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About:: Enduro Guide Service
Lake Mille Lacs, MN
763-244-7534
paulschlagel@yahoo.com

Favorite Fishing Memory:: I love when someone boats their first, their most, or their first 50"er with me. Putting someone on one of their milestones is always a highlight. All the super-whoppers are memorable too, of course.

Favorite Style of Fishing:: Probably plastics, but most of all: Catching - whatever it takes

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At 7:27am on October 2, 2009, Chad Larson said…: Hey my friend. I am looking forward to getting over to your area in a few weeks. I hope all is well and well see you soon. Good fishing!

At 6:44pm on August 18, 2009, Thomas Allen said…: Paul was my special guest on this past week's Outdoor Pursuits Radio. You can listen to the archived show anytime, anywhere! Please check it out, we had a great time!!!!
http://outsideiowaradio.typepad.com/outdoorpursuitsradio/

At 4:44am on August 4, 2009, esox50 said…: It's been interesting, but perhaps the one thing that has surprised me most is how lucky we are to catch these fish. There seems to be no pattern to their movements under different conditions. Cloudy day? One fish will be in the middle of the channel and another buried in the slop. Sunny days are the same. Windy days too. The fish also seem to hold near the main structure, but not necessarily on it. Usually in areas that casters wouldn't target, even though the areas are still shallow and could be easily castable if one ventured off the main structure a bit.

Strange fish, that's for sure! Gotta love 'em though!

At 10:46pm on July 31, 2009, esox50 said…: Hey Paul! We finally cracked the 50" mark (50.25) for the project, with a bruiser of a fish! Didn't girth it, but she was HEAVY (pushing 40 lbs). Smoked a double 10 over milfoil. Caught it in between tracking a smaller fish we just caught 20 mins prior. That was July 17 and since then fishing has gone downhill with major fronts moving through dumping massive amounts of rain.

We MAY even start using surgically implanted acoustic tags to get more, fine-detail data. Looking at depths of movements, acceleration to determine feeding, etc. I'm hoping we can swing it as it would definitely be VERY interesting from both a scientist's and fisherman's perspective.

At 9:37pm on July 21, 2009, MuskyLINK said…: Thats good to know! Got any pictures with fish on it or with it in the background?

I need to get up there and fish with you next year!

At 8:13am on July 13, 2009, esox50 said…: Hey, Paul! Hope your season is going well. Sounds like the bite on ML is good. The custom Fireball I had tied up at the Chicago Show produced two nice Ottawa River fish for us last week that we are using in our study. 48" and 44.5"... The 48" is sticking around the structure she was caught from, but the 44.5" is no where to be found!!! (We're radio tracking them)

At 11:22pm on May 18, 2009, Marc said…: Had my hands on a 53# fish on Saturday morning!

At 2:07pm on May 12, 2009, Paul Schlagel said…: Cool. I'm jealous. I'll be looking forward to an update and some pics.

At 4:39pm on May 6, 2009, Marc said…: Paul, I'm helping with the Mille Lacs spring netting on the 16th, should be an awesome time - I'll post some pics when I get back.