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bronzeback6
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 Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject: 9/1/2009 River |
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September started with a bang on the Lake Michigan and the St. Joe River today. John Gipson Jr and I fished all day today because I officially start work tomorrow. Today was my last day of summer vacation:(.... I know you all feel horrible for me. Anyways, we started the morning fishing the big lake and we managed to catch 6 smallies on tube jigs and drop shot rigs. We never caught any giants but John lost one that he thinks was around 6 pounds. It was pri a sheephead! At about noon we docked at Barny's Boat House for some lunch. After a big lunch we ran up river and caught a bunch of small 2 pounders with rattle traps. They were jumping about 3 ft out of the water and fighting like they were on roids. At about 3:30 pm we motored back down to the no wake zone and started slaying some hogs. I bet we caught around 15 big smallies in a couple hours. I caught two giants back to back one was 4 pounds 10 ounces and the other was 5 pounds 2 ounces. The river is on fire to say the least.
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Dan
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skeeterman190
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Ill agree with Justin the river bite is pretty good. prolly would be better if there was a little more current.Fished the Joe this morning 4 about 6 hrs and got about 10 solid fish.all came out towards Lake Michigan in the no wake. Best 5 were prolly around 17-18lbs.So howd u do Justin?? seen u and the mrs'. idling out to the lake. Sure u smoked em i went and checked some stuff i got down that way and nothing..a feww sheepshead..got all my fish on Darters,tubes and Cranks. |
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bronzeback6
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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I thought that was you but I wasn't for sure. We really didn't do to good. It was super slow but I did manage a couple on crank baits and one good one on a rattle bait. I caught more trout than anything! I was catching 2-3 pound steelhead one after another on the drop shot. Who knows. I;ve never caught them before. I would mark a bass on my finder and drop it down on it. Usually they are bass or sheephead but today they were trout. 
It was a beautiful day though.
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MultispeciesTamer
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Location: Eau Claire MI
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| good to hear last years babys (steelhead) made it to the lake
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skeeterman190
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah that was me i got 2 good 1's there on a rock.. had to stay eye candy was too good 2 leave..haha..think if the current was better the fish would tuck up better and be easier to catch. u guys got some NBAA tourney deal there next week or something?? had 2 boat come up and ask if i was doin anything? said they had a tourney there 4 NBAA.wondering who i was and if i was fishing??? |
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