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Anyone ever try a NWT coangler event?  I see they have a stop in Dunkirk in August. For those that have competed, what are your opinions on the tournament experience?

  • 4 weeks later...
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This weather has me confused. Playing with dummy dots and my hole puncher again. 

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I’ve fished as a co angler on the nwt a couple times. Well worth doing . I won 4 grand in Detroit once. I’m not sure what it would be like now with forward facing sonar

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Ya, that is just worry. Guys running to Ohio to use forward facing imaging in 5’ waves and a bass boat. Hopefully, I would get paired with a troller. 

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This years NWT visit to Dunkirk is a regular event which means more entrants/boats than the 2022 Championship with limited qualifiers.  Interesting to attend a weigh in just to see the boats and what goes on.  Some of the local tournaments have some good numbers of entrants too.  The shotgun start of Sunset Bay Shootout would be one of those.

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With boredom comes innovation of some new worm spoons patterns. Friekin weather has to break. 

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  • 3 weeks later...
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Lots of open water on West end. Modis satellite shot of Erie today. 

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  • 2 weeks later...
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When you have run out of ideas of lures to buy, you can always look in Europe. $19 per lure so I won’t use these to bounce off any structure but wow Rapala Europe has some great paint jobs. Darkagelures.com. 

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The walleye flossing season is in full swing on the Maumee River. 

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  On 2/10/2025 at 6:26 PM, Gill-T said:

Ya, that is just worry. Guys running to Ohio to use forward facing imaging in 5’ waves and a bass boat. Hopefully, I would get paired with a troller. 

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from what I’ve seen over the past couple of years not many troller left

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  On 3/17/2025 at 10:57 PM, Gill-T said:

When you have run out of ideas of lures to buy, you can always look in Europe. $19 per lure so I won’t use these to bounce off any structure but wow Rapala Europe has some great paint jobs. Darkagelures.com. 

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the 1st bait would be Steelhead killer and still catch walleye trolling the central basin of Erie out of Geneva Ohio. and I wouldn't count the last out until I gave them a good try.

  • 2 weeks later...
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And all those pretty offseason lure acquisitions have been sitting in a box for months due to yet another crappy weekend of weather. I have been trying to execute a weekend trip to Ohio since this fall and they all have been canceled 😡

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  On 4/2/2025 at 3:25 AM, Shorthanded said:


from what I’ve seen over the past couple of years not many troller left

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where are you fishing. i haven't fished the western basin lately but back when I did after the jig bite was over most boats started trolling. when I started back in the early 80s most did cast and count down but all we dit was let out a lot of line off our spinning reels and just drift, and very few days we didn't get a 4 man limit. but later when the water cleared and not as many fish we switched to trolling.

 

But later, we started fishing the central basin out of Geneva, Ohio, and trolling was what everyone did. i believe a few guys have been drifting in the central basin since the great influx of new walleye but I have no idea if they are catching walleye.

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  On 4/16/2025 at 6:04 PM, Gill-T said:

And all those pretty offseason lure acquisitions have been sitting in a box for months due to yet another crappy weekend of weather. I have been trying to execute a weekend trip to Ohio since this fall and they all have been canceled 😡

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I’ve spent the entire month of April in Port Clinton area and I each time I had less than 50% fishable days. Now that the fish are smaller not sure it’s worth it, IMHO

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Definitely catching fish drifting out of Conneaut from the shoreline to 70 feet plus. Weight Forward spinners, casting harnesses, and some guys do well with bottom bouncers. Way more fun, but if you're in a hurry it's fairly easy  to put 24 in the boat in about 2 hours or less with 6 Dipsy divers 2 riggers and a couple flat wire lines 

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