Indian Summer’s Best

This morning I decided to try for the sturgeon with Vic & Al, to see if I could get them a big bite. Unfortunately after a few hours of just washing baits, we called it quits! We never even had a bite and with all the traffic in the area, I told them we would be better off doing something else.

I decided to head to a spot with smallmouth and Al hooked a nice one almost immediately. Several more were also landed but their size wasn’t great. I definitely wanted to have them battle both quality and numbers today. Time for another move!

I had idled around looking for one of my spots and with less wind and bright sunshine, found it quickly. It was about to get interesting as Vic hooked into a fish almost immediately. For the next couple of hours, or more, they both pounded on one bass after the other on a variety of baits. It was just insane how many fish were in this area and some really good ones too! At one point, Vic was just putting on a clinic! Eventually all good things must come to an end however and when the action slowed, we moved to one last spot for them to catch a bunch of walleye.

With the lack of wind and bright sun, I wasn’t sure how we were going to do. Al confirmed it quickly though as he hooked into another smallie on his very first cast. He followed it up with big perch, a pike and finally a walleye giving him a grand slam in less than 5 minutes. After this, they both started putting the beat down on a bunch more walleye. We could have taken a couple of limits back if we had of wanted but instead released every one to fight another day.

This last spot had produced plenty of action before we called it quits. Despite the lack of sturgeon cooperation, the rest of the fishing was fantastic. They had caught all kinds of bass & walleye as well as a few other incidentals. Overall it was a great day for fishing and the weather was absolutely perfect too!