A Fun Packed Day
juin 16, 2018
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June 16th 2018
A late afternoon booking had me on the water long before to ensure that I had a parking spot. I spent several hours before, scouting new water and came up with a couple of good areas for the future.
I hooked up with the gang of four just after 2:00 and headed to an area that had produced great yesterday. We would be trolling again and I knew they would be catching numbers. Would they be as lucky as the group yesterday and land another giant? Only time would tell!
I set the lines and instructed them on how to get the rods from the holders and we started trolling. As usual it didn’t take long for the first reel to fire and soon after, a second one went off as well. One was a walleye and the other, that I had thought was a pike, turned out to be a small musky. Both were released unharmed after a few pics. Sang, Corey, Damien and Jason were seeing quick action and I hoped it would last. We continued trolling the area and many more reels fired with a combination of both pike & walleye. These guys were taking turns and the rotation was going pretty good. Everyone was catching fish!
I don’t think that all of these fish were active as many of them barely made a noise. I had to throttle down often in order to lock them up and even at that, plenty of them fell off in the net. Water temps were just around 65 degrees and they should have been more aggressive. Unfortunately they weren’t and I really had to keep my ears open on some of the hits.
The afternoon went by quickly as we saw and we were running out of time. I really wanted to get them into something larger and in the last half hour, it happened. One of the down reels fired and it howled! I was pretty sure by the sound that it was another musky and pulled all the other lines as Jason did battle with his first. Although not a giant it was a decent fish! He fought it for a couple of minutes before I was able to get it in the net. We took several pics and then released it back to the water, continuing our troll. A few more fish were landed but none as big as the lunge. By 6:00 we were done and packed everything up and headed back.
Although it may have been only four hours, there were plenty of fish landed including a real trophy for Jason. They had played 18 holes of golf this morning and made their way to meet me for an afternoon of fishing. Talk about a busy day! This was their fathers day weekend to themselves and they were making the most out of it. They definitely had a packed day of activities and ended it with a bang! Another day of great fishing!!
