Monday June 24th Fishing Report
by Capt Juls on 06/24/13Headed out early this morning to meet up with Jim McEwen and his wife Renee at Mazurik's boat access. They had fished with me back in April and Jim, being a taxidermist on the side, said he had done one of the fish they caught, and wanted me to have it. It is beautiful! It is now permanently in its new home right here next to my desk where I can look up and remember the fun day we had that day. Thanks Jim and Renee!
My two salesmen from Cleveland showed up right on time, and we headed out at 8am. I was informed that their boss took them to Put-In-Bay the night before and Billy wasn't feeling too well. John felt fine, he said.
Being that neither of them really fished before, or trolled for that matter, we stopped over on the SE corner of Kelly's Island for a quick seminar on using Off Shore Tackle in line Planer boards, line counter reels, and how to put a crawler on a harness correctly. We set 6 lines out and trolled for maybe a 1/2 hour when I said, "Let's get up to Canada now". When we pulled all the lines in all the crawlers had been stolen.....#%$^@ dang little white perch! :)
We called the Canadian Customs when we crossed and took care of business...got my number for the day, and proceeded to head to Mill Point. The nice thing about fishing on a weekday is there is no one out there with you, or to get in your way. We had the point all to ourselves for the next 4 hours.
Billy caught the first fish that was on and got it in the boat. Then, he announced that he wasn't feeling very good, so I gave him some of my seasickness spray that sky divers use, but it wasn't soon enough. He was pretty gray already. He didn't want to go in though. I said he should go lie down on the bow and that should help make him feel better. I said, "We'll wake you up in about an hour" (which is how long that pass usually takes).
John and I were having a ball catching their two man limit. John was a quick learner and eager to do things the way I liked them done, so I didn't have to watch him too closely. However, he had trouble getting the crawlers on the hooks "just so", so I did that job for him. Hey, you have to do what you have to do, right? lol
They were both really cool guys and real gentlemen. Their boss would have been very proud of them today. I know Billy will take some ribbing, but he had a good sense of humor about it all.
I know you're getting tired of hearing the same old same old, but when a program is working there is no reason to change it. Same thing today, and again tomorrow....
Double willow leaf harnesses made by Larry Lambert of Marblehead (sold at Hi-Way Bait and Tackle on 163 in Marblehead). 1.6-1.7mph with #2 Tadpoles and 2oz inline weights 25-33 on the shallow side of the boat and 30-45 on the deep side. We were fishing the 29-30 foot contour and the outside boards were over 32-34 foot of water.
Tomorrow I will take another one of Jerry's salesmen with one of his clients up there too, but I may move off the point a little more. It will depend on the weather conditions in the morning.
Today was beautiful. The winds were out of the SW at 5-10mph with sunny skies. There was just enough wind to keep the biting black flies off of us for most of the day. They found my boat at about 11:45, but we were already packing it in. They had their limit and I wanted to get Billy back on shore. I know that feeling and it's the worst thing in the world to try and survive. He said, "Well, I'm not going to argue"...when I suggested we head back. lol
Hitting the hay early tonight. 4:30 comes pretty fast once I close my eyes. :)
Thanks for checking out my blog. I'll be posting again tomorrow night.
Good luck fishing everyone!
Capt Juls
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