Massive Fog Bank

Christine, Marco, Alexis & Chris were my guests this morning, just looking to catch fish. We would begin by trolling and switch over to a slower presentation afterwards and hopefully it would all work out!

A slight delay at the start had us heading out in a massive fog. Thankfully my GPS was able to direct me to where I was going and eventually we drove right through the wall. As soon as I arrived at the spot, I set the lines and we didn’t wait long. The first reel fired within a couple of minutes and we were officially on the board. A second rod also went off while we were taking pics and we had our first double of the day!

By trolling around early, we were able to monopolize on the low light conditions and picked at quite a few fish in the first couple of hours. They may have been all pike, but several of them were a good size!

With the skies finally beginning to brighten from the earlier fog, I decided to change the troll for a slower finesse presentation. We were going drop shotting in another area nearby!

After arriving, I explained what had to be done and on the first demonstration drop, was bit. I passed the rod off to Chris and he brought to net the first walleye of the day. It was just that simple!

We made multiple passes over the area and picked at several more eyes, but they were all too small to keep. A few other bigger bites were had but also missed on the hook sets. Eventually we just ended it for this area and ran to another location to give it atry.

The lack of wind wasn’t making it easy to drift and I had to increase the boat speed with the aid of the electric motor. Not an easy task when you’re trying to have everyone fish from the same side! Somehow I made it work but the fish didn’t want to bite. Although I was marking plenty in this area, they only had a couple of fish hooked that came off immediately. Time to relocate again!

With the morning passing fast, I knew I had limited time to get them into a few more fish. Our next stop almost had Christine battling something big, but after screaming out a bunch of line, the rod just went slack. As fast as she was hooked up, it was gone! We’ll never know what it might have been except that it was large!

I decided to hit one final spot before we had to leave and Marco wasted no time hooking into a nice fish. As fast as he got to the bottom, he was locked up! He ended by battling a beautiful smallie that eventually made it into the net for a few pics.

Several passes over the same area were made with a couple of missed opportunities until Chris was finally tight to one of his own. It took the last drift for him to finally set into something and it was a good bass. This was to be the last fish they would have but at least we ended with a bang!

Although the day was short, we still managed to play with enough fish to keep them happy. Between the trolling and drop shotting, they all had many chances at catching several different species. In the end, I think they fended quite well as they were mostly all new to this. Especially the drop shotting technique! We ended it on a high and I couldn’t have asked for anything more!