Lite Biting Eyes
November 13, 2020
Val was back today for the afternoon but on a different puddle. We were hoping to repeat what had happened last Friday and decided to get an earlier start. We would be fishing from 10:00 till almost 4:00, looking for those golden fish. The question was, would they cooperate again?
Right out of the gate on probably the first or second cast, we had a bite. Unfortunately it didn’t get hooked up and it took several casts again before the next bite. This fish also got off on a jump and I realized that it wasn’t really what we were after. It’s always nice to get the bonus bass bite, but we were after walleye!
In the first hour or so we didn’t have much action, but we were still able to put a couple of keeper eyes in the livewell for Val tonight. The opposing winds to the current flow had fish positioned differently and I needed to make some adjustments in order to get bit. Once I realized what they were doing, some larger fish started to bite. We both landed bigger eyes but it was the keepers we were after!
I moved around plenty, covering water in search of more fish and we had just that. Too bad most of them were either missed strikes or just fish coming off. We even did a little trolling and Val managed to land one of the biggest walleye of the day. This was to be the only bite using this technique and we opted to return to casting once again. There was definitely more action this way!
For the remainder of the day, we stuck with casting and several more big walleye were caught. Along with them, there were a couple of other high end keepers, but the missed fish were just insane. I don’t remember ever losing so many fish with this technique! Most of them were just coming off after 5 to 10 seconds, on the way to the boat. Right up until the last cast, they kept falling off! I was actually glad when the day ended as I don’t know how much more of this torture I could have taken!
Although the fishing wasn’t what we had expected, it was still pretty good. Plenty of action, just not as many fish landed as we had hoped! All I know is the next time I get back out I will want a little redemption! Look out fish, I’ll be back soon!
