Not a Stellar Catching Day but We Had Fun!

I was to meet my crew at the launch at 7:30, so I showed up at 6:45 (I know, that's very early), but I like to get things ready before the crew shows up, so nothing is forgotten. Anyway, they pulled in at 8am, and we got on the water by 10 after.

I watched a lot of boats launch before me and they were all heading towards Kelly's Island, and I thought to myself, "It's going to be very busy over there today", so I decided to head towards my spot over between the ferry dock and the SW corner of Green. Once we got there though I could barely make out my cavitation plate and we made a 1/2 a pass in there, picked up, and headed up to North Bass.

We set lines, and caught 1 out of 5 fish that had bitten our offerings of big juicy crawlers on both single harnesses and the double willow leaf harnesses behind #2 Tadpoles 27-33 back.  

The marks on the HBird were very deep today, and staying on the bottom.  I pulled out a Bottom Bouncer and put one of the board rods away.  The bottom bouncer was a pain, because the white bass were relentless and stealing the crawlers every 5 minutes.  

We left the North Bass area and headed over to Kelly's, where we should have probably just started at in the first place. We had a couple hours to spend there before heading in, so we set it up the same...running 5 Off Shore Boards and one Bottom Bouncer. After missing some bites on the BB, we put another board away and set up another BB, so there was on on both sides of the boat. That new one went off about 10 minutes later and Jeremy landed a nice fat walleye. We got one more on a harness on one of the boards and had to call it a day. 

So, out of 12 fish on, we landed only 3.   They had a great time, and the weather couldn't have been better. There was a nice 2' or less chop on the water this morning and then by the afternoon it had become pretty calm.

Sorry there isn't more to tell, but other than good company, good food, and some "almost fish in the boat", we had a great time. They left a nice tip and prepaid for another trip in June...:)

Capt Juls