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WALLEYE
(limit 2 fish per license / slot size 13.8 to 17.7 inches)
Tackle
Spinning Rod & Reel combo: Bass Pro EXTREME XPS 2pc 6’6” ML Fast
rod with Daiwa
103 HVA reel.
Lures & Presentation
Spool spinning reel with 8lb. test mono Berkley XT / Tie your
own Lindy-style rigs, 3-4 feet 8lb. Berkley Vanish, slide on a glowbead
and tie a #2 circle hook (Gamakatsu Osprey), tie a dbl overhand loop at
top end, store hooks on a Lindy Rigger Extreme.
Pull off some line and
slide a ½ oz. Rock Runner slip sinker(Northland Tackle)unto line / tie a
ball bearing snap swivel to end of line / snap on hook rig. Use jumbo or
large leeches hooked at suction cup
Locate fish
Note depth / toss
marker buoy when fishing open water / move around s-s-slowly keeping line
fairly vertical / reel sinker 1-2 turns off the bottom and feel for a
‘bite-nibble’ – NOT A STRIKE / stand up and tease the bite / wait for a
serious pull down / go for the ‘moon’ on hook-set.
Rule: Don’t wander off
your depth unless searching.
Walleye Release
Use surgical instrument when removing deep set hooks – go
up
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MUSKY
(Catch & Release – official 54 in. limit)
Tackle
Baitcasting Rod & Reel combo: St.Croix Legend Tournament rods -
“Split-Grip”Sling Blade 8’6” 2-6 oz. lures AND Big Dawg
8’6” 4-0 0z. lures with Daiwa “Saltist” 20HA OR with Shimano
Calcutta CTE 400. Cast: Use 12 inch fluorocarbon leader (Stealth
tackle). Troll: Use 36 inch leader. (Spool reel with Power Pro 80 lb. test line)
Lures
Topwater: NEW Medusa (Globe-like)
10” 3.6 oz. baby loon (color), Work fast OR Mouldy’s Original
“Hawg Wobbler” grey (color) Work slow.
Bucktail: Twin bladed ‘Bulgers’ #10 or #13 (Musky
Mayhem’s Double Cowgirl and its many derivatives) chartreuse
blades/black skirt (color) OR Baby Eagletail (nickel blade/black
or grey bucktail)
Spinnerbait: Ruff Tackle Deep 10 Rad Dog, 3.9 oz., single blade,
(nickel blade/black rubber)
Jerk Bait / Pull Bait / Crankbait / Tube: Musky
Innovations “Pro
Dawg" (orange tail sherbert color on sunny days)
and “Heli-Dawg” black/orange (color) OR Monster Lures “Squirko”
blue (color) OR Phantom Tackle’s ‘Phantom
Softtail’ 7 ½ inch
OR NEW RubberHairy Tackle Co.’s
‘Swim n Spin DT’ (double tail) OR “Super Shad” with a Mustad
“Ultra Point” Power Lock Plus hook OR Red October’s “Big Sexy
Tube” 12” 9.4 oz.
Troll Baits: Legend “Perch Bait” Jointed OR Legend
“Out-Cast” natural perch (color for both). Use “S-17 Down-East
Salty Horizontal Rod Holder”.
Note: When slinging lures, a huge percentage of hook-ups occur
at boatside – thus a long rod helps with the Figure 8 tactic:
Create commotion and speed variations with rise and dive
variants. A follow-up tactic is to explode the water surface
with your rod tip, side to side about 3-4 feet apart leaving the
lure to shudder in the middle (practice this for an easy
rhythm). Don’t give up - maintain this for several minutes with
big fish!
NORTHERN PIKE
(limit
4 fish per license / slot size 27.6 to 35.4 inches / only 1 fish
over 35.4 inches)
MUSKY TIPS and lure suggestions apply for the most part for bigger
northern pike. Use more color and spend more time with smaller bucktail and spinnerbait
presentations. Mepps or Blue Fox Vibrax #3’s & # 4’s (plain) and especially
the #6 Blue Fox (plain) work well. Large spoons are a good
choice, as are Jig & plastic combos. Include topwaters, jerk baits and crankbaits
according to conditions.
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BASS
(May
1 to June 30: 2x under 13.8 in. / after June 30: 4x no size limit)
Sex may be the
most fun you can have without laughing, but bass fishing
must be a close second.
Tackle
Baitcasting Rod & Reel combo: Bass Pro EXTREME XPS rod trigger
7’.0” MH Fast (10-20lb. line) 3/8 to 1 ½ oz. lures rod with Abu Garcia
REVO Skeet Reese reel. Spinning Rod & Reel combo: Daiwa LIGHT & TOUGH
SERIES 7’0” M Fast (6 – 14 lb. line) 1/8 to ¾ oz. lure rod with
Daiwa Tierra (7 + 1 bearings) reel.
Lures
Huge selection of softbait plastics both weighted and
unweighted – creatures, shad swimbaits, tubes, flukes, craws, worms,
grubs, frogs.
Strike King’s Caffeine Shad: Ultra Lock Mustad size
5/0 hook OR Net Bait’s Paca Craw: 3 inch, watermelon red (color), add
weighted tube rattle OR YUM Dinger 4”watermelonseed (color), Wacky
Worm #2 hook, or else use Texas rig with Cabela’s 1/16 oz.
weedless tube head jig OR Bigfoot Frog with tru-tungsten Frog Hook, or
else Bass Pro Shop’s Kermy Frog
(Scent – use pump spray BANG formula
garlic, one spray every ten casts)
Blue Fox Vibrax Spinners: #3 and #4, undressed (plain), OR Yo-Zuri
Rattl’n Vibe OR Rick Clunn’s Signature crankbaits - Wake Action Crank
(jointed) OR Rapala X-Rap Deep 10 OR Lucky Craft’s Redemption
Spinnerbait. (Use light weight 8 inch titanium leaders)
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