An Unbelievable Experience
June 18, 2020
Today was another absolute scorcher of a day, once again! Adam, John, Steve & John joined me in hopes of catching a few fish and oh boy, did they get them!
Water temps were still a little low where I started so I decided to fish the deeper areas first. For some reason it only produced a handful of fish for the guys. Once I moved shallower, the bite began to pick up and we finally saw our first good walleye. Too bad mostly pike were what they landed after, but they were quite satisfied anyway.
After another location shift, I finally got into the action I wanted for guys. We had several double headers and one potential triple with plenty of reels firing. They were definitely getting use to reeling in fish now and couldn’t believe how good the action was. Fish after fish came aboard for a few hours and then it just stopped. I’m not sure if we caught them all or just educated them enough to not hit the baits, but it was over for this spot!
Temps had risen and the light winds had all but disappeared, so it was definitely time to raise the roof. What a difference it made for the remainder of the time we trolled! I also slid over to another area and began hooking up once again. The action picked up even more when I went deeper and changed up some of the baits. We were now getting into both pike & walleye and it seemed like they were even bigger.
Trolling was absolutely the most productive method for fishing where we were but the guys wanted to try casting for a while. Too bad they didn’t catch anything with this method.
One of the guys had to be dropped off at the dock early so I decided to continue fishing closer to where he needed to be. They drop shotted the open water shoals, but once again with no success. After we took John to the shore, the other three continued to cast & drop shot different areas, but with limited success. I think there were a couple of small bass landed in the last 90 minutes of the day, but nothing of any size. They now realized the power of trolling when fish are scattered over vast flats after the spawn!
Today could have seen even more fish if we had of trolled the entire time but, it was still a great success! This group had seen more action than they had ever experienced in their entire lives. Everyone had landed fish and they were even able to bring some of their catch home for a great meal. I know they will be back for more, several times this season!
