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Walking the river banks - lures #7066704
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I have two rivers close to my house in downtown Green Bay - the Fox and East rivers. Both have good walking trails that I regularly walk to get some exercise. The Fox is a world class walleye river because fish from Green Bay come up to spawn. There is some speculation that the next world record walleye will come from here. With all the great fishing there are times when the river is packed with fisherman - particularly in the spring during the spawn and again in the fall for a smaller migration. People lose a lot of baits and if they are floating crankbaits eventually they will break free or the hooks will rust. I frequently find them when out walking especially if I am hunting for them.

Yesterday, I found seven stickbaits and some other assorted lures. I clean them up over the winter and give them away at a fishing derby to the kids. Lures that have been in the water too long and are unrepairable are used for casting practice or get put on my Christmas tree.

Posted as an idea to help pass the time while getting some exercise.

The picture represents some of the lures found this year. [Linked Image]


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7066706
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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7066714
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Lost many myself only to find them walking the shoreline on low tide months later. How do I know they are mine? I make them and paint them myself. lol

Nothing fancy just a painted stick with an eye and some hooks.

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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7066715
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Green Bay, thats pretty neat. I have a nephew that walks the dam at a lake. It’s amazing the number of lures he finds. Love the idea of giving them to kids.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7067041
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We used to use a canoe and get loads along the Potomac and it's feeder creeks.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7067046
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Yep, when living in TN. I always looked forward to the CORPS to start the fall pull down of Lake Barkley and KY. Lake. (5 FT) Spent several weekends in the boat looking for and finding many lures and tackle. When the lakes dropped enough we would find miles and miles of bait lines that had been left. Figured I had lost enough myself to make it worthwhile.

this year I got hung up at a local lake. Used my retriever to get my lure back and when I did there was another attached to it. Deep diving Crank baits. Best catch I made that day.

Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7067049
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Nice.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7067186
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When we were teenagers we would swim along the river banks at popular fishing spots. Lots of old snags in the water. We would find the line and follow it back to where it was hooked up. At the end of the day our pile would look more like the group of stuff on the left in the op's picture though.

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A great morning out looking for lures. The water was down about a foot and no wind after several days of being windy. [Linked Image]


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7075438
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Originally Posted by Green Bay
A great morning out looking for lures. The water was down about a foot and no wind after several days of being windy. [Linked Image]

Wow


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7075458
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I was beaver trapping at Moraine State Park a few years ago. While in an inlet on the east end of the lake, I gathered up about 50 bobbers that were beached when they drew down the lake for the winter.

When I fish Pymatuning, it’s not unusual for my buddy and I to lose 20 slip bobbers a day to bottom snags. We recover some...the Amish snatch up a few....the rest have to end up in a eastern cove somewhere.

Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7206909
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[Linked Image]


Went down to the river to get some jigs for fishing later this summer. A good day to gather in the crop. Ended up with 95 jigs, a Mepps Spinner, and a crank bait.


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There seems to be a theme with what kind of jig/plastics are used. Or the same guy found a ton of snags.

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Nice haul.


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Those look like first or second cast hangers. I would put a trail cam on the opposite bank and get some footage of people losing their minds. lol


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Had a buddy that lived on a popular fishing lake, he sunk a burnt bed box spring in between a couple stumps sticking up where everyone casts, attached a cable on a crank on the bank and cleaned up. Kind of a jerk move, but effective.

Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Turd Furgeson] #7206978
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Originally Posted by Turd Furgeson
Had a buddy that lived on a popular fishing lake, he sunk a burnt bed box spring in between a couple stumps sticking up where everyone casts, attached a cable on a crank on the bank and cleaned up. Kind of a jerk move, but effective.

I'd lump up somebody doing that!


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I used to walk the shores of Blue Marsh Lake in southeast Pennsylvania years ago during the annual drawdown months and found many dozens of crank baits. Now I walk the shores of Lake Hopatcong in northern New Jersey and find many more. Bomber Long A’s seem to be very popular on that lake, they are about 70% of what I find. Most of them are like new but I bought various size treble hooks and split rings to swap out the rusty ones.

Here’s what I found last year:

[Linked Image]


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Turtledale] #7207056
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Originally Posted by Turtledale
Originally Posted by Turd Furgeson
Had a buddy that lived on a popular fishing lake, he sunk a burnt bed box spring in between a couple stumps sticking up where everyone casts, attached a cable on a crank on the bank and cleaned up. Kind of a jerk move, but effective.

I'd lump up somebody doing that!

Some tool did that at a popular spot below a dam here. He was never caught but if he was things wouldn't go well for him.

Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7207066
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Dang that's low.


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Originally Posted by Green Bay
A great morning out looking for lures. The water was down about a foot and no wind after several days of being windy. [Linked Image]

Yup.Thats about a three day haul for me here on the river during salmon running time.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Turd Furgeson] #7207423
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Originally Posted by Turd Furgeson
Had a buddy that lived on a popular fishing lake, he sunk a burnt bed box spring in between a couple stumps sticking up where everyone casts, attached a cable on a crank on the bank and cleaned up. Kind of a jerk move, but effective.

Who even thinks of doing that?Wow!


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7207643
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Loads of Rapalas there


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7207775
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Buddy of mine used to motor along close to shore in fall right after most leaves are down.. Carried a pole with one them limb clippers. Was amazing how many baits he cut out of trees just high enough couldn't reach them by hand. I like to go on the lake early in the morning cruse the shore line look for any odd color on shore. Pick up baits doing that.

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My daughter was involved In some eagle studies. You can't imaging all the fishing lures she found In those nests.

When we were kids we sunk old bed springs In fishing hot spots. You have no Idea how many lures we collected and sold back to anglers.


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Originally Posted by Green Bay
A great morning out looking for lures. The water was down about a foot and no wind after several days of being windy. [Linked Image]

Nice haul.


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[Linked Image]


Still finding a few. Seems like I find about three per outing lately.


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Nice thread Green Bay

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lots of money if you had to buy them , smile

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Friend sent me this video the other day because he knew I used to pick lures. Makes me want get back in river again haven't done it now seriously for many years. Before everyone went to just using trolling motors keep their boats in place. Knew few spots guy could dive pick a dozen nice anchors or so ever trip. People still anchor but not like they did years ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27FuozgxxMI

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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Turd Furgeson] #7308443
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Originally Posted by Turd Furgeson
Had a buddy that lived on a popular fishing lake, he sunk a burnt bed box spring in between a couple stumps sticking up where everyone casts, attached a cable on a crank on the bank and cleaned up. Kind of a jerk move, but effective.

Was his name Furd Turgeson? Lol


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Mac thanks for posting that video. I know where that is and was actually out there watching them dive that place the day they filmed it.

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nice haul. Those walleye get a lot of baits tossed at them. I know that area...been to GB a few times.

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[Linked Image]

This is two mornings of spending some time outdoors. Figured I would since the fur market is down. I found close to five hundred all together this year.


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Going to say fire tiger is a popular color?


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Yes, and people fish a lot of Berkley Flicker Shads.


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[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]


It took some effort but I picked this one up today. I have know about it since June but I needed some special equipment to get it. Today was the day. For those of you who fish: https://leelures.com/products/flaptail

Have a good one.


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Very cool! I thought I was going to cash a big paycheck in a walleye tournament out of green bay in 2000. I found some good fish in the Fox River not far below the Depere dam, and I was in 19th place out of 250 boats after the first day. A cold front came through on day 2 and moved the fish deeper and I dropped into something like 38th place but still won about $2000 if I remember correctly. First place paid $400,000.

Fun place to fish.

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Some real Nice finds


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Way to go.


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Originally Posted by BernieB.
Very cool! I thought I was going to cash a big paycheck in a walleye tournament out of green bay in 2000. I found some good fish in the Fox River not far below the Depere dam, and I was in 19th place out of 250 boats after the first day. A cold front came through on day 2 and moved the fish deeper and I dropped into something like 38th place but still won about $2000 if I remember correctly. First place paid $400,000.

Fun place to fish.



That is awesome. Fun to make some money while doing something you enjoy. A friend of mine is a guide who also does several walleye tour events. He ends up buying a lot of what I find.


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Nice find

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Originally Posted by Green Bay
A great morning out looking for lures. The water was down about a foot and no wind after several days of being windy. [Linked Image]

The bottom right lure is or was the go-to lure for ice fishing on Lake Winnipeg

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I was down at the river one day and kept getting snags. I knew there were no rocks there so I went home and got into some grubby clothes and went in. The snag was a sunken tree about 10 inches at the root ball. It was covered in lures. I pulled it as close to shore as I could and was out in the water pulling lures off of it when some dirtbag walks up and starts to try to pull stuff off. Since most of it was in the water, and it was just below neutral buoyancy, I was able to pull it out of his reach and cuss him out.He tried to hand me some sort of BS excuse, but wisely left before he got more than a rusted out jig.

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Bed springs the best.... you shouldnt be fishin my hole anyways


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Originally Posted by Buck (Zandra)
Originally Posted by Turd Furgeson
Had a buddy that lived on a popular fishing lake, he sunk a burnt bed box spring in between a couple stumps sticking up where everyone casts, attached a cable on a crank on the bank and cleaned up. Kind of a jerk move, but effective.

Who even thinks of doing that?Wow!



I remember years ago when the salmon run was a big thing on the Muskingum River in Michigan , below the Tippy dam , someone did that at a boat launch .
It was on the south side of the river below the Saw dust pile hole .


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LOL, haven't bought a bobber since I was 12, 60 some years!


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This is a normal find in an hour after work.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7516766
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Those look like first or second cast hangers. I would put a trail cam on the opposite bank and get some footage of people losing their minds. lol

Lol.


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Originally Posted by Green Bay
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This is a normal find in an hour after work.

Nice


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7516980
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Originally Posted by Green Bay
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This is a normal find in an hour after work.

What A pile


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It has been awhile since I have posted to this link too. The lures you see here are about half of what I found in August. I have been working on a book which explains how I find them. The book has taken me almost two years to write but it is almost done. I am waiting for the artist to finish the cover. I go down to a local river about twice a week and it is pretty rare not to come back with $30 or $40 of lures.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #7951792
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A few

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You could start a business reselling lures laugh

Nice finds

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I actually do resell them. I clean them up and replace the hooks. I sell most of them for $5.00 which is a really good deal.


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Stop telling people. You'll soon have company. Lol


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I found these on Dec. 2, 2023 in Titletown, USA. Air temp 32.


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Get on you tube watch the videos of Ed the diver see all the stuff he plucks from the water.

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I know Ed. We are getting together in several weeks to do YouTube short.


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Did you ever do the youtube video.i would like to see you do one think it would be interesting to watch.

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Here’s 3 hung in a sycamore

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Originally Posted by Green Bay
I know Ed. We are getting together in several weeks to do YouTube short.



Here is a link to our first interview link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINb5R-LajA


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: jalstat] #8147413
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Originally Posted by jalstat
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Here’s 3 hung in a sycamore


Lure trees are one of the ways I describe in my book. Nice finds.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8147414
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This was my best day ever. I found all of these in one day. All the various components of the system came together at the same time.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8147475
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Wow! Great finds Green Bay. Love jerk baits.


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Someone asked me if I am still out finding lures. The short answer is yes. I go out at least once a week and sometimes more. There are lures out there just for the picking guys.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8153729
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I'm still watching and enjoying your post. I haven't done the lure picking thing for a while now. When Im by the river though I'm always looking.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8153823
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I used to do a little lure hunting at a local lake. Finding those colorful little fish-getters was a great way to get out and spend some quiet times on the shorelines. [Linked Image]

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When my daughter was working for the DNR she was doing eagle research. They would climb the trees and check out the nests. Those nests were full of fishing lures. A fish would get caught break the line and end up dying and the eagles would take them up into their nests. I got lots of very nice lures.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8160272
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You can follow along on my journey via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lurehunter


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8160666
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When I was a kid, I was heart broke when I lost my very favorite bobber, several years later I found it floating at another lake, miles away!


Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.

Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8161065
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Over the years I've found quite a number of metal lures such as daredevils, doctor spoons, red eyes, etc. while metal detecting in the water.


I don't watch football, so I don't know who Taylor Swift is, but he sounds fast.
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Originally Posted by BigBob
When I was a kid, I was heart broke when I lost my very favorite bobber, several years later I found it floating at another lake, miles away!



Cool Story.


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8161079
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Why buy when you can hunt for them LOL


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Originally Posted by NorthernTrapperO
Why buy when you can hunt for them LOL


That is my way of thinking. People who trap could earn / save hundreds of dollars a year by picking up lures. It also gives you a real clear idea of what fur bearers are in the area.

Brian


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Re: Walking the river banks - lures [Re: Green Bay] #8185888
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I thought you would enjoy seeing the knives I have found while I have been our Lure Hunting. [Linked Image]


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That's cool even a few filet knives.

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Nice finds


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Looks like you made a good haul do you find more stuff after the weekend when there may have been more people out fishing?

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Pressure is a very important component to finding lures. More people have time to fish on Saturday and Sunday so you are correct - Monday is a good time to go. That said, this particular place has people fish it year round so it is important to hit it hard when the water reaches the lowest point of the summer.


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I have been busy this fall finding lures. You can follow what I am up to here: https://linktr.ee/thelurehunter


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