The reservoirs I fish are Lake Eau Claire Lake Holcombe Chippewa flowage and the dreaded Lake Wissota. All are located in Wisconsin. I am looking for some patterns that can transfer from flowage to flowage. We have a lot of flowages in this part of the state.
Mike
double down on the noise factor a buddy ran the last couple steps to a tip down and the fish just dropped the minnow and fled. A 4 wheeler going super slow scattered a school of walleyes under my set up from 50 yards away. I pivoted my foot on the ice and stopped a rising fish from taking my bait. live scope has taught me a lot about fish reactions to my presentations as well as my behavior on the ice.
mike
I was just wonder when the squatters are gonna show up and demand money to leave.
we run the lawn mower battery on our 14 ft in canada all year long start the moter with it and run a bilge pump too. this is our cabin boat but has a solar charger hooked up to it as well. we run a 9.9 merc on this set up.
Mike
just don=t name them
mike
l have to second the nomination it is the worst even in the spring it sucks
But are the any good at crossing the road? I prefer the athletic type of egg layers. I’m not interested in chickens that will cross a picket line though. Feathers you know
mike
they swim down rivers and streams around here, end up digging into the mud in the back bays. twitch twitch pause the pull a rapala or other floater under the surface and pause. black and white has been my best color.
Mike
I’m in the stay with the job you have and Look at what you do with your current time and skills and explore the work you love to do and see if you can become self employed on side jobs. Its hard to become a millionare working for somebody else, unless you market your free time wisely.
Ideology Then we could be an educational and get liberal government funding.
I have mega live and occasionally see fish sneak up on my vex that I don’t see on my livescope these fish are belly tight to the bottom so my vex is on my jigging pole. this is on soft bottom.
Mike
don’t buy a cheap chinese look alike as the insides are not the same and it won’t run for crap. rebuilds are the route to go
you need to engage the reel as the lure hits the water and try to keep the line tight from that point on. Are you casting straight upstream? Try to cast across the stream at an angle based on the speed of the current if that makes sense.
I’m with Iowa on this one. At 2 bucks a shot I hope it doesn’t cost more than a 12 pack to kill it.
mike
Well he could be a new member of IDO. Maybe you will have all sorts of new drama. Buy a new identical gun for the other son. And grandpa a fishing rod and reel. And while you the boys and him are fishing talk about it.
mike
I have the 150 xr6 It is a 1996 model she smokes a little at idle but has been flawless. I ran it on a 20 ft stratos. compared to my four stroke it likes the fuel.
Mike
P.S. did I say it was fast wow compared to the four stroke.
I use the mapping a lot in Canada and here in wisconsin. My take on this is as you troll and map each pass you make just makes the map more accurate. On a new lake I do the shoreline twice or three times around before I do the back and forth. It does a better job if you crisscross as instructed. I usually dont unless I’m trolling open water suspended walleyes in july or august. I run a 7 and a 9 on my boat but map primarily with the 7 on the front trolling motor as it kinda warns you of shallow water reefs before you bottom out.
Mike
I own ski doo and yamaha both and to tell the truth they are super reliable and a load of fun. My newest is a mxz 500 fan cooled and it has 4500 miles of basicly trouble free riding. My 99 yamaha has elec start and reverse and also about 4500 miles. I had to have the carbs cleaned once in 20 years. I’m not running premuim gas and not running them out in a week or even a month but I do add seafoam at the end of each season and start the sleds multiple times in the summer. I kind of like the smell of two stroke anyway. I own about 10 vintage skidoos that run as near daily drivers and I have a great mechanic.
Mike
Where you at in Canada? How deep were the trout?
Mike
I change the 03 every 10000 miles after she hit 200000 miles she is at 405000 miles now and the brakes lines are gonna be the death of her. I did do a transmission at 300000 miles though. did drink a quart every 1000 mile near the last 30000 or so. It is a chevy’ did the same with my 88 toyota and the frame cracked at a little over 500000. I have bad luck with trucks I guess.
Mike
Its not all that easy in winter one has to be very aware of methane gas pockets that can let your sled or wheeler through the ice. travel in groups and I should mention they have a little wind out there. Having said that look at the weather for next week out there, its gonna be nice for a week or so.
Mike
My father and mother took all six of us kids in a 1973 chevy station wagon camping for three weeks straight all around LATW followed by all around lake Superior when I was a junior in high school. We traveled like a gypsy band accompanied with the other football coach and family for part of it and the phy ed teacher and her mother for other parts of it. We crossed the border at I falls and the immigration officer took me out of the P.E. teachers camper as I was riding with them this part of the trip. He started questioning me with questions that pertained to me being abducted by these two women. About an hour later they fined the women for having too much food and sent us on our way. We left one of my brothers at a campground and didn’t miss him till we stopped at MacDonalds. One hour later we picked him back up. He was 13. Same trip my youngest brother and our cousin took a canoe off nw angle to walleye fish and the wind blew them across the lake to an island 1/2 mile or so away our little 14 ft 6hp couldn’t safely retrieve them so they spent the night under the canoe. At 66 yrs old now That would be a brief chapter one of my outdoor life. My father was a teacher and we always took at least two weeks off to camp when school was out.
Mike
b a c d I like rocks over dying weeds this time of year. Of course the rock weed transition is very good if that borders the weed edge at some point. the clumps of weeds with open ambush areas great but that reminds me of more Canada type deep clear water. That open deep water rock hump can attract minnows as they roam the open basins that I am seeing on my livescope. The trouble as I see it is the shorter bite window here in Wisconsin, at least the water I fish.
Mike
I have the 9 and we were on LOTW in a rental shack with a bunch of people and lines down. We turned the screen so most of us could watch and learn from across the shack. It is a tough decision.
Mike
That is a great build You should be proud of your creativity and I hope it helps others with the same idea and you helped in many ways.
It also affects our spawning fish in spring and our rivers aren’t what they could be with just a little help.
I mounted the helix 7 transducer under my minn kota with usb and I really like the bird ducer much better and I run the cable along side the cable with zip ties and I do not use spot lock on my minn kota.
Mike
been retired 10 years now I still wake up feeling late for work occasionaly. I still cheer and hope for snow days. The first school bus of the year still raises my blood pressure. Its now hard to keep track of which day of the week it is. I love the prospect of each days adventure.
mike
You don’t have to wait it opened in Montana yesterday. I’m headed that way for a week or more today. Grouse taste so good. good luck to all.
Mike
