07-13-2019, 11:39 AM
[#0000ff]Couldn't have asked for a nicer day...at least for fishing if not for catching. I harmed no walleyes on this trip but did get a few tugs. Spanked 3 or 4 small perch (6 inchers) and about a dozen small smallies.
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[#0000ff]The only perch I could find were right in the weeds and were tough to fish without snagging weeds or getting my jigs fouled with green slime. Probably could have caught a few more with a slip bobber rig but I just wasn't excited about dipping for dinks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Put my float tube up on plane (right) and powered across to the steep rocky shoreline. Hoping maybe the 'eyes might be setting up shop there. Nope. Dragged fligs on one rod and pitched jigs on the other. Caught a succession of juvenile smallies on the jigs...by pitching right up against the rocks. Had a few tentative munches on the fligs but no solid takers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was happy to hear that you had at least scored a few walleyes, but by the time I started working deeper water the walleye had moved or developed wallieitis. Caught one more smallie just as we were heading back in and that was it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got to visit briefly with Dwayneb and crew. At that time they had only one walleye for the morning. But when he called me after I got home he reported more catching later...at their newly discovered spot. Good on ya Dwayne. Nice boat too.
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[#0000ff]We couldn't have asked for nicer weather. But that might have been a part of the problem. Those cagy toothy critters often become more active in lower light conditions and when the surface is broken by breezes...a "walleye chop".
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[#0000ff]The only perch I could find were right in the weeds and were tough to fish without snagging weeds or getting my jigs fouled with green slime. Probably could have caught a few more with a slip bobber rig but I just wasn't excited about dipping for dinks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Put my float tube up on plane (right) and powered across to the steep rocky shoreline. Hoping maybe the 'eyes might be setting up shop there. Nope. Dragged fligs on one rod and pitched jigs on the other. Caught a succession of juvenile smallies on the jigs...by pitching right up against the rocks. Had a few tentative munches on the fligs but no solid takers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was happy to hear that you had at least scored a few walleyes, but by the time I started working deeper water the walleye had moved or developed wallieitis. Caught one more smallie just as we were heading back in and that was it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got to visit briefly with Dwayneb and crew. At that time they had only one walleye for the morning. But when he called me after I got home he reported more catching later...at their newly discovered spot. Good on ya Dwayne. Nice boat too.
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[#0000ff]We couldn't have asked for nicer weather. But that might have been a part of the problem. Those cagy toothy critters often become more active in lower light conditions and when the surface is broken by breezes...a "walleye chop".
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