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Arnesens Fishing Report

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Today was our first of three days fishing out of Arnesens Resort. It was a slow day with 18 fish caught for two guys fishing 8 hours. The biggest walleye was 22.5 inches and we had 9 keepers. Fished the Gull Rock area in 29 feet of water. The best presentation was a glass jig under bobber tipped with a fathead. A few fish were caught on the glitter glow stop sign. Fish were tight to the bottom.

Any thoughts on how to improve our catch? I'll report tomorrow with our days catch.

Good luck to all.

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If you're marking fish just keep working with different presentations/colors and slow the presentation down. If you're not marking and can move to a different location that would be the next choice. If you are in a resort house a little harder to do than if you're fishing in your own. Good luck

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sometimes on a light bite use a plain red hook with a splitt shot up about 6" good luck

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Another slow day with 30 fish for 5 guys. We ended up with 20 keepers. We were about a half mile away from where we were fishing yesterday near Gull Rock. We were a little deeper today at 30 ft . Sadly, we had one of the fullest buckets. Lets hope day 3 is better.

Good luck to all!

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sounds slow but it sounds like the fish that you did catch were pretty quality fish. 20 keepers for 30 fish caught total are pretty good odds in my book.

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Agreed. Most were 12-15 inch saugers. Biggest walleye was 18 inches. A majority of the fish were caught on the deadstick. Also got checked by the DNR. Very nice guy! He said it was slow for most everyone that he talked to. We'll take one more shot at them tomorrow!

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Sunday was another wet fart. We fished 12 mile and caught 31 fish with 2 in the slot. Also caught two jumbo perch with one measuring 13 inches. Although fishing was slow, Arnensens was top notch as usual. Good luck!

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We just got back from Arnesens as well. Fished most of Friday, all day Saturday and Sunday morning. 6 guys, only kept about 20 fish. Very slow. Most of the time we were jigging with a dead stick next to you and they would hit the dead stick. Had the most success with hot tamale or gold rattlin flyer jigging and a plain red hook with sinker. We were checked by the DNR as well. Good luck!

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Our group of 10 fished Thur-Sat. They had us set up a good mile to the west of Gull rock in 29ft. Our total pail counts were 33-27-38. The sauger were 13-16 with most being 14in. The Eyes were 14-19 with a nice avg. size of 16-17in. For the 3 days we landed 6 slot fish with largest going 26.5. The best time seemed to run from 9-12 and the again 230-4pm. This year I would say the larger size red Macho minnow took the crown jigging, edging out various colors of Lindy flyers. On the dead sticks a variety of things worked. Gold gemini and chartreuse frosty to name a few. Nether Jigging or dead sticking out did the other. We seemed to catch fewer dink sauger and eyes so there seemed to be plenty of lulls for each house each day. One positive for the future was the amount of 9-10in eyes we caught.

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Fished the 17-20th fishing was on again and off not hot and heavy nor steady. We caught every size one could think of. No one method or color was dominate all the time. Although Saturday did prove to be a red rattlin flyer or buckshot. They would run in spurts of a couple hrs then nothing for a few hrs.We were in 28fow.

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We were in the sleepers from the 17th through the 20th as well and same here. Roughly the same depth as well. We were hanging our dead sticks within a few inches or so off the bottom and that seemed to be producing most of our keeper fish. Even had 3 very big fish break off the line so I'm assuming big pike. Some of our best production was off frostie style jigs in white with a little green or green eyes on the dead stick. As far as jigging, pounding the bottom and then raising up a few feet and shaking a buckshot or rattle flyer seemed to produce as well. Didn't matter the colors. I was taking fish on orange, white/blue, white purple, pink, didn't matter. If they showed up on the bottom, and I mean right on the bottom, a hard rip or jig to get the rattle they'd come up and check it out. Lots and lots of little cigars.

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