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Final Day AIM Brimley...
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Just wanted to let folks know that today is the final day of the AIM Tourney out of Brimley. You can go here http://www.aimfishing.com/gps/ to actually see where the final days anglers are fishing via their GPS locations being shown LIVE. I personally think this catch and immediate release format is...
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Ford River 6-3 report
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A couple days of good south wind has the Ford River bite cranking again. My dad was out early in the day on Friday, and got a limit of fish that were 18 to 26 inches. He was running harnesses with chartreuse and firetiger blades. He "guided" for my buddy Bruce and I later in the evening. The wind w...
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wrong eyes buddy...
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Fished off Menominee last p.m. Trollin harnesses. Right away hit one thought to be an eye by the fight but oh no.. When she saw the boat it was a different story. Cut the harness right at the boat and s++t went flyin. Got er in 34 but that was it for the nite..
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Quick Limit today-June 3rd, 2011
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Guests of ours fished with Captain Keith Wils this morning http://www.walleyeschoice.com/ and told me they had their 3 man limit in just a couple hours or so. Can't beat that!!!
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8 keepers by 8:00 am-June 5th, 2011
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Guest Dick Williams and his friend had 8 keeper walleye by 8:00 am today. But the bite then petered out for them when the sun came up...
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South wind = good bite
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It's no secret that a good south wind can really crank up the walleyes on the bay. The past few days have been no exception. We had our first real southerly wind of the season on Saturday, and everyone I talked to that was off the Ford River did well. Mostly on crawler harnesses, but a few on cranks, (day and...
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On the water video from May 26th charter...
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Did a test run letting a video camera run for the whole day on yesterdays charter. Learned 3 things. First, need to re-route the power cable to the camera away from the sonars because of electrical interference (sorry for the annoying tick...
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Windy Windy Walleyes!!!
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Wow...I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning and the wind was already blowing like crazy. I got to work just after 5 to get ready for today's charter and the flags were already sticking straight out (not what I wanted to see). Today I had the pleasure of fishing with Lloyd and Andrew, a couple of great guys from...
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Guest's catch May 30th, 2011
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Got lucky and caught these guys heading to the cleaning shack. Looks like there is still a good bite going on... Should only get better with the south winds we have. Have not heard much from Big Bay de Noc yet this year regarding walleye. But with the south winds, should be some fish moving up to the north e...
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Still bitin' today...
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Guests of ours caught 25 keeper walleye this morning between 5 boats. Not full limits, but not bad for their first time visiting our neck of the woods! Another boat caught 8 keepers yesterday. They were fishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reefs. It was also their first time fishing Little Bay de Noc. All in al...
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Good Action on Friday
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Lines in the water at the crack of 12:45, trolled up a few on the reefs waiting for Dave to get out of work. Picked him up at 3, we had a nice limit by 6:30 or so. Trolling cranks slow (Deep Little Rippers, purple or blueberry) caught a few more, switched to bouncers/floating jigs with the bowmount, caught t...
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Guests doing good...
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Guests of ours did pretty good yesterday with several boats getting their limits. For the most part, these guys are drifting with floating jigs tipped with half a crawler or leech. Haven't heard of anyone doing any good on minnows. Didn't speak to anyone today. Hopefully the cold front doesn't shut...
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May 21st report...
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Well, the day didn't start off too good. My brother Kenneth and his clients left the resort at about 6:00 am and proceeded to make it to the middle of the highway bridge over the Rapid River right next to us (50 yards?) when the truck just quit. No electricity of any kind! So we unhooked the boat and John f...
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May 20th, 2011 Report
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The bite totally sucked for my brother Kenneth and his clients this morning . Did I tell you it sucked??? Oh yah. They ended up turning an 8 hour trip into a 5 hour trip. They only caught one about 18-19 inches. He spoke to another captain that also quit early after not catching a thing by 10:00 am. The...
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Flats of crawlers...
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All the flats of crawlers I got in are already spoken for, but I can have more here on Monday. If anyone wants me to order them a flat (500), just give me call here at the resort at 906-553-4850. The flats are $50.00
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Morning bite?
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Only have been able to make the evening fish so far, thursday we struck out but got a nice start to our summer tan, 7 on wendsday and 5 on tuesday. Not a bad start to the season we fished from 6 or so to about 10 at night, all fish were caught on orange/chartreuse jigs in 20-23 ft of water we also kept...
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To Dang Nice.....
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Went out for 3 1/2 hrs. today and squat. It was to nice out to catch fish. gotta be rain and wind and crap that will make anyone sick for me to catch fish I think.. Marked a few and saw trout in the shallow's.. (lots of carp too) It wasn't gunna happen for any fair weather fisherman around here today....
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Great Trip!
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Sorry for late report no computer up north, We fished on openers, Monday & Tuesday. Sunday was crazy!!! We fished from sun up to about 1pm....wow, we had solid five footers out there at times, my back still hurts! We fish the squaw point area 42' of water we were the only boat fishing there, caught 8 w...
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Early Bird Walleye Tournament
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The Bays de Noc Great Lakes Sport Fishing club will be holding it's Early Bird Walleye Tournament on Sunday, May 22. Take off and weigh-in will be at the North Shore boat launch on the Escanaba River. Boat inspection starts at 6AM, rules meeting at 6:45, fishing from 7AM to 4:30PM. Entry fee is $150 per t...
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May 16th Report...much better!
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Well, after yesterday's ridiculous winds, I was hoping today would be nicer. And nicer it was! The wind was much more manageable today, especially in the early morning. I had Dale DeWildt and his son Mark out again and we had a much better b...
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