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yogi59weedr
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05/27/2017 03:10PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
How many of you guys and gals have caught a 10 lbr up in the BW.
Or anywhere else for that matter.
My biggest eye is a 7 3/4 lb caught on the Mississippi pool 14 dam.
My biggest eye in the BW is a 5 lbr. And I have caught a boat load of them. Just nothing bigger. Could be time of year ,usually don't get up there til mid June.
Maybe is my way of fishing . I throw very few cranks.minnow or leech on jig or split shot and hook.

I fish in some big eye waters.
Hopefully change things up this year with a few more tactics.
I've even fished lake Erie several times and you quessed it. 5lbrs....
I was actually born in port Clinton ohio...
Go figure...
 
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05/27/2017 04:07PM  
3 Times-
Twice on LOTW/ Rainy River ice fishing. Once on Lake St. Joe near Pickle Lake, ONT.
Biggest in the BWCA from canoe 26" twice. Netted two about the same the size from canoe in the BW/Q.

31" from Rainy River near Indus Rapids-- Late FEB of 1996.

 
FlambeauForest
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05/27/2017 04:36PM  
Several, it's just that they had already spawned and now weighed seven :) In spring a walleye can go from 10 to 7 lbs in one day. Doesn't mean I'm not taking a pic of the 29" seven pounder with my chest puffed out.
 
yogi59weedr
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05/27/2017 04:41PM  
Nice.... 10 lb ice fishing....priceless
 
05/27/2017 05:02PM  
I have caught many on Little Bay de Noc. I had one epic day on early ice where I landed 3 between 30 and 31". My biggest in Canoe Country is a chunky 28 in Cache Bay.
 
05/27/2017 06:08PM  
I have 2 30 inchers from Quetico, Brent and Basswood.

I'd like to believe they were 10 pounds but alas no scale so they could of been 8 but I'll call'em 10 :), they were both in August and very fat fish.

One year on Mille Lacs (my first trip) I think I caught 20 26-27 inchers in one day, very skinny doubt they went 5-6 pounds. Never had that good of quality walleye fishing before...lot's of other quality fish as well. That ruined me for Mille Lacs though...I thought that was the norm :)

I'll be on Kabetogama in 2 weeks if I ever get a 30 incher there it will have to go 11-12# as the 23 inchers I catch are over 5 pounds. Very thick fish. I think we need to change tactics as we typically top out at 25 inchers...as the fish get bigger I think they start roaming the basins for ciscoes... they gotta be somewhere?

T
 
05/27/2017 09:20PM  
3, none in BWCA, all were caught on Lake Vermilion.
 
mastertangler
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05/28/2017 03:58AM  
Lots of guys will call your 7 3/4 lb fish a ten Yogi so don't feel bad when the 10lb label is tossed around real casual like.

The majority of my big ones came off Earie, lake St Clair or the St Clair river. We fished twice in Eriou Ontario in mid summer and caught some very nice fish trolling cranks. There was also the epic day when the planets aligned one spring on Brest Bay (Earie) and weight forward spinners were taking slob post spawn fish one after another which were trophies anywhere else............ Scary fishing day.

Then we used to speed troll on Lake Minnitaki at Sioux Lookout Ontario in August. These were suspended fish about 25ft down over 40ft of water. They were mostly all solid big fish but none over 10 although several might have hit 8 or 9.

And then there were 3 between 8 and 10 (I didn't weigh my fish back in the day) which crashed the party while fishing for something else. One hit a perch colored j-11 original rapala on 4lb green XT shortly after ice out on an inland Michigan lake which had been stocked many, many years ago with walleye. Instead of plowing into the cove which was laden with downed timber she went deep and I knew I would catch her. I felt certain it was a big pike........that fight was fairly intense lasting some 15 or 20 minutes.

Another was caught in a canal off Lake St Clair. As my buddy worked the ladders and docks for largemouth with an electric I decided to drop a tiny little crappie jig behind the boat and troll it. That "tick" still seems like yesterday.........again on very light line and certainly the last place in the world where you would expect to catch a big walleye.

Another big surprise was trolling for Musky on the St Clair river right in the middle of a summers day. She hit a Grandma lure in only about 15ft of water.

My typical walleye in the Quetico goes 5lbs (on a certified scale) in August and sometimes it can be hard to get an "eater". I think it has much to do with how deep I fish at that time of year......typically I am between 25 and 30ft. I have 5 between 6.5 and 7.5 while in a canoe. Good fish which look big in a photo but I am still looking for something over 30".
 
05/28/2017 09:37AM  
I think the biggest Walleye I've caught in the BW was 26 inches. In Ontario on North Caribou Lake caught one 28 in. My daughter caught one 30 inches on the Columbia River near Hood River Oregon. It would have been close to 10 lbs, but no way to weigh it proper.
 
missmolly
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05/28/2017 12:17PM  
Never. Not even close.
 
The Great Outdoors
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05/28/2017 12:38PM  
Probably about a dozen in the 29 3/4 to 31 1/2 inch range, but many between 27-29 inches.
 
yogi59weedr
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05/28/2017 06:28PM  
I plan on searching Burntside June 17 for 2 weeks for 1 of those fish you speak of Jim.
 
missmolly
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05/29/2017 05:57AM  
quote The Great Outdoors: "Probably about a dozen in the 29 3/4 to 31 1/2 inch range, but many between 27-29 inches."


Long live the king!
 
The Great Outdoors
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05/29/2017 06:13AM  
quote yogi59weedr: "I plan on searching Burntside June 17 for 2 weeks for 1 of those fish you speak of Jim."

We'll give you the crash course on fishing Burntside when you stop in. I'm normally here from about 6 until 10 daily. :)
 
05/29/2017 06:48AM  
My son with a 28 inch walleye caught on Red Rock Lake in 2016, from shore at campsite, at 3:00 in the afternoon, and on a sunny day in shallow water in July. I'm still having trouble figuring that one out.

Wasn't 10 pounds, but might have went 8, didn't have a scale.
 
yogi59weedr
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05/29/2017 08:31AM  
Nice...
Nothing says smile like a youngster catching a big fish
 
lundojam
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05/29/2017 08:41AM  
The first walleye I ever caught through the ice was a 30". I was 20 years old. We weighed it on a bunch of different scales til we found one that read ten even.:)
Several 29's since, mostly Mille Lacs and LOTW/Rainy.
Biggest BWCA was 27".
 
05/30/2017 10:29AM  
a few...

caught this one in Basswood on the way home...

taxidermist was wings & things in Ham Lake

 
Aries
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05/30/2017 10:46AM  
quote mastertangler: "Lots of guys will call your 7 3/4 lb fish a ten Yogi so don't feel bad when the 10lb label is tossed around real casual like.


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Nailed it.

I've never caught a true one over 10 lbs yet, I've caught a lot between 27 - 29 inches weighing 8 - 9 1/2 lbs on a scale, could have easily just said they were all 10 lb'ers. If you don't see fish like this frequently there is no way you can guess. I remember the time when I only caught the 2-3 lb'ers in 21-23 inch range then caught my first big 7 lb'er I thought it was a 10 for sure until we put it on a scale.

Same with pike, once they get up in the 15lb range people will just call them 20 lb'ers. My significant others dad is a prime example he thinks he's caught a bunch of 20 lb'ers but after seeing what he calls 20lb pike I doubt he's ever caught one lol.

Not that any of it matters a trophy is in the eye of the beholder.
 
yogi59weedr
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05/30/2017 11:46AM  
tyh..... OH MY. NICE
 
yogi59weedr
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05/30/2017 11:46AM  
tyh..... OH MY. NICE
 
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05/30/2017 01:55PM  
Three, one over 12, one over 13, both from Alton, leech and bobber...and one over 10 from Sag, jig and ringworm. Back in the 80's one large group I know took stringers and stringers of 10+ walleyes (several up to 14#) out of Alton every year...which is probably why the lake stinks now.
 
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05/30/2017 02:17PM  
quote : "Three, one over 12, one over 13, both from Alton, leech and bobber...and one over 10 from Sag, jig and ringworm. Back in the 80's one large group I know took stringers and stringers of 10+ walleyes (several up to 14#) out of Alton every year...which is probably why the lake stinks now."

Those are big walleyes. Smallmouth bass are a big problem in a medium sized lake like Alton. These northern lakes are not very fertile (less calcium deposits?) and when the smallmouth population explodes like it did on Alton those buggers take up a lot of the biomass that the lake can support. Plus anglers tend to release bass and keep walleyes. People should really start to keep more smallmouth. Plus thinning the bass population will result in less but bigger bass.
 
05/30/2017 02:33PM  


Something in the neighborhood.
 
Basspro69
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05/30/2017 02:41PM  
Yes
 
Duluthian
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05/31/2017 06:45AM  
I've caught several in the 28-29" class. Only one has broken the 30" mark and it was pre-spawn on the Rainy River. 30" by 18.5" girth. The weight on the scale was 11 lbs 5 ounces.

Biggest fish I've seen caught in the BWCA was a 27" two years ago. Personally, I've never broke the 25" mark in the BWCA.

 
walleye_hunter
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05/31/2017 08:10AM  
I catch or assist people catch around a dozen walleyes over 28" each summer in the BW. Some years are better than others. Very few of those are 10 pounders though. I weighed a couple of my 30" walleyes from Saganaga one time and it was very humbling to say the least. Any walleye over 25" from a canoe on light tackle in the BW is a great catch and a wonderful moment. Here are few that were over 10#'s or very close to 10. The first one wouldn't have tipped the scales at 10 if it wasn't for the 1 pd burbot in her mouth and throat.


 
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05/31/2017 08:33AM  
Oops, the ice fishing photo is from Flour, not the Boundary Waters.
 
Basspro69
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06/01/2017 08:04PM  
Awesome fish !
 
Basspro69
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06/01/2017 08:04PM  
Awesome fish !
 
06/02/2017 06:37AM  
Yeah...what he said! Awesome! Worth saying twice :)

 
QueticoMike
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06/07/2017 07:38PM  
Those are all nice looking fish!

My biggest is 32 inches. Caught while trolling for lakers.

 
rbevars
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06/07/2017 09:03PM  
Took my buddy up to the BWCA for the first time. Never caught a walleye before. Would only fish with a daredevil. We are out on a lake. For every five casts he catches two trees a rock and the side of the canoe. Its a sunny calm day in the middle of the afternoon. He finally gets a decent cast in and bam something huge hits his lure. He reels it in gets it in the boat, it's a 31 inch 10lb Walleye. I could not believe it. He did everything wrong and catches a fish of a lifetime. We passed some guys at an island earlier so we paddle over and ask them if they have a scale, sure enough. We weigh it: 10.1lbs. You hear him tell the story now and he acts like it was all part of his plan :-). Gotta love fishing!
 
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06/08/2017 12:00PM  
quote rbevars: "Took my buddy up to the BWCA for the first time. Never caught a walleye before. Would only fish with a daredevil. We are out on a lake. For every five casts he catches two trees a rock and the side of the canoe. Its a sunny calm day in the middle of the afternoon. He finally gets a decent cast in and bam something huge hits his lure. He reels it in gets it in the boat, it's a 31 inch 10lb Walleye. I could not believe it. He did everything wrong and catches a fish of a lifetime. We passed some guys at an island earlier so we paddle over and ask them if they have a scale, sure enough. We weigh it: 10.1lbs. You hear him tell the story now and he acts like it was all part of his plan :-). Gotta love fishing! "


I know how you feel...I brought a girlfriend with ZERO fishing experience to Alton way back when. We fishing bobbers with leeches. She didn't get the whole slip-bobber thing so I just gave her one of those big old red and white baseball sized bobbers, clipped on about 2' above the leech. We were fishing in a hell of a gale, 2' waves, she commences to cast and bounce the bobber off a big boulder near shore...bobber hits the water and keeps right on going. My first thought was she cracked it and it sunk. Well, it sunk alright! Long story short she hauls in an 11# walleye fat as fat can be with big old marble eyes. I was speechless and jealous all at the same time. LOL Anyway, when we broke up she took the mount with her, along with one heck of a fish story. I wonder where she is now?? (The fish!)
 
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