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Muskeye
05-21-2003, 03:07 PM
Hoping to get out for the first time this year. Has anyone found fish pulling boards on Winnebago? I haven't fished here in years and some help would be great.
Spanky
05-21-2003, 03:18 PM
Musky,
Keep an eye on lake-link.com.Lots of reports.Sounds like the trolling bite has a wait yet. All the action seems to be on live bait on the reefs. leeches and crawlers and jigs and slip bobbers.
Fishhunter 2
05-21-2003, 05:22 PM
Try the reefs drift or slip bobber with leachs
risor39
05-23-2003, 01:21 PM
I've been out in the mud twice now just 2 keepers and 3 small fish to show for it.The mud bite is a couple of weeks off yet.Maybe sooner I'm sure there are some guys getting fish out there but not me.Lots of dead water on the graph.Marked a lot of fish off stevens reef today and as I got farther away less and less on the locator.
sevenmmm
05-25-2003, 04:00 PM
The fish are coming out of the river right now. I haven't trolled boards yet but if I did would concentrate in the lake within few miles of the river mouth.
What I can tell you is there are alot of eater fish being caught on the reefs. A friend reported he caught 120 walleyes fishing a tournament yesterday, with only a few going over 15 inches. If you are patient and weed through the small fish you will connect on a few big girls.
If you decide to jig the reef, bring alot of bait!
risor39
05-26-2003, 07:25 AM
Talked to a guy at the rec.launch yesterday.He said he was pulling boards from waverly to the light house and picked up some nicer fish.He was pulling #5 shad raps 70ft back.I was out and found some fish off hunters point bait of choice was wally diver 30ft back got a nicer fish about 5lbs(cpr)and 8 others from 12-16" if you do fish the shorelines as I was,get out early and fish high before all the boat traffic sends the fish down.I was done at about 10am.
risor39
05-26-2003, 07:30 AM
One other spot I fished last week was as SevenMMM suggested the mouth of the river in Oshkosh.The wind picked up so i decided to troll the 10ft depths and picked up some nicer fish here.Then some inconsiderate jet skier decides to mess things up.