Monday, May 13, 2013

Trolling with Crawlers

Fished with Daryl. Temperature this morning was in the lower 30s (we had a frost) and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 50s. The wind in the morning was out of the northwest 15 to 20 knots and after a couple of ours of fishing the wind was blowing less than 10 knots. Waves were less than 2 feet and the water temp is 59 degrees. Started fishing 1/2 mile northwest of the E Buoy (41 49 800 / 083 21 450) in 16 feet of water trolling with the wind. Daryl setup with crawlers set at 55 back on 2 ounce weights and I set up with  junior thundersticks set at 75 feet back. Daryl started catching some walleye with his setup so I switched over to the same program. We would troll just past the E Buoy, pull lines and head back to our starting spot and make the same troll again. That worked fine until the lake laid down and then we started to catch a lot of junk fish. We were running low on crawlers so we went to gulp worms and they caught some fish. Kept 11 walleye and 3 perch and released 3 walleye that were undersize.

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