Filtering Through The Eyes

Scott was with me once again and this time he brought Chris along, hoping for a big bite. The weather was definitely in our favour for holding, but would the fish cooperate!

I arrived in the area and began marking some fish almost immediately. A couple of them looked like the ones I was looking for and I decided to start right there. As always the pesky gobies decided to bite first and I was back at checking and re baiting the hooks often. To make matters worse, we were only able to land a few sturgeon in the several hours fishing and they were all small. After one last red horse sucker and multiple moves, we decided that we weren’t going to stay any longer. Time to switch to another species!

I knew Scott & Chris wanted to bring some walleye back with them, so we targeted the eyes. With a couple of drop shot rods in hand, I was forced to use the electric motor to move the boat along, with the lack of wind. Scott hooked up pretty quickly and brought a nice big fish to the boat that was unfortunately way over the slot. Great pic but he wouldn’t be eating this one tonight!

After several passes, we finally had a light wind starting and I was able to drift the area more effectively. I made several passes and was marking plenty of fish but the bite was slow. Scott managed to land a couple more walleye around the same size, but Chris was still not on the board yet. He missed several bites while we were here but just couldn’t seem to hook up! I decided to try for a while and unfortunately was in the same boat as Scott when I brought a big over to the net as well. Both of us had keepers on a bit later and Scott was the only one to actually make it to the livewell before we ended it for this area.

I had one final place that I wanted to fish and it was here that the guys got into them pretty good! They had to filter through many smaller ones to get keepers, but the numbers were great. In the end, they managed to take 5 nice fish back with them before we were done.

Although the sturgeon fishing was tough, they did manage a few small ones this morning. The afternoon backup plan came through as well as the walleye definitely bit better. The day may not have gone as I had hoped but there were still plenty of fish caught. They were even going home with a few of them to eat tonight! Plan B comes through once again!