June 17th Trip with Denny and Angelo...
by Capt Juls on 06/17/13Well, I had to reschedule two trips this past week, due to weather, and the Youth Tournament I was supposed to fish was cancelled, due to a small craft advisory this past Thursday. So, after a weekend of attending the Cabelas National Walleye Tour that was in town this past weekend, I was too busy to keep up with my blog. My apologies to anyone who is actually reading/following my random thoughts. :)
Anyhooo....
Today was an exceptional day on the water. The weather was absolutely beautiful.
I picked my crew of two up at their hotel at 6:45 and we launched out of Mazurik's at 7am.
We headed straight to the SW corner of Kelly's and made one pass in the 28-30' edge and caught 6 huge catfish. I said, "Enough of this! I don't even like handling the little cats, let alone the big ones with bigger stingers!" So, we got on plane and headed to the East side of Pelee Island.
There, we got into some real beauties. We made two passes using the same double willow leaf harnesses I have been using the past month, and trolled at a speed of 1.6 to catch our fish. 2oz 25-35 back was the ticket there. We only caught 8 of their 12 fish there, but 4 of them were "Fish Ohio's" (28 inches or better). Pictures have been uploaded to page 4 on the photos page of my website if you want to see them.
We made a move with one hour to go, over to the area between Middle and North Bass, where I had been fishing a lot the past few weeks. The fish are still there and there are still some big fish there too. We caught three more "good eaters" and finished the day off with the biggest fish of them all. (Sorry, I didn't measure it).
As we were reeling in the lines to head home, we had one little walleye hanging on the outside board, so I said, "Well, it looks like I get to eat dinner tonight after all", to which they both laughed. It was a fun day with these two gentlemen.
Denny is a a farmer in Wisconsin. His friend Angelo is a retired banker. They both had a great time reeling in these big fish and are looking forward to going out and doing it again tomorrow. The weather will be cooler tomorrow, due to a NNE wind that's expected. Conditions will determine where we will start tomorrow, so at this point I'm not sure yet.
I only know that they are still biting, and I'm grateful that we had such a great day of fishing today.
The Mayfly hatch was huge yesterday. This morning the Kroger parking lot was covered in them, as were many businesses and houses off of 163. What a mess! The husks that were left floating in the water were all over Ohio waters in the Western Basin and made a mess of the lines, planer boards, and my boat...yuck! I thought for sure the fishing would be tougher today, but luckily for us, it was still good. :)
I'll be back tomorrow to write another blog, and hopefully, it will be another good report.
Thanks for reading it.
Capt Juls
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