Willard Morning 6/10

[Redrebel]

My wife and I launched at a bit after 6 am out of the south marina.  Quite a few trailers already in the parking areas. We motored to the west side and started pulling a variety of cranks and bottom bouncers. Nothing.  Went south towards a big concentration of boats in the SW corner.  Just before arriving we caught 2 eyes on cranks. Had another one on, then nothing.  Didn't notice anyone catching in the group of boats, most looked to be bottom bouncing.  After a couple of more passes I pulled in the poles and we ran to Freeway Bay.  Great move on our part. 

Got our lines out and within a few minutes caught a wiper.  Catching was steady and at one point we had 5 eyes and 5 wipers in the cooler as well as a catch and release on a smallmouth. We had caught 2 doubles as well. I finally pulled the bottom bouncer out (it never got hit) and put on another crank.  So we had 4 poles pulling cranks.  We had been running from 2.1 to 2.6 up to that point. I decided to see what would happen if we bumped up the speed.  I stowed the electric, put down the big motor, and cranked the speed up to 3.5-3.7. Lets just say the wipers liked it fast. Bam, fish on, bam 2nd pole goes bendo when reeling in the 1st, we have another double.  Before we can land the 1st, the third rod gets hooked up, a triple! Got the 1st one in the boat, a wiper. I'm fighting the second and I have my wife grab the third rod. It had tangled with the 4th line.  Got the second wiper in the boat. I was trying to untangle the 3rd line and get the fish in when the 4th line that is tangled with the 3rd gets slammed.  It was mayhem, a quadruple hookup! Ended up losing the 3rd, but after cutting the 3rd line at the crank to speed up the untangling process, we were able to land the 4th, another wiper. I have never had that happen before.

We quit just a bit before 11. Tally for the day was 15 wipers, 5 walleye and 1 smallmouth. Nothing too big today.  Had one nice wiper on that I got a good look at but the rest were probably last years planters but fun fighters.  Walleye were between 14-17". Smallmouth about 11".  21 fish caught with another 8-10 hookups that just came loose.  It is HOT right now.  Saw some shad  ball marks today as well.

Thanks for the report. Great info for when the batteries have had enough but I wanna keep going. Any advice on how you got you wife to join you fishing would be welcome. I try my hardest and she just tells me if I wanna woman to fish with to just get a fishing girlfriend. Pretty sure that would be hard to land.