A Sigh of Relief
August 9, 2019
Don had to fill in for me this morning as I spent a few hours at the Raisin River Marine, having my main engine looked at. Loss of power yesterday had me idling back on the kicker and fearing the worst! Fortunately Rod found the problem quickly and fixed it, allowing me to pick up my clients by 10:30. Now that’s service!
Lance and his son Chandler made their way back to the dock where they transferred boats for the balance of their outing. Don had helped me out again and decided to head back out himself as he was already on the water anyway!
I ran to the first area, loving the power of the motor once again! Lance was first to hook up and it was a beauty. His son had caught all the fish earlier with Don and it was time for a little payback! He not only landed the first but the second one as well. Eventually Chandler got into a few of his own and now they were both catching smallies.
I had Chandler throwing a top water bait and although he only managed to hook one of the bass, he did have several other blow ups. Soft plastics were soon exchanged for the surface lure and results were much better!
With the wind picking up considerably we headed to another place and a little drop shotting. They would be casting the rigs and although only a few fish were landed, there were a couple of walleye in the mix. Neither of them had ever caught a walleye and a few pics were taken to preserve the memory.
The winds were now blowing even harder, so I decided to head to open water and drift a few other areas. I was hoping for some better bass & walleye and wasn’t disappointed! I was however surprised to see that the floating angel hair like weeds had returned and frustrated fishing in them again. It was tough keeping the baits clean, but we still managed to get into several more fish in the process. Probably the best one was the walleye that Chandler boated as it was way over the slot! It was definitely a nice fish and worthy of several pics!
Plenty more drifts were made in big waves, but the lines were getting weeded up so much that I kept moving, searching for pockets of clean water. After a few more bites were missed, they decided to call it a little early and we surfed back to the dock to take out. They had more plans for this evening and hoped to return in time to get everything done.
What a roller coaster ride back! I was happy to have the power to be able to speed up again in the waves, when needed. We took our time and arrived dry in the Ranger! I was sure glad to have been able to transfer them into my boat as I’m sure it wouldn’t have been as dry if they were still out with Don. He wouldn’t have been too happy either!
Today was a great day all around with the best being the motor! I’ll be back out tomorrow with these guys again and hope to get them into plenty more quality fish. Who knows, maybe they’ll even get a few more firsts too! One can only hope!
