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Plenty of pike...
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Though I only landed one pike this evening, I had 3 others hooked and at least another half a dozen strike... but miss my spinnerbait. With the bright sun today, the pike were really hitting short. I would love to be out there on a dark cloudy day...
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July 11th Limit!!!
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Today's short 5 hr. trip with Gary and Julie from downstate Rockford Michigan started out on the bumby side. We ventured out of the Escanaba Harbor around 7:30 a.m. and the wind was already blowing pretty good from the south/southwest. W...
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Slow fishing
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Is the fishing really slow on LBDN havent seen any walleye reports anywhere????
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Big Bay Bass!!!
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I have some guests that absolutely tore up the smallmouth bass on Big Bay de Noc a couple days ago. They took a picture of every bass that was at least keeper size and guess what....they now have 140 pictures of smallmouth bass on their camera. They caught many in the 4 pound range! I'll try and get some mor...
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July 2nd
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you are right it was definitley rocking out there today catman, I caught many undersized fish as well on the north end as you predicted but i manage to catch 4 keepers ranging from 15-22" I was planning on fishing south but when your by yourself its to hard to set and drive the boat in 3-4' waves all my...
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July 2nd...fish still bitin'
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Today's trip was with Marion and Hank, a couple of great guys from the Chicago area. It started out a little slow...but I knew that the wind would soon get the fish crankin'...and crank they did. We caught several undersized fish, and end...
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Blade Size
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Was wondering what everyone is using for blade size on your harnesses #3 or #4 I have mostly #4 and was wondering if that would be to big for this time of year????
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Cameron's Walleye Trip!!!
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Today I had the chance to get my 4 yr. old son Cameron on the bay for some walleye action. The bite has been awesome the past few days so I figured it would be a great time to get him interested in fishing the "big water". He loved the bo...
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Little Bay de Noc-June 26th, 2010
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Well, today was day three fishing with Denny Gustafson, Jim Lewinski Sr. and Jim Jr. What a great group of fellas to have as clients and friends. We hit the water around 7 a.m. this morning and had our 15 fish limit in the box around 10:30 a.m., an...
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June 25th Limit!!!
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Another great day on the water today with Denny, Jim Sr. and Jim Jr. We got on the water a little before 7 a.m. and headed out to troll some harnesses. We were using both Walleyes Choice (http://www.walleyeschoice.com) harnesses behind so...
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June 24th Limit!!!
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Today I had the pleasure of fishing with three great guys from the Chicago area, long time clients Denny Gustafson, Jim Lewinski and his son Jim Jr. I had plans of fishing south today, but when I arrived at the resort we already had a brisk nort...
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Walleye Migrations...
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Over the years, I have had several folks ask for a copy of this article that was in the Upper Michigan Outdoor Journal and written by Jerry Peterson (retired local biologist). It's about a study conducted years ago where they implanted sonar tags into walleye and then tracked them as best they could....
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Last Couple of Days
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The last few days was spent fishing with Ivan Robertson from Cadillac Michigan. We didn't have the greatest weather for fishing the last three days, except for Thursday afternoon when we finally found some dirty water and ended up filling out our limit with 6 walleyes before heading in. Yesterday...
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June 17th Report / Little Bay de Noc
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Today's 5 hour trip started out pretty slow as it was dead calm on the bay with thick fog. After a couple hours the fog finally cleared and the wind started up. The wind turned the fish on almost immediately. Kenneth and his client ended up wi...
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Wednesday June 16th Report
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My brother Kenneth had his worst trip of the season yesterday. It was a 5 hour evening trip. The water temperature had dropped down to 57 degrees at the north end. He did find some warmer water at another one of favorite spots, but the dirty water had cleared out, and so did the fish! He said there was a hug...
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Tuesday June 15th report (late)...,
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Kenneth and his clients really struggled yesterday thanks to the cruddy weather. They started off great landing a 23? walleye before they even got all their lines in the water. But then the wind got so strong, Kenneth could not control the boat like he needed to. They tried several different areas a...
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Leadcore question????????
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I am kinda new to the leadcore world, I think for the most part I have the depth control down for use of shallow running crankbaits and harnesses thanks to the trolling bible, but I was wondering how you figure out the depth for leadcore and deep running cranks? Do you use the depth curve of a crankbait wi...
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Monday June 14th Report
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Today's half day trip was spent fishing with Rick and Darrell, a couple of great guys that come up and stay with us every June. Rick gets the trip from his kids for Christmas each year, and the past couple of years we've had some pretty good fishing. Today, however, the north winds cleared up a lot of the...
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Big splake
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Last night, I decided to try my hand at salmon trolling for the first time this year. Took my buddy Bruce along. We fished from 6 to 9:45, south of Escanaba. We hardly marked anything, and never had a bump. We decided to pull lines at 9:45. We were in the process of bringing in the second dipsey, when one of t...
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Sat. June 12th Report...
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Today's trip was with three generations of the Otten family from the Milwaukee area. I've had the great pleasure of fishing with this family for a few years...and I really look forward to it every year. Gene, Henry and Nick make fishing a lo...
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