Hoped to get into a couple of warming up walleyes. Wasn't in the cards. But the kitties kept me busy. Too busy.
Launched about 7ish. Air temp 69 degrees...warming to 89 at noon. Water temp 73...warming to about 76 at noon. Noticed increasingly more shad in the water column. Some large balls and some small clusters in some areas.
I didn't even drop a rig overboard until I had gotten out to the formerly magic 13-14 foot area. Then I began making big S turns from shallower to deeper...looking for walleye type marks. Didn't see many and the ones I did see were never seen on the end of my line.
Fished two Hi-Low rigs with various colors of whirly fligs. Fished crawlers on the bottom and white whirlies with white Gulp goodies on the top. Caught those everlovin' kitties on just about everything I served up. Found out it could be "interesting" to get doubles on two hi-low rigs with a couple of rambunctious cats. Narrowly avoided disaster several times...getting at least 4 doubles during the morning.
Had constant action until I bagged it at noon. Pretty much went through a whole 2 dozen crawlers...with every strike a hookup...and catching more than one fish on some crawlers. Also got several fish on the white whirlies with gulp goodies...up on the top rigs. Didn't count the casualties but I would guess I molested somewhere in the vicinity of 30 whiskerfish. And a couple of them molested me...with stickers and with sharp serrated spines. One got me between the first and second finger on my left hand as I was holding it in the usually safe belly grip. Ouch.
Shoulda knowed the fishing had slowed down for walleyes. A lot fewer boats chasing them today and most of those quit before I did. And when I got to the cleaning station to fillet the 3 cats I kept for the fryer there was no evidence of anyone else recently cleaning fish. And the grinder worked fine.
Launched about 7ish. Air temp 69 degrees...warming to 89 at noon. Water temp 73...warming to about 76 at noon. Noticed increasingly more shad in the water column. Some large balls and some small clusters in some areas.
I didn't even drop a rig overboard until I had gotten out to the formerly magic 13-14 foot area. Then I began making big S turns from shallower to deeper...looking for walleye type marks. Didn't see many and the ones I did see were never seen on the end of my line.
Fished two Hi-Low rigs with various colors of whirly fligs. Fished crawlers on the bottom and white whirlies with white Gulp goodies on the top. Caught those everlovin' kitties on just about everything I served up. Found out it could be "interesting" to get doubles on two hi-low rigs with a couple of rambunctious cats. Narrowly avoided disaster several times...getting at least 4 doubles during the morning.
Had constant action until I bagged it at noon. Pretty much went through a whole 2 dozen crawlers...with every strike a hookup...and catching more than one fish on some crawlers. Also got several fish on the white whirlies with gulp goodies...up on the top rigs. Didn't count the casualties but I would guess I molested somewhere in the vicinity of 30 whiskerfish. And a couple of them molested me...with stickers and with sharp serrated spines. One got me between the first and second finger on my left hand as I was holding it in the usually safe belly grip. Ouch.
Shoulda knowed the fishing had slowed down for walleyes. A lot fewer boats chasing them today and most of those quit before I did. And when I got to the cleaning station to fillet the 3 cats I kept for the fryer there was no evidence of anyone else recently cleaning fish. And the grinder worked fine.