Mixing It Up
July 24, 2019
John & Carlo were with me today, on the hunt for all kinds of fish. They were open for anything so I decided to get them into a bunch of different species!
We hit the first area drop shotting and perch, walleye and bass were landed. Although not overly large, they did manage to livewell a couple of eyes for their dinner tonight.
Our second spot was a little slow, but some nice fish were also landed here by drop shotting as well. Both bass & walleye came to net and were released. In fact, the best bass actually followed the bait back to the boat and was caught by dropping back down. It provided John with quite a battle!
With the lake getting calm, I decided to switch it up and we headed to another area to troll. This would also give them a break from casting for a while. I on the other hand would be clearing & setting lines frequently with all the weeds floating on the surface!
A good number of pike were taken on this method, along with a few walleye as well. They had plenty of action trolling as we stuck with it for several hours. Along the way there were even a couple of double headers which was nice to finally see! With the water remaining cold for so long this season, I hadn’t experienced it too many times!
With limited time remaining in the day, I decided to return to our starting area and see if the fish had become more active. We now had more wind and it would make for a better drift through the spot. I hadn’t realized however that it was on a change from SW to NW and ran there in washing machine like waves. We were receiving them from two different directions like heavy boat traffic would produce!
In the time they had left to fish, we were able to make many more drifts over the shoals and catch a pile more fish. Once again, they landed walleye, perch and some decent smallies, with many more fish being either missed or lost too.
Today was a good one for numbers, despite a rather slow start to the morning. It seemed like the bite got better as the water warmed and more fish were caught later in the day. In the end however, they both had a great time playing with all kinds of fish on a couple of techniques. They even managed to take 5 nice keeper walleye home with them for dinner tonight! Just another great day for fishing!
