The first couple days we had to work hard for our fish. We caught fish everyday but they were scattered. We mixed it up trying all sorts of stuff. We fished jigs, trolled... we even had a few fish trolling the largest rapalas in the box but the technique that worked best was jigs and leeches. We caught fish without leeches but when tipped with a leech, they hit better. I'm thinking the bite was soft so the leech just made it easier for us to notice. I think worms would do it as well.
We caught a whack of fish and couldn't resist the wall of fame shot.
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Some filets that came home with us.
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Had a couple of shore lunches which were fantastic. If you are going, bring a shore lunch kit, frying pan, onions, potatoes, paper plates, napkin, oil, fishcrisp and you will really enjoy it. Oh, don't forget forks but if you do (ahem) you can make chopsticks with pieces of wood
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Me, in my new nemio hat (sorry fish-hawk hat, you'll get another turn some other time)
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For those of you going this week, I think the classic patterns could be set up. We caught some off points on islands on the main lake - very text book fishing. We also caught fish on necked down areas where fish pass through. If the wind blows, lazy me likes to let it push you down a wall and pick up fish as you drag your jig along.
Again, like last year, Ron and Rosie from Nemio were great hosts.
