I had a client, all the way from Japan today! Koji was here and looking for a few new species to catch. We began with trolling and managed to get into 3 different types of fish while doing so. Walleye was the first, followed by a muskie and then pike. It wasn’t easy in the flat calm conditions as there were floating weeds all over the waters we fished.

A little later in the day, I switched over to sturgeon and he managed to land one small one before jumping over to bass. Unfortunately, these fish eluded him by coming off. He casted for pike for a while without any luck and we decided to return to the troll. The flat calm and scorching sun, was not making it easy. I needed to go deeper.

In the last hour of trolling, he managed to land one over walleye and another fish came off after taking a lot of line. Who knows, possibly another muskie!

Koji ended his trip with 4 new species of fish that should have ben 5. I still can’t believe that bass was his nemesis! In the end, he had a great time trying new techniques for several fish he doesn’t have back home. I would call this a success!!

Nick and his son Quinton fished with me this morning for a half day trip. Although it was a little cooler when we got started, it was going to warm up to the usual heat later in the day. We began with smallies and had a difficult time on the first two spots, but made up for it on the third. Quinton even managed a good walleye in between the bass. We switched it up for about an hour or so afterwards and targeted some sturgeon. Quinton was able to bring a couple of them to the boat before switching back over to bass again. We finished up the morning with a few more smallies before calling it a day.

Half day trips are always tougher with limited time to get it done. Fortunately, we were able to hook into a good number of fish this morning making it a great outing. Fun times were had by everyone, on this cool morning trip!

John, Isac & Gerry hit the water with me today on a great overcast day. For a change I wasn’t going to get fried! Winds were almost nonexistent so we started by dropshotting a big flat nearby. After only a couple of bass, and dealing with all the floaters, I decided to relocate to another spot further away. I was going to remain deep in hopes of better, quality fish!

Various depths were tried with almost no success and another move was necessary to get them into fish. I switched up to soft plastic baits and hit the shallows. It didn’t take long before everyone was into fish and it never ended. Plenty of smallies were caught, along with a few good walleye in the remaining time out. Too bad the weather had to change in the last hour and rain, otherwise it would have been a perfect day!

Today had a mix of emotions and fortunately I was able to piece it together and salvage the day. The deep-water bite had been exceptional lately, but not today. I made a decision early to switch to a shallow, casting technique and it worked out great. In the end, they all landed and lost plenty of quality fish. Overall, a winner of a day!!

I had booked today off so that I could take my brother and his grandson fishing. The weather was great but the winds were blowing big from the SE. Looks like we’re fishing on the south side of the lake today!

We started out casting for bass with soft plastics and Mike managed to get a few decent fish. My great nephew Mason managed a good one as well and both were on the board. Although the fish were there, most of them were just cruising around without any intentions of eating! This became frustrating and I decided to give sturgeon a shot instead. Mason was able to land a couple of good ones before we went back to bass again, somewhere else.

With fish still cruising, we remained back and made longer casts, hoping they would eat. This turned out to be the ticket and Mike managed a couple of big ones that unfortunately ate the soft plastisc deep. To save the fish, I carefully removed the baits and released them quickly, without pics. Mason had a really big one on too that he saw cruising, but unfortunately it came off on the first jump. It was definitely big!

Being as hot as it was out, we decided to call it a bit early this afternoon and made the long run back. Both my bro and Mason had a great time out and got to see and play with plenty of fish. The highlights of today would have had to be Mason’s PB bass and the huge sturgeon he landed. I’m sure that he’ll be talking about this day for a long time and remembering the time spent with his grampa on the water. Great times were had by everyone today!

Scott & Chris were back again this year and looking for some smallie action. As luck would have it, we were in yet another NE wind and it was big. It wouldn’t work out well for drifting and dropshotting but we’d make it work, somehow!

I tried the area that had produced well yesterday afternoon but with the wind against current, we were going backwards. Even with the electric motor pulling us with the current, it wasn’t working out and I pulled the plug quickly. I was going to have to go shallow and try casting!

After a long run in the waves, we stopped in an area that was somewhat sheltered and Scott landed a good bass. Too bad it was the only one from here! I moved again and hit another flat that should have been loaded with smallmouth. All we could get bit from was a big northern pike that Chris managed to land.

We jumped around for the rest of the day and picked a bass here and there until one area had numbers. The winds had diminished significantly and we were actually seeing plenty of them swimming around. Some of them bit but most of them didn’t want to know anything about us. Time for another change!

I switched it up and managed to get into a few sturgeon for the boys. In about an hour, they landed three and lost one other before we moved to our last area for bass again. It wasn’t long before Scott was tight to another good one and Chris soon followed with one of his own. Unfortunately, this was all she wrote! They were unable to get any others despite marking plenty of fish in the area. We eventually called it a day and packed it in. Scott and Chris managed to make it work on another difficult fishing day. Mother nature didn’t help much as she blew out of the NE for a good part of the day, before laying down. These fish haven’t quite moved into their summer spots yet and are still scattered. I’m sure it won’t be long before they settle into the areas in numbers, making them easier to catch. I can’t wait!!