A Competitive Day

Nick was back again today and this time he brought his son Quinton. Along with them there was Eric and Max, making this a full boat! The fish wouldn’t have a chance with 4 lines in the water, as I would be dropshotting all day!

Despite the original forecast of stormy weather, we began with overcast skies instead. This was feeling pretty good and a change from all the heat & sunshine I had seen lately.

We began on open water rock piles and it wasn’t long before Nick brought the first keeper walleye in the boat. From that point on, fish were coming to net regularly and everyone got on the board quickly. With each pass, more & more fish were being caught. This was to continue through the morning on every place we fished. Although mostly bass, there were several walleye and some pretty big pike also landed.

Sometime around mid-day, the weather took a turn for the worse when dark clouds rolled in. The skies opened up and it just poured! I was also the only one with rain gear and the rest of the gang got soaked. It didn’t seem to matter though as they were pounding fish through the down-pour! Max & Quinton were just on fire and schooling the adults! They could do no wrong with one fish right after the other!

I knew this was going to be a shorter day than usual and once the rain let up some, I switched back to one more spot before we were done. It yielded several more fish from the boys while the others struggled just to get bit. In the end, the kids had put way more fish in the boat than Nick and Eric and they let them know too!

This was an interesting one to say the least, with multiple weather changes, but plenty of fish. The kids put a beating on the adults with the high numbers of fish they caught. Everyone landed good fish though and that’s all that counts! We may have quit a little earlier today, but in the end, everyone had a great time on this very competitive fishing day!!