Fished with Joe. Temperature this morning was in the middle 60's and when we quit fishing it was in the middle 70's. The wind was out of the southeast around 12 knots with waves about 2 feet. The weatherman called for light south winds. The water temp is 80 Degrees. We set up close to Turtle Island trolling with the waves heading towards the S buoy running wiggle warts set at 75 feet back. We were not marking very many fish and the catching was slow. When we got close to the S buoy we caught a couple of walleye. We pulled lines and headed towards Turtle Island again but this time we trolled through the swamp with the warts set at 60 feet back. Picked up two quick walleye and then we only caught one more in the swamp so we starting trolling towards the C buoy. When we were getting close to the C buoy we started to catch some walleye. Things were looking good and then the planer board line snapped on the starboard side. We marked a way point and then we started to pull lines to go and retrieve the planner board. As we were getting close to the way point there was a large boat coming from Toledo Beach Marina heading right towards our way point. With the 2 foot waves I don't think the captain saw the planer board floating and he just missed it, probably by 5 feet. We picked up the planner board and decided to call it a day. Learned a lesson from this. The clip that attaches to the planer board broke so from now on I will replace the clip every two years.
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