Oh right here in the boat right here in the boat come up knock it right at the boat look at this fish he is going crazy
listen that right here I have one right here listen to that reel oh I have one coming in
look at this sucker go I'm gonna put it on it.
There it is.
Yo yo yo look at her look at her.
Come see me.
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Hi I'm Dave Winkleman and thanks so much for joining me today on another outstanding episode of Good Fishing.
America's most watched outdoor program.
Now first on today's show I'm going to take you to Florida's world famous St. John's River.
Not for largemouth bass as you might have suspected.
But for ocean run Jack Crevell.
And let me tell you found for found these dudes are some of the fightinest critters I've ever come up against.
And then on today's outdoor almanac we're going to take a serious look at personal use insect control and repellent.
Discuss which ones are right for your family.
Plus I'll give you an address to write for more information including a wallet size tick identification card.
And along with that we've got a kids for saving earth message and a new recipe right from Charlie's Kitchen.
And then if all that wasn't enough we're going to take an up close and personal look at what makes the walleye a walleye.
So stay right there we'll be right back after these important messages.
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Florida's St. John's River has undoubtedly earned itself a place in the large mouth bass fishing hall of fame.
Over the years countless catches of 10 to 20 pound bass have been recorded from the river's fertile waters.
However large mouth bass aren't the only thing with fins that swim in the St. John's River.
Tell you what, why don't you come along and join guide Greg Fields and outdoor writer Bob McNally.
Both from Jacksonville Florida along with yours truly and I'll show you what I'm talking about.
Great what do you think?
Think you're getting late in the tide?
Hard to say about it.
More jacks I've seen today than any given day so far yet.
There he is.
Right behind him.
There he is.
I think I, oh come on baby hit it.
There he is.
I lost two in the same tree.
Oh there's a little more.
I don't know what I got here but he's still going.
He's still going?
Where you at?
Bobby there you go.
Where you at?
Underneath?
I don't know where you are.
You're underneath me.
Let me get back here.
Boy I got a big one.
Listen to this one.
I got a screamer on here.
Got it sorted out.
Oh yeah.
What kind of fish?
Whoa.
I mean I'm not moving this guy.
Bob I'm coming up here.
Alright come around.
Level the boat out son.
Boys I don't know if I got a different kind of a fish or what but this is not what I've
been catching.
I've had guys out and they said that.
They would not believe that they had a fish that only weighed two or three pounds.
This is not the same fish.
You're going to be surprised when you see that yellow.
There he is.
There he is.
Nice fish.
That's a nice one.
That's a nice one.
That's one of the biggest I've seen all day.
Can you imagine a 25 or 30 pounder?
Look at this guy.
That's a good one.
That's a really good one.
This is my biggie of the day.
Look how pretty silver he is.
Nice yellow.
You heard of Jack Be Quick?
How about Jack Be Tough?
Somebody find me a bird somewhere.
I'm looking man.
I'm looking.
I tell you the whole key to this fishing is finding birds working on top of the water.
And then remembering the fish when they go back down they're going upstream.
It's like clockwork really.
When you see the birds sitting on the water that's a bad sign.
On the other hand we have found a few schools of them today with the birds having found.
Right.
I think there's so many fish broken into so many schools the birds just can't keep with
all the fish.
I'm working back up here to shallow water again up here.
That one school that we caught we first found way down the end down there and we brought
it in a couple of miles.
Now there were thousands and thousands of fish in that.
Well what's happened is those big schools move up the river and with the bait fish they're
following those bait fish.
They're hammering the bait and they're splintering the bait fish schools.
They're going every which way.
So now those big schools of jacks start going up this little creek following that school
of bait fish last minute up this creek.
So now you got lots of little pods of fish.
They're tougher.
The farther up the river they are the tougher they are to stay with.
So find a big school like that and keep moving with them and stay with the fish for hours.
You know what I like about this the most?
I mean other than the excitement and the fun and I love that.
But the average family can come down here and bring his normal fishing boat out here
in the river and just have a blast fishing the ocean.
Any kind of a small fishing boat is perfect.
I think too many folks that fish only freshwater think well if I'm going to fish the ocean
I've got to go troll for bill fish or I've got to do this or that.
They don't know nothing about it.
True.
There's so much light tackle stuff in salt water.
Sure light fast tackle.
You know what I like about this?
Bad tackle.
You know what I like about this?
Everything.
Oh there he is.
Oh.
In front of the dock where they're at.
Did you see him hammer that?
I mean yeah he annihilated it right there in the dock.
That's why I flashed yellow and whap.
That's why I turned on it before I felt him.
Yeah I seen the thing roll.
Yeah there he is.
Look at him.
Look at him here.
Look at him bait skip out.
Look at him.
Look at him.
Cheese.
That's exciting fishing.
Okay did you see him chasing that lure?
Yeah.
Triple header.
Triple header.
Got him.
Oh he just tore off.
Boy that's a good fish here.
Yeah both of you guys have got a big fish.
Strong.
Oh that's a pretty fish.
Yeah that's pretty yellow.
Boy he's just tearing it up isn't he?
Get up here baby.
I said you got to remember when you see these fish come up to the top of the water and they
go back down one way they're heading.
They're heading with the current upstream.
Upstream huh?
Upstream they're not going to head back out.
I'm behind you Bobby.
Yeah.
Now I suppose we got to wait for him again.
Yeah wait for him again.
No son this is called.
He just tuned that one in.
Even the boat.
That's a fast that must be record time on a jack.
Boy would these fish get you hooked in their mouth.
He could have gotten the whole thing here to swallow that whole thing right on down.
They like shadowing son.
Saw two fish break I don't know how big a school is.
I expected to see them come up.
Is this the best way to fish them like we're doing kind of standing and scouting and running
gun them?
Whenever you got a slack tide your fish are going to come up your bait fish are small
fish so they're going to come up on that slack tide and that's when the fish feed.
But when you get a hard running current then your bait fish are moving and they get down
deep and you won't see these fish pop on top of the water.
I would think that when they're running the bottom that a guy could get down there with
jigs or speed trolling crank baits.
You can't.
You can't but think about how fast these fish are moving.
Tell me.
When they're deep.
At least here we have birds and we can see them when they're on top of them.
I'm in them.
When they're moving that fast and they're real deep.
Just hard.
Oh I got him.
Find him?
Yep they're straight back.
This one will keep the school.
Okay I think they're going that way.
I'm going to get them upstream there.
This one we got lines crossed every which way.
I'm going to sneak back down between you man.
There they are straight out Bob.
It's getting so windy though now you can't even see them up in the hole.
You can't tell.
The birds can't either.
They don't have that slick surface either.
The birds can't see them underneath the water.
And the schools are fractured enough.
Would you guys.
Audience would you like to try this?
It's counting nuts.
Look at the hooks in this lure.
One hook.
No wonder the fish didn't get hooked.
He only got two hooks left.
The front hook has not got a barb on it.
And the back hook is straightened one hook out.
One barb gone.
There's one hook to this lure.
What else could happen to that lure?
The lure has been annihilated.
I got him up here finally.
Alright son I'll put him in.
Whoa.
Looks like a little yellow tail kind of fish.
Jack Crevelli huh?
See you later Jack.
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Most any fisherman who's ever caught one would have to agree with me when I say that a brook trout in full spawning colors is probably the most beautiful game fish to be found in fresh water.
It's also a symbol of her vanishing clean, unpolluted waters with only a few small scattered pockets of wild brookies being left in the United States.
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One pound of pan fish fillets, one can of cream and mushroom soup, one half can of milk, one half teaspoon of onion salt, one tablespoon of salt, one half tablespoon of lemon juice, and two tablespoons of diced celery.
First in a saucepan cover the fish with water, salt, lemon juice and celery.
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You know, in the last couple of years, fishermen all over the country have been discovering what I've known for over 20 years, that the walleye is one heck of a game fish.
You know, up until a few years ago, about the only places anyone fished for walleyes were in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the provinces of Canada.
But no more. Today walleyes exist in virtually all of the lower 48 states and have become our fastest growing species in terms of distribution and popularity.
Now, back in the 70s, we thought we knew everything there was to know about walleye behavior.
But as the species spread into different environments with exotic forage bases, many of the chiseled-and-stone rules, if you will, governing walleye fishing were reduced to a useless pile of myths.
For instance, we used to believe that walleyes were always on the bottom.
Tell that to Great Lakes anglers who dragged crankbaits under planer boards for fish suspended 60, 70 or more feet off the bottom.
We also used to think you couldn't fish too slowly for walleyes.
Now, tell that to reservoir fishermen who catch walleyes trolling spinners at two and three miles per hour.
The experts used to insist that nothing worked as well as live bait.
Well, we've caught enough walleyes and crankbaits to know that's not the case either.
And we used to believe that walleyes stayed in deep water most of the year.
But today, we take some of our best catches up shallow in just a few feet of water.
Oh, it's true that a walleye is a walleye, but if you take a walleye out of a small natural lake and stick him in a big body of water like Lake Erie, he's definitely going to behave a bit differently.
But the secret to finding and catching walleyes is no different than finding and catching fish of any species.
All you got to do is find the forage.
Active walleyes are never far from the dinner table, whether that forage is suspended or on the bottom, tucked in the weeds or hanging off a point,
laying on a rocky bottom or cruising a mudflat.
And if you can find the food, you'll find the walleye.
Walleyes feed much the same as bass and other freshwater species.
They swim up to their meal, open their mouth, flare their gills, and inhale the water around the bait.
The excess water then is expelled through their gills and the meal is trapped by their angled pointed teeth.
The whole thing happens in the blink of an eye, and they can spit it out just as fast too.
Perhaps the best all-around presentation, and certainly my personal favorite, is the leadhead jig.
Now, jigs can be fished wherever you find walleyes.
Jigs work in rivers, lakes, and reservoirs early and late in the season and under all sorts of weather conditions.
It's usually best to tip a jig with live bait.
So, use a jig that's heavy enough to reach the bottom and fish it on light line.
Now, another good presentation is the lindy rig.
A lindy rig is nothing more than a special sliding sinker and a monofilament snail that's tipped with live bait and fished off the bottom.
Now, I like to work a rig with a gentle pumping action of the rod that maintains a little slack line between the sinker and the hook.
You know, in many of the country's natural lakes, rigs are the number one presentation.
For that matter, there's been over 38 million of them sold for walleye fishing.
So, when dealing with tough-to-catch walleyes, a rig is an excellent choice.
The popularity enjoyed by crankbaits typifies some of the changes we've seen in walleye fishing.
Ten years ago, almost no one fished crankbaits for walleyes.
But on walleye hotspots like the eastern basin of Lake Erie, Saginaw Bay, and Little Bay Denock, crankbaits are the number one walleye catcher.
Various types of spinnerstips with live bait also work very well, especially in stained water.
On the reservoirs of the Missouri River system, a spinner and bottom cruiser is the best summertime presentation.
And in the western basin of Lake Erie, weight-forward spinners have caught literally millions of fish.
Now, for fishing hard-to-get-at areas, like shallow boulders, shoreline areas, or dense weed beds, a slip bobber is about the most effective presentation.
With slip bobbers, it's possible to make long casts and keep a lively bait just off the bottom in the fish zone without getting hung up on the rocks, spooking shallow fish, or constantly snagging in the weeds.
Now, no matter where you fish, if you can master boat control, you're well on your way to catching one big mess of walleyes.
And after that, it's only a matter of time before you, too, will be addicted to this wonderful game fish.
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Hey, if you're presently not a walleye angler, may I suggest you give them a try this year, because when you get to the point where you can pattern walleyes and their movements throughout the year, you'll find that you've become a much more successful fisherman for whatever you fish.
And if you live in the southeastern part of the United States, or if you're planning a trip or a vacation this year, may I suggest you get a hold of guide Greg Fields, but not only for those feisty jack-o'-files, but for bluefish, redfish, and lots of other saltwater critters.
You can contact Greg at 104 Laguna Villa Boulevard, number F2, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 32-250-4.
You can give him a call at 904-247-9783. That's 904-247-9783, and he'll make sure you get in the lots of fish.
Plus, I'd like to thank my old pal Bob McNally for sharing the boat with us today. We had a great time once again, and I hope you did as well.
So thanks for being with us today, and until next time, everybody, hey, good fishing.
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