The Elusive Walleye

I wasn’t suppose to be fishing today with the evening planned at the annual “Strangers in The Night” gala, but went out for six hours with Max & Julie in search of the elusive walleye. Julie had wanted to catch walleye and hadn’t been very successful with her family before, but today would be a different story. We hit the water at 7 and the first rod to fire was a nice northern of around 6 pounds. Not what we were looking for and right back it went. I was happy to see a good wind from the SW at 10 to 20 knots and hoped that it would last the entire day. Overcast skies were what we were in pretty much the entire day and even a light drizzle fell at times. The air temps were in the upper 60’s and may have climbed into the 70’s in the afternoon. Water temps were right around the same as yesterday and wouldn’t get much warmer with all these clouds. Reels were firing like popcorn throughout the morning and both Julie & Max were catching their fair share of bass, pike and many walleye. Julie couldn’t believe just how many walleye they were catching and looked at Max rather strangely when she saw how easy it actually was. Right location, proper lures and trolling speed and the fish would come! She definitely landed the largest one at around 5 pounds but max had the largest fish of the day when he landed a small Muskie closer to 10. They both caught many fish and by 1:00 P.M. we finished up with another double and called it a day. What was supposed to be a wet day actually turned out to be a great day on the water and we stayed dry! Gotta love the weather forecasters as they may eventually get a day right!!