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Interesting posts............I'm up on the north end and I thought the water was alot more cloudy than past years.I wonder if the water clarity can be that much different in the two areas?c63

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got the wheelhouse out yesterday before the winds picked up.. set up off Flamingo reef in 27ft. One small eye around 5pm and that was it. Marked a ton of suspended fish overnight all over the water column,, not sure what it was or if my graph was glitching out?. Woke up with one frozen hole & missing minnow frown

Hope the rest of the season has more action in store...

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Interesting posts............I'm up on the north end and I thought the water was alot more cloudy than past years.I wonder if the water clarity can be that much different in the two areas?c63

Yeah, I don't know. Last year it was really cloudy for us...We couldn't sightfish at all, not even in less than 10 feet.

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Water was pretty clear for us. We were set up in 14' of water on top of a rock reef on the east side and you could see the zebra mussels. We fished Saturday evening to Sunday morning and caught one fish at 1:15AM on the rattle reel. Nice and fat 27.5" was the only bite.

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Nice 'eye! You caught 100% more fish than I did this weekend. smile

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I did get 5 this weekend and lost one slot fish at the hole. Bite was all on fatheads with very finesse rigs on rattle reels, seems spoons actually scare the few fish you mark. Got 2 smalls a keeper and 2 over 21 & 26". Still not a very good weekend but atleast we got some. Daytime bite is putrid...

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My son & I were in our permanent on SE side from 9pm Sat till 1PM Monday. Real slow. Only action other than the small perch was my son set up behind the house in 10' Sunday late prime time and hooked into a big pike. We both got to see him a few times but never landed him. full-47556-41720-2014monsterperch.jpg

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Landed this one this past weekend, 37.5" long by 16.5" girth. Personal best.

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Landed this one this past weekend, 37.5" long by 16.5" girth. Personal best.

Nice pike!

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Nice job! congrats on pb.city

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Congrats

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Well I chose to take the weekend off, but I should've headed up there (can't believe I'm saying that).

Stick in Mud the Elder held down the fort this weekend, and he ended up getting a limit of fish as well as a few big ones. I had to head to the parents' house today, and I saw the two keepers, so I know he wasn't lying about that. smile

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Well I chose to take the weekend off, but I should've headed up there (can't believe I'm saying that).

Stick in Mud the Elder held down the fort this weekend, and he ended up getting a limit of fish as well as a few big ones. I had to head to the parents' house today, and I saw the two keepers, so I know he wasn't lying about that. smile

Impressive! I'll be back at it this weekend looking for another big one or two. Maybe get my bro a new PB.

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nice pike

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Fished out of Mac's Twin Bay Friday afternoon and Saturday. did catch a fat 26" walter at 4PM in 17 feet. Mostly just small perch other than that. We did go to deep gravel (33') on Sat from noon - 2PM and did catch more bigger perch.

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Charlie,nice eye!congrats.......when u say more big perch how many how big how many guys how long fishing?Sorry bout all the questions......been working BIG TIME to get even half a dozen decent perch on the north side!c63

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Chris, Sorry to get back to u so late. It was just my son and I fishing in separate portables. Sorry to get your hopes up but I caught no decent sized ones and my son caught 3 keepers with two at 9" and one at about 10" so really nothing "big" - just our biggest of the year (which is sad to say). smile

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Impressive! I'll be back at it this weekend looking for another big one or two. Maybe get my bro a new PB.

Yeah, the ones being caught sure are healthy.

In a fit of (completely unwarranted) optimism, Stick in Mud the Elder decided to head back up to the Pond the last two days. Reality has set in; there are no fish to report. smile

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catch me some tullees smile and if he needs company sometime let me know.

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catch me some tullees smile and if he needs company sometime let me know.

I suspect he does need company, as he completely failed to even get a bite today. Our fishhouse is at the end of the road, and it isn't that far from shore. Tough time getting tullies there.

But you're always welcome to come on up, Royce. Most winters I head up there every chance I can get, but this year I've done my best to find other things to do.

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maybe next week. give the old stick my #

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Rented a sleeper Mon-Thurs on SE side with my bro and cuz. Fishing was VERY SLOW! Not from around here but fish Mille Lacs once a year and this was the slowest year by far. This was the only Walleye caught (by my bro) 24 in, 5 lbs 4 oz. Also caught an eel pout, some small perch and of course lots of bottle bass! Still had a great time as always!

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No problem Charlie!The fishing has been slow but it still beats a good fast day at work!c63

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maybe next week. give the old stick my #

Will do. He's retired now, so a lot of his adventures happen Monday through Friday.

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I know the bites been tough, but anyone have any pointers out there. 6 of us are goin out this weekend, and half of that 6 is the women. Sooooo, needless to say I'd take some pointers to keep the heckling hens interested!!!! And by pointers, I'm just looking for bait type more or less. Shouldn't matter, prolly get fatheads and shiners anyways, btw, fishing for eyes

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Uff da...I wish I could be more help, but everything I've heard has been pretty bad. I haven't fished the lake in a while, but my dad's been up there the last few weeks with zero fish to show for it. frown

Sounds like you have a good start on the bait, though. Fatheads, rainbows, or shiners. If you're by a nice weedbed you might want to toss a big sucker on a tip-up to see if you can find a gator (or an 'eye).

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Fishing has been rough, but what I have caught has been on rainbows. Fatheads and shiners have done nothing for me. 4 weekends= 2 eyes, 1 pout, 2 jumbos, 5 heggies, and 2 jugs of crown.

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Vister....on bait, use biggest shiners or rainbows you can find for rattle reels. (Good luck; pickings are slim this time of year.) I'd also go deep/ideally mud. We moved there from shallower/rocks last weekend. Locators and camera showed plenty of small eyes, perch and tullibee - which kept us entertained. Caught 12 eyes, 2 about 15 and rest 10 and under. Most were caught jigging. Also caught 2 true jumbos. Hoping it gets better in coming weeks. If you are shallow and near weeds, definitely get some sucker minnows and set some tip-ups. Let us know how you do.

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Nice to hear you got some small 'eyes, herm. smile

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Fished most of the day Saturday and overnight til Sunday morning. No walleyes to show for it this time. I was messing with little perch on the camera and managed to catch this hog burbot though!

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