NW Wisconsin smallmouths

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:13 am #1293422

    See attatched images for pics of some smallmouth from several NW WI lakes when my dad came up from IA to do some fishing up here

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:15 am #260030

    Dad with another..

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:16 am #260031

    With a double

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:17 am #260032
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    November 12, 2002 at 4:19 am #260033

    some of me…

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:21 am #260034

    they can’t all be smallmouths

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:22 am #260035

    more…

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:24 am #260036

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:25 am #260037

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    November 12, 2002 at 4:31 am #260038

    last one.

    The fish were caught from few days vacation in late sept. and another in mid oct.
    The lakes we fished were Red Cedar, Owen, Long, Round, Lac Court Oreilles, Grindstone and Wissota. Not all of the lakes produced 4 lb+ fish on this trip but I have caught them from each of these lakes this year. All C& R of course.

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    November 12, 2002 at 5:00 am #260039

    WAYYYYY COOOL PICS!!!!! Those are some AWESOME catches!!! I was wondering if any of those pics came from Long. What lake did the muskie show?

    Sweet post! That’s the best collection of smallie pics I’ve seen this year! Keep at it!

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    November 12, 2002 at 5:22 pm #260043

    Dandies! Thanks for sharing.

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    November 13, 2002 at 12:35 am #260044

    Stillakid2 – recognizing from the scenery in the background pics 1, 2 & 4 of me were from Long Lake,

    the musky was from Round and was about 40″, on the trip I also broke one off on grindstone that was around 30-32″, and had a bigger one follow on LCO maybe around 45″ – but they were all unintentional while fishing for bass.

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    November 13, 2002 at 12:47 am #260046

    Cool! I couldn’t tell for sure but I was thinking in my head that a couple backgrounds looked familiar! That lake’s got some dandies in it! I’ve had numerous family members catch some 19″+ smallies there! I’m hoping to get some more time up that way next year………..we’ll see……….got lots and lots on the horizon.

    Thanks again for sharing the pics! It’s ALMOST as good as being there!

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    November 18, 2002 at 3:42 pm #260069

    Superfluke, awesome job! Could you tell us what method you used to get those results? It’d be much appreciated. Thanks, and again congrats!!

    Mark

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    November 19, 2002 at 2:38 am #260082

    mwchiefs –

    you will see above that I fished several different lakes, some of which are similar in clarity, habitat etc. and some of which were significantly different, and we generally used multiple presentations for each lake. So we used a number of different methods I will try to list them with a slight bit of context as to where they were used.

    here goes

    –clear water flats/drops on the edge of flats–
    swimming 5″ grubs(kalins),
    3/4 oz painted double willow spinnerbaits(ledgebuster),
    suspending jerkbaits worked rapidly (rogues, yo zuri twitch n minnow)

    –sloping shoreline with downed wood –
    weightless plastics (senkos etc.)
    bitsy bug jig & swimmin chunk trailer
    flippin tube

    –docks
    tubes w light heads
    weightless plastic

    –deeper structure / weed edges
    heavier tubes and other weighted plastic combinations

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    November 19, 2002 at 10:29 pm #260086

    Thanks for the info! Being a smallie fanatic myself, I’m always looking for better ways to boat more and bigger fish……

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