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October 9, 2008

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Before getting to this newsletter, I want to thank everyone for following along this season and I hope you enjoyed the newsletter as much as I enjoy putting them together each week. OK nearly each week. With only a couple of weeks left here on the open water, or before deer season, its hard to believe that another season has nearly come and gone. I will be fishing for about two more weeks and then heading to the woods to track down a deer to hopefully harvest this season. I will be updating my my newsletters with the TV show information on my AYA tournament win as the information comes in. Please feel free to email me during the coming weeks and months with any questions you may have.

As a parting to this season, I must tell you that I now have a full season under my belt with running the new Mercury Verado and I must tell you that if you're thinking about buying a new boat package or just upgrading that motor, look no further then the Mercury Verado. None of the components of this motor have been overlooked from the smart gauges to the ability to drop your RPM's to slow troll those jigs, rigs or crankbaits. This motor has all aplications covered and they have done it with perfection! So if it is in the making during this off season, look no further then the Mercury Verado!

The harvest moon has settled upon us this week, and with the harvest moon comes large migrations of geese and ducks, whitetails spreading out looking for those does and to those anglers of big walleyes a night bite. Of all the full moons during the season, the October harvest full moon is one that typically comes with more big walleyes then all others during the open water season. From Pokegama to Deer and Winnie or Leech and even Mille Lacs, no better time than now to hook up that boat and head to the lake and tie on a #12 Salmo sting and catch that walleye of the summer.

For us, we will be fishing Pokegama as the water temperatures are still holding in the low 50's. We will also be heading to Winnie later in the week.

As for Pokegama, look for the 8-12 feet of water to be the productive depths. Try to key on the structures that the wind has blown into during the day or past couple of days. We will use the #12 suspending Salmo hornets with line lengths varying from 60 to 90 feet. The speed with the water temperatures being in the low 50's should be near that 2-MPH mark. While keeping a close eye on your Lowrance, keep in mind if those fish move to shallower water, one can troll with your Minnkota to help eliminate the noise and the scattering of the fish. One other great tip to help during the night bite is eliminating the amount of light shined in the water. Each year I see a number of anglers using the large spot lights to help with the netting of the fish, but understand that beaming light will push those bigger fish out of the shallows making the water filled with mainly smaller fish.

The day bite on many of the area lakes continues to pick up speed and the best shallow water bite is still coming. We have a number of fish showing themselves on the Northshore of Winnie this last week, but the massive schooling has yet to happen. Typically we see a large push of fish by now into Cutfoot and due to the water staying fairly warm. To this point, that large push has still not happened. As the next week cools the surface temperatures and lakes complete their turnover, look for the MEA weekend to be much better for that shallow water frenzy.

So if your looking to fill a morning or afternoon with some fishing, the best bite is still to come and no better time than now as the frisky walleyes start that feeding frenzy. Its hard to state the obvious, but the fall open water fishing is coming near the end for many and we will be looking for first ice before long, thanks for another great open water year and I look forward to those last open water reports and first ice reports.

I hope everyone had an excellent open water season and good luck hunting this fall.

See you on the water in a LUND boat,

Sean Colter
member of NMGL
seancolter@seancolter.com