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Location: Menasha, WI | Avg Joe,
I spool 12# Trline, a swivel, then run about 3 feet of 8# Vanish to a Northland floating jighead. Above the swivel I use a 3/4-1oz Gremlin snap sinker. Cast out as far as you can and leave the line slack -- some guys like to keep the line tight but when fish hit they'll feel the resistance and drop it -- if you leave slack your line will tighten up as the fish runs with it. Let the fish take all the slack out then set the hook.
I sent you a PM about the carp ponds.
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Location: Menasha, WI | The wind and rain mucked things up pretty good this morning but I still managed a 15" eye, a 10" eye, a nice catfish, and more sheephead than usual. Shorefishing on the westside. |
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | I went out yesterday around 3 and it seemed to take the fish a little while to get straightened out after the rain, though I did see a few caught around Stony Beach up to Roe Point. The slip bobber crowd seemed to do about equally as well as the trollers. In about 5-6 FOW things got busy just before dark and I got my 5 slip bobbing with leeches. Only eating size, but when you throw in a couple jumping smallies, a couple catfish and a friend who should host a "how not to fish show" it made for a pretty entertaining evening.
I wonder if the same thing is going to happen today...
Viking, thanks for the suggestions, I'll let you know how they work for me. |
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Location: Kaukauna WI | Fished Fri. and Sat. East Shore. The storms seemed to send the fish a little deeper, took me a while to fgure that out on Fri. Trolled 10' line first without a bite for quite a while before moving to about 14 to 15fow. caught four eyes, 14 and 15" on wallys and sparkletails in firetiger. Then the big storm chased me off the water. Sat was a tough bite for a friend and I as we only managed four keeper eyes and a couple shortys. Also caught a couple sauger, 17" and 12", nice to see them around yet, they looked real healthy. The DNR is working hard to save them. |
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| Fished Butte des Morts on Sat moring (5/22). Cuaght 2 14",2 17" and lost a slob about 24" at the boat. To the 3 guys in the warrior- the lake is 8,857 acres. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Today in one word - miserable. Cold, wet, and slow. A few sheephead and an 8#-10# carp -- maybe I can fish with Rick L  |
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| out this morning west side reefs,got 10 trolling.believe this my dog can predict the weather better than these weathermen.the last i heard it was going 2 rain sat night.nothing big 15.5 - 14.0.  |
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Hey, leave those carp for me!:-) |
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| Went out around noon and got 5 in an hour, Glass Shad raps and purple prizm T-sticks. Shads back 50-60 and t-sticks back 25. Running 1.8 to 2.0mph on GPS with the wind. Most small but was able to let two over twenty go back. They bit right thru the rain. Must be hungry devils.
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Location: Kaukauna WI | Fished east shore this am. Trolled wallys, DJs, shadraps, lil rippers etc. only boated one 14" lost one at boat about that size, and put back a 12". Couple whiteys and sheep. Not too good and miserable weather besides. Better days ahead. |
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | trolled the east side out from stockbridge, pulled stick jrs and jointed raps. both worked good landing three nice fish each. biggest was a 24.5 let go for the tourny fishermen. had to play with the speed to get the fish,with the waves surging my boards . then it was the same color jrs and raps that would work so i had three of each out. plan on getting back out next weekend |
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| Hey Rick,
Here's my report for the weekend tourney. We went to Garlic with no luck. Then we took the ride to Stockbridge. We put some jointed shad raps in, within 5 min.’s had 2 at 15". We tried to stay in 12'. We caught all small ones after that. Then around noon we headed back to the mouth of the river, on our first pass we had an 18 incher. That would be it for us. 5.15# ‘s for 19th out of 67 teams. Hey Larry just wondering if you were working the deeper water?
Bob
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19th was good, one big fish away from being a hero!:-)
I had some wally divers painted that color that was so hot for you last year, you want one? |
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| Sure, let me know how much? Yea one big girl would of put us around 3rd.
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Seven and a half bucks, without shipping. Otherwise, contact terroreyes, a registered user to this site, and he will paint any crankbait that you send to him.:-) |
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| Hey Rick, how about taking a pic. of it then I could decided. Send it to my email address.
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Ok. I'll fire up the camera! |
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Location: Kaukauna WI | Tue. fished west shore between garlic and neenah. Caught five trolling various cranks, 12",12",13",14",14". Released all. Murky water, most fish came closer to neenah in about10-12FOW. Saw a few trollers out in the mud. Anyone know of a mud bite yet? Don't need any specific area if you don't want to give up a tourney spot,just wondering if its worth a try out there yet. |
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| It's worth the try..mosyt fish are 8 to 12 feet down,over 18 to 21 feet of water. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Trolled the mud today for 5 hours without a walleye. Saw one landed by another boat. Caught 3 white bass and one sheephead. Moved into the Northwest reef area along Stevens and got 3 fish between 13-16". Pulled everything I could think of trying and got the three on Deep Nitro Shiners in White/Chartreuse. |
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Location: Neenah Wi | I was out on thurs.evening fishing the mud with my youngest daughter and we managed to get 2 fish.A fella pulled into the landing next to us and said he had a good day and pulled about a 23" fish out of the box.The fish are out there just have to get your baits down to them.We were both fishing deep 12'and deeper.The whitebass were up higher.The 2 fish I had were on dj's 180ft back.Some nice marks down near the bottom too.Wish I could have stayed out a little longer but we still had fun.My 6 year old was reeling in one of the boards and a whitebass just crushed it.Good thing she had a good hold of the rod.:)
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Took the wife and youngest out for a short trip tonight and had a ball. Kept 8, release about that many more. Reef fishing at its best. Had as many 8 to 14 inchers as 14 to 16's. Best fishing on a dead calm night is always right in the middle of a huge pack of boats that are trolling in 5 fow.... or is it a small reef out in the middle of no where with just the bugs to keep you company? |
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Location: Fond du Lac Wi. | Was out today ended up with 4 waleyes and 1 perch,Hit garlic island reefs haystack and stevens reef. Slips and casting caught most of the fish but did try the mud 3 to 5 mi out from garlic island had 1 fish take the board way back but lost it.I had some thing follow one of the walleyes,it was huge and brown I think it was a muskie.
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| Sounds like from the weekend tournament reports that the mud bite is well underway. 22 lbs. is a lot of weight. I saw a pretty good bunch of guys off of long point in the mud and I trolled it for about an hour with little success. Lots of marks though. |
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Location: Chilton, WI | I was out over the past weekend and did ok. Trolled the mud Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday was pretty slow, Sat. I had a nice 26" 6 pounder that I released of course, and Sunday I got a limit of 14"-15" eyes. All fish caught about 10' down. |
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