Woke up yesterday morning to rain, so I stuck around home and made sourdough pancakes. The rain quit around 8:00, so I grabbed the bait out of the fridge and hit the road.
Spent the entire day bank fishing (since I don't have a boat yet), only caught five fish. The first one was on a corner where the wind was just hammering in all day, and took a deep jerk bait on a steady retrieve. But this is a smaller body of water, and it isn't stocked with walleye, so she lives to go make more little walleye. From the looks of things, it's going to be a bunch.
I've got a mark on my rod to how long she was, and I am guessing it's 28 in or so, and pushing 8 lb. I'll go measure the mark on the rod, but I'll never know the weight for sure.
I eventually got blown out of that corner because the wind just kicked up too bad and was getting a little cold and wet from the waves. I hopped around to another spot where I stayed entirely too long without getting a bite.
The third spot of the day was the calmest, but also had the shallowest water. I got three walleye on a floating worm harness that I was chucking out and dragging back, but I eventually ran out of worms. The last one came on a buck tail with a gulp minnow right at last light. These four fish didn't fare as well, since they were all 17 to 20-in males.
I'm still new to walleye fishing, so this is one of the better days I've had. But I think I need to get a boat or a canoe or a kayak or something. Unless, of course, I can get a friend with a boat instead.
Spent the entire day bank fishing (since I don't have a boat yet), only caught five fish. The first one was on a corner where the wind was just hammering in all day, and took a deep jerk bait on a steady retrieve. But this is a smaller body of water, and it isn't stocked with walleye, so she lives to go make more little walleye. From the looks of things, it's going to be a bunch.
I've got a mark on my rod to how long she was, and I am guessing it's 28 in or so, and pushing 8 lb. I'll go measure the mark on the rod, but I'll never know the weight for sure.
I eventually got blown out of that corner because the wind just kicked up too bad and was getting a little cold and wet from the waves. I hopped around to another spot where I stayed entirely too long without getting a bite.
The third spot of the day was the calmest, but also had the shallowest water. I got three walleye on a floating worm harness that I was chucking out and dragging back, but I eventually ran out of worms. The last one came on a buck tail with a gulp minnow right at last light. These four fish didn't fare as well, since they were all 17 to 20-in males.
I'm still new to walleye fishing, so this is one of the better days I've had. But I think I need to get a boat or a canoe or a kayak or something. Unless, of course, I can get a friend with a boat instead.
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