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Larry & Dylan were back with me this afternoon, for a few hours of fishing. Conditions weren’t great but I was going to try & put them on fish! Big waves and tons of floating mossy like weeds would make it impossible to troll, forcing us to cast. Even at that, just standing in the boat with all the waves wasn’t easy!

First cast Larry got to reel in a decent smallie but it’s never good to catch on your first cast, as we would soon see. Dylan on the other hand managed to bring a couple of keeper eyes into the boat that they would be sampling at dinner tonight! He also missed several other bites, indicating that the fish were here. After about 30 minutes or more, I had to pull the plug on the area due to how difficult it was to fish. Between boat traffic and the wind, it was a roller coaster out there!

We fished a couple of other areas casting soft plastics, but had only missed fish from one of them. Time to return to the floating weeds and give it another try!

We spent the remainder of our time drop shotting the open water shoals and it was tough. Just keeping the lines in the water proved to be the hardest as there were so many weeds drifting in the water columns, that it was almost impossible to keep the baits clean.

Christiane was also with us and thankfully she managed to put a third walleye in the livewell for them this evening. In the end, we stumbled onto an area that had everyone hooking up, but most of the fish were small and had to be released. The last 30 minutes were the most productive and it was a shame to have to leave! They had multiple chances and were able to get about 50% of their bites.

The last few trips have been a challenge to say the least but with any luck the lake will clean up some in the coming days. Plenty of fish are around if only I could keep the lines clean! I may just have to jump lakes soon if things don’t change or start hitting new water, searching for other places to fish.

Having Larry & his grandson Dylan out again this year was great but the few hours that they were able to fish were way too short! Hopefully the next time we will have better conditions and a longer time to pound on the fish like so many times before. Either way, it was still great to fish with them again and I look forward to having him back, soon! Hopefully when the sturgeon bite is going strong!

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Today was another tough day on the water with James, Robin & John. We fished for just about everything! Although I was marking fish everywhere we went, the bites were light or not at all.

We began drop shotting and saw all kinds of fish that didn’t want anything to do with us. Robin did manage to land one walleye but that was all she wrote! A few other missed strikes had me relocating to a distant area for a guaranteed trolling bite. Or so I thought! One big walleye came off and a couple of other short strikes and we were out of there as well.

I thought we’d give a shot at some shallow smallies and at least here, they managed to land a bunch of them. Although most were on the smaller side, it was nice to see something actually bite. I also saw all kinds of larger ones that showed no signs of wanting to eat here as well.

We decided to return to our first area late in the afternoon, hoping for more active fish. Back to the drop shot and similar results were had once again! They did however get several more bites but the hook ups weren’t great. A few small walleye were landed and a couple of decent smallies but most strikes were just missed.

To say this was a tough day would be an understatement. I just hope that I don’t see more days like this again! I think next time I might just bring worms out with me and try for sturgeon. If all else fails, I can always feed them to the bass & walleye in hopes of them actually eating! Better days ahead!

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Suzanne & Ross were with me today for what was supposed to be a half day, morning trip. It was soon extended during the morning to a full day, as I wasn’t booked in the afternoon. Good thing too as the early fishing wasn’t all that great!

Although they did manage to land some nice fish, the numbers just weren’t there. I did however drift over a school of walleye that kept them occupied for almost two hours though! They just loaded the boat with them and at one point it was every drift. I eventually just anchored with the electric and they pounded on the fish!

We spent most of the time drop shotting open water catching both bass and walleye but the bite was pretty slow. Sure glad for the school of fish regardless of their size! They did manage to catch plenty of keepers too and brought a limit home with them in the end!

Fishing may have been slow at the start with the lack of wind but it definitely turned around in the end. It soon became another high numbers day for a couple that had barely fished in years. Something tells me this won’t be the last time we see each other, as they are already talking about doing this again!

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Karen, Jarrett & Hayden were with me for the day and what a day it was! They started out drop shotting and had a bunch of bites, but missed most of their fish. They did rebound though and finally starting boating both walleye & bass. Karen had the biggest walleye as well as the largest smallie but her son Hayden, soon turned that around. He hooked into a musky and had big fish for the day. It really went insane for a while and even took to the air a couple of times. Not only was it his first musky but he had also landed his first bass as well as walleye. He was having the time of his life!

We made multiple drifts over the area and they landed a load of fish with the wind & waves, until it died out. We now had a much slower drift and the fish also slowed down too! Add to that the unreal amount of grass like weeds floating on the surface and it wasn’t long before I pulled the plug on this area and went somewhere else. I had to get away and try something new.

We had made a long run to another spot that I wanted to troll and apparently it was the right move. It didn’t take more than a minute before we had the first rip, but it was gone as fast as it had arrived. I was now trolling over an area looking for northerns as well as walleye and I was sure it would work. For the next couple of hours we made several passes and managed to get into all kinds of pike and a few really nice walleye too. Jarrett landed his personal best Walter along with some nice northerns and we ended on a high.

Around 2:00 they decided to call it a day, so we packed up and headed back. The entire trip was filled with good numbers of fish and the troll was the icing on the cake! Everyone had caught lots of fish and were more than satisfied! I even managed to take a couple of walleye home for dinner tonight as they were staying in a hotel and had no way of keeping their fish. Turned out to be a win, win for everyone today! Another great day of fishing!

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Hughes, Oliver & Phillip were with me today, for another scorcher! Our morning bite was on fire with the wind & waves, but unfortunately more fish were missed than landed. They did however bring a good number of them to net though, including 4 nice keeper walleye!

Once the wind died, I decided to try a little trolling but it was short lived. I just couldn’t get out of all the floating grass like weeds that were on the surface, as well as in the water column. It was a real ordeal trying to keep the lines clean and I just gave up completely. Mondays are always the worst after the weekend traffic blazing all over the lake, chewing up the grass!

Off we went to try some casting for walleye again but this didn’t work out well at all. They did have plenty of hits but about 5% of the bites were converted into landed fish. Eventually the fish just stopped biting all together and we were forced to move again!

I decided to return to where we had begun as it seemed like the winds had returned somewhat. The sun was up high now and although the fish were still there, they were pressed tightly on the bottom and required a finesse approach to make them bite. Basically you had to be right in their face if you were going to get bit!

We spend the last couple of hours making multiple drifts over the areas and they landed several more bass. They seemed like the only ones wanting to bite! In the end one more walleye came aboard bringing the total of keeper sized ones up to 7 for the day. There were many others caught, but they were either too small or too big to make the cut!

Although the action was slow at times today, it was also on fire at other times too! Unfortunately the learning curve was during this period and they were only able to take advantage of a small percentage of their bites. Plenty of missed opportunities were the result but eventually they rebounded and put fish in the boat. All in all it was still a great day for fishing!