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walleye express
Posted 11/18/2003 1:07 PM (#9466)
Subject: We have any Quarter Casters out there?



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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay.		 O.K., I know some, maybe even most are asking "what the heck is quarter casting?" No, it's not throwing real Quarters into the water to please or ask favors of the fish fairy. It's a technique done most (around here/Mich) by guys steelhead fishing on rivers. Yet, is my most productive walleye technique on one of the rivers I guide on, the Tittabawassee. It's a special technique when and where shallow/clear waters don't allow for the (slipping the current) technique to be very effective. Where the deeper holes are few and far between, or places in pools below wing or stationary overhead dams or spillways that are holding areas and are best consintrated on.

Places where you can anchor just ahead of and to the side of a hole, and quarter cast into it, methodically covering the whole hole from front to back with usually a jig and minnow offering. Places where you let the walleyes come to you, while they migrate upstream during spring of fall. The ultimate (hands on and feel) method for river fishing. That's quarter casting. How many of you do it? And whats your favorite lures for doing so?

I'll back later to see if you guys have done your homework. Don't let me down.

Edited by walleye express 11/18/2003 1:13 PM
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JLDII
Posted 11/18/2003 1:25 PM (#9468 - in reply to #9466)
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I've done something like that many times fishing the Mississippi. Sometimes I'll anchor, or tie up, and cast a live bait rig over a sand flat when the fish are scattered around the top. When I do, I usually use an egg sinker and a short snell. Have also done it floating a spawn bag with a small split shot for salmon and steelies in deeper holes in the streams along the north shore of Lake Superior. It is productive, but you do have to concentrate on that rod tip at all times.
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walleye express
Posted 11/18/2003 1:46 PM (#9470 - in reply to #9468)
Subject: RE: We have any Quarter Casters out there?



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Originally written by JLDII on 2003-11-18 2:25 PM

I've done something like that many times fishing the Mississippi. Sometimes I'll anchor, or tie up, and cast a live bait rig over a sand flat when the fish are scattered around the top. When I do, I usually use an egg sinker and a short snell. Have also done it floating a spawn bag with a small split shot for salmon and steelies in deeper holes in the streams along the north shore of Lake Superior. It is productive, but you do have to concentrate on that rod tip at all times.


Right-on Jack.

Sometimes the pick-up or takes can be as soft and as finicky as a perches bite. And often it's only one slight little tick and you better set the hook. Because the next little tick you'll feel is the walleye spitting your offering back out. It may be the best and rewarding technique I've ever used and one not easily taught. I've had clients fish for an hour and tell me they are not getting bit. I'll grab the IM-6 Loomis and have a fish on the first or second cast right in the same spot they are casting. When they fianlly do get the hang of it, they said they thought it was just the jig hitting the rock bottom, not a bite.

Edited by walleye express 11/18/2003 1:53 PM
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Rick Larson
Posted 11/18/2003 2:14 PM (#9476 - in reply to #9466)
Subject: RE: We have any Quarter Casters out there?
Learned this from Loren Waalkens this past fall fishing the Mississippi. It is kinda hard to master and definetly need more practice!
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Shep
Posted 11/18/2003 2:24 PM (#9477 - in reply to #9476)
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I've done it on the Rock River in Jefferson, many years ago, from shore. Never new that it was called that. Then I discovered 30' telescoping cane poles, and that technique was history. Picked it up again a couple years ago on the Miss, pool 3 and 4.
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walleye express
Posted 11/18/2003 2:50 PM (#9480 - in reply to #9477)
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Originally written by Shep on 2003-11-18 3:24 PM

I've done it on the Rock River in Jefferson, many years ago, from shore. Never new that it was called that. Then I discovered 30' telescoping cane poles, and that technique was history. Picked it up again a couple years ago on the Miss, pool 3 and 4.


Wow, Shep.

Having a Four or Five pounder at the end of a 30' pole must feel like keel hauling the fish.

Kinda like those old time Commercial Tuna Skunners used to do, after getting the tuna to school near the boat. As many as 4 guys on one rod, just a slappin and a whippin them monsters in the boat. I'm thinking it looked like a lot more fun on film than it really was.

Edited by walleye express 11/18/2003 2:55 PM
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Shep
Posted 11/18/2003 3:06 PM (#9482 - in reply to #9480)
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hehehe,

It is an effective way to get your bait out in front of the fish, and keep it there. Put down the bait on a 3-way, with 6+ozs of sinker in the current. Very easy to see the fish, as it telegraphs it's presence with a wobbling that carries up and down the length of that pole. The only thing I wish, is that you could see the fish as it is netted. You're so far back, that your buddies are giving you hand directions, and then the fish is in the net, and you never saw a thing! But we did catch some spring piggies like this. My biggest was about 8, but I have seen 12+.

Edited by Shep 11/18/2003 3:08 PM
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sworrall
Posted 11/20/2003 9:52 AM (#9578 - in reply to #9482)
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Location: Rhinelander		Interesting, Shep. I used to use a 16' pole for pockets and pools while fishing the Embarrass River for Smallmouth, been a very long time! Fun, and VERY effective.
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Shep
Posted 11/20/2003 11:34 AM (#9590 - in reply to #9578)
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Maybe I'll resurrect the setups, and try it again next spring. I'll get a few photo's to post. It's a riot, actually. I wonder if George is still fishing them this way down in Jefferson?
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