Fishing with Capt Ryan and Capt Sam 2/19/2024
by Capt Juls on 02/19/24Yesterday evening, I got a text from Capt Sam inviting me to go fishing with him and Capt Ryan Pettry, this morning. Of course, I said, "Yes"!
We launched out of Vermilion, and had to go through skim ice that someone else had already broken earlier in the morning, ahead of us. There was floating skim ice closer to shore, but once we got away from shore, it was a flat calm lake with no ice. The sun was up and shining, warming things up pretty fast.
It was only 20 degrees out when we launched, so the warmth of the sunshine was feeling pretty good.
We were in Ryan's boat, and he had us going around 2 mph, over 40' of water, while we set the 9 Off Shore boards out, and can you believe it? We caught a few at that speed! But, once all the boards were out, Ryan knocked the speed back down to 1.4-1.6mph and we were catching doubles, triples, quads, and at one point...we had 7 on at one time. What a hoot! We caught our 3-person limit in about an hour.
P-10s weighted with 2oz at 40/40 and 35/35 did best. Color didn't seem to matter, but we mostly had white bodied baits out there. Natural colored baits did well, too.
It was a great morning to be on the water, in a boat, in the middle of February!
Thanks Capt's for the invite and the fun time! Much appreciated! :)
I don't have anything scheduled until the last weekend in March right now, but if it stays ice free out there, and the ramps don't freeze up, I'll start running earlier.
I just have to do a shakedown run with my boat first, to make sure everything is still working the way it should be.
Stay tuned...
Capt Juls
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