Any saugeye fishermen out there?
Saugmon
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They're hybrids from the male sauger and the female walleye.Mean lil critters and are active in ice.They grow quicker than a walleye. Here's one of our catches the other week.This is still early in the season for them.
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13 years ago
Actually those are poor results,but decent catches for our horrendous weather.Ohio is a place where you can have the heat on,1 day later air conditioner on,and then a few days of heat,back to turning the heat on again due to coldfronts.
My part of ohio is being battered with thunderstorms, a few tornados,and flooding.It's disrupted the spawning whitebass 3 times now.Lake temp dropped 20 degrees in a 5 day span.Just now started to hit mid 70's and thursday it was down to 66.
5 hrs of fishing in the rain yielded 4 eyes for both us today. A couple 3 whitebass and a catfish that my buddy.Those catfish love crankbaits.
My part of ohio is being battered with thunderstorms, a few tornados,and flooding.It's disrupted the spawning whitebass 3 times now.Lake temp dropped 20 degrees in a 5 day span.Just now started to hit mid 70's and thursday it was down to 66.
5 hrs of fishing in the rain yielded 4 eyes for both us today. A couple 3 whitebass and a catfish that my buddy.Those catfish love crankbaits.
The big one is 25" the smaller in is a smidgen over 15"
I'm still hammering the saugeye.Pulled out 90 each of the last 2 year. That 2012 season was a barn burner.We still pulled out 2 man limits clear thru the end of july and 92° water temps.
Something odd about that 2012 season was the keeper % was sky high. Very few dinks. Well we payed for it the last 2 seasons because fewer dinks in 2012 meant fewer 15"-16" keepers for 2013 and 2014. On the plus side was the quality. Averaged over 18" per keeper those two years plus we're pulling in the dinks. The ODNR stocking was 1/2 for 2009 and 2010 because the female walleye in the maumee is where they get the eggs from.Those walleye eggs contained a virus and the odnr had to use the eggs of walleye from inland lakes which meant a lower yield. 2011 they figured out a way to treat the eggs for that virus and now back to getting the fat hawgs of the maumee river.
I got an early start in the 2015 season in early may.1st trip out and limit.That dink # was sky high but managed to pull out quite a few limits.Bad part is the keepers are mostly under 18",but I had to sort out the dinks to get them. The only 2 man limit that I had this year,we caught 75 saugeye to get 12 that were legal size. the next day ,1 limit of 6 saugeye out of 50 total saugeye. I'm sitting on 111 so far this season.Major flooding and weekly coldfronts. Our lake hasn't even made it to 80° yet.That's when the hawgs hit. Probably tossed back 700+ saugeye dinks and 200 channelcats. That low 2009 and 2010 stocking season is the reason I'm not getting many 19"-21" eyes now. Hopefully this last flood didn't take any of those eye dinks away.Saugeye love to go over spillways during flooding and that's why a lot of lakes can't hold them. From the size of these dinks,2018 is going to be a banner year.
Last season and this season,the eyes have been hammering berkley flickershads.Last year it was chrome clown,blue tiger,purple tiger.This season it's party perch,black lime bully,pink lemonade. 6 cm last year and 5 cm this year.They're under $4 and they catch anything. Tally up a 36" flattie that went 21 lbs a couple weeks ago. Crappie,saugeye,perch,channelcats,white bass.People catching walleye with them too.The most snag resistant crank that I have found and I troll shallow snag infested waters for a living
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Something odd about that 2012 season was the keeper % was sky high. Very few dinks. Well we payed for it the last 2 seasons because fewer dinks in 2012 meant fewer 15"-16" keepers for 2013 and 2014. On the plus side was the quality. Averaged over 18" per keeper those two years plus we're pulling in the dinks. The ODNR stocking was 1/2 for 2009 and 2010 because the female walleye in the maumee is where they get the eggs from.Those walleye eggs contained a virus and the odnr had to use the eggs of walleye from inland lakes which meant a lower yield. 2011 they figured out a way to treat the eggs for that virus and now back to getting the fat hawgs of the maumee river.
I got an early start in the 2015 season in early may.1st trip out and limit.That dink # was sky high but managed to pull out quite a few limits.Bad part is the keepers are mostly under 18",but I had to sort out the dinks to get them. The only 2 man limit that I had this year,we caught 75 saugeye to get 12 that were legal size. the next day ,1 limit of 6 saugeye out of 50 total saugeye. I'm sitting on 111 so far this season.Major flooding and weekly coldfronts. Our lake hasn't even made it to 80° yet.That's when the hawgs hit. Probably tossed back 700+ saugeye dinks and 200 channelcats. That low 2009 and 2010 stocking season is the reason I'm not getting many 19"-21" eyes now. Hopefully this last flood didn't take any of those eye dinks away.Saugeye love to go over spillways during flooding and that's why a lot of lakes can't hold them. From the size of these dinks,2018 is going to be a banner year.
Last season and this season,the eyes have been hammering berkley flickershads.Last year it was chrome clown,blue tiger,purple tiger.This season it's party perch,black lime bully,pink lemonade. 6 cm last year and 5 cm this year.They're under $4 and they catch anything. Tally up a 36" flattie that went 21 lbs a couple weeks ago. Crappie,saugeye,perch,channelcats,white bass.People catching walleye with them too.The most snag resistant crank that I have found and I troll shallow snag infested waters for a living
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