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| Fished Sat the 29th in the mud and had non-stop action. White bass, sheeps and walleyes were all there. Had to weed thru plenty of junk fish, but the walleyes were there. Some nice fish as well. Cranks were the best with no one color really being better than the next. Hit a few waypoints on the gps and just kept going thru them and would get at least one walleye everytime we would pass thru it. Lots of boats out there, but plent of room for all. What a great Memorial weekend it was. Hopefully the cooler weather doesn't slow the bite this week. |
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Location: Devils Lake, ND | OK Sunshine, If that is the way it is, I understand. LOL!!!
I am not sure why this system is so tough. It has everything for good walleye fishing exceot the good walleye fishing. Getting a few each day, but by no means could I predict a tournament limit each day. Every fish comes a different way. Trolling, Cane, Jigging, Spinners, Cranks. You name it, I have tried it and caught at least one walleye on it.
Hopefully for you that live here, it turns on Monday after I leave. If not, Devils Lake is an 11 hour drive and I will offer discounts to Walleye First users for my guide service there. |
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| Johnnie, Are you going to do a Hummingbird seminar while you are here? |
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| Don't fret Jonnie, it's not really YOUR fault. You should have started your week with Chase rather than Dennis, LOLOLOLOL |
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| First time out trolling this year, 2 Walleyes, a 14 and a beautiful 29 incher... released. Not bad for a first time out, a new record for me on the Bago Chain. Both fish were caught on Firetiger #5's 35 back in 7 feet of water.
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| 550 boats in 3 tournaments this weekend.....
I think I'll wait to launch from the dock until the flotilla charges by!
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Location: Manawa Wiscowsin | Memorial Day I was out with my wife and a friend on Clarkes Bay (Lake Winneconne). We kept 11 eyes all about 14" long. We didn't pick up any larger ones. The catfish (up to 6 lbs) and crappies were also hitting our crank baits. Not many whites or sheep. I had to put back a 24" northern that was not going to make it. The hot baits were L&S Mirrolures (size 00M) and Flicker Shads in just about any light color, fire tiger, or silver flash running 15' to 25' back at 2mph. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | 500 boats! Wow, thats a lot of fried chicken. On a side note, been pouring over the lake oneida map. Its like you took lake winnebago and ran it east to west. The key factor here is WOW or wind + oneidga pancakes = walleyes. Just like the east side MM reefs and a nice lake wind. |
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| What was the mortality rate at the big tourny this weekend ? Things did not look good why didn't they have a set-up like Otter? |
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| Lakeside anglers were there to support the MWC/NTC. They do a great job. Any fish that were deemed not releasable were donated to a food pantry.
By my count, 766 fish for the MWC, and 710 for the NTC, with many of those registered in both. I'd say less than 1000 fish caught all together. Even if they had 50% mortality, which it appeared to me as less, that's less than 500 eyes, in a system that has more than that taken daily for several weeks of the the year by recreational anglers.
They key is the unreleasable fish were going to feed needy families. Heck, I would mind if all the fish weighed ended up there. |
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| Thanks Shep for that replay. Glad to hear they went to the local food pantry. keep those lines tight |
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| That should have said "I wouldn't mind if all the fish ended up at a food pantry".
Kept the lines tight on Sunday morning. My kid for the day, 5th grade Kendell, caught several walleyes, including a 21 incher, along with about 7 whites, and a crappie! All trolling in 19', a couple miles west of Calumet County Harbor. Money bait, 125 back took the big eye! Kidz Wish For Fish is a rewarding experience, and I'm happy to volunteer. |
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Location: Appleton wi | Fished bago saturday and had alot of action 5 eyes, 1 sauger and 20 whities. Cranked it in the Mud nothing big all 14-18". Went back out on monday afternoon same area, marked some nice fish but they wern't hungry and only managed 1 before we got blown off the lake around 6:30.  |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Sunday Morning: Scrounged together a decent basket with a few eater eyes and a nice surprise w/ couple of really nice, chunky crappies. Quite few dink eyes, some saugers too along with the standard sheep and a few whities. No pattern at all other than all were caught trolling; some on cranks, some on harnesses, some in 15', some in 19', some by reefs, some in the mud. |
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| 35-1/2 inches...still swimming, though I gave it a stern talking to about chasing Hot-n-Tots. No walleyes. |
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| Oops...couldn't post the pic. It was just a northern...no big whoop. |
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| We had about 13 last night and lost a couple more. We were running cranks and started with most of them low where we were marking most of the fish but they really moved up during the evening and had our best luck about 7' down over the mud near Cal County. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Real good evening bite going in the weeds; slips, crawlers in 2'-4' over the weed tops. Have to sort through a bunch of dinks but some nice eaters are mixed in. |
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| Viking
If you don't mind me asking........are you fishing 2 to 4 ft down over weeds in a little deeper water or are you actually in 2 to 4 ft of water and fishing above them in that shallow of water? |
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Location: Menasha, WI | The areas I've been fishing are tight to shore -- 2'-4' of water. These areas have been best when there's a wind crashing the shore -- the waves push the weeds down a bit and I'm fishing the jig about 12"-18" below my bobber. Best bite is between 8:30-9:00pm. |
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Location: Neenah, WI | The reef bite is also pretty good with slips & jigging in 8 - 10 fow. Lots of smaller fish to sort through, but caught nicer ones up to 18", and a few bonus smallies. Leeches work best, the sheeps don't like them as much as crawlers... |
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Location: Menasha, WI | I have been seeing a lot of baitfish again this year. Naked eye sightings of giant schools of minnows (possibly shiners) in the weeds and shallows and electronic sightings of big balls-o'-bait out in the mud. |
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point comfort on winnebago has huge schools of shad along the shoreline at dusk. and i mean huge schools. all within the last week!
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| The bite today was slow for us. Saw quite a show today, we we surrounded by several tournament boats working Garlic Reef. We drifted, and caught two, a couple of Ranger tournament boats were pulling cranks behind boards. We watched them catch 9 or 10 in half an hour, then decided to troll with them. We finished out a 2 man limit in less than one hour. |
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| Everyone give up on bago? I have been out a few times in the last week. Hit and miss as usual but the reefs are producing #'s and the mud bite a few studs. T-Stiks on mud jig and crawler on rocks. Good Luck |
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