SHIVER on the RIVER!!! 2015
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SHIVER on the RIVER!!! 2015
Going to start prefishing the 28th Annual Shiver on the River walleye contest tomorrow. It runs from January 30th - February 15th. The boundaries are the Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay. Walleyes up to 14 lbs. have won this contest. Last year it was over 11 lbs. I normally fish the Bay, but this year am planning on mostly the river due to time constraints outside of the contest. I intend to post some pics from the contest, as far as other fishermen, my catch of the day, etc.
Here's a few pics from years prior on the Saginaw Bay and River:
Not a bad way to spend an afternoon:
Ice Mountains in background are over 30 feet high:
You can tell by my bibs and red face (a fully enclosed helmet was worn) that it can get brutal out there:
Four and a half miles offshore on Saginaw Bay:
Here's a few pics from years prior on the Saginaw Bay and River:
Not a bad way to spend an afternoon:
Ice Mountains in background are over 30 feet high:
You can tell by my bibs and red face (a fully enclosed helmet was worn) that it can get brutal out there:
Four and a half miles offshore on Saginaw Bay:
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How is travel? Most travel in the northern half of WI is snowmobile-unless-you-want-get-stuck. I still plan to hammer some perch this weekend.
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Be safe, stay warm and have fun!
Expect the Unexpected when you least Expect it...
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Re: SHIVER on the RIVER!!! 2015
Looks like a great time! Have fun
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Fun, fun and more fun! The point is a great place where Saginaw river/cass and Shiawassee meet
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BassBoysLLP wrote:How is travel? Most travel in the northern half of WI is snowmobile-unless-you-want-get-stuck. I still plan to hammer some perch this weekend.
Travel isn't bad right now, but many winters required my snowmobile. When the bite is hot on the bay, hundreds and hundreds of trucks park on the ice just offshore to launch their quads and sleds at all the access points. The Coast Guard has estimated over 10,000 people on the ice of the Bay on weekends in years past. After dark, when everyone heads for the access it reminds me of the movie "Road Warrior" as I drive past or get passed by machines of every type by crazed fishermen. Trucks, quads, snowmobiles and Jerry rigged bizzaro mobiles that I'm not even sure what to call them... one year I passed a guy 3 miles offshore riding his 16 HP Bolen riding lawn mower... now that's someone that wants to fish! I was fishing one day and had a 16 foot deep V aluminum boat with a 50 HP Mercury on the back go by me 4 miles offshore and the entire Bay was frozen over... nothing surprises me anymore! they build those boats with a snowmobile engine and track in the bottom of them, and steer it with the boat steering wheel. All you can see is a walleye boat going by on the ice with a guy driving it...
When the ice really got thick the GM guys would show up and put up a tent miles offshore that was the size of half a city block.... there would be 50 - 100 Chevy / GM trucks parked at the tent. When shift changed at work, 50 - 100 new trucks would come out and the others would leave. I could go on an on, but you get the idea. Coming off the ice after dark, while loading your machine in the truck or on a trailer, you can look out and see thousands of lights heading in across the ice... quite the site.
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Re: SHIVER on the RIVER!!! 2015
Nice eyes.
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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Definitely going to have fun, thanks guys.
Are you going to fish the Shiver, assasin?
whitetailassasin wrote:Fun, fun and more fun! The point is a great place where Saginaw river/cass and Shiawassee meet
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Are you going to fish the Shiver, assasin?
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HUNT LIKE A BEAST
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im going to try my best SB
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Nice work
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Ice fishing Saginaw Bay can be very dangerous, as I have personally rescued half a dozen different guys that may well have perished if I didn't come to their aid. You know things are getting hairy when Coast Guard Air Station Detroit and Air Station Traverse City both have copters rocketing out onto the Bay with flares shooting skyward from the ice many miles offshore... I shake my head when a couple of weeks have passed since I felt it was safe and guys are still going out there. A couple of tips:
* Use up to date satellite images of the Greak Lakes and Saginaw Bay to see that it is frozen completely across.
* Never travel alone, which many do... always ask a group of other guys if you can follow them out on the bay with your sled or quad. The answer will almost always be "no problem." When they stop to set up, DO NOT CROWD THEM, give them some space and set up yourself unless they volunteer it is alright to fish with them.
* Use a RAM mount for your GPS on the handlebar of your snowmobile or quad. Mark every spot you cross a pressure crack. If the weather kicks up and you have no visibility, especially after dark, you need to know where it is safe to cross or you could end up in peril / swimming / dead.
There's a lot more, but these are necessities. Fishermen die every year on the Bay, and they will this year as well.
* Use up to date satellite images of the Greak Lakes and Saginaw Bay to see that it is frozen completely across.
* Never travel alone, which many do... always ask a group of other guys if you can follow them out on the bay with your sled or quad. The answer will almost always be "no problem." When they stop to set up, DO NOT CROWD THEM, give them some space and set up yourself unless they volunteer it is alright to fish with them.
* Use a RAM mount for your GPS on the handlebar of your snowmobile or quad. Mark every spot you cross a pressure crack. If the weather kicks up and you have no visibility, especially after dark, you need to know where it is safe to cross or you could end up in peril / swimming / dead.
There's a lot more, but these are necessities. Fishermen die every year on the Bay, and they will this year as well.
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The Bay is one place I'd love to fish some day... but I'm on the west side and have never been over there, and from the stories I've heard and seen about it, I'm scared to try! LOL
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