08-01-2017, 05:33 AM
Went down to Willard with Cap'n Greg Sat, 29th. Got to the launch about 6:30, on the lake before the sun.
We had a goal, find the island, fish the island, drag some bottom bouncers, hope to boat some eyes.
Well, we found the island. As "we" were setting up to troll, I dropped a line, got SLAMMED by a big tug. Something grabbed, tugged HARD, and broke my spiderwire. HAD to be huge and very toothy, no doubt!
Got to bouncing some bottom bouncers with spinner rigs, bunches of beads and crawlers. Ready to feed those fish. I threw out a side-planer with a hard-bait, just because. Put a walleye diver on there.
I got a good slam, and had a hard kitty fight. Was under 20", but dang, if that sucker didn't wrestle goodly!
My mate followed my advice, and fed that worm back into a toothy hungry mouth. Landed a nice +20" walleye - target landed.
We eventually gave up on the island adventure, no boils in sight, no birds diving, so we headed to the feed-lot to pitch worms and baits at rocks.
Think if we'd spent more time there, we might have had a full kitty stringer like Tin-Can,and some of the others at the busy cleaning station (about 1pm).
So one cat, one eye, no skunk.
Um, when we hauled the boat out, the stringer was not pulled in, and well, um - the eye fell off. LUCKILY a kind couple was coming into dock, and were able/willing to help us net the fish.
That would have been
to see a bird fly off with that prize!
We had a goal, find the island, fish the island, drag some bottom bouncers, hope to boat some eyes.
Well, we found the island. As "we" were setting up to troll, I dropped a line, got SLAMMED by a big tug. Something grabbed, tugged HARD, and broke my spiderwire. HAD to be huge and very toothy, no doubt!
Got to bouncing some bottom bouncers with spinner rigs, bunches of beads and crawlers. Ready to feed those fish. I threw out a side-planer with a hard-bait, just because. Put a walleye diver on there.
I got a good slam, and had a hard kitty fight. Was under 20", but dang, if that sucker didn't wrestle goodly!
My mate followed my advice, and fed that worm back into a toothy hungry mouth. Landed a nice +20" walleye - target landed.
We eventually gave up on the island adventure, no boils in sight, no birds diving, so we headed to the feed-lot to pitch worms and baits at rocks.
Think if we'd spent more time there, we might have had a full kitty stringer like Tin-Can,and some of the others at the busy cleaning station (about 1pm).
So one cat, one eye, no skunk.
Um, when we hauled the boat out, the stringer was not pulled in, and well, um - the eye fell off. LUCKILY a kind couple was coming into dock, and were able/willing to help us net the fish.
That would have been
to see a bird fly off with that prize!
