Another double trip today after cancelling 3 trips this past weekend, due to foul weather and winds. Cindy was with me in the morning and Kai and his family in the afternoon. The morning wasn’t bad with Cindy landing 3 different species while out. The afternoon was a bit harder with the winds building and floaters everywhere. I had to troll in order to get bit and conditions were tough, again! If I wasn’t already out, I wouldn’t have gone on the water! We fished in average 3 footers with some closer to four. We called it sooner than expected with a couple of people feeling a bit sea sick from the rollers. Mother Nature strikes again!!

Rakesh and his son Dylan had an enjoyable time on the water today. With the weather finally changing, it gave us a cool start, warming throughout the day.

We began by trolling for pike and walleye and caught a bunch of good ones. When the action slowed, I switched up to casting and they managed to get into bass. Dylan had never fished before, but picked everything up quickly and casted like he had done it before.

The wind conditions were blowing from the west pretty good, but I ended the day with some dropshot drifting over deeper shoals. It was here that the action really picked up and both Rakesh and his son managed to catch more smallies before we were done. Overall, today was a great experience for them as they got to learn a few different techniques, catching on all. Each one had a learning curve that they picked up on quickly, putting plenty of fish in the boat. They even managed to catch several fish that they were bringing home to eat. This was definitely a great day on the water!!

I had a client, all the way from Japan today! Koji was here and looking for a few new species to catch. We began with trolling and managed to get into 3 different types of fish while doing so. Walleye was the first, followed by a muskie and then pike. It wasn’t easy in the flat calm conditions as there were floating weeds all over the waters we fished.

A little later in the day, I switched over to sturgeon and he managed to land one small one before jumping over to bass. Unfortunately, these fish eluded him by coming off. He casted for pike for a while without any luck and we decided to return to the troll. The flat calm and scorching sun, was not making it easy. I needed to go deeper.

In the last hour of trolling, he managed to land one over walleye and another fish came off after taking a lot of line. Who knows, possibly another muskie!

Koji ended his trip with 4 new species of fish that should have ben 5. I still can’t believe that bass was his nemesis! In the end, he had a great time trying new techniques for several fish he doesn’t have back home. I would call this a success!!

Nick and his son Quinton fished with me this morning for a half day trip. Although it was a little cooler when we got started, it was going to warm up to the usual heat later in the day. We began with smallies and had a difficult time on the first two spots, but made up for it on the third. Quinton even managed a good walleye in between the bass. We switched it up for about an hour or so afterwards and targeted some sturgeon. Quinton was able to bring a couple of them to the boat before switching back over to bass again. We finished up the morning with a few more smallies before calling it a day.

Half day trips are always tougher with limited time to get it done. Fortunately, we were able to hook into a good number of fish this morning making it a great outing. Fun times were had by everyone, on this cool morning trip!

John, Isac & Gerry hit the water with me today on a great overcast day. For a change I wasn’t going to get fried! Winds were almost nonexistent so we started by dropshotting a big flat nearby. After only a couple of bass, and dealing with all the floaters, I decided to relocate to another spot further away. I was going to remain deep in hopes of better, quality fish!

Various depths were tried with almost no success and another move was necessary to get them into fish. I switched up to soft plastic baits and hit the shallows. It didn’t take long before everyone was into fish and it never ended. Plenty of smallies were caught, along with a few good walleye in the remaining time out. Too bad the weather had to change in the last hour and rain, otherwise it would have been a perfect day!

Today had a mix of emotions and fortunately I was able to piece it together and salvage the day. The deep-water bite had been exceptional lately, but not today. I made a decision early to switch to a shallow, casting technique and it worked out great. In the end, they all landed and lost plenty of quality fish. Overall, a winner of a day!!