Should Have, Could Have.

Fished with Daryl. The temperature was in the lower 70s in the morning and by the time we quit fishing it was in the upper 80s. The wind was light out of the southeast and the waves were less than a foot. The water temp was 80 degrees.

We started fishing at 41 48 980 / 083 18 190 which is 5 miles from port on the Michigan/Ohio boarder using crawlers and bottom bouncers set 75 to 80 feet back. Within 5 minutes we had the first fish on and Daryl was bringing it in and right behind the boat the fish spit the hook. The hook ended up in my right temple about one inch from my eye. We tried to push the hook through but we could not get it far enough past the barb to get a good grip on the tip of the it with the pliers so we pulled lines and headed for the hospital. It took a couple of hours and I felt OK so we went back out fishing, just a little hook shy.

We trolled with crawlers for 45 minutes and picked up a couple of walleye and then we switched over to Jet Divers set at 55 feet back and Dipsy's set at 75 feet back. The dipsy's were the most productive so we switched over to all dipsy's. Now we were fishing in the heat of the day and the fishing started to slow down. We kept 7 walleye between 18 and 20 inches, 1 perch and one cut hook from the doctor. We should have caught our limit and we could have caught our limit, but we had to take a time out.