Walleye Discussion Forums
| View previous thread :: View next thread | |
| Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page] Walleye Fishing -> General Discussion -> "Oh....What'a Night". |
walleye express |
| ||
 Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Guys. I had a ball tonight on the river. Me and my bud got on the Saginaw River about 3:40pm and fished till dark with some decent success. Caught the whole gamut of fish and jigged until well past dark, continuing to catch mostly larger than normal catfish. We caught about 6 sub-legal walleyes before this, but it seemed the jig bite for them stopped dead right after dark. So (as planned) we decided to do some casting around my favorite shore line areas. It started out slow until we noticed some fish working the shoreline, right near the deep water seam/ledge that runs along and parallel to shore in this area. My bud started out using a #7 Shad Rap/Tennessee shad color instead of the usual #13 Husky Jerk, which I started with. In a short 10 minutes he hooked and landed 4 walleyes. I then immediately switched over to the one and only same colored shad rap I had. That's also about the time I got the idea to use the electric trolling motor and creep along trolling this seam versus casting to it, so as to concentrate our efforts. I'll make this story short and tell you we pulled off the river by 8:40pm. But in those two hours I personally hooked and landed 22 walleyes myself, with many other strikes and fish getting off half way to the boat. My bud Mark seemed to fall into a slump and only landed about 7. Of course loosing his only #7 Tennessee Shad Rap to a snag soon after we started trolling, might have contributed to the bad luck. He's picking up 4 new ones for us tomorrow at Gander Mountain. Of course as many of you have already guessed, the majority of these were sub-legal fish around the 13 and 14 inch category that the river is full of right now. But we did land 6 keepers with a nice 4 pounder thrown in. All were released to fight another day, or night. I took one picture of Marks first fish, and then found myself to busy to take another....sorry, I guess.   Edited by walleye express 11/21/2004 11:06 PM Attachments ----------------  IM000766.JPG (32KB - 92 downloads) | ||
| |||
| Richfish |
| ||
| My kind of fishin'. But I still would have worked the husky jerk. Dan only problem I see is we have a really big pond between us. Because I love fishing like that but you went in to early for me. | |||
| |||
| walleye express |
| ||
Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | It wasn't really my idea to head in. It was the guy who had only caught 7 and had to work tomorrow who's idea it was. Here it is after midnight and I'm still jacked up from the excitement. I'd still be there if it had been up to me. Edited by walleye express 11/21/2004 11:02 PM | ||
| |||
| walleye express |
| ||
Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | OH, OH. Hope you guys didn't run out and buy up all the Tenessee colored Shad Raps, as it appears I've made a mistake.  Ya it happens, and more times lately than I'd like. But after fetching into the house the Shad Rap in question to eyeball and order more, the actual light of the daytime gave my old eyes a better look at what we were actually using. The actual color of the ones that were so hot last night were "Shiner". Yup, just plain Ol' Shiner. So if indeed some of you thought the Tenessee was a strange color choice, seems that it was. But don't worry. Ole' Captain Dans new glasses are due in next week. Edited by walleye express 11/22/2004 12:49 PM | ||
| |||
| Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page] |
| Search this forum Printer friendly version E-mail a link to this thread |
