Fished WB today, on the water at 7:30, off at 2:20. Water temp ~79F-83F. Started just outside of the North Marina, down to Freeway Bay, passed the Feedlot, out to the Island, then over to the Light Pole. Water clarity was good for WB, not too many bugs, but quite warm. Lots of mid lake surface activity today, a couple of all out boils in addition to lots of small groups breaking the surface.
We caught one catfish, two dink wipers, one nice wiper, and a total of 13 walleye. Most of the walleye were ~16", one was 18", and the largest was 20". Almost all the fish came on a SR5 in what I think is a Blue Shiner, though mine are older and may not still be in production. I really expected the fish to be deeper, and tried a number of different cranks, but they really wanted the SR5. We ran them 60’ behind the planer board, which is ~7’ down per the book.
Here are some photos. First fish of the day, trophy wiper:
John,
Please refresh my memory, what kind of boat are you running?
Mine is a extra wide (tournament series) 18’2" Crestliner and it looks like it could totally fit inside yours!
Did you see the duck forecast numbers this year,wow.
Shane
My boat doesn’t have a kicker, just a main engine. So it has a minimum speed of ~2.8MPH.
Hi Shane, how have you been? My boat is a Hewescraft 20’ Searunner with a Mercury 115EFI. It’s a fish killing machine, complete with Simrad AP 14R autopilot, Lowrance LCX 111c HD FF/GPS w/ fuel flow meter, Icom 422 VHF, Scotty 1106 electric downriggers, Lowrance radar, etc. Autopilot is awesome for trolling multiple lines, I can run five lines solo for tuna. It’s really optimized for ocean fishing, as I don’t have a bow mount trolling motor for bottom bouncing.
Here is what it looks like in full salmon/tuna battle dress:
There’s tuna in WB? And I thought they were wipers! (teehee)
You know what they say “you can’t tune a piano, but you can tune-a-fish!” (sorry, lame I know… it’s what I’m good at!)
but honestly - nice ride there! Looks sweet. No wonder you can wander that whole lake!
So you were catching all those eyes at almost 3mph? Dang - I thought that was Wiper speed, and the Eye’s dig the slow-death spinners. They must be feeling purdy energetic.
Sorry Paddler, the thread went off topic of your origional post, so I detatched it. It is still here on the main board, I just changed the title to Tuna.
