I'm behind....again! Charter Report for Saturday July 13th, 2013

Anyhooo... Saturday was a bit windy with a breezy NE wind about 10-18 out of the NE. Waves were 2-4 feet on average, and the sun was shining. 

This day, I was going to be fishing with Doug Burkhead, his son Chris, and his friend Shawn Kintigh.  All three belong to the Illiana Walleye Club that I had donated a 1/2 day trip to last year. Doug won the drawing and then bought another 1/2 day charter to make it a full trip.  

We met at Mazurik's at 7am and launched. They had picked up their one day Canadian licenses, so our plan was to head up to the East side of Pelee where the walleye were still biting the previous two days.  However, it took us an hour to get up to Middle island, and we still had another 5-7 miles to go to get to my destination.  

I stopped the boat and told my crew what was happening...gave them the time it already took, how long it would still take to get there, and took a look at the sonar. We were marking fish that looked like Perch on the bottom. And, since they wanted to do both Walleye and perch we decided to stop there and try to catch some yellow ones.

We listened to the marine radio while we were perch jerk'n, and "Pooh Bear" and other Captains I know that went up to the area I wanted to go were struggling. The walleye bite was slow, so we were happy in our decision to stop and fish for perch.

We spent most of the trip at that first spot sorting through a lot of white perch and white bass, with the occasional sheephead to get our perch. The grade was nice up there too.

We left that spot with about an hour and a 1/2 left to go, because I wanted to check my US perch spot for a trip I had scheduled the next day, because they wouldn't have Canadian licenses.  It turned out to be a good decision, because the perch were still there, and there were fewer junk fish. We had run out of minnows by this time, so we put pieces of crawlers on the hooks and they liked them. :)

We finished out their limit and headed in. It was a fun ride in "surfing the waves", and I thoroughly enjoyed the time in the boat with these three guys. I hope to fish with one or all of them again sometime. 

I met them at the fish cleaners and dropped off their fish. I then headed home to get ready for work....ugh.  The dogs were not happy about that last part, but if they want to keep eating, then I must keep working...sigh.

Capt Juls