bucknduck
06-06-2006, 02:07 PM
Well,
Was out on the water Fri-Mon and we didn't do too bad, but could have been better. My daughter and I were on the water Fri and caught 3 keepers. All 3 fish that we caught were keepers and my daughter did a great job reeling 2 of the 3.
Saturday the my wife and son joined us and we did the same as the day before, my wife pulled in a nice 3lb 6oz and the other 2 were nice eaters as well.
Sunday was pretty much the same as the first 2 days, 3 eater size fish. My son and I were reeling in his first walleye and we lost it at the boat with a headshake, it was off the harness. Thats the first fish lost off the hook this year.
Monday the first fish we caught was up to my son to reel in with plenty of help from mom. Nice eater size. We caught 3 fish earlier but 2 were too small and the other was around 3 1/2-4lb but had warts on it so back in the water it went.
Overall it was a good weekend, just have to figure out how to get more fish on the lines even if the majority are throwbacks, especially when hearing all the reports over the radio and on this site of people limiting out in a few hours.
Most of the fish we caught were on red, purple hot-n-tots, blueberry muffin, blue dolphin spoon harnesses, and blue/orange, green crawler harnesses.
We fished n/e of Saganing bar, and up towards the point in 14-20ft of water. We were trolling between 1.4-1.9. But it is tough keeping the motor idled that low. I'm going to have give a drift sock a try. I've only been skunked once this season, so I'm not complaining by any means.
One idea that came to mind would be to hire a guide but instead of going out with the guide and using their setup, they would ride along on my boat and tell me what I'm doing right/wrong, review my tackle, boat handling techique, setup etc...while out on the water. I guess you would consider the person to be a fishing consultant!:fish:
Was out on the water Fri-Mon and we didn't do too bad, but could have been better. My daughter and I were on the water Fri and caught 3 keepers. All 3 fish that we caught were keepers and my daughter did a great job reeling 2 of the 3.
Saturday the my wife and son joined us and we did the same as the day before, my wife pulled in a nice 3lb 6oz and the other 2 were nice eaters as well.
Sunday was pretty much the same as the first 2 days, 3 eater size fish. My son and I were reeling in his first walleye and we lost it at the boat with a headshake, it was off the harness. Thats the first fish lost off the hook this year.
Monday the first fish we caught was up to my son to reel in with plenty of help from mom. Nice eater size. We caught 3 fish earlier but 2 were too small and the other was around 3 1/2-4lb but had warts on it so back in the water it went.
Overall it was a good weekend, just have to figure out how to get more fish on the lines even if the majority are throwbacks, especially when hearing all the reports over the radio and on this site of people limiting out in a few hours.
Most of the fish we caught were on red, purple hot-n-tots, blueberry muffin, blue dolphin spoon harnesses, and blue/orange, green crawler harnesses.
We fished n/e of Saganing bar, and up towards the point in 14-20ft of water. We were trolling between 1.4-1.9. But it is tough keeping the motor idled that low. I'm going to have give a drift sock a try. I've only been skunked once this season, so I'm not complaining by any means.
One idea that came to mind would be to hire a guide but instead of going out with the guide and using their setup, they would ride along on my boat and tell me what I'm doing right/wrong, review my tackle, boat handling techique, setup etc...while out on the water. I guess you would consider the person to be a fishing consultant!:fish: