Plenty of Firsts Today

Karen, Jarrett & Hayden were with me for the day and what a day it was! They started out drop shotting and had a bunch of bites, but missed most of their fish. They did rebound though and finally starting boating both walleye & bass. Karen had the biggest walleye as well as the largest smallie but her son Hayden, soon turned that around. He hooked into a musky and had big fish for the day. It really went insane for a while and even took to the air a couple of times. Not only was it his first musky but he had also landed his first bass as well as walleye. He was having the time of his life!

We made multiple drifts over the area and they landed a load of fish with the wind & waves, until it died out. We now had a much slower drift and the fish also slowed down too! Add to that the unreal amount of grass like weeds floating on the surface and it wasn’t long before I pulled the plug on this area and went somewhere else. I had to get away and try something new.

We had made a long run to another spot that I wanted to troll and apparently it was the right move. It didn’t take more than a minute before we had the first rip, but it was gone as fast as it had arrived. I was now trolling over an area looking for northerns as well as walleye and I was sure it would work. For the next couple of hours we made several passes and managed to get into all kinds of pike and a few really nice walleye too. Jarrett landed his personal best Walter along with some nice northerns and we ended on a high.

Around 2:00 they decided to call it a day, so we packed up and headed back. The entire trip was filled with good numbers of fish and the troll was the icing on the cake! Everyone had caught lots of fish and were more than satisfied! I even managed to take a couple of walleye home for dinner tonight as they were staying in a hotel and had no way of keeping their fish. Turned out to be a win, win for everyone today! Another great day of fishing!