06-11-2022, 04:08 AM
Launched from the north marina early (for me) in my underpowered Hewes. Lines in at 6:52, first 'eye in the boat 10 minutes later. Thought it was going to be a great day. Wrong. Struggled all day, multiple lures, mutiple colors. Midday nothing was happening on SR5s or SR7s, Thin Fin, etc. Small fish here and there. I started marking fish near the bottom in 13'-14', so put on a Wally Diver (CD6, purple and pink!) and ran it just off the bottom. Short time later I thought I'd snagged the bottom, but it was a 22" walleye. Cool. Put it back down 75' back, reel goes off. My spring scale isn't very precise, but it turned out to be a 23", 4.5#(?) wiper. Probably a PR, but who counts?
I used my drift sock sytem for quite a while today, seems to slow me down to 2.0MPH +/- .2MPH. Couldn't really discern any significant change with or without, not sure it's worth the trouble. Saw a red Lund come out of the south marina in the afternoon, wondered if it was Redrebel. Caught the one wiper, total of 10 walleye, spent 11 hours on the water. Bugs were bad out west. Later on it seemed that an SR5 in Holographic Blue Shad seemed to produce better than most.
I used my drift sock sytem for quite a while today, seems to slow me down to 2.0MPH +/- .2MPH. Couldn't really discern any significant change with or without, not sure it's worth the trouble. Saw a red Lund come out of the south marina in the afternoon, wondered if it was Redrebel. Caught the one wiper, total of 10 walleye, spent 11 hours on the water. Bugs were bad out west. Later on it seemed that an SR5 in Holographic Blue Shad seemed to produce better than most.
Single main, no kicker. 