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    At times when using a camera and watching perch,...

    At times when using a camera and watching perch, I'll see them suddenly scatter and I know a pike is probably nearby. If the camera has a panning feature to scan in a circle around the area I'll...
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    Do You Use Attractors?

    I have used attractors frequently when fishing LBDN, and I'm wondering if others do. By attractors I mean lures jigged to try to pull perch in for a closer look. For example, I jig large, shiny...
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    6-17, 6-18, perch, smallmouth, trout

    Monday a friend and I fished the Upper Escanaba River and did well. The first fish of the day was a 19" smallie. We landed and released seven bass and two trout. The trout were 13 and 14 inches, a...
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    6/11, 6/12 perch

    A friend and I have been enjoying some good action for jumbo perch by jigging the west shore breaklines south of Gladstone. The recipe for us has been to start by finding fish on the locator, then...
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    Bears and trout: May 27, 2013

    I knew it would be a good day when a friend and I saw four bears while driving to the upper Escanaba River to fish trout on this day. A sow black bear crossed a powerline cut followed by three cubs....
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    May 15 Report

    The season started off with a bang. The first fish was a 25 lb. carp that actually hit a J-11 Floating Rapala - it was not snagged. The lure was in its mouth! Continuing to troll we caught six...
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    Here is an observation: While watching a camera...

    Here is an observation: While watching a camera in water from 8 to 12 feet deep throughout the season I have consistently seen dozens of small perch - all of which are good forage for walleyes and...
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    Prospecting for perch

    Two friends and I have been prospecting for perch on the north end with mixed results. When "prospecting", we move along some structure (deep weedlines now) and run a flasher style locator to look...
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    The perch week in review

    I've spent a week chasing perch with mixed results. Right now I'm in 12 to 14 feet along a deep weed line north of Kipling. Last Wednesday and Thursday we polar opposites and good examples. ...
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    Wading for smallmouth

    I went out wading and casting for smallmouth on the Escanaba River in the Cornell area for an hour today, and caught 3 from 12 to 15 inches. I wondered if they would still be in places where I...
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    As a follow-up to my report from earlier today,...

    As a follow-up to my report from earlier today, my wife and I went out again from about 6 pm to 7:30 pm and caught another nine bass including two 17 inch fish. Great fighters, a few jumpers, and...
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    Esky River Bass: Oct. 2, 2012

    I spent the morning in a treestand, bow in hand, watching, calling, and scenting for deer without result. This afternoon I went out on the river wading for bass. In ninety minutes I caught and...
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    Bass Update 8-7-12

    I have been out on the river 3 times since Mon. 7-30 when we slammed the smallmouth bass so hard (See the "Smallmouth Rampage" post). On Fri. 8-3 I landed 13 bass in about an hour. On Sunday 8-5 my...
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    Smallmouth rampage !

    A friend and I spent 2 1/2 hours this morning, wading the Escanaba River, and I have rarely seen action as fast paced as we experienced. We took a long hike down the riverbank to get into spots...
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    Thanks for the tip. When we fish the Swedish...

    Thanks for the tip. When we fish the Swedish Pimple rigs, we often anchor upwind of the spot on a one-hundred foot rope. At first we use just 40 feet or so, but release more rope as time goes on to...
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    Perch / Walleyes LBDN

    We have been catching some keeper sized walleyes and decent perch in 20 to 30 feet along the west shore breaklines by fishing mornings between 7 to 10 am. We are still marking lots of fish that do...
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    Perch Report: Sat. 7-14-12

    If a hotline existed to report perch missing I would have called it this morning! First I'll say that we have been doing well up until this morning. Just a couple days ago we caught 17 nice keepers...
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    Perch report: Thurs. 6-28-12

    A friend and I caught a dozen keeper perch this morning, working the west side breaklines in 25 feet, south of Gladstone. The heat drove us off the bay, but we could have landed more fish. The bite...
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    Snake falling from the sky !

    I was driving along CR 426 about 5 pm recently, near Ledvina's strawberry farm above the mill. I saw some movement off to my right, and quickly identified it as a hawk flying low toward the road. ...
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    River surprises

    I have been concentrating on fishing the Escanaba River from Boney Falls all the way down to the West Gladstone bridge. The generally low water levels have helped concentrate fish in deeper spots...
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    Opener Report

    Two friends and I fished south of Gladstone from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a ninety minute lightning/rain break back on shore. We landed 16 fish - eleven walleye and five pike. We kept four eater size...
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    I went far south to the big flats between the...

    I went far south to the big flats between the Municipal Dock in Escanaba and the Coal Docks and found a school of perch in 40 FOW. I caught a dozen before the bite slowed. I used Swedish Pimples...
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    Regarding perch: I'm wondering how many big...

    Regarding perch: I'm wondering how many big perch must have been killed in the process of netting eating sized walleyes all those years?
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    Little Bay Perch, Sat. 4-21-12

    A friend and I stopped at Bay View to talk to Chris about 9:30 this morning, and to get some bait. He suggested heading out off Saunders Point to chase some perch, and we had been thinking about...
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    Drifting Carcasses

    Two friends and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather to get my boat out on the bay. I launched from a friend's lot on the Escanaba River and motored out to the mouth and into the bay...
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