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| Only chance I had to fish was on Sat. afternoon for about 5 hours. Was helping a friend who is building a new house the rest of the weekend.
Caught one one pike and saw three Muskie. One upper 30's slowly followed undertaker to boat. One fish clean "whiffed" a slammer twitch bait and I screwed up with very slow reflexes on one that hit a Undertaker.
Congratulations Greg....Can't wait to see the pictures. I'm sure it was the lucky phone call I made to you on my way to the lake...[:bigsmile:]
Mark |
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| Tuffy boats and Heckel's Marine teamed up to keep my Tuffy for another weekend. The thing has been leaking gas fumes all year. Heckel's had to keep it for another week.
My only advice.....don't buy a Tuffy if you want to go fishing. |
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| Well, it was a fun opener, took my 6 year old son out saturday, he raised his first 2 fish, had one right at the boat charging hard and it slammed on the brakes, Zack stopped the bait when he saw the fish. He was truly excited for the next 1/2 hour. Sunday took a group for walleyes and northerns for fish fry. Then came time for serious fishing, to only have my pinpoint go completely dead.
Troyz |
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| Got a 38" on my 6" orange tiger glider out of a freshly fallen pine tree on sat. in the cold and rain, and 30" on sun. off of a rock wall. Both were on Caldron Falls, water temps sat. 50 by sun. they were up to 57.
Roger |
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| Fished up in Vilas Sat-Tues AM. Boated 2 short fish...both on Undertakers. Caught numerous small pike, 1 on a Beavertail, 1 on a Slammer, all the rest on Undertakers. Had one real nice fish take a swipe at a TR Twitcher just before sundown yesterday.
Friday the shallows were absolutely loaded with suckers and crappie fishermen were limiting out in 7'-9'. During the sunshine on Mon, all the panfishermen were in 3'-5' and they were still doing very well.
Beav |
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| I went out sunday and saturday. Saturday was a nothing day. Sunday I had one hit a stalker in 1' of water but it missed the lure (I'm starting to think all muskies are blind and have lateral line injuries) I caught a personal (2nd) best bass at 15" as well as a couple smaller ones an a crappie in 1' of water using nightcrawlers. I finally found the muskie fry...getting to about 4" now and still alive...Illinois DOES have natural reproduction[:)] (even though no one believes me with the thousands of fry I've seen and few I've accidently snagged) Oh yeah, I even had a follow on a nightcrawler at 4" (don't know what it would do with a huge worm, but then again...muskies are just plain stupid) |
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| Had 10 follows on Sat and one missed strike.
Caught 2, both 35", on Sunday and had the pleasure of watching a Vilas Co. guide bonk a 40"er caught on a swallow rig. Then I watched guide and both clients keep fishing. One boat went over there and let him know his actions were not appreciated. We got the guys boat number and I called 1-800-tip-wdnr. A warden called me back later that afternoon and told me he would look into it, but there wasn't much he could do because they would claim they were fishing for pike. That sucks!!!
I got one more on Monday, but he was only 30".
I also caught a ton of pike all weekend and one decent smallie.
Every fish was caught in 1-4 ft. of water.
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