Heat Wave Continues

July 5th 2018 (morning)

 

I had two trips scheduled for today and met up with Sophia’s family this morning. They were looking forward to getting out on the lake and catching fish as we left the dock. It was already a roaster and I knew it would only get worse! Air temps had remained in the mid 80’s overnight and would likely be in the 90’s by the end of the day. When will this heat wave break?

I decided to troll an area that I hadn’t fished for a while and managed to get her son Christian into many small fish. A mix of bass & walleye were landed but very few of them made the reel fire. We just noticed the rods bent or something trailing behind the boat most times! We did land a couple of keeper eyes that went into the livewell for someone to take home, but most of them were unders.

After hitting all kinds of good looking areas with not much to show for our efforts, I decided to make a long run to see if I could troll up some bigger fish. With lines in, I covered water and eventually found an area holding some pike. Christiane now had 3 different species that he had never caught before as he brought the first northern into the boat. Several minutes later, he landed another much larger and things were starting to look up! I had slid a little shallower and apparently the fish were here. Multiple reels fired as the size and numbers started to climb! Christian was in his glory reeling everything in and eventually he hooked into a big walleye. He had only boated smaller ones so far and I was happy to get him into a quality eye. While we were taking pics, I noticed another rod loaded and informed his dad, Ivor. As soon as I did, another reel howled and we had an official triple! Sophia had to take the third rod as Christian had his hands full with a fish already! I was able to net the two pike at the same time and now everyone had landed fish. Great photos were taken before releasing them and going back to the troll.

In the last hour we had many more fish, both lost and landed including two other doubles. I would have loved to stay here and pound on the fish, but I had another group to pick up and needed to go. One more fish and we were done!

What had started as a slow day turned full circle when the fish began biting. They all landed some really nice pike and Christiane caught three firsts, including a big walleye. This half day had been a great one and everyone had an0 excellent time, despite the intense heat!!