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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: WALLEYE WACKER on 08/29/18 06:02 UTC
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Going to Minocqua for a week for the toothy one’s. Bringing the fly rods along this trip and I’m going to use them until I get one. Then go back to the traditional way top water, buck tails, glide bait’s and jerk bait’s. The weather may limit how much time on the water I might have seeing’s how there calling for thunder storms and rain each day I have there. Sure hope that changes by the time I get up there.
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Good luck Walleye Wacker. Just put a request in upstairs that you have 8-9 hours of good fishing each day you are there. Good luck also with the fly rod. Our last trout fishing trip I dedicated a whole day to the fly rod and caught 9 (small but edible) fish. Now I have another addiction to feed. I wonder why God made me with such an addictive nature? Glad it was fishing and hunting, instead of other unhealthy stuff.
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Good luck and enjoy. Be sure to post up some pics. I would love to make it up that way one day.
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Thanks Lines nice trout. basscatlildave it should be on your bucket list of things to do. Nothing like catching a nice size Muskie or Pike on a fly or other tackle
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Have a good time Mike. You've earned it.
The weather has been a funny thing all summer. Too dry, then too much. Too cool, then too warm. We don't seem to get any of those gentle rains that start about the time a guy goes to bed and lasts all night anymore.
Carole and I took off Sunday for the cabin to drop off a deep freezer. We came home yesterday after nothing but rain or threats of rain. Lots of violent weather up that way with a mess of flash flooding in the Ashland area along with trees down and hail. Bad weather here in this area yesterday as we were on the road. The weather is just nuts.
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Tom the same here a lot of rain and flash flooding all three of the small dams by me have water just roaring threw them. I hope the amount of rain we’ve had don’t equate to the amount of snow we’re going to get. If so there will be a lot of snow days as far as Work. I have a a spot that I’ll drive to and if I can’t see the road I don’t go. It’s a long down hill grade that at times wil have 4’ drifts.
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Mike
Your vacationing near where we used to camp
on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage Island's outside Mercer WI
There are some real promising Northern an Musky spots I fished there
Gorgeous area to fish also filled with wildlife
There is a dam on the south end for lake level (there is a site on the lake conditions if need be)
Flash type lures we used on these Stained water with Great Success
1/16 to 1/4oz jigs tipped with a fathead minnow just about guaranteed you a shore lunch
Good Luck on your vacation
billygee
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Mercer is right up there where some super bad weather went thru on Monday afternoon/evening. Mercer may be just south of the line where the ugly was. The weather reported saturated grounds all thru that upper Wisconsin area especially below Bayfield, then getting dumped on with up to 5 inches of rain in an hour plus more later that evening and during the night. Along I35 just south of Duluth we saw a lot of blow-downs so there was some serious wind with all the rain.
The cabin was at the top of the cells that blew thru and we didn't get the super bad stuff but the yard was dry when we got there and a lake when we drove out yesterday. Lake Superior had a muddy shoreline that extended four or five hundred feet into the lake in places so wave action had to have been something else Monday. I was on the breakwater casting when that first cell went thru Duluth and watched the light show as the storm crept up the lake towards Two Harbors. When rain obscured Knife Island 9 miles away I packed and hit the walk out and was just closing the van's side door when the first raindrops hit. I fished yesterday morning a couple hours in a heavy drizzle with an east wind. When I got back to the cabin Carole had things pretty much pack and ready to sail as long as everything was drenched. If the woman can't get out in the yard to tend to things or take her walk its time to fly. lol
On another note, we were treated to seeing wolves up close and personal twice this trip. Once on Sunday as we got within a half mile of the cabin drive and again Monday afternoon going back to the cabin in the rain, again not far from the front door. Different animals as judged by color and height. We understand the relationship the wolves have with nature but we're not that happy about the numbers of the big dogs in our area there. Seeing two along the road in daylight that close to the cabin is a bit alarming.
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Billygee are there still log jams along shore there were people vertical fish walleyes in and around them. Tom here you on seeing my cousins. I bet you won’t be feeding them from the mower.
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Nice enjoy your trip and looking forward to see your fish.
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Forecast is rain all next week but I’ll fishing during the breaks hopefully.
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Mike
There sure are that's what they call stump jumping
My boy would take our duck skiff or wade
an vertical jig all around the stump fields
Be surprised the variety of fish that hide in those shallowed stumps
There are lakes that were really productive for perch an walleye
I have a Hot Spot map somewhere marking those lakes
The limit changes from year to year due to the spearing
I believe the DNR has a slot ruling there now posted at the landings
I've also heard in the Minocqua area lakes
It's catch an release where posted for walleye
billygee
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The spearing has changed things over the years and not for the better in some places.
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Mike
Believe it or not to my understanding some of the fishing clubs
DNR and Tribes have gotten together forming stocking programs
The meetings have brought light on the depletion of the walleye population
May take some time for a rebound,
at least it's being recognized with something being done about it
I know this was taking place on the Chippewa Flowage
for I was there during some lake stocking
billygee
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Glade of that billygee