The fall bite is getting closer and closer to being wide open. The east shoreline from highbanks to muskie bay is full of fish and they are liking the looks of those 1/8 oz fireballs tipped with a minnow.
The Winnie Walleye trail held on Saturday and Sunday showed the fall bite as many more teams came in with fish. For results see http://www.winniewalleyetrail.com.
Congrats Sean on the 3rd place finish. How deep did you have your best luck? Was it a vertical bite or a drift?
Nice job Sean, this lake is just getting better and better all of the time. Were ther any over 26″ fish weighed? 
Guys,
IT was a great tourney as most of the fish came from 3-5 feet of water. We had some seroius West wind on Saturday making for some 3-4 foot waves on the east shoreline where we fished. The bite Saturday was great for numbers of 20-24 inch eyes. MAinly the fish came from just inside the primary weedlines, and they wanted nothing but crawlers. After going through five dozen crawlers and actually running out, we had to find a jig and minnow bite, which we did, but the bigger weigh fish only wanted crawlers, so saturday we only found 5 weigh fish.
Then Sunday rolled around and it was back to the same areas to find a tough bite. Overnight temps got pretty cold and the shallow water fish seemed to be pretty sluggish, but slowly as the sun warmed the shallows, the fish decided they wanted those jigs and they wanted them active, it seemed the harded we ripped them the harder they hit. Again the fish came from the same depths. Numbers of 20-24 inch fish but nothing over 26. It was another great tourney from the Winnie Walleye trail, especially with how tough the July and August tournament were. Next year should be great.
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