Fished the Walleye Smackdown Tournament with Captain Daryl and Doug. Temperature this morning was 56 degrees and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 60s. The wind was out of the Southwest at 12 knots in the morning and then started switching to the Northeast and the lake laid down. The water temp is 67 degrees. We fished the same area as yesterday because of the nice fish that we caught there. We ran the same program as yesterday, jet's on one side of the boat and dipsy's on the other. The fishing was just great and by 7:15 in the morning we started to throw back fish that were 17 inches long. As the morning went on we started to throw back fish that were 19 and 20 inches long hoping to catch that one big walleye. We already had 5 nice fish to weigh in but we needed that one big fish to put us over the edge. We never got that big fish but we were happy with the catch that we had. To make a long story short they changed the rules as we were weighing in the fish and it totally screwed us. We only weighed in 4 fish and everyone else weighed in 5 fish. We would not have won the tournament but we would have placed in the top 5. We finished in 12 place out of 20 teams. Oh well, lesson learned. We kept our limit of 18 walleye and we threw back 22 walleye between 17 and 20 inches and two little ones that were under 15 inches. Just a great day of fishing.
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