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merkman Grand Master

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I was wondering where a couple of you guys are at? Merkman, I'd love to know your spot, not for pike but for the bull sunnies you've been seeing!

I don't fish sunnies so I don't know; do you just catch and release them or keep them for the frying pan?

How many would it take to have a "good day"?

I see many more tiny sunnies and 3" perch and tiny sunnies than the Bull Sunnies but we have seen some big Sunnies stolling by one at a time.

Do they normally school?

I was halfway surprised to see them alone?

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We've been waiting for you to show up! 

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I have another spot. That's shallower have not tried I think will be good. There is a bunch of houses around the area. I looked on a map found this spot on a 6000 acre lake and no one for a few hundre

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Good job getting her in! I am glad she didn't slip away from you Slurpie. It sure is a good idea to have a backup spear in the house.  in a clear lake it is sometimes hard to target a weed line i

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Originally Posted By: fishuhalik
I was wondering where a couple of you guys are at? Merkman, I'd love to know your spot, not for pike but for the bull sunnies you've been seeing!

I don't fish sunnies so I don't know; do you just catch and release them or keep them for the frying pan?

How many would it take to have a "good day"?

I see many more tiny sunnies and 3" perch and tiny sunnies than the Bull Sunnies but we have seen some big Sunnies stolling by one at a time.

Do they normally school?

I was halfway surprised to see them alone?

They will school but the Bigger sunnies may be on the outer edge of the school, they don't need the protection a school provides as much as the little 5 inches.

Merk I still got your number and want to get out spearing with you some time this winter. Its just that one weekend I emailed you we got blasted with all the snow and I knew I wouldnt be able to get up my driveway in Mora until it was plowed out. Then its just been so dang cold since.

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merkman Grand Master

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Merk I still got your number and want to get out spearing with you some time this winter. Its just that one weekend I emailed you we got blasted with all the snow and I knew I wouldnt be able to get up my driveway in Mora until it was plowed out. Then its just been so dang cold since.

Thanks for the tips on the sunnies.

I am still set up on the one lake with both houses.

I am in deeper water so it is a little more boring. We see bigger bass and more perch out in the deeper water, but they are harder to see.

I may move one of my houses to a clearer lake this weekend.

It will be the single house that gets moved.

Anytime you want to make it you can spear out of the single house or the double house; if you have friends who want to make it that is cool too. I have enough gear for several. If I am busy that weekend I will get you set up then take off and do what I need to do.

Just e-mail me.

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Merkman, it depends on what you'd prefer. If you don't mind me keeping a couple limits out of the lake I will, if you'd rather see anything over "x" inches released that's fine too. I always abide by other people's rules when they give me a tip. On the other hand, if you want everything big put back and I finally get my 12" sunnie, sorry, it's going on the wall!! smile

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Merkman, it depends on what you'd prefer. If you don't mind me keeping a couple limits out of the lake I will, if you'd rather see anything over "x" inches released that's fine too. I always abide by other people's rules when they give me a tip. On the other hand, if you want everything big put back and I finally get my 12" sunnie, sorry, it's going on the wall!! smile

Sorry if I came across like that. That is not at all what I meant.

These are public lakes so they are no way "my lakes" or "my fish".

Although I do affectionately call the lake I fish on my lake. smile

I don't stake any claim to the lake or the fish in it.

I just don't fish for sunfish that is why I was asking.

If I saw 4 or 6 big sunfish in a day is it worth traveling 30 miles for? Honestly I don't even know how many sunfish are in a limit. Now I know if you get a 12"er it would be worth the trip.

I will email you where I was at when I saw them and you can go check it out.

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Thanks merkman, no offense taken. I didn't take it as you saying it's "your" lake, but when someone gives me a tip that's how I treat it, just like I expect people to give me the same respect if I give them a hot tip on an area. If you're ever able to get up north in the Grand Rapids/Marcell/Winnie area and wanna get in on some great spearing, let me know, I grew up there and know some kind of info on most every lake in the area.

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merk, how do you take your photos of the fish down in the hole. i cant seem to get it to work with my phone, or my camera?

I have only had my camera out one or two days this year.

I am not sure what is wrong with me this year. But I never seem to bring it along.

First in general the phone is not going to take good photos in the water. Some may but generally most wont.

The next thing is make sure the flash is turned off before shooting the shot.

If you have zoom on your camera zoom in as far as you can so that the camera focuses on the fish and not the top of the water.

If you don't have zoom move the camera closer so it does not catch the edges of the hole.

And the biggest thing with a digital camera is take a bunch of photos (since they are cheep to take) and pick the best ones.

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Here is a video from this morning.

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Proof muskies don't eat walleyes grin I thought he was going to though, check out the whites of his eyes as he swims by,he was realy studying the decoy. It sure is neat seeing those biggins come through. Not a single northern, lots of sunnies though.

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