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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | How did everyone do this weekend out on the water?
High winds and waves kept The Panda off the big pond and high water temps in the N.IL/S.WI stopped us from chasing muskies. However, I went to work for a little fun....50 gills this size and 30 emaciated bass later it was better than just watching fishing shows!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Blanked twice in the evenings with Merckid and Pointer. They got a couple during the day, but the only fish boated in the evenings was a smallish Tiger TJ stuck on a Wabull. |
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| the fish are on the rampage here in mn, boated a 45 and a 53 inch. last weekend, another boat in our group boated and realeased a 55 inch fish and also caught 2 over 40 the same day the front we had that rolled in thurs made it tough this weekend going out tomorrow should be good |
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Location: Central WI | Got this guy to go. Caught a lot of pike this weekend too.
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| Did that guy swing so hard he pooped his pants??? LOL |
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| Guest - 8/25/2008 6:46 AM
Did that guy swing so hard he pooped his pants??? LOL
there the brewers, what did you expect..... |
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| BenR - 8/25/2008 8:04 AM
Guest - 8/25/2008 6:46 AM
Did that guy swing so hard he pooped his pants??? LOL
there the brewers, what did you expect.....
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| geez did i ever hijack this thread!
so how about the FISHING?
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Yeah, you did. And no comments about the smallie sized bluegill I'm holding? Or the fact that it looks like I have one of those inflateable kid swimming toys under my shirt.... |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Nasty nasty cold front up by us Friday night/Saturday morn. We got up to Land O Lakes, WI at 10pm, air temp was 80°, wake up saturday was 56°. Lows were down to the upper 30's. I only fished gators for about 3 hours, seeing nada.
Got one 18" walleye and a couple of small perch saturday night.
Water temps up by us are hoovering around 70°, water looks like pea soup. |
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| hey slamr..i think that's a rock bass! lol |
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| Yeah, you did. And no comments about the smallie sized bluegill I'm holding?
i happen to recognize the pond where you caught that bluegill.
and yes, i've already informed the owners as well as the IL DNR tip line...
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Dude, NOT a rockbass!!!! I get no credit....even from one of the few in the Visor Crew.
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| Slamr - 8/25/2008 11:44 AM
Yeah, you did. And no comments about the smallie sized bluegill I'm holding? Or the fact that it looks like I have one of those inflateable kid swimming toys under my shirt....
that gill is a tank...and, so are you |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | sorry ... looks like a rockie ... got anothe pic to prove it? body shape going back to the tail-fin and the fact you're lippin it ... if the inner-tube is true then you prolly got fat fingers too.
yup, cold-front in the northwoods ... bass were really slow but we did find real bluegills, perch and crappies holding tight but eating in 20' of water near rock and weed combo structure. one of the kids got chased and ate off by a high 30's muskie following a bite near bottom so i'm assuming they were down there chillin out too. |
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| Warmouth! |
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| AFS meeting in Ottawa, my partner for the day boated a healthy upper 30s" on a spinnerbait. Missed another on the shallow model Curly Sue (those rock, Andy!), and I scored a little 24" on a large spinnerbait speed trolled tight to the weed edge (always nice to see those young year-classes).
I'm calling green sunfish on SLAMR's pic! |
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| I'll help you guys out, thats a green sunfish, which can be identified by its larger than normal mouth and fin coloration... I catch em hear in Iowa all the time, thats what makes me the expert |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Because it's Monday and the work load at the office is MONSTEROUS, I have done research into what I caught, compared with with the opinions from above and determined that what I caught (at least in that pic) is in fact a green sunfish. I did some research into the IL state record green sunfish, and found that it stands at (a whopping) 2.1lbs. I caught at least 3 of them that size, and larger. I hearby crown myself KING OF THE GREEN SUNFISH. Coming soon to the net, GreensunfishFIRST.com |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Slamr, you need to stop eating salmon. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | sorta like Sled thinking he caught the state record redhorse..or is it just a big sucker??? the fish that is... ; )
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Location: Ogden, Ut | I got one yesterday and took a buddy out to try to get his first one this morning. He got 2 and I got one. Fun times. The weather sucked; sunny and calm.
Here's his...
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Location: minocqua, wi. | if you remember correctly i thought it was a carp ... you bn told me it was a redhorse and then some of the boys on another board started to claim record status akin to a discussion we were having about the great wisconsinite louis spray of hayward and his amazing record ... the only redhorse i could find in the wisconsin record book was a "silverfin" ... then it was deemed to be a golden by someone and falls short by at least a few pounds. probably should have measured it though but the catch and release ethic in me thought othewise so that it wouldn't be out of the water long ... didn't want to get blasted on the boards as the water temps. were nearing the mid-70's on that particular day, but the sun was out and surely affected the fish when it was out for the quick picture.
that fish was discussed on a thread on another board where they were claiming the pounder ws too big ... this baitfish we thought might prove that pounders might be a good idea ...
did slamr get away with the yellow sunfish claim? |
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| Somebody get Sled a quickstrike rig!!!
And I do believe that is a sunfish Slamr is holding. If sunfish could talk that one would be saying "holy crap, look at that gut, that guy's gonna eat me for sure!"
And before anyone asks: Yes, I HAVE looked in the mirror lately. Pretty sure there's lots of things afraid their gonna be dinner when they see me |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I do remember correclty..i called it a sucker then, as i do now.. here it is from Johns messageboard... !
http://www.fishinfo.com/fishingreports/stealthtackleboard/
thread "not just for musky"
and yah, you should have put it on a quickstrike...
Slamr and Sled...record holders of somethin'.... ; )
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Location: Washington, PA | Andrew, I'm pretty sure the hold you had on that fish made it look a bit bigger than it is. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | My older brother was in town so we went bassin' and got one big one, about 5lbs and some big gills but that was it. Tough bite. Lijewski won Mohawksin on Saturday to follow up his win in Manitowish so he had a good weekend and even a better day Monday morning at the bank that little jerk 
Of interest: The small lake we were bass fishing on was showing signs of turning over. I know, messed up. I don't think it is, but seeing muck floating and weeds dying...Usually don't see that for another 3 weeks. Mark commented to me that the muskies are moving shallow which usually doesn't happen until mid-September. The big gills were in 3 feet of water and haven't been there since early June. I think we're going to have screwed up patterns until turnover and also think after turnover is going to be great. I'll be thinking about it while I'm glassing the foothills of the Little Belt Range.
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Location: mn | PB Friday night and a nice one saterday.
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I'm telling you again Mike, save that big fish mojo for the tourney in a couple weeks. We need all the help we can get lol. Again congrats on the fish. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Sled- There are definitely a couple of redhorse species that you don't want to submit to the WI DNR for record status ->
http://dnr.wi.gov/ORG/LAND/ER/factsheets/fish.htm
So maybe you released a threatened/endanger record fish! How cool is that?
Better start dialing Rick Lax-> well maybe consult with a WI DNR fisheries biologist first!
Have fun! Nice photo!
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| Sled, we have quite a few species of Redhorse in the Fox River. That one looks like either a Silver Redhorse or a Greater Redhorse (Endangered). I've had Silver Redhorse over 30" follow and nail 6" crankbaits like a Redfish, especially in the winter. |
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Location: oswego, il | Slamr, I was going to post up ealrier when i was at work and say that was not a bluegill but a green sunfish. They don't get big usually, a 6"er is a big one, that one is a slobasaurus green sunfish. I know of one place that puts up a very few number of 10"ers while bass fishing but never neen one that big. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | this one ate a firetiger jointed grandma ... i was told it was a greater redhorse which isn't posted for a record so this one could have been registered that is if i would have measured, weighed and kept it. the record i saw was for silver and the state record for wisconsin for the silver is 29.75" and 11lb. 7oz. ... i'll tell you i thought when i hooked up seeing heavy and brown that i'd be on the board for that league night but when i saw the shape i thought i had a big walleye but by the time it came out of the net it turned into a sucker ...
these things on lighter tackle are a hoot .... we used to fish the redhorse run on the red cedar below the #*^@ in menomonie while we attended u.w. stout back in the day. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | This is one of the more interesting fishing report threads I have seen. Since we need more pictures of muskies on here, I am going to cheat a little. With a wedding and baptism, I never got to fish this weekend, so I am considering today my weekend report. Caught a 45 around 2:00 today on a Super D. Fished until close to dark with nothing else besides a 32 inch northern. curleytail
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Nice fish, and I really like the first picture, cool angle. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Thanks Steve. I forgot to add how the first picture happened. I was by myself and was using the self timer on the camera. The first picture is when the camera snapped a picture of me just after getting the fish out of the net and getting into position for the "real" picture. Kind of an accidential picture, but I thought it was a neat shot.
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| Awesome fish Curleytail! I too was getting tired of hearing about redhorses and warmouths!
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Location: Hayward, WI | Well, green sunfish and suckers are entertaining to talk about too. Especially if it had been a slow weekend for most people. Just had to give those guys a bit of a hard time.
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | sorry, but i got to bring it down another notch.....
I didnt get out ski fishing, and haven't in quite a while..... gotta love the Iowa summer heat!!!
but i got back to my roots and nailed a bunch of these guys! hahaha
way too much fun!!!!
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