the flats?

[Guest]

heading to the pond for the first time this year, and was wondering how fishing has been. and how the flats are doing. thanx trollin

[Guest]

Just got home. Worked Fletcher 4 hours Tuesday afternoon in bright sun. Marked fish both on and (mostly) off drop. No bites on leeches, but got two bites (and the fish) slowly drifting a crawler on a Phelps floater on 8ft flourocarbon leader, behind a suspended slip sinker. I did catch three dandy jumbo perch with this rig, and one trolling a mini deep rap over the flat. I never thought it was a perch until he came up to the boat. Oh, neither walleye was a keeper (18+", and 19+").
Resort worker said things have been slow lately.

I did have fun with smallies and a 5lb Northern, while casting a deep diving rap.

Good luck up there.

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[WALLEYENUTZ]

Bobby, where were you catching those smallies? Planning on heading up Sunday afternoon

[Guest]

thanks for the reply G, if the eyes won't bite i will try for smallies,pike or muskie. I'll get somthing to bite. thanks again trollin..............

[Guest]

Walleyenutz,
Won't say exactly, but try around Wealthwood launch rock area. For most part I stayed around 10ft depth. Used the very simple technique Jim Carney mentioned in Outdoor News last week-- a plain hook (red #4, in my case) and a large split shot (3ft up). I let boat drift slowly in wind with a short line. At that speed I could feel split shot hit rocks. I'd get hung once every 20 minutes or so, and always could free it by backing up. Both leeches a night crawlers worked, and as I posted, one took a cast shad rap. Two biggest were 3 1/4#. ****, they fight. It made an otherwise "boring" fishing trip, exciting. Although even boring fishing beats working!

Tell us how you do Sunday.

OOOPPPS: I put in at Wealthwood. Meant to say go west towards Garison rocks. Sorry to mess anyone up.

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[WALLEYENUTZ]

Thanks Bobby!!! I'll give it a try. I'll post on Monday

[Guest]

WalleyeNutz:

Sorry I mis spoke. Meant to say I put in at Wealthwood, but worked down near Garison Bay rocky shore.

[WALLEYENUTZ]

We fished walleyes from 7a.m. until noon. Only one fish caught. Fished smallmouth the rest of the day. We got 9 smallies. One of which is my biggest to date. 21" I figure just shy of 6lbs. Man what a great fish.

we also got a triple, what a riot!!!!

anyone else fish smallmouth this weekend?

[willie]

walleyenutz
Where were you catching the smallies and what were you using?

Thanks
Willie ><((((>

[Mayfly]

Was up last week from Wed-Sun. Fri and Sat evening I found a spot and we caught a 19 and 20 inch Smallie and and many more. We were hoping for Walleyes but caught few. The Smallmouth action was good. We were using slips with leeches a foot of the bottom. Someone focusing on Small Mouths could have much more success.
P.S. Just after sunset we had a Triple. Two in one boat and one in the other.

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[WALLEYENUTZ]

We were dock fishing on the east side, using tube jigs. gotta love them tube jigs!!!!

[Guest]

Way to go Walleyenutz, and Mayfly. Can you believe what fantastic fighters they are?