THE BAIT SHOP GUY
05-31-2009, 11:03 PM
The way things are going this spring, you can't catch walleye and be a fair weather fisherman at the same time! Took my dad out to catch some perch off of Gladstone, after the wind switched to the south this afternoon. Found the fish stacked along the breakline in 25 to 30 FOW. He was out there earlier in the morning, while the wind was out of the north, and marked hardly any fish in the same area. Anyway, we started catching fish right away with worms on perch rigs. We ended up keeping 6 or 7 nice perch, and caught a bunch of small walleyes doing that. Eventually, the wind got too strong to fish perch rigs effectively (it's hard to watch for that "tap tap" bite when you're in 3 and 4 footers!) We decided to switch over and try trolling shallow cranks along the edge of the break. We figured one pass would be enough for the fish to tell us whether to stick it out in the wind and the now steady rain. Well, they told us to stay out for a while longer! Trolled Bombers along the break in 7 to 10 FOW and ended up with our limit in 4 passes.
Amazing what you'll put up with when the fish are biting!
Amazing what you'll put up with when the fish are biting!