More Cold Front Conditions

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August 23rd 2018

 

After a cancellation due to high winds yesterday, I was back out today in slightly better weather!

Another double trip day saw Steffen and his family in the morning, hoping to catch a few fish. His son Konner was new to this sport and eager to land just about anything! Trolling was the game plan and pike & walleye were the targeted species.

It wasn’t long after I set the lines before the first fish was landed. Konner reeled in a nice northern, even with a cast on his wrist! He also managed many more in the next couple of hours and was completely enjoying himself. Although they were all northerns, he had a blast reeling loads of them in.

I had wanted to get him a few walleye and covered water searching for the elusive golden one. This morning had seen a drop in water temps by about 6 degrees since I was last out. It showed too as these fish were really lethargic! Eventually after what seemed like miles of water, I finally locked him up on a nice fish. He was hoping for a walleye and now he got his wish! We took a bunch of nice pics before releasing his over back to the water. Konner was all smiles after this one and eager to catch more!

With limited time remaining, I managed to get him a few more fish before we had to leave. I had another family for the afternoon and the morning had passed by so quickly. I packed everything up and made the run back to meet the second group.

I wasted no time in getting back on the water as I said goodbye to Steffen, Hazel & Konner. Angela and her sons were ready to go and we turned and burned out onto the lake!

With no down time, I headed back to where I had finished up, as I had left the fish biting! Tyson, Ayden & Gavin were also eager to get into some fish as I set the lines. We would be trolling once again, with this many bodies in the boat.

The winds had grown since I returned and built to 2 & 3 footers where I was. Trolling wasn’t easy up wind and required constant cleaning of the rods with all the floating weeds as well. I managed to make it work though and it wasn’t long before everyone had a full rotation on the rods. Angela was last up and somehow managed the largest pike of the afternoon, twice! The others were just happy reeling fish in despite the slower than usual bite.

I had covered plenty of water once again searching for active fish but found them to be anything but that. We had several short strikes and plenty of fish fall off in the net once landed. This weather had them lethargic but I was still managing to get bit.

They had all managed a few rotations and time was now getting on in the day. I decided to slide out to slightly deeper water and fired multiple reels in a very short time. Needless to say, I milked this area for all it was worth by catching everything that wanted to bite. In the end, we probably hit an additional half dozen fish in the last 30 minutes of their trip.

I can’t believe how fast the day goes when it’s split in two! Before we knew it, we were done and heading back to the dock. Despite the lack of interest by most of the fish today, I still grinded it out and had two pretty good trips overall.

Plenty of pike were landed today by everyone and a few nice walleye too. Cold front conditions had the fish a little sketchy as I saw but fortunately I was able to make some of them eat. Enough fish were landed by everyone to make this another successful day!!