I have a Fenwick Eagle Rod – my mother in law closed a compartment on the pontoon and broke it in half. I reached out to Fenwick telling them what happened and they replaced it at no cost/no questions asked. I bought 2nd Fenwick rod because of how well they treated me. Used to have a few St. Croix Rods, but had a problem with one and they would not help – so I quit purchasing their rods.
Well, we did ok on our trip. 1st evening we went to boulders in 12 fow near a drop off and bobber fished. Pulled in one walleye with numerous misses.
Second day – Sunday – was too windy, so we went to Camp Lake and mostly trolled around the lake, also did some casting. We caught quite a few small pike and a few bass. It was decent fishing – nothing too excited.
Monday morning, we went back to the 12 fow near a drop and had small fish nibbling on our leeches under bobbers. Decided to go out to the 7 mile mud flat and did bobbers which produced nothing. Switched to lindy rigs – red/white/gold and trolled around. We had a few bites and caught a 20.5″ walleye. Left there because it was slow and nobody seemed to be catching fish. We went back to boulders and rockes in 12 fow and trolled. We had numerous hits and misses, but did pull in one walleye and one smallmouth. We only trolled for about 30 minutes, then loaded up to go home. Wish we had done more trolling around boulders as that definitely gave us the most action. Best lure was a crawfish colored Salmo.
Update on our Big Stone Lake trip. We did not catch much – had a good time, but we didn’t have a lot of success fishing. Saw quite a few people catching small to medium size perch jigging and using bobbers. Our best fishing was trolling Rapalas. Best was a green and white Salmo. We caught maybe 2 fish with bobber, none jigging and none on spinner rigs. We used spikes and fat heads on our jigging rods and bobbers. Most of our fish came from 12 fow.
Not sure what the others catching fish were using.
Thanks! Some great advice here. This lake is completely new to us, so this will help us to have better success with our 2 days of fishing.
Was out there over the 4th. Never tried to catch walleyes as the algae was getting bad and is probably really bad now. With that said I did really well on perch. Had to move a bunch and sort through a bunch but did well.
If your set on walleyes, spinners with crawlers on weedlines.
Thanks for the info on that. Can I ask what the perch preferred? Any special depth?
Thanks for the info! I shot them a message to find out if they sell just the covers.
Was on the lake on the 14th. Had 3 guys in the boat. We were dragging lindy rigs with yellow/gold spinners in 26 to 30 feet of water. We caught 12 fish in 4 hours in the am. We used crawlers and leeches – both worked equally as well. We trolled at .7 tp .8 MPH on the mud flats farthest north on the lake. I hope this info helps! My 3rd time there in 6 years, so not like I know where to go or what to do exactly.
Hoyt4, Winnie was a favorite of mine for a number of years, but it hasn’t produced much for our group the last 3 years ice fishing. I haven’t fished it open water. We used to catch lots of nice walleye, but as of the last few years, walleye fishing has been slow and we seem to only find thousands of small perch in our usual walleye hot spots.
We are on the fence about Red. I think it will depend on how we do at Island, or whatever smaller lake near Island that we try.
We have thought about Island for a number of years, so I am sure we will give that a shot this weekend. We have had luck on Bowstring and Round Lake the last few years but are looking for new lakes to try for new adventures.
Thanks for the input so far. I woke up at 4:30 am today and couldn’t get back to sleep as I can’t stop thinking about fishing this weekend.
Thanks for that info. I haven’t opened any of the filters. I do have the last filter, so I will cut that open to see if there is sediment in there – I am guessing it is a water issue. I am guessing it is an issue with the vent for the tank at this point – just a guess right now. I will update once I find the issue.
1995 Sportfish 1750 I/O. Love my boat!
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I shoot a .243 rifle and hunt only with Federal Fusion. I have been very happy with the results. I stopped shooting Remington Core Lok’t after I had a bullet break apart which left little lead pieces in a bunch of the meat. I have retrieved 2 of the Fusion bullets from deer, and they were fully expanded and completely intact. I won’t hunt with any other bullet after the success I have had with the Fusion bullets.
How do I send a PM? I have been trying and have been unable to send one.
Walleyeworld, how much would you want for your 798ci HD SI if you decided to sell it?
