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Saginaw Bay, Walleye & Slow Death
Last night I am out in my shop contemplating what I have to do work wise for today when I get a text from Kevin "What's your plans tomorrow?" We know what this is about right? He doesn't want to know if I have a kitchen countertop to install or a patio door.....he wants to know if I can get away to go fishing......so I called him on the phone and we discussed a Saginaw Bay Walleye trip early this morning. I first needed to clear it with my boss, and she was more than happy to see me go, with the prospect of some fresh walleye fillets.
Kevin told me to bring what ever baits I wanted, he had all the rest. I told him I would pick up crawlers on my way up, he called the store in Linwood that sells crawlers and they had plenty.....would be open at 6:00!
We met up at the Linwood Marina at 7:00, went over what we wanted to take out. I had just tied up some crawler harnesses and with that some "slow death" rigs. I simply snelled a red slow death hook to 3'of 12 pound flourocarbon and attached a barrel swivel......no beads, no blade. I wanted to at least try one with a bottom bouncer and see what would happen.
Kevin got us out to our first spot and we put in lines, one crawler harnes, one slow death each on a 2 ounce bottom bouncer and then some crankbaits. I chose flicker shad 7's, 65 feet back.
Kevin got the first walleye, and we were in business!
That was the only fish we landed, so on to another spot, where we again put out our lines, and we got a volunteer!
And so it went.....it wasn't fast or furious, but it was pretty steady! Captain Kevin kept boat speed 1.1 - 1.5 during the day, in about 14-16 FOW.
The walleye seemed to like the "slow death" rig pretty well, including one farm animal which was the only junk fish of the day. We had 2 12"s that lived to swim another day and a couple that got off not far from the boat. Last one went in the box around 1:30 and we were on the way back to the Marina.
During the course of the day you could hear the radio chatter.....guys were marking fish but were not catching many.....3-4 was about what we were hearing for fish these guys were putting in the livewells.......Kevin and I just smiled as we were catching fish after fish after fish.......
It's been a long day, but sure was worth it!
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Wow ! Great report
I have spent most my life fishing........the rest I wasted.
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Way to go guys
Any suspended fish or all bottom feeders
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A day on the water and walleye in the freezer for Judy. Win-win.
The older I get the more I realize the therapeutic benefits of fishing
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I hate both of you right now!
Nice job and thanks for the slow death report. Been meaning to try that but with an inline weight off the bottom a ways.
I need vacation
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I hear a Phone call now..........Originally Posted by wicklundrh
I can’t make it today, I have Steve & Kevin envy...... it’s like the Flu only WORSE. I should be better tomorrow........
OE
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It's was a fantastic day on Saginaw bay, the weather was great not hot but not cold either, partly cloudy with some sun here and there. The bite started slow, we marked fish suspended and on bottom. So the plan was to run bottom bouncers and minnow style and shad style bait. That way we had all situations covered and that's a great way to narrow down a solid pattern- color, speed, live or hard bait.
Next we needed to do a little looking around with electronics looking for fish or pods of bait, once located in about 12 fow, we setup and at 1.1sog we slowly zigzagged our way to 14-15 fow only picking up 1 fish with a few pull backs. So we decided these just weren't active fish, let's jump over to the dumping ground area where fish should be as they dump out the river actively looking for food. That was a great move as our first pass produced 3 fish we had that whole area to ourselves until about the 10 -16th fish then it was "lookout for that boat, what is this idiot doing, I can't believe they just going to cut us off like that" yes we had some net watcher out yesterday but we stuck to our game plan, we made 2 more passes with longer trolls and finished up our 2 man limit. Thanks again Steve for being a great co captain, your always welcome in my boat!!!
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get in, sit down, shut up and fish
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80 other things going on at work are keeping me from doing the things I want to do. At least I can live through you guys for awhile.
Spring and summer I avoid net watchers by simply flipping them in the back of the boat!
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Good eating right there. Thanks for the post and pics!
If you cast it they will come.
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Friday is almost here and you don’t like being at work on Fridays!
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