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Wow! Can you believe how nice Saturday was? It felt good to have some cooler temps on Sunday so I could wear long sleaves and not have my sun burn exposed smile.gif

Our group had great success on eater fish, limits where caught on both days. A meal ate Saturday night and many fish returned to the lake. Largest for the weekend was 16 3/4 average kept was around 14 1/2. Many many dinks let go.

We had our best luck on Lindy rigs with a yellow or gold hook and medium sized minnows. A few fish where caught on Leeches but we only used them when we ran out of Rainbows.

Our best fishing was in 25 to 35 FOW.

We focused in on Armstrong Bay in the mornings and over by Windy Island/ Indian Point durning the day. We also picked up a few real nice fish right off of Dog Island.

A few fish picked up on Rapalas early in the morning.

All in all it was an awesome weekend.

Cliff- I tried calling you again as my father in law was hoping to book you a 1/2 day on Monday. I know he is wanting to learn more about patterns on that side of the lake. I'm sure we will catch you eventually. Sorry it always such short notice.

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Lazydayz,

I called the cell number you left but did not get a call back.

I had the day off and fished by myself. grin.gif

Cliff

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What size and color rapalas are working? Last weekend i stuck with my favorite size 9 orange but only got 1 fish and i pulled it for probly around 2 hours total. I know my cousin got a limit on 7 orange. Hows the weather up there? Any rain? We hardly got any down here and a cold front is here now. Its only 38 degrees at my house right now frown.gif

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I have always had my best luck with #7 or #9 floating Raps in 4' to 8' of water.

My best colors have been:

Black/silver

Blue/silver

Firetiger

Rainbow trout

Bright gold

Perch

Clown

In this order!

You will have to experiment with colors,size, and speed to see which one they prefer on any given day.

As a general rule I troll them as fast as possible without having the Raps jump to the surface.

Cliff

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Who needs a boat, left mine at home this year after 10+ years of opening on the Big V and fished with family and friends from shore, the wife and 2 young daughters could not keep up, it was great. The best part was watching everyone in the boats batteling the winds. I've been there, no fun when its your boat. Many eaters, largest released was 21" by the wife. Good luck to all, red color hook out fished all others by far, tiped with rainbows.

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Cliff - Grandma was definitely happy. Always gotta make sure that she gets some of the catch, you know?

She did say that the walleye I gave her when we went ice fishing year before last was the best she'd had in years. Must be the cold water or something.

Wellesy - Sorry, I thought your family had that whole string of cabins down the point... yeah, they were a bit loud, but I could deal with the tunes, at least.

We're just up the bay from Glenmore... Old white/tan boathouse with a green door on it. My mom worked at your family's old cabin for at least one summer when she was younger. Sorry when that one burnt. I miss seeing it in the mornings when I'm on the dock.

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Cliff,

Looks like you got everything but my favorite orange on that list. I have never tried trolling them fast ive always pulled them about as slow as possible while still getting action. IVe only tried size 9 this year but i do have a size 7 blue, ill have to buy a couple more before friday.

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Slick - We used to own everything to Glenmore but as the overall family evolved we sold two off. We do miss Grandma and Grandpa's cabin...great place for the winter. We had sold that off as well but when the cabin burned down we bought the property back. Thankfully the bunk house is still standing. I'm thinking the noise shouldn't be an every weekend thing.

When abouts did your mom work for my grandparent's?

We used small perch raps on Sunday morning and they were on fire. cool.gif

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Honestly, I don't know for sure when she worked for them.. probably early-mid '60's, I would guess.

I'm guessing that the noise won't be a regular thing either. It's the first time that I can remember it being that loud there.

Perch raps, huh?.. Hmmm... might have to put that in the memory bank. I made a run to Big Bay on Sunday morning, then ended up in front of our dock for a while. Definitely was a great weekend weather-wise. I just hope I can get back up there in the next few weeks. I know this weekend & Memorial are out, but maybe the beginning of June... *sigh* one can only hope!

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Perch eh? Never tried that color but probably will try fire tiger this weekend.

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I have fished verm everyday since opener and all i can say is awesome. Opener ended up poor for us we fished cook end... tranfered to tower end monday to stay at girlfriends cabin and the slaughter fest began... 5 of us in our boat including girlfriend and friends and an easy limits of quality eyes jigging pink with minners off of moose island... good thing there were many mouths to feed at the cabin or else our fishing time would not have been so extended... awesome time and hope they kep snappin

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Well, that was before my time then. The neighbors were new there last summer and have been pretty good overall. Now the fellow who had the place five or so years ago was a whole different story...lasted a year and the guy's folks got him out of there. blush.gif

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Actually, I usually reach for the firetiger first with the dark water. The advice we got Sunday morning said to go small and the perch color was all I had for that.

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I know perch has worked pretty well for me around Hoodoo area... but haven't trolled cranks at all this year yet.

She worked there before my time, too... LOL I would venture a guess that we're probably pretty close in age.

If you ever see a blue Crestliner with "Explorer" on the side, say hi.. it's probably me!

My brother has the black & white Fishawk... and then there's my unlce, who is running hie 1969 runabout. Can't remember the brand, but we put in a lift in the boathouse so that it can be used again, which is cool, seeing as how noone had a boat in it regularly since before Grandpa passed a few years ago.

You should build a new cabin on the old site. It would be cool to see something nice standing there again!

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Slick - sounds like we are close in age...I'm 33 in August.

My parents have thought about building a new structure but I think that's on the back burner...would be nice to have a bigger winter place but the bunk house suffices for now.

I'll keep a lookout for ya!

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