Picture Perfect Day
June 7, 2020
James & Mike joined me this morning for another successful day of fishing. We started off in slightly deeper water, due to the 57 degree surface temps and got into a bunch of fish. Although mostly pike, there were a couple of quality walleye landed too. Flat calm conditions gave the dog pecker knats free reign over the boat and they were a real treat! Fortunately the winds picked up later in the morning and the bugs b gone!
I decided to try slightly shallower water hoping for active fish but soon found out that this wasn’t the case. They did manage to land several more northerns but we had to cover plenty of water to get it done.
Sometime early afternoon, I switched locations completely and made a long run. We would be spending the remainder of the day covering it thoroughly in hopes of more bites.
For a couple of hours, all they could get into were pike but James did see a smallie go airborne on one of the rods and gladly welcomed the change. Although still out of season, you never know what you’re going to catch trolling these places! We were even fortunate enough to have the first double header of the season, three times in the course of the day!
After several more pike James finally hooked into another nice walleye. It soon joined the other one in the livewell for someone to bring home tonight. They were very few and far between today and we were happy to see it go into the tank!
With time running out, I continued trolling out to deeper water when one of the lines fired again. This time it didn’t sound like all of the others and I was sure I knew what we were into. After a lengthy battle, James finally brought his very first musky to the boat for me to boga. I quickly removed the hooks and it swam off no worse for wear!
Although we worked hard for each bite we received today, it was a very successful one. The numbers of pike were high and the other bonus fish were also a plus. I hope that in the coming days we see warmer water temps that have the post spawn fish eating more. The 57 to 59 degree water is still a little cool for them to be chasing moving baits as much as I would like. Better days ahead!
