09-20-2024, 06:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2024, 08:07 PM by Piscophilic.)
Jon wanted to find a walleye at Deer Creek and I wanted to get some decent trout. My mom used to can salmon and steelhead when I was growing up in Oregon. She often made the canned fish into what she called Salmon Patties. I miss those patties, so I wanted to try good sized rainbows to see if they came out the same.
So, our combined goal was 4-8 trout over 16”, some walleye and maybe a smallie or two. Well you know the old song “Don’t be
, cause two outta three ain’t bad!
We got the boat in the water around 6:30 P.M. on 9/13. The water temp was 63. We decided to try the Wallsburg arm. Before Jon got back from parking the car, I hooked a decent smallie near the dock. Only thing was, the decent smallie turned into a 14” rainbow before I could net it. Definitely an indication of things to come.
We trolled from the dock toward Wallsburg pulling my usual #6 SnG’s and some white tube jigs at about 1.5 MPH. We didn’t make it far in the first hour because we got distracted by the trout. We boated 8 or 9 in that time. 5 of those were over 16 and we kept them.
For the next 3 hours we probed around the arm looking for a walleye. Nothin toothey wanted to play. Finally, at about 11 P.M. we went to the spot where we found nice trout and 1 walleye on our last trip.
The fishing was decent, we filled out the last 3 trout spots with more 17” bows, but no eyes. Jon got most of the fish at our last stop and just after finishing our limits he hooked another nice bow, but the magic reversed itself. Before he could get it to the net, it transformed into a 14” smallie. Saved us from having a nuthin but bows day!
All in all, a fun trip. The trout were higher in the water column than I would have expected for mid-September, so we got to see some nice acrobatics. And like they say, “two outta three ain’t bad!”
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So, our combined goal was 4-8 trout over 16”, some walleye and maybe a smallie or two. Well you know the old song “Don’t be
, cause two outta three ain’t bad!We got the boat in the water around 6:30 P.M. on 9/13. The water temp was 63. We decided to try the Wallsburg arm. Before Jon got back from parking the car, I hooked a decent smallie near the dock. Only thing was, the decent smallie turned into a 14” rainbow before I could net it. Definitely an indication of things to come.
We trolled from the dock toward Wallsburg pulling my usual #6 SnG’s and some white tube jigs at about 1.5 MPH. We didn’t make it far in the first hour because we got distracted by the trout. We boated 8 or 9 in that time. 5 of those were over 16 and we kept them.
For the next 3 hours we probed around the arm looking for a walleye. Nothin toothey wanted to play. Finally, at about 11 P.M. we went to the spot where we found nice trout and 1 walleye on our last trip.
The fishing was decent, we filled out the last 3 trout spots with more 17” bows, but no eyes. Jon got most of the fish at our last stop and just after finishing our limits he hooked another nice bow, but the magic reversed itself. Before he could get it to the net, it transformed into a 14” smallie. Saved us from having a nuthin but bows day!
All in all, a fun trip. The trout were higher in the water column than I would have expected for mid-September, so we got to see some nice acrobatics. And like they say, “two outta three ain’t bad!”