A Five Species Day

Rick was back again today, looking for more action. What started out as cool air temps and a nice chop, soon turned around and became brutal. We trolled for most of the morning and monopolized on the bites with plenty of good fish. Pike, walleye and even a big channel catfish ate the trolled minnow baits! We were both surprised to see the channel and added it to the list of exotic species for this time of the year. In fact, it was Rick’s first cat to date!

Once the winds decided to lay down, the heat got turned up! This is when we pulled the plug on trolling and tried casting for bass in the shallows. A few were caught by covering water and even a couple of sturgeon on tubes. I had been wanting to try another spot that I hadn’t looked at this season and was glad I did. We managed to put a couple more walleye in the boat that were good keepers and several more smallies too!

The rest of the afternoon was spent spot jumping and just trying to stay as cool as we could. It wasn’t easy as the lack of wind and high heat & humidity was tough. In the end, we called it quits around 3:00 and headed in! He still has tomorrow morning to fish before he heads back home and we just wanted to get of the water today. Although it is supposed to be even hotter in the coming days, I’ll still be out there, grinding it out. I’m sure the roof will be raised just to stay sane as it’s going to be insane on the water!!