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 Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Started just west of the Spark Plug this morning in a 1 to 2 foot NE chop. Had planned on going all the way to the outer Spark Plug or the 3 humps and fish deep, 27 to 30 FOW. But my intuition got the better of me and we spun around and started a troll back SW towards that corner of the Bay. Only hit one fish for the first mile or so but noticed a ton of fish belly to the bottom, the usual place for them to be on a NE wind. The usual late August/early September plan of mine for the last few years is an outrageous program where I let Rattle Tots out 180 feet and gouge the bottom or get as close to it as I can. The down side of course is dealing with that much line on turns or keeping lines seperated when fish hit outside lines and run or get dragged across inside ones. So I figure what the Hell, I'll go 40/40 with 1 1/2 ounce snap weights in front of the Rattle Tots. That should accomplish the same thing with less line. Well she did, and we pulled 13 walleyes with 2 being to short. Many of the extreme outside lines (ones closest to the water) that I checked now and then had zebras on their hooks and mud stuck on their bills, but they produced a pretty decent catch for this time of year on the Bay. Edited by walleye express 8/21/2008 2:45 PM Attachments ----------------  IM001744.JPG (132KB - 141 downloads) | ||
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| walleye express |
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | 10 years??????....you should have been on the boat yesterday.   The only hard part for me yesterday, after them 4 yutes learned what a strike looked like, was trying to teach them that the outer most 2 rods on each side were hitting/gouging bottom now and then and a bent rod was not always a strike. My neck is still sore from them yelling fish on 100 times and my having to look and verify rather it was indeed a fish or the bottom. With some foresight, I'll be using 1 ounce or 3/4 ounce snaps next time out. Those 1 1/2 ouncers were already set up and ready to go, so they got used.  Edited by walleye express 8/22/2008 8:53 AM | ||
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| Chamookman |
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| FISH ON !!!!!! Sorry Danno - couldn't resist - Bob | |||
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| walleye express |
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I knew I was in trouble when the Uncle (shown in the picture) tells me that he told all 4 of his nephews if they had any questions at all to ask Capt. Dan. I'm thinking of adding a Sur-Charge on my trips next year for any questions answered after 100. One of them even asked who I was voting for McCain or Obama. From the sheer terror in his eyes during my answer, I'm guessing he won't ask me that again any time soon. Edited by walleye express 8/23/2008 9:09 AM | ||
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