Skunked!!

Fished with Sherrill, Kevin and John H. Temperature was in the upper 60s with the wind out of the South/Southwest around 15 knots. The waves were 1 to 2 feet and the water temp is 78 degrees.

Because of the wind and the crew we had today we decided to just stay in the swamp and try our luck. Trolled with warts and crayfish for 45 minutes and then we switched over to crawlers and trolled with them for another 45 minutes without even a hit. Tried drifting with the crawlers and Sherrill caught 2 sheephead. Decided to try some perch jerking and after moving 3 times without any fish we called it a day. Not a very good day in the swamp. I heard some reports that the fish are being caught by Sputnik and the Water Intake.

Another Slow One

Fished with Daryl and Dale. Temperature was in the upper 60s with a slight breeze out of the South. The waves were less than a foot and the water temp is 72 degrees in the lake and 75 degrees in the swamp. The weather made for beautiful boat ride on the way out and a nice and laid back boat ride on the way back in.

Started fishing by a pack of boats just North of Sputnik. Trolled around for about a half hour without any fish so we pulled lines and headed to where we fished last week. 41 47 700 / 083 09 000. Set lines and we had a double in the first 5 minutes (lost one of them) and it just went down hill from there. We tried trolling with crawlers, then switched to jet diver's but nothing seemed to work. Picked up three more walleye and a few garbage fish. Made a move into the swamp and tried fishing there for a half hour and all we caught were two 8 inch walleye. Saw the storm coming so we pulled lines and headed to port. Just got to the gas dock and it started to storm. We waited that storm out, put some fuel in the boat ($54.00) and headed to the rack and launch. The wind was starting to blow pretty good and another storm was approaching but we timed everything just right and missed that storm also. The mayfly hatch is going pretty good right now and that could account for some of the slow fishing.

Next planned trip: 6-29-08 With John, Sherrill and both Kevin's.

Nice day fishing.

Fished with Captain Daryl. Temperature was in the upper 60s to the lower 70s. The wind was out of the South/Southwest 3 knots. The waves were less than 6 inches. Just a nice day on the water.

Started fishing by the Water Intake trolling with spoons with out any luck so we switched over to crawlers. Started catching sheephead and silver bass and one walleye so we decided to move to the North side of West Sister Island. 41 47 700 / 083 09 000. We set the dipsy's back 80 and 90 feet and caught a couple of walleye real quick and then it just died. Trolled around for another 1 1/2 hours and called it a day. Kept 5 walleye between 18 and 21 inches. Marked a lot of fish on the bottom but we had very few takers.

A.W.W.T.

Fished with Joe and John Hiltz in the 8th annual A.W.W.T. The temperature was in the upper 60s to the lower 70s. The wind was out of the South/Southwest from 12 to 22 knots. As the day progressed the wind speed picked up. The waves were 1 to 2 feet when we started and were building pretty fast. The water temp is 72 degrees.
It seemed nobody knew where they wanted to fish as everyone went different directions from the harbor. Some boats went to Stoney Point, some went to the Toledo Light House, some stayed by the E- Buoy and we went to the Water Intake. The fishing was tough and the weather conditions made it even worse. As we were talking on the radio every so often a boat would catch a fish. We tried trolling with spoons for the first hour and then we switched over to trolling with crawlers and that seemed to work for us. We started to catch some fish and then the waves got too be to much so we called it quits. We kept 8 walleye for the day. The official results for the A.W.W.T. are as follows.

1st place - Team Bird's Nest - 63 6/8 inches
2nd place - Team Walley Wide Track - 59 2/8 inches
3rd place - Team Lucky Strike - 57 6/8 inches
4th place - Team Scotty Bowman - 17 4/8 inches
5th place - Team StarFish - No Fish
Big fish was caught by Team Bird's Nest - 21 6/8 inches

I want to thank everyone who fished today's event and to let you know the weather man owes us a nice day for next year.

Nice Catch

Fished with Daryl. Temperature was in in the lower 60s and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 70s. The wind was light out of the South/Southwest 5 knots with waves less than a foot. The water is starting to clear up again but now the female cottonwood trees are starting to drop their seeds. Time to put the beads back on the main lines.

Started fishing where we left off yesterday and we kind of hung in that general area. 41 49 400 / 083 18 120. We trolled with spoons set at 65 feet back for the first hour and we caught 5 walleye. The bite was kind of slow so we went to the crawlers for the rest of the trip. We ran the crawler rigs back 75 feet using 2 ounce bottom bouncers and slowed the troll to 1.5 MPH. Caught the remaining fish this way. The purple harness was by far the most productive. We had one walleye that was 14.5 inches that we put back. Kept 12 walleye between 18 and 20 inches.

Next Planned Trip: Tuesday, June 17, for the 8th Annual A.W.W.T. 8:00 a.m. Start Time

Bumpy Ride Today.

Fished with the famous Wally Widetrack (Booth Purkey). Temperature was in the lower 60s with the wind out of the North/Northwest 13 to 20 knots. Waves were 2 to 3 feet which made the fishing very difficult. The water was a little dirty but there was a mud line out where we were fishing. Water temp is 62 degrees.

Started fishing where we left off last week trolling with spoons 65 to 70 feet back. Caught our first walleye at the 65 foot range so we set all the poles to 65 feet. We trolled for 1 1/2 hours and it just was too much to do so we tried to drift with crawlers for a while. After drifting for 15 minutes we caught one silver bass and it was getting pretty bouncy so we called it a day. Kept 5 walleye between 18 and 21 inches. The weather man was a little off today!!! Best spoon was the Monica Lewinsky.

Next planned trip: 06-02-08 with Daryl.