Day one of a Two Day Charter with Denny, Dave, and Blake 6/22/14

We launched at Mazurik's at 7:15 and headed up to Canadian waters on the west side of Pelee Island, where my crew and I from yesterday finished off our afternoon with good success. 

I thought it would be a faster bite today, but when the sun came out and the wind died, so did the bite.  We managed to boat 16 nice fish with two of them Fish-O's, so today's crew was happy with their results. We kept teasing Denny because he lost two nice fish. The kind that just come off, but his partners made sure that he knew it was HIS fault. (it was funny).

The nice thing about fishing up there is that there are very few junk fish stealing our crawlers. However, when the winds died, those ticklish flies swarmed us. You know, the kind that turn your clothing into bug spattered art...ugh.

Once my crew got the trolling system down, they worked well together, and we weren't tripping over each other anymore. I'm thinking tomorrow will be a lot easier since they already know what they are doing now. :)  

We started out with the 1oz 35-45 back and # 2 Tadpoles 27-45 back, but when the sun was high in the sky, and the wind died, Blake was changing up the entire port side, and set his own numbers (much deeper). He ran the outside 1oz  63 back, middle 1oz 73 back, and the #2 Tadpole at 53 back. He picked up a fish on both the 63, and 73 back, so moving them deeper was a good decision. I left the starboard side at the original numbers and we picked up another on the 1oz 41 back. The bottom bouncer we had out caught mostly sheephead, but it did catch one nice walleye, and lost a couple more. (sheephead never come off..lol)

Blades that worked best were blades that had pink, antifreeze, and purple. I didn't have any copper out, but those would have probably worked pretty well too.

Tomorrow we are headed back to the west side of Middle Bass to fish in there. I know there are a lot of fish there, but with all the pleasure boaters on the weekends, I just didn't want to put up with that nonsense today.  We made a good decision to go up to Canada. It was a very nice day with very enjoyable company. Heck, they're from my neck of the woods up in Wisco, so of course they are great people! hehehe :)

Time to go clean the boat. The Mayfly husks, and fish slime needs to be cleaned up before tomorrow's trip.

Stay tuned for the next adventure...

Capt Juls