Beating On The Fish

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July 14th 2018

 

I had a full boat today with Laurence and his friends. Chuck, Doug & Kevin were all about to have the best day of their lives and didn’t even know it. I would be trolling up pike and walleye and they were gonna be big!

We hooked up around 8:30 as they wanted a slightly later start and motored across a light chop on the water. It was once again out of the SW and I was glad. Too bad it wasn’t going to stay!

I wasted no time setting the lines and informing them on how to remove the rods from the holders. It didn’t take 3 minutes when the reel went off and they had their first walleye of the day. This may have been the first but it definitely wasn’t the last! With all lines back in, we continued and soon after had another good eye locked up again. Doug & Kevin managed to bring in a couple of nice ones that were both overs. Great for pics though!

This morning started out with a bang in the overcast skies and very light drizzle. The rain had let up immediately after we began fishing and the cloud cover felt great. Sunshine was eventually coming but in the mean time we were quite comfortable. The fishing also helped, as we went through two full rotations in no time. Everyone had caught either pike and or walleye and they were loving it! Plenty more fish to come!

As I covered water, reels fired off continuously and fish after fish came in the boat. Big pike and big walleye were being landed making the fishing seem effortless. The only problem was the rod removal from the holders. For some reason, even with all the practice, two of them were still having trouble. We were also losing a few fish because of this, but it didn’t seem to matter. There were plenty of fish still being caught.

As the morning passed the clouds started to give way to the sun and other boats also arrived. It even got to a point where I had to put the top up due to the high heat & humidity. We had lost any wind we had earlier and needed to be in the shade! I’m not quite sure what the other boats were doing but it definitely wasn’t catching. I think in the total time I only saw 2 or 3 fish boated. We on the other hand put a beating on the fish right through the day. Laurence even managed to fight a couple of nice smallmouth bass that made his day too! Pike after pike and walleye after walleye were being caught and there wasn’t very much down time in between fish. They had several doubles and one almost triple during the day as well. In fact one of the doubles in the afternoon turned out to be a pair of big eyes that made for a great pic before the release. This day was just about perfect!

I don’t know how many fish were landed today, but it was pretty high. Along with the numbers, they also had great size for both walleye & pike too. We had decided on a 4:00 return time and as it neared, I began prepping the boat for the return. While I was storing the bimini top they landed even more! We were going to leave the fish biting today and that’s always a good thing. Especially when you’ve been catching them all day long!

I don’t think any of the guys had ever expected such a fantastic day of fishing. Right from the beginning, the rain stopped and the fish started biting and they never stopped. It was one of those days where all the stars are aligned and you could do no wrong. Even with the minor difficulties and losing several fish, the numbers of fish landed was just insane. I don’t think I could have asked for anything more. I know the four of them will be talking about this day for quite some time. For a change, the story won’t be about the one that got away!!