Sketchy Biters
juin 18, 2018
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June 17th 2018 (morning)
What a crazy day I had today! At the launch shortly after 5:00 due to a running race threatening closure to the boat ramp access. On the water before 6:00 with the first set of clients and back at the ramp to drop them off & pick up the second set by 11:30. Lots of running today!
The morning started out a little slow with Dave and his son Matt along with his brother in law Paolo. We trolled an area that had been on fire for just about everything, only to struggle for our bites. A few small pike were landed and then Paolo managed to get a decent sized smallie. Good fight but not what we were after! I covered plenty of water looking for the walleye but never really found them until moving further offshore and into deeper water. Along the way, there were many more northerns landed and lost! They were really hitting light and most were even coming off in the net when landed. They just didn’t seem to want to eat! Time to relocate!
I had decided to go a little deeper and switched up baits, hoping to find some gold. First reel to go off went hard and it was the right species! Paolo brought in a good walleye but unfortunately it was 24 inches and had to be released after a few pics. I reset the lines, staying over deeper water and almost immediately got bit again. This time however, it was a northern, but larger than anything we had caught so far. I now had a pattern going and continued trolling the area picking up several other fish. A couple more walleye were landed with one of the two making it into the livewell. The other one was an over and returned again!
I guess we remained deep for over an hour before heading back shallow to try our luck for a second time. It hadn’t changed much and the hits were still garbage with a lot of them drive byes or falling off in the net. They really weren’t interested and quite inactive!
I moved back to the deep after and managed to get bigger fish again. Another over and one high end keeper walleye came aboard along with a number of other northerns before we ran out of time. I had received a text that the second group would be a little late and stayed on the water longer with the first. We finally pulled the lines and headed back to meet by 11:30.
Despite the difficult fishing this morning, there were still plenty of fish landed with some really nice ones in the mix. Unfortunately I think that there were an equal amount of other strikes and lost fish as well. Given the amount of chances, they could have had another unbelievable outing if they were all landed. Instead they only had a great day! Tough fishing but lots of fish action!!
