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Offline Hickory

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Walleye on mosquito
« on: Jan 31, 2011, 05:52 PM »
Just wanted to hear what the status of the bite has been for anyone out there.  So let it fly if you don't mind, I don't even want to know where!  Is anyone having multiple eye days?  Has anyone checked stomach content and identified anything in there?  I have iced two, lost one and neither had a thing in their stomach, not even soup!  All were hooked on small panfish jig with waxie while crushing gills.  Gill action would slow and a mark would fly up and peck the spring bobber like a gill but they weren't,  none of these fish were on the same day. 
   I know for eyes everyone says to use vibees, pimples, or raps.   How the heck do you guys work a vibee to catch an eye?  I have fished them countless times and only ever caught one crappie.  Fish look at them, I slow down presentation so not to spook them, fish linger with no action, then I end up going to a jig and knocking the panfish the vibee attracted.  Suggestions please?  Maybe I should give the vibees away!
   I'm just trying to figure walleye out a bit more this year.  Anyone know why no one fishes just south of the causeway?  I'll be out there a bunch this month so i'll figure something out.  I'll let you guys know what I learn.

Thanks.

Offline BudIce

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Re: Walleye on mosquito
« Reply #1 on: Jan 31, 2011, 06:24 PM »
My mosquito bite has been super slow as of late. I caught 3perch last Friday for the so called afternoon bite. I haven't been out there since then. But my last few times before that it's only been a couple crappie here and there. I was doing really great on slab crappie with a couple of eyes mixed in earlier in the season, but it has definately slowed down for me. All of my fishing has been up near the bouy line. I hope the bite picks up in February, that's when I started fishing last year and I did pretty good on the walleye.

Offline mdrobny

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Re: Walleye on mosquito
« Reply #2 on: Jan 31, 2011, 07:44 PM »
caught everything but a walleye there in two trips.slow for me too,usually do decent there?!!

Offline Infidel

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Re: Walleye on mosquito
« Reply #3 on: Feb 01, 2011, 07:29 PM »
Just wanted to hear what the status of the bite has been for anyone out there.  So let it fly if you don't mind, I don't even want to know where!  Is anyone having multiple eye days?  Has anyone checked stomach content and identified anything in there?  I have iced two, lost one and neither had a thing in their stomach, not even soup!  All were hooked on small panfish jig with waxie while crushing gills.  Gill action would slow and a mark would fly up and peck the spring bobber like a gill but they weren't,  none of these fish were on the same day. 
   I know for eyes everyone says to use vibees, pimples, or raps.   How the heck do you guys work a vibee to catch an eye?  I have fished them countless times and only ever caught one crappie.  Fish look at them, I slow down presentation so not to spook them, fish linger with no action, then I end up going to a jig and knocking the panfish the vibee attracted.  Suggestions please?  Maybe I should give the vibees away!
   I'm just trying to figure walleye out a bit more this year.  Anyone know why no one fishes just south of the causeway?  I'll be out there a bunch this month so i'll figure something out.  I'll let you guys know what I learn.

Thanks.

   I caught 2 keeper eyes on Dec 30, both on a Kastmaster with a whole minnow, plus a crappie on a vibee.  Caught a bass and a crappie on the vibee a few weeks ago. I don't fish the vibee alot because minnows seem to work best when fish are lazy. Working the vib a little slow and letting it rest several seconds after the drop seems to work.Why nobody fishes the south side of causeway I don't know. I fish the south west side in the spring. I troll hot-n-tots from the edge of the weeds to about a mile out. Got 2 limits of eyes last spring. There is a underwater "bump" out there that holds tons of fish. Look at the topo map and you will see the bump about 3/4 mile out. There is a steep break to deeper water that holds fish. I can't get anyone to go out there with me on the ice.  Everybody thinks all the fish are on the northend. 

 



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