Decided to hit Starvation with the drift boat for one more peaceful day on the water without the crowds that have already started to show up. I launched the boat about 10 AM. I used bottom bouncers for about 3 hours with only one good bite from what I thought was a walleye. I seems though that I found a school of perch off one of the points near the diversion inlet. I caught two and moved on. Those perch were hitting pretty hard and aggressive and they were fatties too. The wind picked up so I opted to go have some lunch.(I ordered a pizza from the gas station. Its kinda nice to make a phone call from Knights hollow and it is ready when I get there) After lunch I decided to go back and try again despite the wind that had not really let up too much. It was about an hour till I got blown off again so I fished the channel @ the inlet with jigs. It only took a couple casts and I hit a small little walleye. I was surprised to catch one because the water is turned off right now and has been for the last 5 days. That was the first walleye I have caught in there while the water was off. The wind calmed down a bit so back to the drifter and bouncing. Right off the bat I caught another small walleye bouncing with a chartreuse blade. Then nothing… The wind started up again, and I had talked to a nice guy that told me he had marked fish close to the bottom just behind where I was troll/drifting. I then decided to throw down an anchor and started jigging with again chartreuse power grubs and green and chartreuse 1/4 oz jig head(due to the wind that had picked up again). Second cast and I nailed a really nice walleye about 3 1/2 pounds. Next couple of casts and whack again. Another walleye a bit smaller but great eater bout 2 pounds. Then the guy who told me about the bottom dwellers came over by me and told me I had anchored right on the edge of the main channel that was about 24 feet of water. Lucky guess since I dont have any electronics I just have a good idea of where the channel goes from the low water last year. So the long day payed off at the end and is too bad I finally figured them out just as it was getting too dark.
Everybody going out to Starvation this weekend have fun and watch out for idiots.
I talked to the ranger last night and they will be out in full force looking for drunkies on boats and they are eager to take people to jail. I would be smart about everything.
Thanks for the report!