22 inch walleye :)

mikeandronda

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I went fishing on the Lacrosse river today using large shiners. I lost a very heavy fish 5 min after being there. Northern or Catfish is my guess. Caught at least 20 walleyes one was 22 inches most were about 13-15 inches though ........ 3 sheapshead one very big. I lost 2 or three others ( kept cutting my line, no leaders:( ) For about 2 hours kept getting huge strikes and I would set the hook fight the fish for a min and he would spit the hook, so on my last shiner I let him take it for about 10 min and then set the hook.....It was a Gar about 36 inches......all and all a great 5 hour fishing day.
 

roscoe

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Re: 22 inch walleye :)

Thats a mess of fish. Sounds like a great and exciting day on the water.
 

mikeandronda

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Re: 22 inch walleye :)

yes it sure was a mess of fish. I couldnt keep three poles in the water for awile. Its one thing to have two fish on at once but quite another to have three on. Its days like these that make days that you get skunked more acceptable.
 

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Re: 22 inch walleye :)

Where are you fishing and what type of structure are you working around. I live in Winona and haven't been having much luck on the Miss.
 

mikeandronda

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Re: 22 inch walleye :)

Well I was fishing sumerged logs mostly but I really did very well on the current breaks as well. This week I have been fishing the Black river under the Onalaska spillway and doing very well also. Small mouth, Walleyes and catfish. caught some bigguns' last night. Where have you been fishing Winona? I hear they are doing pretty well on the Drebach dam.
 

Skiuseme

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Re: 22 inch walleye :)

Under the spill way? you must have been catching alot of carp and sheephead also :D
 

roscoe

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Re: 22 inch walleye :)

A Sheepshead is a freshwater drum.<br /><br />Its a rough fish, short, thick, kind of like a short carp.
 
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