![]() ![]() > “Winning any of these tournaments is a huge accomplishment. Then all of a sudden they’d get a 45-min bite window where they’d catch 3 or 4. Said they saw 5 or 6 schools right off the bat at their starting spot, but they weren’t interested at all. The action at the top of the stroke, it just makes them super mad.” Sometimes when you go to lift up again they already have it. You get most of your bites right before it hits bottom or near the top of the stroke. We would let it hit bottom, then rip it up. But the conditions were almost perfect for glide baits. > “We had our trolling rods ready in case the wind and weather wouldn’t let us execute. Said he threw a variety of “glide baits” in natural colors to catch his fish: You’ll get super excited, and then they’ll completely vanish.” They are constantly on the swim, and you can just watch them come and go on the graph. I never really understood it until I fished Green Bay, but these walleyes never stop moving. ![]() You knew you were casting on or around fish. I had my head down on my Lowrance ActiveTarget the whole time. > “I wasn’t making a cast unless I saw a fish. At times, he would slide up as shallow as 14′. He was fishing ultra-clear water in 18-24′ and said the fish were suspended 2′ to 10′ off the bottom. Rocks were a good thing, but if it didn’t have rock, we didn’t rule it out.” ![]() ![]() Walleyes could get in front of it or behind it, depending if they were resting or feeding. > “It was basically little shoals or little knobs that had current deflections. It wasn’t like it was everywhere else…they seemed more friendly. There was tons and tons of baitfish around, but up there, there wasn’t hardly any. We were keying in on areas that didn’t have as much baitfish. > Duane Hjelm: “They’re starting to set up on their summer homes. There, he sampled offshore structure or what he called resting spots: Full scoop in this NWT Insider Report, few details below:ĭuane said he drove 30-40 miles north from Marinette – staying on the west shore and heading up towards Big Bay de Noc. ![]()
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