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| Did anybody watch the AM interview with John Schnieder? |
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| Weekend warrior, so tell me how many times you have had 3 to 4 fish on at once on the bay and they were all over 30 inches. Very sure that those days are gone. Yes I have had that happen, but not in the last 4 to 5 years. |
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| Still waiting for that 40# basket.  |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | I missed the cut by 6.61#. How about you? |
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Location: Rhinelander | It was hot in that parking lot. |
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| 5.28 for me, but looks like I may be 10-15 pounds light on my final. A little better average weight than I thought it would be. I think some of the wind helped pick the bite back up. Where are all these 30+ pound baskets everyone says they would have? Pretty tough when there are 125 boats fishing a spot. Maybe in practice. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | sworrall - 7/22/2011 8:14 PM
It was hot in that parking lot.
Now thats just funny |
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| I was 18 lbs short, but at the average for the top ten. Congrats Steve. Crushed the field. |
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| The General - 7/18/2011 1:21 PM
Green Bays big fish population has been desimated!!! I'll say 68pounds to win.
This weekend the small ones went to the table and the big ones were all released. We absolutely had no problem getting onto big fish. I purposely fished the bay this weekend because of this post I read and to prove a point. My conclusion is "you have no idea what your talking about and need to get out there more often and fish smart while your there."  |
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| LurePresentation - 7/24/2011 11:57 AM
The General - 7/18/2011 1:21 PM
Green Bays big fish population has been desimated!!! I'll say 68pounds to win.
This weekend the small ones went to the table and the big ones were all released. We absolutely had no problem getting onto big fish. I purposely fished the bay this weekend because of this post I read and to prove a point. My conclusion is "you have no idea what your talking about and need to get out there more often and fish smart while your there." ; )
LOL OK...... Maybe you should have put your money where your mouth is on Wensday, or posted some pics so your fishing report isn't so laughable.
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| I am wondering what he means by "Big Fish". when you talk the bay, big means 8# and up! |
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| I agree that is part of the problem. Winnebagoers feel a "big fish" is 22+...that is not the case on the bay...I didn't hear much of it during the FLW, but I've heard many tournament anglers on the bay in the past few years talking about catching a "kicker fish"...5 years ago that term didn't exist on the bay...you either got bit or you didn't....there are plenty of mid 20's out there yet, but the true big fish of GB are declining... |
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| I some help from a couple people out there on how to fish the bay. I won't use names but they know who they are. Last week I watched my 72 year old dad do battle with a 31.5 inch walleye. He was so excited he even hugged me. Were not a very hugging family. It was the biggest walleye he ever caught and he has been fishing all over the us and canada. I first wanted to thank you guys for your help. I can't say anything about what the population of big fish was and what it is now. I will say I don't think its any different then the winnebago system. I'm 46 and when I was a kid we would go out on the reefs and catch 30 walleyes like nothing. We also had a raft and killed every female we caught in the spring. This is what we were taught to do. Years later after the damage was done we realized this was not a good practice. Some people never learned that till this day. This is probebly whats going on up in the bay. |
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| I just thought of another thing. Years ago we never fished the mud on bago. I don't know who figured it out but once the word got out it didn't take long to clean out most of the big walleyes from it. I don't claim to be the best fisherman on bago but I have not caught a 26 inch out there in 6 years and those use to be common for me years past. Last year I didn't think there were any walleyes left because I could not catch squat in the summer. Didn't realize how many shad were out there till sturgeon spearing. This year has been crazy with fish because we pretty much are catching them everywhere. Mud,rocks,weeds and I'm still getting them in the river. Nothing over 21 inchs but there sure are allot of fish in this system now. Hope it stays that way and people keep letting the big ones grow. |
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Location: Chicago IL. | Crap I was .4 off. Did I win a all expense paid trip to Chicago? Wow I thought this was a quess the weight thread. |
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| Thank you George and Guest for explaining to "Lure Presentation" what big fish are!! I"m talking 27 to 33 inch fish. Not the 3 to 5lbers you enjoyed yourself with this weekend. Oh ya and my 68lb prediction was eighth place. A whopping 4.5lb average out of 140 boat tournament. lmao Thanks for reading my posts though |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | The General.....what are you laughing at? If you take a look back at the FLW Tour events from 2005 and 2006 you'll see the average fish is nearly the same as now. I will tell you that there is a great year class of 24-28" out there now and there are many bigger fish in the outer bay that will show themsleves as soon as the alewife's leave the reefs. The biggest issue with the lack of big fish is these fish have changed their feeding patterns due to the increased clarity of Green Bay from both zebra and quagga mussel invasions. The light penetration into the deeper waters of the Bay is at an alltime high and the biggest fish in the system are harder to find now more than ever. I am certain the big fish from the past that were found on shallow reefs and mud do not exist as they used to. They have evolved into fish that spend more time in deeper water and are harder to catch. I will agree that there used to be more big fish in the system and that those fish were caught by locals or tourney guys, but those "easy pickings" are gone. |
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| 6#'s avg. for central bay fish.....there was a time when it took 8+# avg's to win from the central bay. |
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| Jayman - 7/25/2011 12:08 PM
6#'s avg. for central bay fish.....there was a time when it took 8+# avg's to win from the central bay.
when was that ? Jerry was spot on with his comparison to the past Tour results. Also you will see the average go up on Sunday with a 3 fish limit and many fish ran through the livewell to get 3 central bay hawgs, for the MWS. |
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| "when was that ?"
You made my point. Thank you. |
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| Jerry the moral of my story is the fish in the central bay. The big dinosaurs....... they simply are not around in the large schools from cedar river to oconto like they use to be. I agree the ecosystem has changed but I dont buy that aquatic species and change of the ecosystem is hindering the catch rate on these big fish because they would still show themselves in the cedar river and menominee and oconto rivers in the spring and hands down Jerry there just not there. The spring runs have been getting worse and worse the past three years. The past two years is when it really became evident. |
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| Remember when the MWS used to weigh 4 fish for GB events? |
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| Ya Jman it was last year. Where's your stats to prove your point? |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | No more arguments here from me, I've said what I want to say. I will tell you that the fishing on the Bay is nothing short of spectacular and I will continue to enjoy it as much as possible. Good luck to the contestants at this week's MWS and I hope to see many of you at the SWC's Battle of the Bay!!! |
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