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Posts: 32886 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Our friends at Spring Bay Resort will be offering weekely reports from Vermilion, home of the 2008 MuskieFIRST Spring Bay resort Outing. Looks like there's plenty of walleye action to be had, so Walleye fillets will be fried in Worrall's cabin! Weekly Fishing Report In spite of the late ice-out and the cold, wet weather, our guests experienced some of the best walleye fishing they've ever had. The big post spawn females were up in shallow water and "hungry"! Our guests caught (and released) 25 walleyes over 5 pounds and innumerable walleyes from 3 - 5 pounds. The smaller male(eaters) were still in deeper water but were feeding and there to be caught. All in all, it was a great way to start the season! Attachments ----------------  smallhof006.jpg (43KB - 163 downloads) smallhof005.jpg (39KB - 142 downloads) smallhof004.jpg (46KB - 129 downloads) smallhof002.jpg (51KB - 132 downloads) smallhof001.jpg (43KB - 142 downloads) logo4b.gif (5KB - 189 downloads) | ||
| Capt.Blaine |
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Posts: 91 Location: Duluth MN | |||
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| lambeau |
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| i just spoke with Joe from Spring Bay over lunch today. as of last weekend the muskies were still spawning - in fact two nice sized fish were doing the dance right at the docks in front of their resort. water temps were 60-61 degrees. (this is in the West Arm) muskie fishing has been typical for the late-/post-spawn period: slow, with lots of follows but few fish eating baits. one 27" and one 42" muskies caught this week in camp. the pike fishing in the early season has been good, with great average sizes. hopefully the rain and cool weather will be replaced by some sun and heat soon! http://www.springbayresort.com Attachments ---------------- sbpike.jpg (100KB - 125 downloads) | |||
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| MuskieFIRST |
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Posts: 697 Location: Minnetonka | |||
| sworrall |
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Posts: 32886 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Juse 30 Report: Weekly Fishing Report Muskie fishing has been slow with only 2 being caught, a 32" and a 46". I've seen more and more muskies becoming active as the water temp rises. The last 10 days the weather has been hotter/nicer than normal, which is harder on the walleye day fishing. The lindy and a leech, or the jig and a leech seemed to produce decent fish during the day at depths around 22-30 feet. The walleyes are out on the reefs but are not in full swing. A few walleyes have also been picked up of sharp breaks off of islands, same depths as off the reefs. The walleyes that we were catching, came from the central part of the lake at night. The slip bobber and a leech worked wonders night after night in the mud flats in depths of 9-14 feet. The northerns have been in full swing this month so far, while the bass are just moving on the beds a few days ago. The bass are over 2 weeks behind schedule, but the bite is on now!! Good luck fishing!! Attachments ---------------- hof017.jpg (80KB - 121 downloads) | ||
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| happy hooker |
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| sworrall |
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Posts: 32886 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Weekly Fishing Report The fishing has been very stable on the west end of the lake over the past 2 weeks. The walleye fishing has been great, while the muskies are still pretty slow. Northerns, bass, and pan fish have been a blast for a lot of our guests. The walleyes have been 50/50 for slot v.s. keepers, while a few trophy fish have been caught. most of the walleyes have been caught from 11-16 feet off the edges of reefs or heavy structure areas. The best producing techniques for the walleyes have been a lindy w/ a leech, slip bobber w/ a leech, and on a few occasions a lindy walleye spinner has out produced your basic lindy. The may flies hatch just appeared the other day, but has not seemed to have a great effect on the fishing. Over the next 2 weeks there are going to be some good reports on the muskie fishing. There is 2 big outings on the west end of the lake. This coming weekend there is a muskie tournament on friday and saturday, and the following week we have 40 muskie fishermen that booked the resort for the whole week. So any active muskies over the next 2 weeks are going to see some lures and there will be some fish caught. Stay Tuned!!! Good luck fishing!! Attachments ---------------- hof020.jpg (221KB - 115 downloads) | ||
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| lambeau |
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| ESOX Maniac |
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Posts: 2753 Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | |||
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Location: Athens, Ohio | |||
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| lambeau |
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Any more reports? yep! http://www.springbayresort.com/htmls/fishingreport.html Well to start off, lets just say the muskie fishing has been turned on. There was a tournament out of both ends of the lake July 18th&19th which produced 29 muskies in 18 hours of fishing by 50 boats. July 19th-26th we had a group of about 35 muskie fishermen stay with us for an outing hosted by the website MuskieFirst. There were 24 muskies caught, with only 4 of them being under 40 inches and the biggest being 51 3/4 inches. The lures of choice seem to be your slow creeper top-water baits, double cowgirls, and small bucktails. During the whole week, most of the muskies were caught burning smaller bucktails over thick weeds and off rock humps. Now, over the past week or so, no muskies have been caught in thick weeds, but off the deep weedline edges and rock humps is where the fish are being caught. The water temp has finally turned to our favor at around the 72-74 degree mark on average, which really helps muskie fishing. I don't have much of a walleye report for the past few weeks because of all the muskie fishing being done. But for the few that have gone out and caught a few, they were using slip bobbers off the reefs and lindy rigging in the flats in 24-32 ft. http://www.springbayresort.com/htmls/halloffame2.html Attachments ---------------- hof023.jpg (78KB - 128 downloads) hof026.jpg (50KB - 120 downloads) hof034.jpg (53KB - 115 downloads) hof036.jpg (59KB - 123 downloads) hof038.jpg (60KB - 116 downloads) | |||
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Posts: 956 Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | |||
| lambeau |
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| here's the latest report from Spring Bay... Over the past few weeks, the muskies have been booming. Just people staying at the resort and people I have taken out have caught 15-20 muskies and many big bonus pike. The muskie sizes have ranged from 36" - 51.5" and the northerns ranging from 28" - 42". The lures of choice have been cowgirls or any double 9 or 10 bladed lures, creepers, & top raiders. Speed has been the key, while using the double cowgirls speed it up, while using the creepers keep it slow, and use the top raiders at a medium to fast speed. I have not raised many fish on any walk the dog lures lately. The weeds seem to be out producing the rocks on the west end. As for the walleyes, we have not had many people fishing for them. Sandy bottom at the edge of a weedline has been the top producer with a lindy rig and a crawler. The open water reefs are still producing with a jig and minnow/leech. We have some good fishermen up this week so a prompt feedback will be posted on this coming weeks fishing report. Good luck fishing!! Attachments ---------------- fish1.jpg (239KB - 109 downloads) | |||
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| here's a couple more pictures from Spring Bay... http://springbayresort.com Attachments ---------------- springbay1.jpg (63KB - 115 downloads) springbay2.jpg (52KB - 120 downloads) | |||
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