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After a few days of a fall cold front and then the wind picks up and temps suddenly drop the fish can sometimes PACK on the tops of breaks that lead to real shallow water. The best way to hit them is to use the wind to throw you sideways into the bay and then use the motor to flip back into the wind and pull out fast, dragging your bait over the top of the fish as you get back to safe water. Make one mistake and you'll be wet. I have a small boat with lots of power and do this sort of #*#* all the time. My best on this technique was always just after dark. Thumbbar reels freeze up first, push buttons second.
Weather will be great for this next few days, winds to 25 and snow every night. Perfect.
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Good luck! I won't be there to save you this time.  Hopefully they tuirn on for ya as the weekend was pretty tough. |
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Location: Minnesota | Was on Cass yesterday with a guide, Had 5 or 6 fish using the same small mid lake bar. Great time for fishing if you can handle the weather! |
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| Travis, you and yer terrific bro only helped me get the boat off the landing. Which was wonderful because the rollers were pretty serious for a 14' boat. The last 200 yards to the landing were CRAZY, you had left me far behind and I was surfing rollers toward your lights. Due to following seas, my only hope was to hit the beach, slopping it in sideways on top of a wave, while jerking the the motor up and jumping out on the windy/wet side to hold the boat. And as the boat smacked onto shore, sideways, you guys grabbed both the boat and me. All of 4 seconds at the end.
Great fun, I recommend it highly. |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Ranger - 10/22/2013 10:54 PM
Travis, you and yer terrific bro only helped me get the boat off the landing. Which was wonderful because the rollers were pretty serious for a 14' boat. The last 200 yards to the landing were CRAZY, you had left me far behind and I was surfing rollers toward your lights. Due to following seas, my only hope was to hit the beach, slopping it in sideways on top of a wave, while jerking the the motor up and jumping out on the windy/wet side to hold the boat. And as the boat smacked onto shore, sideways, you guys grabbed both the boat and me. All of 4 seconds at the end.
Great fun, I recommend it highly.
LOL! You missed the fact that we took off to make those rollers larger for you to aid you in surfing to shore just a tad quicker. That was quite the experience, and I am glad we can both talk about it fondly now. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Nice work, Travis. Saving Ranger is certainly appreciated....he ain't as nimble as he once was. |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Like Ranger said I really didn't save him...until he was on shore. Looking back on it I would have done things much differently.
It's fun to remind Ranger every now and again of that night!
Edited by CiscoKid 10/25/2013 5:46 AM
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Weather Getting Bad, Perfect For Slingshotting Bays and Breaks