be about the size of a frying pan.
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| Fished yesterday(friday) on the upper lakes and tried all sorts of presentations in all sorts of spots. Was out from 6am till 330pm. Came up with 6 smaller eyes a couple of 20"ers, a 35" northern, a 10 lb carp, a dozen sheephead and a bluegill. Wind made it hard to fish a lot of the places I wanted to try. Warmest water I found was 57 degrees and that was at 300 pm. It didnt make a difference. |
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Location: Neenah Wi | Made it out for a couple of hours today and managed to get some of them pan sized eyes.Pulled boards again with wally divers and shad raps.fished in 10-13fow 40-60ft back.10 fish for the pan.:-)Over half the fish we cleaned had 1-3 baitfish in them.fished from 10:00-1:30.Oh yeah our biggest fish was a fat and sassy sand pike 18"sure is nice to see some meat on their bones again.No I did'nt keep it.Also got my first sheapshead of the year too.:-( My buddy Gary will probably have them eaten by the time he gets home.He sure loves his fish.He even thins out the sheapshead population for the rest of us.I just can't get myself to eat a sheepy.Sorry Gary.He always tells me thats more for him.:-)
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Nice report Risor!
Soon I will be free of training the new driver and I'll come and take you fishing.:-) |
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Location: Neenah Wi | Thanks Rick.I know what you mean about the new driver my daughter is getting her temps soon and then she can cart herself around and see how much gas is going to cost her.Ha Ha.Looking forward to getting out with you again.Shoot me a line when you have some free time. |
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Location: Neenah, WI | We slipbobbered the humps at Garlic yesterday and kept a few for supper. Threw back some 12-13" and a 22". It seemed about half and half leeches and crawler pieces. Lots of short bites. I guess stingers would have helped. 9-12' of water was best. As the sun got higher the bite tapered off. Went deeper to no avail. We trolled for about an hour with cranks and caught only little squirts. After all the bad weather it was nice to just get out there and enjoy the day. |
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| I was wondering where Kalbus Park is and where is Long Point. It sounds like those 2 areas are pretty productive in catching some eyes. I have no fish and seem to have a hard time catching them so looking for a place to go the next few days. What would be better...the east or west shore? What has been the best time to catch these walleyes? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike |
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| Went out today at around 7:00 am and ended up with our limit by 9 fished the east side in 8-12 fow all on glass raps |
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | Mike,
There are many better fisherman on this board than I, but I have been having some luck off of Roe Point (second point south of the mouth of the river in oshkosh) with slip bobbers and leeches or crawlers. Today there must have been 60 boats off of the Jesuit retreat house south of oshkosh - some slip bobbing, some trolling. These would be the first two places I would try. It seems like the bite has been best before 9 am and the last few hours before dark.
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| Hay every body, I,ve been out on Bago this week end with my boys, and had a great time. We limited out both days and caught fish from 13 to 27 inches. We kept 15 to 18 inchers for the table. The trolling bite is only going to get hotter. When we landed that 27 incher, I was getting ready to take the crank bait out , my son kept a little to much tention on the line, the bait poped out and barried its self into my midle finger. Did not have a wire cutters in the boat. ( **** ) So we trolled for another 2 hours with a cd 5 wally diver matalic pearch pattern hanging from my midle finger. My sons buddy came out fishing, and they just happen to have a wire cutters with them, cut the treble, sewed her through, glad that we had our limit ,because after that ordeal, i had enough of the day. I now have my wire cutters in my boat. Take care , have a great , safe fishing season . |
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| Another reason to have several of each type and color of crankbait! The "hot bait" is supposed to be in the water, not hanging from your flesh. At least it was on a beauty, not a stupid sheephead! |
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| Thx avg joe on a few tips where they are catching fish. I live on the north end of the lake so will probably stick to the northeast or northwest shores. Garlic Island area or calumet county park area. What kind of line do most guys use when trolling with boards. And what # line. Also is a glass rap just a rap with a glass looking body? I take it in size 5. I spend to much time on the golf course when I should be spending more time on the water when the fishing has been so good for most of you. Thanks for all info. Great site!!! Mike |
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| Trilene 10 pound XT is a prefered line choice for trolling on Bago as the precission trolling book (bible) dive curves use that as their choice as well. I'm sure there are other preferences but this is what I prefer. The Glass Rap he refers too is a "new" bait by Normark/Rapala. A little pricy but worth every penny!
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| There are some really nice fish comming off the East shore now! |
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Location: Appleton, WI | Hey Tyee, Did really good out tonight on east shore trolling. But I did see the glass raps in the store at fleet farm but they were the suspended rattlin type . Is that the bait that is so hot? And what colors are hot in that glass rap.? Got all my fish on a Storm Firetiger Hot N Tot. But would like to try a glass rap if they work. Thx for any info. Happy fish'n!!, MIke |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Shorefishing was productive yesterday from 2pm-4pm on the westside. Three eyes 16"-18" (yummy), a smallie, a few lost fish and, of course, several sheephead. Fished a rocky shoreline using a slip-sinker rig, chartreuse floating jig, and a leech. Tried a few other combinations and crawlers but leeches were the ticket. |
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| If one was to scroll back up the thread a bit, and read the story from Pat Gahan, I'm here to tell you he is on eating size fish on 'Bago!
We launched at Pipe and skirted acrossed the lake. Trolled around a number of reefs bouncing our cranks off the rocks, in as shallow as 5 feet of water. We had fish going the whole of our fishing time.
We brought home a limit of eaters with the count scored as follows: Rick - 5 fish, and Pat - 5 fish. But will give the bigger (not big mind you!) fish honors to Pat. We also caught sheeps and whiteys, which along with a bunch of shorts made for a very fun day with a very interesting and fun person.
The fish bit everything we trolled past them including Thundersticks, Reef Runers, Shad Raps, and Walley Divers.
Below please find a picture of Pat with a nice eater fish.
Edited by Rick Larson 5/19/2004 8:48 PM
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | Viking
Can you tell me how to set up a slip sinker rig? what other set-ups do people use to fish the shallow water either from shore or in a boat? I want to take my 9 year old off shore out by the carp ponds, but wondering how to set him up to keep from getting hung up too much.
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Location: Kaukauna WI | Left a few reports last year as a guest, finally registered. Heres what I've been up to lately; Fished Wed 5-19 east shore, caught a two man limit of nice eaters with a 20" big fish of the day. They seemed to prefer perch or firetiger patterns in wallys and shad raps. Couldn't do anything on longer baits like DJs or lilrippers. Fished the west shore today, and also had a blast. Similar baits and a little better average size. This is one great fishery we've got here. CPR the big gals.
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