08-21-2006, 03:50 PM
I drove down to Lake Shore Friday evening, hoping to wade out a ways into the vegetation and score a whitie or two. The wind, however, was howling like the Big Bad Wolf, so I went swimming instead. Seriously. There were some guys there training for a triathalon, so they inspired me to dive in and swim out into the three-foot swells. It was kinda fun. (FYI, I didn't swim with the triathalon guys. I knew I couldn't keep up, so I found my own stretch of rolling water and played in the surf my own self.)
Anyway, when I came back into shallower waters, there was a young guy, in his mid-twenties, fishing for whities not more that a dozen or so yards from shore. He carried with him a TubeDude-like basket, minus the floating noodle tied near its rim, and inside he had only three good-sized whities. He said he'd released a few more smaller ones. But tied to the basket was a separate stringer that had two GIGANTIC walleye hanging from two stringer eyelets. One was the biggest walleye I've seen taken out of the lake, and I caught two 27 inchers near Lincoln Beach last year. He said he was casting his 1/32 oz. orange and green Wal-Mart special curly tails for whities, when he felt a huge hit, followed by a scrappy fight. He said the two 'eyes came within minutes of each other and then the excitement was over.
That makes three trips to Lake Shore I've taken in about the last six weeks where I've seen other people catch walleye from about the same place. They say tiger muskie are the fish of a 1,000 casts, but I believe if I was patient enough, I could probably score an 'eye in this one spot, at least after several casts, as a friend of mine has scored an 'eye on each of his last two trips with me, and, of course this young guy I met on Friday has his success.
Fishless or not, I had a nice swim in some pretty mean swells a couple hundred yards from the shore in neck-deep water on Friday. It was kind of a getting-back-to-nature kind of thing.
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Anyway, when I came back into shallower waters, there was a young guy, in his mid-twenties, fishing for whities not more that a dozen or so yards from shore. He carried with him a TubeDude-like basket, minus the floating noodle tied near its rim, and inside he had only three good-sized whities. He said he'd released a few more smaller ones. But tied to the basket was a separate stringer that had two GIGANTIC walleye hanging from two stringer eyelets. One was the biggest walleye I've seen taken out of the lake, and I caught two 27 inchers near Lincoln Beach last year. He said he was casting his 1/32 oz. orange and green Wal-Mart special curly tails for whities, when he felt a huge hit, followed by a scrappy fight. He said the two 'eyes came within minutes of each other and then the excitement was over.
That makes three trips to Lake Shore I've taken in about the last six weeks where I've seen other people catch walleye from about the same place. They say tiger muskie are the fish of a 1,000 casts, but I believe if I was patient enough, I could probably score an 'eye in this one spot, at least after several casts, as a friend of mine has scored an 'eye on each of his last two trips with me, and, of course this young guy I met on Friday has his success.
Fishless or not, I had a nice swim in some pretty mean swells a couple hundred yards from the shore in neck-deep water on Friday. It was kind of a getting-back-to-nature kind of thing.
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