Birthday Bites

Day 2 with Herm and it was a beauty! A very light NE in the morning and flat calm in the afternoon. The fishing wasn’t too bad either as plenty of bass and walleye were landed!

We started out dropshotting and jigging, deep open water flats and it didn’t take long to hook up. I think Herm barely made it to the bottom when he was locked up on a good smallie. Walley and perch followed and there were many! We covered water and anchored where the volume was and got into them big time. We had a good luck charm helping us when a pigeon decided to land in the boat to rest. We could tell that it was exhausted by the way it was breathing. That and the fact that we were so far from shore! It actually stayed with us for a couple of hours, until I ran it back to shore. Once back at the dock, it flew a short distance and landed on the ground, no worse for wear! This was definitely a first for me!

Herm & I headed back out, but this time I decided to try for smallies, due to the flat calm conditions. Apparently, it was the right choice as he just hammered them for the remainder of this trip. High numbers of quality bass were fought and landed, by dropshotting. We decided to call it a bit earlier as we were going out for his birthday dinner. By 3:00 we were done and ready to roll.

These last two days on the water were amazing despite changing conditions, with plenty of fish. I split the days up between walleye and bass and Herm caught them both! Today however was picture perfect for the end of September. The weather was cold in the morning but warmed up to a beautiful day in the end. Loads of fish also cooperated, making the entire trip end with a bang. Oh yeah, dinner was great too, as we sampled some of the fresh fish from the day before! Great way to end, on a high!!