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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How'd you do on the water this weekend? I dug a ditch for our new wood boiler going in this Wednesday, that thing will heat the hideout, Keith's place, all our hot water, and burn ANY wood, holding a fire over 100' away from my house for as much as 48 hours. Wow, clean heat at the cost of cutting wood which is very cheap. Propane would have been impossibe this year.
Hunted last night and had a Porky climb up a tree right next to me and chirp at me for an hour (I had no idea Porky's made that noise), and a big boar black bear come up under my tree. I beat the tree with a branch, and he shot off into the south taking samll trees and everything else in his path with him. Glad to see him go, I spent a few hours treed in that stand a few years back. No deer, but a buck did pass to the north just before dark, so I'll be back in my south to east wind stand tonight after throwing major rocks about with a shovel for a few hours.
Muskie angling with Slamr next weekend!!
Shovels suck. Rocks REALLY suck. The Pick Axe was invented by a sadist.
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Weekend's not done yet, but got a small tiger (30") Friday night after work. Fun fish, had the whole family with; wife netted it and boys proceeded to poke it about 30 times as a nice 'good bye, thank you for playing' parting gift. Going to see if I can sneak out sometime tonight and/or tomorrow.
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| Hey,
I hope you don't mind me asking but how much did that new wood boiler run you? I've heard 5 to 7 grand. Is that in the ballpark?
I fished Friday and Saturday. I landed a 35" fish on a sucker and my partner got a 43" on a suckers as well. All the action seem to come between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM Raised a few other fish as well. On Saturday I raised 8 fish and caught two non-legals.
This has been the year of the non-legal fish for me. I know have a total of 9. All the fish were in 6 to 8 feet of water and around
remaining green cabbage. When ever we found good green weeds we found fish. Most of the fish on Saturday were around the noon hour as well. The Hellhound moved all of the fish along with a shallow bulldawg. Black/white.
Bill C.
I should thank Smity from Smity Tackle. The fish I caught followed and then chased the sucker around for a full ten minutes boat side. I remembered some advice he gave me to give the sucker a few good pops/jerks and sure enough she finally took it.
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Location: Valentine, NE USA | Cold, windy & not really all that enjoyable but, I hit Merritt this weekend. 15 Notherns 36"+, 2 over 40", and a 19" dink musky.
Coulda been better, coulda been worse...
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| i was in Minocqua...but without the boat.
we biked the Bearskin on Saturday and played a nice round of golf at Timber Ridge this morning.
beautiful weekend to be out in the northwoods.
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| I took a week/weekend off from fishing from muskies. I decided to head to Cabo San Lucas and try to tangle with a big blue Marlin. I left on October 1st only to find out that Hurricane Otis was zooming in on the area. The storm moved back out to sea, and first day of fishing was October 3. We were gretted by 5-6 foot rollers on day 1. We fished for like 5 hours, with no hits. I was thinking that this is Marlin captial of the world, and no freaking fish to be found. Then a real went tick, so I thought the dragged slipped as I didnt see anything on the lures. The next thing I heard was the captain and first mate yelling spanish cursewords as the first mate came down from the upper deck to try and flip a live bait into the water. As soon as he grabbed that rod, the the reel that ticked screamed very loudly. A 1/2 hr or so later, I promptly had a 180lb Blue Marlin boatside and released. We ended up missing another one that day that hit 4 lures...I guess that one wasnt meant to be.
The next day, we trolled the same areas, and 5 hrs later the reel had the loudest rip I ever heard. I thought it must of been a monster. It ended up being a 50lb wahoo.
We took a day off and went again on Thursday. The morning started with a marlin chasing a 2 baits, but no hookups. We ended up getting 4 Dorados, including a 30lb+ bull.
THe final day, we had to go out with a different guide boat. We had 2 marlin hookups and the SOB's got off after long intial runs. We also had 3 other sightings. We ended up with another 30lb Doraldo.
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Location: Lafayette, IN | Spent Saturday with Fishcrazed and 2 wonderful guests, Ken who was my guest last year in the "double release" photo and my best outdoors buddy Dennis who just celebrated his birthday this month. Collectively we raised about a dozen fish but only 2 biters. Todd caught a really nice 35in pike and I caught my second best musky which measured 43 inches. Not a lot of girth on these fish yet but what a great thrill to catch a couple of big fish. My 2 biggest fish in less than a month! Both on Don Slagle's Hoosier Handmade gliders. Wow, what do I have to look forward to now? Let's go fishing and find out, eh?
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | K-bob, Myself, and my buddy Matt (musky virgin) are hitting Rhinelander tomorrow with every freakin thing we got. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Got out late yesterday afternoon for about 3 hours, got a 33" pike, wife had a very nice musky whiff a jerk bait next to the boat. That was it for my weekend fishing.
Been thinking of one of them woodstoves myself Steve... Only thing is, I would have to purchase the wood and cut it. Still might be cheapter than natural gas, and warmer. You'll love it, everyone I know with those have good things to say about them.
After picking/shovling rocks for two days, you'll have Popeye arms to set the hook next weekend. |
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| They say that a man who heats with wood warms himself 5 times.
When he cuts it.
When he splits it.
When he stacks it.
When he hauls it in the house.
When he burns it.
I'd love to stick a fireplace in this place.
I have 50 acres with lots of standing dead elm, and enough Hickory trees that the mature ones should get thinned out.
Nothing like a fireplace. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Hit Shabbona on Saturday with Gordo. Casted the entire lake to no avail. Didn't even see one. Except for watching the local guide catch a 40 incer , in the No Motor Zone. Fished the river with Jeremy on Sunday afternoon. Draggin a sucker didn't even help. Wasn't a total waste of a weekend though, nice to be out on the boat with friends, and found a couple 10$, 8 inch Reef Hawgs at the local bait shop on Sunday afternoon. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Sanks and I hit LOTW for the week.
It was the trip that Frank Walsh donated for last years KLY (Thank-you Frank). Sunday Frank took us out to mark some spots and we had 3-4 follows and one 36"ski. The weather went from shirt sleeves to ice fishing gear on Tuesday the winds kicked up to the 50 mph range and on Wednesday hit 55-60 mph with rain/sleet mixture. Woke up on Thursday and had 1" or so of snow in the boat but Frank guided another day and we trolled up some great pike action.
Sanks trolled up a smaller ski on Friday, we should turned to walleye fishing as the few boats you do see when out there were catching limits. I caught a PB pike on a LAZER-EYE and learned that GPS is your friend on big water. I'll post some pic's later.
I want to thank Frank and Laura for donating the trip. There place is 1st class, and the knowledge learned from fishing with a guy like Frank is priceless. I would like to see a Muskie 1st outing there, I know that the group would appreciate it.
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Just got back from LOTW from the past weekend,
Took up some os the staff os WFO Outdoors for a fall trolling run after some big GIRLS.
Had nice windy conditions, and did well.
My partner wanted to prove a point that BIGGER BAIT CATCHES BIGGER FISH.
We trolled 14" jakes the whole time (Sweet bait)
This theory was correct...
WE BOATED A 48", 47 44 & 39
The other boat trolled 10" jakes and they ended up with 44, 41,41,40
We also lost one that was between 52-54, she hit the surface when she had the hooks in her and came flying out of the water like free WILLY.
It was pretty sweet seeing a 40 pounder do that.
Anyways if anyone is going on the water trolling this fall I recomend picking up some 14" jakes
Because point proven BIGGER BAIT CATCHES BIGGER FISH
DUSTY CARLSON
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| marc grattan,
what boat did you go out on, i have been skunked in cabo the last three trips? the world record wahoo was just caught out there this spring, thing went 180+lbs. thanks in advance. |
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| MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..... Wahoo. |
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| We went down with the purpose of trying to get a marlin or two. The first 3 days I fished was with Solmar, on Solmar 1. This is where we got the marlin, wahoo, and the big bull dorado.
The last day was with Silveradosportfishing.com on the Rengado. These guys worked extremly hard and put us on 4-5 marlin, several dorados, etc...we just blew our landing opportunties. I recommend these guys for anyone that wants to give it a try.
I saw photos of the 180lb wahoo, it was a big gal.
http://fishosaur.com/south-america/girl-catches-wahoo-bigger-than-s... |
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| thanks marc,
i will look up the renegado, that is funny that the solmar boats did well for ya. went with them two years ago and they took us out to catch the 4-5 foot humboldt squid. it was like dragging up a garbage bag and in the end they squirt you with a lot of ink. the capt. wasnt interested in catching fish, he knew the $$ the squid would get at the restraunts. last year we went out and had a marlin miss three times, lost a nice tuna and a wahoo. maybe this year it will happen. thanks again. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Midweek report-Just got back from Big Arbor Vitae, the lake is still turning and was very murky and green. Weeds were still very healthy and water temps were 58 degrees. I boated a chunky 40" fish and had at least 6 other follows including a nice mid 40's fish. I concentrated on the outside weedlines in 12-15 ft of water and didn't move a thing so I went in shallower and all the fish I saw including the one I caught were sitting tight in the slop in about 8 ft of water. I used a Slopmaster and grinded it though the junk and that was the ticket today. Nothing moving on gliders or cranks. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Here's a healthy 46" Tinley Mike got last Friday on Webster. To expand the picture just click on it, to contract it click on it again.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Darrell Dahlk got this pig in Northern Wisconsin last Friday on a sucker/quick strike rig.
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