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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Spent 3 hours getting the boat ready and finding stuff that needs fixed. Should be ready for a shake down cruise next Sunday. Maybe even chase some brownies/cohos/lakers while I'm at it. What's on tap for your next trip, or in my case, first trip on the water in 2021? |
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Location: Ashland WI | I assume you are talking open water.
My first trip of the year is as soon as the ice goes out in Chequamegon Bay. I will do a little casting for bass/pike, and troll some for trout/salmon. Probably mid to late April. |
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| I go trolling just about every day on the internet. Some days I get a bite, some days I don't.  |
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| Well, I just came in from ice fishing but I am guessing that doesn't count. Normally, late April I can get the boat in and fish for panfish. On a side note, the musky in our chain should get fat this year, judging by all the small perch I was catching and marking today. Sheesh, they are a pain. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | tomorrow, a one day run. m |
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| Have an appointment to switch out the electronics on the boat, on March 26. Replacing the old Lowrance LCX, with a Helix 8 Mega DI+, SI+, G4N, and replacing the old Lowrance HDS at the bow, with the new Helix 7 all season. Then it's just wait until I get the word from my buddy in the UP, in April, that it's time to hit the Green Bay tributaries, and I'll race over there for the first soft water fishing of the year. Can't wait to play with the new toys. Doing my part to use my stimulus money to stimulate! |
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| Week of 3/22/2021 as soon as I get back from snow goose hunting. I live right off the river at Pool 4. The ice fisherman are still on the back waters and Lake Pepin is still under ice but the river is open. The ice at the closest launch on the channel went out yesterday. With river at or below normal pool and low flows I should be able to find some walleyes / saugers. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Meeting up with a buddy from NC Wednesday chasing muskies..
First out of town trip 6/5 to Oneida Co. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I've been on a fishin' trip most all of my life, and want to continue that trip forever. So far, so good. |
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| sworrall - 3/8/2021 8:58 PM
I've been on a fishin' trip most all of my life, and want to continue that trip forever. So far, so good.
Rub it in, why dontcha. |
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Location: oswego, il | Don't know. My next career decision and location willl decide my fate.
Edited by ToddM 3/8/2021 9:57 PM
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| I went last Friday and back in January. My steering cylinder on the outboard blew a seal and good news to me is the shops are as slow as ever at this time of year so it's getting fixed Thursday.
Edited by Fishysam 3/9/2021 7:54 AM
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| Peshtigo and Menominee rivers in April |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | ToddM - 3/8/2021 9:56 PM
Don't know. My next career decision and location willl decide my fate.
Good Luck with that new direction change Todd ... Make sure your passions help lead your decisions. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I made a run to Piedmont Lake yesterday. Water was in the low 40*, half way betw. summer and winter pool. Nothing showing up shallow, I did troll up a mid-30 that I lost just as I had the net under it. First run on the season, so I had to lose one to , well, you know.
I had some recent surgery to repair a knee replacement. I found out that I'm not quite ready for the driving part of fish-trippin. I was supposed to go to Cave Run this weekend, gonna have to put that off a while, now until the healing gets farther along. Sill, it was a good day on the water. m |
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| We hit the river last Saturday, caught a few decent browns and a nice rainbow. |
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| As soon as the shallow creeks are fishable for Crappie I'm there. Not too far off now |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | Just finished up the ice season last weekend on LOTW. Did well with the usual 11-14" walleyes/saugers. I plan on fishing my cabin area in Outing the whole week following walleye opener, and hopefully will chase a few crappies before then. |
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| Maybe a trip to iowa in May |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | mikie - 3/10/2021 7:18 AM
I made a run to Piedmont Lake yesterday. Water was in the low 40*, half way betw. summer and winter pool. Nothing showing up shallow, I did troll up a mid-30 that I lost just as I had the net under it. First run on the season, so I had to lose one to , well, you know.
I had some recent surgery to repair a knee replacement. I found out that I'm not quite ready for the driving part of fish-trippin. I was supposed to go to Cave Run this weekend, gonna have to put that off a while, now until the healing gets farther along. Sill, it was a good day on the water. m
Heal quickly, my friend! |
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Location: SW Ohio | Took a trip down to Cave Run last Friday. Water was up 27’ and 39 degs. They started pulling water the same day but it didn’t have much effect. Graphed a few fish and saw couple roll but no takers. Air temp started out a 27 degs and made it up to 41 with a north wind. Still a great day on the water. |
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| I will probably hit a couple Lake Michigan tributaries in the next week and then it is down to Cave Run on March 25th. |
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Location: Roscoe IL | went out after walleyes on the rock and pec river in northern il last saturday. couple bites but it was slow. ended up dodging icebergs on the way home though, so that was eventful.
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Location: Southern WI | Hit Green River Lake, KY two weeks ago. Saw one but we were just a little too early (probably about two weeks exactly haha). Will be hitting Indiana sometime in the next month just to hold over until the WI season starts... |
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Location: WI | Probably crappie fishing on the Chetek chain in late April. Or I could get ambitious and hit the Big Muddy for walleyes. |
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| I retired and bought a place on Bull Shoals near the Missouri/Arkansas border. Fishing is amazing all year-round. 50,000 acre undeveloped lake. Not an easy lake to learn, tho, I've struggled to stay on fish.
Mikie, get better, come down and I'll take you out if you make me some cornbread. (I'll take you out, anyway.) |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How close are you to Mountain Home, Ranger? |
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| 35 mins to the Yar Craft/Bass Cat factory, 45 to downtown Mountain Home.
I should say Bass Cat/Yar Craft since they prol put out 90% Bass Cat boats. Most locals don't know Yar Craft any more than Tuffy. Lakes hereabouts are not big water, they are long water. I can run my YC 209tfx at 45mph for maybe 45 minutes to get from where I live to the dam at the end of the lake. There's another long, long run south and west to get to Branson MO, from here, haven't tried that yet. Prol another 45 mins. I live way toward the top of the lake in Pontiac, MO. This lake is a huge reservoir owned by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Corps manage all the shoreline and want zero development. That means roughly 1,000 miles of undeveloped shoreline, plus, 60,000 acres of federal land available for public use. This place unpressured and cool as ****, maybe like Vermillion before tourists.
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| Water finally cleared up to about 2 ft last week got a 33 incher on a Phantom Monday and a super thick 43.5 on a Shallow Invader on Wednesday here in WV |
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| Mine was today, I saw a bunch of trout jumping and quite a few lazy palomino trout but nothing else. I figured with all that fresh new meat around it would be feast or famine. I didn't even see a musky although rainbows were jumping out of the water all over. Tried everything, bucktails, cranks, rubber, gliders, jointed baits. No takers. I got a ti xh 7'6" for Christmas I've been itching to try out so I got to do that. It's a nice stick! Happy with that. Now that I've gained some experience from the last half of last year and have a well rounded selection of baits I'm hoping that I'll get a few this year. Between musky and bass my free time won't be much this year! Tight lines!! |
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| This coming Sunday on Lake Ouchita for stripers. Ranger basically is describing Ouchita, but a lot of islands. No 45 minute straight runs on it. A buddy that lives on Vermilion comes down and thinks it's gorgeous. No cabins sure makes for much better scenery, especially in spring high water, much less ugly clay/shale to detract from the view. |
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| Last trip was up to Lake Vermillion, got a 39.5" and my buddy got a 42" in the same spot.
Next trip will be Echo Lake & The Turtle Flambeau Flowage up in Mercer, WI for their opener on 6/5! |
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When's Your First (or most recent) Fishing Trip of 2021?