WOW! Where has May gone. I have been so busy this spring that I just haven’t been able to get on the water as much as I would have liked to, let alone get on the ‘net and post about some of the fishing I have gotten in. One of the things that kept me busy was preparing for the WI RCL League event at Green Bay. When I wasn’t up there fishing, I was at home picking crawlers, tying spinners, and getting everything ready to go. I finally have a few spare minutes, so I thought I would fill you in on what we did.
We found the bite to be pretty decent while we were there prefishing. Our first trip, the water temps were in the low fifties. The fish were there in the spots we fished, but just weren’t as active. On our second trip to the bay (the following week), the water temps had warmed into the low sixties. This definitely seemed to trigger a little better bite. There were lots of fish to be had on both the trips. We caught lots of fish in the 22” to 26” range. Each day out also produced a fair number of fish in that 27” to 29” range.
Our two best spots were Geano’s Reef and the lower bay. These are both pretty large areas with lots of fishable water. We concentrated on water less than 9’ and looked for spots on the spot. These spots on the spot were humps, reef edges, troughs, and break lines. Our best presentation for putting ‘eyes in the boat was trolling with spinners (crawler harnesses). Our best speed seemed to be about 1.5 m.p.h. The hot blade colors were hammered nickel and hammered gold. When I pull spinners on the bay I usually fish them weight-less or with a small split-shot. We caught ‘eyes pulling the harnesses anywhere from 35’ to 75’ behind the boards. The best depth for us tended to be anywhere from 55’ to 75’ from the board.
Green Bay is definitely one of my favorite bodies of water to fish in Wisconsin. Everything tends to be big up there, even the sheeps! Some people think that the best thing in Green Bay is the football team, but I have to disagree, I think it is the walleye fishing. If you’re looking to put a trophy WI ‘eye in the boat, don’t forget about Green Bay. <This & That>
Well, how did the league event go???
Great report Dan!
Nice report Dan! Thats a MONGO SHEEPIE!
Thanks for the compliments guys. The tournament just didn’t go the way I had hoped. I finished 50th out of 102 boats. The one boat I was working with did a little better. I can’t remember his place of finish, but he was about 1 1/2 pounds out of the money. It took 38 pounds to win this one. We didn’t have that kind of weight going prefishing, but we felt if we got the right bites we could get maybe 30 – 32 pounds. We had decent fish in the spots we were fishing, as well as numbers of fish. I just didn’t get the right bites on tournament day. My day started off good, as we had a 25″ fish swimming in the livewell by 7:30. That wound up being our best for the day. My buddy needed one more good bite and he would of cashed a check. Oh well, that’s tourney fishing. I had a blast. It was a good learning experience. I wound up drawing a great co-angler and came away with a new fishing buddy.
Nice report and Pic’s Dan.