Aikens Lake News Archive - August 2005
Date Aug. 31, 2005
A technique that has been under-utilized, but has started gaining steam with the guides here has been trolling for walleyes. These walleyes are not relating to the bottom structure in 30-35 feet as their friends do. These walleyes are in...
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Date Aug. 31, 2005
In the past week, we have seen many big pike landed as people have been trolling shallower shorelines. The hottest place has been the shoreline between Bay of Snakes and Moosehead. Trolling inside of these bays has also provided some...
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Date Aug. 22, 2005
As many of you know, Aikens Lake has the best log accommodations in the business - and this is due to the fact that we have a sawmill and a permit which gives us the ability to produce all of...
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Date Aug. 19, 2005
The last time Devon (Aikens Lake chef) reeled in a trophy walleye at Aikens was August of 2002... nearly three years to the day! Over those three years, Devon has been snake-bitten and unable to break the magical 28" barrier once again....
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Date Aug. 19, 2005
For many of our staff members who will be returning to school in September, the season is drawing to a close. Therefore, we needed to squeeze in another Aikens Lake tradition before anybody left... the Clubroom Olympics. While the dress...
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Date Aug. 17, 2005
Orazio Nastase of PA wasted no time in catching is 5th trophy walleye. On the first day of his third visit to Aikens, Razz landed a 28" beauty, giving him the title of Aikens Lake Walleye Specialist! He loves coming to...
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Date Aug. 15, 2005
Yesterday, a wonderful group of people arrived at the Great Gray Owl. The group consisted of four couples (Clark, Jeskey, Scherer, Pinder). For all, it was their first trip to Aikens. For many in the group, it was their first...
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Date Aug. 13, 2005
This past winter, Aikens Lake lost one of its favorite (and funniest) clients, Mr. Dan Welty. Known to all his friends as "World Famous Walleye Welty", Dan fell in love with Aikens and organized and led a group from his...
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Date Aug. 10, 2005
Chris Jensen was hooked on Aikens when he caught a 32" walleye on his first trip over a decade ago. His father had bought him the trip as a graduation present. He has been here nearly every year since, and he...
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Date Aug. 04, 2005
Jeff "Ace" Vollmer brought some of his experience on the PWT to the reefs of Aikens Lake as he won the Milwaukee Stove and Furnace company's annual tournament with a 30.25" beauty. The fish was caught on the 2nd day at...
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Date Aug. 01, 2005
At the beginning of the year, we had hired two loggers (Kik and Dan) and a dockhand (Andre). We are now on the verge of having three new Pro-Staff guides! All three have excelled in their work here, and now...
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Date Aug. 01, 2005
Dylan Lefevre came to Aikens to fish with his grandparents, Phil and Sue Pelanek. They fished with Turbo in the big 4-seater for the trip. Dylan kept landing slot walleye after slot walleye but could never reach the magical 28" barrier....
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