Another Busy Day

Another day with a double booking saw me taking Matt and his wife Jane out in the morning and Mark Iin the afternoon. The first group started on bass & walleye and managed to boat several good fish right away. After about 90 minutes of dropshotting an area, with plenty of fish, they requested to try trolling for pike. Who was I to say different! We packed up and made the run!

After setting everything up and changing rods, we began the troll and it didn’t take long to fire the first reel. Jane brought a good northern to the net and it wasn’t the last. For the next couple of hours, they both reeled in several more pike and Jane even managed to get her first walleye as well. I guess the move was the right decision!

They had landed plenty of fish in a short period of time and decided to call it a bit early. We packed up and headed back to the dock, ending their morning trip. It was chock full of quality fish including bass, pike and walleye and they were happy. Who could ask for anything more!

Mark arrived right on time for the second half of the day and I ran out close to where I had fished this morning. I needed to teach him how to drift a dropshot and began on a rocky flat. It took a little fine tuning but he eventually got the hang of it and I moved him to where the fish were. We made drifts over several good marks on the sonar. He finally got a bite and landed a nice smallie. He had officially graduated!

We spent most of the time making different drifts over this flat and he continued to hook up multiple times. I too fished a bit and added to our catch, showing him a few more tricks to finesse the fish into taking. Although there weren’t many pics taken, it didn’t matter. He had finally caught fish today after several unsuccessful attempts on his own this season. I only hope that this is the end to his fishless days alone!

Today was another great day of fishing with both outings leaving fulfilled. They had landed plenty of fish and learnt a few new tricks along the way. Mother nature could have been a little more cooperative, but I’m used to her now and adjust accordingly! Hopefully soon, she will calm down, after the big blow that has been upon us since last Friday’s monsoon. Great times were had by all!!