Productive Double Day
June 28, 2018
June 27th 2018
I had a double today with the morning trip being a group from Toronto. Whinny’s gang hooked up with me shortly after 7:00 and we headed out on the water minutes later. With 4 people, I would only be trolling again!
I set the lines and it didn’t take long before we were into fish. The first one to come board was a nice walleye, but it was too big and had to be released. Pike and walleye were consistent for a while until things just slowed. Time to make a move!
Although I didn’t travel far, I did switch depths and was now looking for fish in slightly shallower water. With lures changed I began the search! Once again it didn’t take long before they were back into fish and everyone was reeling in their share of quality pike & walleye. Fortunately there were only a couple of overs and they did manage to get one keeper. For a change, they were happy with just the pike!
With the exception of a couple of short dead periods, the fishing was pretty good this morning. They all landed plenty of pike and lost a number of other fish as well. Unfortunately they only managed to take one keeper walleye back with them as most were too big and released. They did however bring a few of the better pike home and thankfully they knew how to filet out the Y bone. You might say they left quite satisfied!!
Ahmed’s group this afternoon consisted of his wife and 4 sons. I needed the help of Don to take a couple of the guys and I took the rest. Although a little late in arriving, we were still able to get going by 1:30.
I decided to try an area that I hadn’t fished in several days, hoping for good fishing. It all looked good on the sonar but the water temps were crap! It seems like 67 is the number almost all over the lake lately and It really needs to heat up! Regardless, I dropped the lines in and began the troll.
After almost an hour without even a sniff, I decided to move out further and changed up to deeper diving baits. This too was a bust and I had one last small area to check before making a big move. I trolled over this place and never had a reel fire. We did however manage to bring a large perch and a keeper walleye aboard though. Time to go!
I had been hoping not to have to run to this spot, but desperate times deserve desperate measures! I was back in the area from this morning and began trolling over some of the same water. Well I guess it was the right move because in the last 90 minutes, they managed to land a good number of pike and a nice keeper walleye. This made the run all worthwhile!
We had all decided to meet back at the dock by 5:00 and I started to slowly pack up, 15 minutes before. Just as expected, one of the reels went off and a heavy fish was attached. Too bad it was short lived! As I passed off the rod, it came unpinned and was gone as fast as it hit. We almost ended the day with a bang!
Today was definitely a long one with the two groups but well worth it. A good number of fish were landed and plenty lost by both gangs. In the end though, everyone had a good time and that’s all that counts. Both groups even managed to take a few fish back for their dinner tonight!!
