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Hey hey..Thats cheating Timmy!!!...We gotta make a post for you Lake O guys titled the 30# Club!....By the way....Damn nice fish you got there!

Pretty cool pics...thanks for sharing!

Thats great news. Glad to hear you found it...Now, lets see some deer porn!!!

20# 21# 22# I also got a 22#, but i dont have the pic on this computer and my scanner is well... not working so well.

I know exactly how you feel. I shot a buck years ago and had my arrow deflect off a small sapling just a few feet in front of the deer and in turn it him too far back. The tree was so short and with the lighting i just never picked it out. I knew it was a bad hit and waited a good 5 hours before i ever tracked it. And even after all that time i tracked it quite a ways before calling it quites once again. Had a pretty easy trail to follow as well. Unfortunately we had one of those freak rain/slush/snow stroms over night and the trail got washed away. We looked for three days after that and i never was able to recover that deer. What a terrible feeling and it bothers me to this day. But, thats part of hunting and if you hang around long enough it will happen to you. Anyhow, best of luck with the recovery. Its probably not going to be easy, but you just never know. I pullin for ya buddy!

Nice job Clair!

Welcome to the site Terry. This is a great place to visit because theres allot of good people here. If you need anything, just ask....Best of luck with the surgery and thanks for keeping your community a safe place to live.

I think you did great, ecspecially after all that wind!!!

DOH!!!....Adding rod trees...How could i forget!!!

I forgot to mention it in my original post, but i wanted to thank you for your service. Much appreciated.

Just picked up a Penn 330 GTi and Shimano Tekota 700(Got it NIB for $79 on ebay woohoo!!!) that im gonna load some copper on. Will probably add a couple more on top of that. Also some DW Paddles. Also need to replace a few cores as some wild Kings put the snaffoo on a couple of them that last trip over. One 10 color has two splices in it. It works, but i dont like to roll like that. Ill replace one five with part of it and spool up with new core....Im sure there'll be more, there always is....Time will tell...LOL

Welcome aboard Chuck. This is a great site with allot of real good people. Being a fishhead im sure youll fit in well!

:eek:...Now thats a fish!!!!....Is Semptember the month of giants in Michigan or something?

Im a big fan of glow for walleye during low light periods as well as night fishing. Ive had my best luck for walleye with natural glow. Sometimes they want it bright, but most often a dull glow works best. Sometimes ill cover a portion of a bait so that only part of it gets illuminated. It something you have to feel out each day. I usually go subtle and work up from there. Im not a big fan of ultra glow for walleye unless your fishing in dirty water...And as much as theyll hit glow, sometimes they want nothing to do with it and your better served to fish a bait without it.

Me too....as long as the boats not hooked on the back of the truck when i seeing it!!!:lol:

I met a gal thats on one of those boats doing a creel trawl survey right now. Up by the ice pac. Loves hunting and fishing...Too bad she lives in Oregon.

WOW......Thats some awesome power right there. Great pics, thanks for sharing.

It really depends Mike. I think its more forage based than anything. Id say most of our fishing is done out on the open flats of the basin, but we also do well along depth breaks, rocky humps, sand bars and weed lines as well. Any of these areas can have fish or be devoid of them. Thats why trolling is the prefered method out there. Big body of water, with roaming schools of fish following bait.

Thats fantastic, they make great products. I use their boards for walleye fishing as well as their snap weight system. Their releases are second to none IMO.

OOOH WOW...Thats a chunk of beef right there!!!

Nice job Jimmy. Thanks for all the great reports. Good luck huntin'.

Great report Captain!!!

Others on this board can speak about west side walleye, but for me, if you want to get your feet wet walleye fishing there is no better place to fish than Saginaw Bay. Its right in my back yard and is a fish factory to say the least. Since you already have trolling rods, planer boards and a boat your pretty much set. You can go out and do very well pulling crawler harnesses or spinners as theyre often refered to. Pick up some inline weights 1-2 oz. most times, bottom bouncers, i have 1-4 oz, use 3 oz more often than not and some crawler harnesses. These can all be had for very minimal costs and are very effective walleye catching tools. Troll them at speeds of 0.8-1.7 S.O.G. If your lead cores are 1-5 colors theyll work pretty well, ecspecially if your trolling in that mid to upper range of speed spectrum. Otherwise, theyll go too deep and youll fowl up with zebra mussels. As far as where, i fish on the west side of the bay. Popular ports are the Bay City DNR Launch at the mouth of the Saginaw River, Linwood Beach Marina, Eagle Bay Marina in Standish and the Augres St. Dock. In all honesty at any given time fishing could be very good close to any of these ports, but not always. Productive depths could be anywhere from 5-45' of water. Lots of factors contribute to that....Water temp, time of year, water clarity, etc etc. As far as the best time of year, i would come from the middle of may through mid July as that has been an excellent time period the last few years. Early on during that time period you should be fishing in 12-20' of water in front of Linwood or off the Saginaw River mouth as well as the Point Augres area. As the waters warm and drive the fish deeper most anglers begin to head offshore farther into 20' depths and deeper. These are attainable very quickly in Augres and is one of the reasons its such a popular port during warmer water periods. But then again, there are no hard and fast rules as this year can attest to. The fish went really deep really early and to my knowlegde noone really has an answer why. So, keep up with local reports or pm myself, Frank aka Priority 1 or Dan from Walleye Express. Between the three of us we'll be able to get ya on some fish over here. As far as my trolling set up, more often than not its my Dad and I. We'll usually set up with inlines and harness behind planer boards on 4 of our rods and then we'll run two bottom bouncers off the corners of the boat. We lay those rods flat just like you would a dipsey. Stager your lead lenghts for differnt depths until you find whats working. Most times i use a 1 oz. inline for my trolling aps, unless im fishing deeper water. With 1 zo. my leads are normally somewhere from 15-50' back depending on the depth of the fish. Thats one of the beauties about inline weights for walleye. Less line out and you achieve depth quickly. Keep the questions coming, im sure i missed something and im sure others will chime in with their opinion as well.

Nice job Captain. Thats the way to introduce new people to fishing as well as cap the year off with a bang! Way to go!

Nice looking fish Peter!!!!.....Is the grill on yet cause i can smell salmon!!!!