Thursday, June 25, 2009

June 13-18 Winnebago

Fished every day in the mud catching between 10-30 fish each day.
Crawler harnesses, 10 feet down, 1.2 mph.
Calm days, at least50 ft. from boat.
Lot of spooky fish from heavy boat traffic and fishing pressure.
Getting ready for FLW tourney on bay of Green Bay.
Had to pick up 2 new batteries for my trolling motor. Big chunk of change, but necessary.

May 30 Stockbridge tournament

Prefished 4 days before the Stockbridge tourney on 'bago.
Slip bobber fishing for walleyes since it was pretty windy for trolling.
Came in 21st.
Fished jigs and leeches off the rock hump on the east side.

June 7 Winnebago

Winnebago, out in the mud, trolling crank baits
Not the best day fishing, but you know what they say.

May 17 Petenwell Flowage FLW tournament

Pre-fished for this tournament for 5 days.
Spent the time trolling and losing crank baits in the old river channel.
Saw something I had never seen in all my years fishing. My buddy and local guide actually fell in the water. He was trying to retrieve a snagged bait and fell in. It was pretty cold! He's good though.
The tournament was on Saturday but it got blown out. They rescheduled for Sunday.
Although it was still pretty windy, I managed to boat some fish. Lots of overs and shorts.
Stayed at St. Joseph's resort in Necedah. Nice place.

Friday, April 10, 2009

First Spring 2009 Fishing!

3/21/09
119 miles round trip to take Wade and Toni out fishing.
Went out of Oshkosh and only caught one 7 pounder.

3/27/09
Went out on Lake Michigan once. South of Sheboygan near Black River.
Caught 5 Brown Trouts on Lou's Crank Baits.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Perch on Bago!

August 24, 30, 31, and Sept 2
I finally got out to Winnebago to go perch fishing.
The bite was pretty good - ended up getting enough eaters 2 of the days for meals. The other two days it was just for fun and they all were set free.

FLW League Championship

Sept 6 through the 13
Went over to Winona to prefish for the week leading up to the championship.
This was my first time on the Mississippi and it was tough. I didn't want to spring for $18/doz willow cats so I used whatever I could that might act like one.
There isn't really a good substitute, turns out.
I ended up placing 38th on the first day of the event and then dropped down to 48th.
At least I was in the top half of the field! We caught fish both days, just not enough weight to get us in the top 10 to qualify for the third and last day of the tourney.
It was a good experience.
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