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| Hit the water this morning at 6 am out of Calumet co Park and spent the first 2 hours running south along the 19 foot line... 4 Sandpike and zero Waleyes.... flat calm and the bugs were terrible.
Ran north to the mud west of Calumet Co park and switched to #5 Northland tackle Colorado blades in Perch Holigraphic with gold back and green\orange\light green beads, 50-60 back with a 3/8 oz weight @ 1.2-3 mph...hit an 18 as my first board was going out. Over the next 60 minutes, I caught and released over 25 Walleyes ranging from 12-22 inches, 8 of which were over 19 inches. The Walleyes were hitting so lite that even the 18 inch fish hardely pulled my medium size Church boards back more than a few inches. A couple of times, I picked up the rods to check and they would have a 16-17 in Walleye just riding along without putting up any fight until they got to the boat. I went through 10 dozen crawlers and never had more than a couple of minutes without either a Whitebass or Walleye on. Almost no Sheephead today.
I spent the rest of the afternoon runnng short passes over about a 1/2 mile area catching and releasing a bunch of 12-17 inch Walleyes. Lots of fun with lots of eater size Walleyes. I stopped keeping track around 40... I had a day just like this last year on a flatt calm buggy day in the same area.
Around 5 pm the wind picked up so I ran south of Stockbridge and started running the new Storm DJ's in Natural Perch 105 back on 14/6 Fireline @ 1.9 mph across the now building waves and wind. This has been one of my best producing baits on the East Shore the last 2 years. In a little over an hour, I caught 3 Walleyes between 19-22 inches all on the same color DJ's and another 10 or so in the 13-16 inch range.
Hope this helps you be a little more productive next week... I have to work and I can't get back on the water till Friday, so if you catch any nice fish with this info... e-mail me because I have to fish our company Tournament and it's killing me that I can't pre-fish this week before Friday.
Purple Skeeter |
