Jump to content
  • GUESTS

    If You  want access  to member only forums on FM, You will need to Sign-in or  Sign-Up now .

    This box will disappear once you are signed in as a member.

Recommended Posts

Congrats Casey! Thats got to be an unreal feeling sliding the net under a gosh fish like that in that tourney.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nice going Casey, congratulations! I fished it with Travis Sorokie and finished "somewhere" in the middle of the pack of nearly 100 boats, weighing in five fish for 4.55 pounds. We had a couple better fish die on us and couldn't weigh those. Acually, we quit fishing a couple hours early because most of our fish looked like they wouldn't make it, being caught deep and being bounced around out there all day. Fun event though and once again, CONGRATS!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Congrats Casey and Dave! It absolutely couldn't have happened to two nicer guys or better fishermen. Just think Casey, assuming you and Dave split the winnings, 13 more wins like this one and you'll have that new boat ALMOST paid for! laugh

Good Fishing,

MarkB smile

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Congrats Casey and Dave. Always nice to see local guys cash the big checks.. grin

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We fished it for the first time, (first time fishing the lake on Friday) we weighed 6 fish for 6.11 lbs all the fish were 15"-16", we caught 12 keepers on Friday prefishing and then caught 15 fish on sat, we weighed 4 fish at 9am because ther was no way they were going to make another 6 hrs in the live well and went back out looking for a kicker and released a 22" and 20" and caught more 15"ers. It took about 7lbs to cash a check, we ended up in about 18-20th place. It was a record for most fish caught in the tourney.

Can't say enough good things about the tournament! I'm not a tournament guy but I will be back!

The fish were 26'-40' right on the transition from the rocks to the mud off of structure that topped out at 15-20 feet, we had three spots all to ourselves for fri and sat, red beeds and a red hook with a rainbow or shiner out fished everything else.

Thanks to mark b and the other guys on here for such awesome info last week, it got me started and we picked up a pattern and we had a blast!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Tjo, the bite could be anywhere on the lake right now. This storm may change a few thing tho.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hey John, by chance, did you fish out of a red Lund? If so, I'll explain why I ask.

Good Fishing,

MarkB smile

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Older black Lund 1890 tiller with a 90 hp merc. It has a little red on it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Do you guys run mono as a main line on your lindy rods or a braid with flouro leader? I noticed the line section my weight was sliding on was pretty beat up. Rocks down there don't help either.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thank you very much for the congratuatulations!! I am taking the day off today to relax! Definately awsome putting the net under a 28.5 on tournament day!! gringrin

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Congrats again Casey, always nice seeing people ya know getting the win! Ill finally be heading up this weekend coming up, excited to fish for the first time this year. Ill be doing some trolling...passing the time before the real opener starts...Muskies crazy

Timmy

Link to comment
Share on other sites

tjo,

I was out this morning with clients and we boated 23 walleyes and kept 12 nice fish!

Largest was 22inches.

Cliff

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think most of the experts (not me) will say they use a braid and flouro leader.

Get a snag, pull hard and break the flouro, just retie the leader and you are back in business.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

You can go either way. I think a quality rod with a good tip is more important. I like berkley sensation on my jigging and lindy rods. I always use fluorocarbon no matter what on lindys. It's all personal preference.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I honestly feel sorry for the fishermen that have to work all week so they can come to the lake on the week-end and then get the kind of weather we had this past week-end. Actually, the fishing was quite good if you wanted to fight the wind most of the day Saturday and fish in the rain most of the day Sunday. Rain is most welcome, but during the week would be better.

And then there was today grin You absolutely couldn't ask for a more beautiful day to be on the lake. Sunshine and light variable winds made fishing conditions perfect! The week-end cold front appeared to have absolutely no effect on the appetite of the walleyes. My wife and I started out at the deep water mud and today we pulled up with another boat as the first boats out there. Eventually, the numbers swelled to over 30 boats. Everyone is still catching walleyes and the depths still range between 30' and 40', with perhaps the nod going to the 30'-35' depth. The only significant change that I could detect in the bite was that the walleyes seemed a bit more tentative in the "hit" and we had several pick it up and drop it. With that said, any lindy style rig, bouncer/leader, etc would catch all the walleyes you could possibly need.

About 11 o'clock I suggested to my wife that we try a rock reef or two away from the crowd. The fishing was spectacular! I have a mark in 19' on a reef that tops out at 14' surrounded by 30'-40' of water. I knew I was in the right spot because it took my wife <5 minutes to get the first snag. The walleyes were scattered from 25'-29' for about 200 yards along the deep edge of the reef. I marked quite a lot of fish and it was refreshing being able to see them compared to the mud where they are, most of the time, harder to see(for me anyway). We actually caught more walleyes there than on the mud and, today, the average was bigger. Most of the mud walleyes today were 15"-15.5" while the walleyes we caught adjacent to the rocks were beautiful 16"-17.5" The first walleye my wife caught there was smallish but that was the only one. In addition I got a 18" smallmouth in 25' of water that had me going for a bit. When it didn't give me the tell-tale thump when it ran I was certain I didn't have my first big walleye of the season cry

The reason for todays post is that several people that I talk to are having issues with mud questions: are they only on deep mud?, how do you tell if it's mud?, how long will they be on the mud? Well, a blanket answer today would be: if you feel more comfortable fishing more "typical" walleye structure away from the big crowds of boats, then, by all means, give it a try because they were certainly there for us today.

Personally, I'll keep fishing both places until they all go to the rocks.

Good Fishing,

MarkB smile

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thanks for the updates Mark. How can you tell if you are on top of the mud versus rocks?

Thanks

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Visually, you can see the difference on your sonar. Mud shows up somewhat granular and dull colored:

full-32496-20759-002.jpg

Rock will show up as a solid dark band and, of course, large boulders,etc. will protrude up from the bottom.

full-32496-20760-001.jpg

Now, this is precisely the reason I like using bouncers. With a bouncer, a fast tip, and braid, I can "feel" the bottom blindfolded and know what it is.

Hope this helps.

Good Fishing,

MarkB smile

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quote:
The walleyes were scattered from 25'-29' for about 200 yards along the deep edge of the reef.

bingo!

also, the way we could tell is when you use an old fashion bottom bouncer, you can tink it down the rocks and the when you hit the mud you can feel the soft bottom, do that on a few drifts and pay attention to how deep the transition is and then use your gps and trolling motor to keep you there and follow the structure.. that mixed with my new Humminbird 798 on the same screen that Mark showed is an easy way to find the transition.

Our biggest fish were actually on the rocks and they must have been huge because we were snagging all the time in that spot compared to our other spots.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Our biggest fish were actually on the rocks and they must have been huge because we were snagging all the time in that spot compared to our other spots.

The fish were huge or the rocks were huge? I presume it was the rocks that were huge, but that's not what you wrote. Grammar police in action.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

There are some big fish there also.. I have a giant corrugated plastic check

To prove it grin

Capt.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Lol I didn't know I had to use proper grammar on here... I was on the Tower end where that is allowed, i guess you get called out on the cook side.

I meant the rocks but there was no doubt they were holding bigger fish.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yep, folks is very picky about proper language usage on the Cook end. smile

Nah, it just struck me funny is all. Like the old grouch marx thing about "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I don't know"

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Mark,

The graphs are very helpful identifying rocks versus mud. Much appreciated! Does anyone have the full auto Glass standings? Can't find on the web.

Also, does anyone else get logged out of the forums regularly after checking "remember me"? not a big deal, but I must contiuously enter my ID and password.

Thanks

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They compiled the results yesterday and they are being uploaded today on their website. 27 teams out of 91 didn't weigh a fish, I thought it was less than that but that is still pretty good, I think they said there were 350 or so walleyes weighed, 3 over 26" and that doesn't count the ones that people culled and I heard a few guys say that they just took theirs home for the frying pan instead of weighing them. (going off of memory so may be a bit sketchy)

That is very impressive!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Got into the slab crappies on opener...here are a fewfull-885-20832-540012_4035141123782_1439

Nice crappies! Great photo!

Cliff

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2012 City Auto Glass Walleye Classic results:

1. Casey Sunsdahl & David Schaeffer – 14.56 pds (*New tourney record*)

2. Steve Amundson & Brandon Mihm – 10.63

3. Tom Schlotec & Len Petroskey – 9.72

4. Tony Oehrlein & Brian Zak – 9.50

5. Buck & Todd Lescarbeau – 9.45

6. Troy Jutting & Ben Johnson – 8.30

7. Ralph Teschner & Horst Graser – 8.12

8. Zach Dagel & David LaCoe – 8.08

9. Jerry & John Waldvogel – 7.94

10. Pat Savage & John Martire – 7.88

11. Chad & Scott Hinrichs – 7.81

12. Dave & Zachary Beckmann – 7.66

13. Mike McPherson & Steve Krasaway – 7.63

14. Russ Dahl & Gary Savela – 7.25

15. Tim & Andy Woitalla – 6.92

16. Steve Rowe & Troy Weyrens – 6.73

17. Steve & Terry Anderson – 6.68

18. Jeff & Frank Niepagen – 6.53

19. Tim & Steve Tauer – 6.16

20. Lorne Jonassen & Mark Sindelir – 6.13

21. John Cochems & John Reilly – 6.11

22. Marc Snow & Brad Engman – 5.67

23. Terry Sjoberg & Kyhl Kissinger – 5.59

24. Don Neisen & Trent Zilmer – 5.36

25. Jack & Mark Bradach – 5.32

26. Brandon Ward & Josh Juaire – 5.24

27. Duane Zywicki & Jamie Loftis – 5.18

28. Paul Pollock & Joe Secola – 5.17

29. Joe Lorenz & Noah Wendorf – 5.16

30. Brad Zilmer & Matt Weimer – 5.12

31. Jeff & Tristana Tatur – 5.03

32. Brad Schuett & Keith Behn – 4.92

33. Henry & Michael Gatzke – 4.58

34. Travis Sorokie & Greg Clusiau – 4.55

35. Johnny & Mike Neisen – 4.45

36. Greg Ribich & Bob Lubovich – 4.29

37. John Cann & Ted Olson – 4.12

38. Jason Svaleson & Gunder Nelson – 4.02

39. Craig & Darin Johnson – 3.87

40. Allan Thompson & Brock Dahl – 3.37

41. Denny VanDeLinde & Larry Burton – 3.30

42. Bobby Schlieske & Scott Dougherty – 3.16

43. Jim Buranen & Darren Simonson – 3.13

44. Patrick MacMillan & Catherine Farley – 3.04

45. Tom Taber & David Haedtke – 2.97

46. Jim Patterson & Adam Ryan – 2.79

47. Mike Sanborn & John Kerr – 2.77

48. Grant Schultz & Lance Dougherty – 2.42

49. Doug Palazzari & Jim Perpich – 2.15

50. Sam & Paul Stanisich – 2.10

51. Erik Ruud & Josh Simon – 2.04

52. Matt Nelson & Mike Sehr – 1.95

53. Jason Hamre & Rich Lees – 1.87

54. Paul Duerre & Josh Kruse – 1.71

55. Joni Mogen-Pfutzenreuter & Pia Starkovich – 1.69

56. Randy Marsh & Gary Setala – 1.36

57. Chris Vogel & Bill Detienne – 1.28

58. Josh Day & Todd Sturk – 1.19

59. Jeff Jandl & Lloyd Williamson – 1.17

60. Ron & Rick Flesvig – 1.06

61. Ben Dery & Dan Brelje - .96

62. Ryan Rud & Joel Pagnac - .88

63. Mark Vermette & Mike St. Vincent - .79

64-90: 27 teams with 0.00 pds

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • The title was changed to 2020-21 Lake Vermilion Fishing Reports
  • The title was changed to 2021 Lake Vermilion Fishing Reports
  • The topic was unlocked
  • The topic was pinned

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.




  • Similar Content

  • Your Responses - Share & Have Fun :)

    • Brianf.
      I'm not there, so I can't tell exactly what's going on but it looks like a large area of open water developed in the last day with all of the heavy snow on the east side of wake em up Narrows. These two photos are from my Ring Camera facing north towards Niles Point.  You can see what happened with all of snow that fell in the last three days, though the open water could have been wind driven. Hard to say. .  
    • SkunkedAgain
      Black Bay had great ice before but a few spots near rockpiles where there were spots of open water. It looks like the weight of the snow has created a little lake in the middle of the bay.  
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the south end...   Thanks to some cold spring weather, ice fishing continues strong for those still ice fishing.  The bite remains very good.  Most resorts have pulled their fish houses off for the year, however, some still have fish houses out and others are allowing ATV and side by sides.  Check social media or call ahead to your favorite resort for specifics. Reports this week for walleyes and saugers remain excellent.   A nice mix of jumbo perch, pike, eelpout, and an occasional crappie, tullibee or sturgeon being reported by anglers. Jigging one line and using a live minnow on the second line is the way to go.  Green, glow red, pink and gold were good colors this week.     Monster pike are on a tear!  Good number of pike, some reaching over 45 inches long, being caught using tip ups with live suckers or dead bait such as smelt and herring in 8 - 14' of water.   As always, work through a resort or outfitter for ice road conditions.  Safety first always. Fish houses are allowed on the ice through March 31st, the walleye / sauger season goes through April 14th and the pike season never ends. On the Rainy River...  The river is opened up along the Nelson Park boat ramp in Birchdale, the Frontier boat ramp and Vidas boat ramp.  This past week, much of the open water skimmed over with the single digit overnight temps.   Areas of the river have popped open again and with temps getting warmer, things are shaping up for the last stretch through the rest of the spring season, which continues through April 14th.   Very good numbers of walleyes are in the river.  Reports this week, even with fewer anglers, have been good.  When temps warm up and the sun shines, things will fire up again.   Jigs with brightly colored plastics or jigs with a frozen emerald shiner have been the desired bait on the river.  Don't overlook slow trolling crankbaits upstream as well.   Good reports of sturgeon being caught on the river as well.  Sturgeon put the feed bag on in the spring.  The bite has been very good.  Most are using a sturgeon rig with a circle hook loaded with crawlers or crawlers / frozen emerald shiners. Up at the NW Angle...  Ice fishing is winding down up at the Angle.  Walleyes, saugers, and a number of various species in the mix again this week.  The bite is still very good with good numbers of fish.  The one two punch of jigging one line and deadsticking the second line is working well.   Check with Angle resorts on transport options from Young's Bay.  Call ahead for ice road guidelines.  
    • CigarGuy
      With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end!
    • PSU
      How much snow did you get on Vermilion? 
    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
      A friend who has a cabin between Alex and Fergus said the lake he's on refroze. He texted me a pic from March 12th when it was open and one from 23rd when it wasn't. 🤯
    • SkunkedAgain
      I don't think that there has been any ice melt in the past few weeks on Vermilion. Things looked like a record and then Mother Nature swept in again.   I'll give my revised guess of April 21st
    • leech~~
      As I get older it's really not just about sending bullets down range.  Some of it's just the workmanship of the gun and the wow factor. The other two guns I have really wanted which I'll never have now because of their price, is a 8mm Jap Nambu and 9mm German Luger.   Just thought they always looked cool!  
    • jim curlee
      I had a guy hit me with a lightly used 1969 BAR, he wanted $1650 with an older Leupold scope. More than I think they are worth, I made an offer, he declined end of story.   You know if you look at the old brochures, a grade II BAR sold for $250 in the late 60s, $1650 would be a good return on your investment.    Why would anybody want a 50 year old gun, they are heavy, have wood stocks, and blued metal.  I guess mainly to keep their gun safes glued to the floor. lol   You can probably buy a stainless rifle that you never have to clean, with a synthetic stock you never have to refinish, is as light as a feather, and for half as much money, perfect.   I'm too old for a youth gun, although I've shrunk enough that it would probably fit. lol   No Ruger 10/44s.   Jim      
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.