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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

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

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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..............

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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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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?

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

Thanks
Willie ><((((>


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

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