By admin on June 13th, 2010
We watched the weigh-in for a local fishing tournament this afternoon and saw some pretty nice 5 fish limits come in. The winners had just over 16 pounds of walleye. Big fish for the day was 5.5 pounds. As you might imagine, my son and I got home with an itch to do some walleye fishing so he decided to throw four lakes in a hat and I got to pull one out. It was the same small lake we had been to last week where he caught the 28 incher here.
We still had a container full of leeches in the refrigerator, so we grabbed those and headed off. We spent some time in the weeds tonight, and found a few northerns and bluegills but we eventually moved off to deeper water to see if the walleyes were hanging out there. We were getting regular bites, but the walleyes were refusing to hang on for some reason. We’d feel the whack, feed some line, then nothing. A couple other guys out there expressed the same frustration. At about 9:30 we had only a couple of small walleyes to show for our efforts so we gave ourselves another 15 minutes. Sure enough, that was enough to trigger the bite that my son felt. This time the walleye hung on and in a couple of minutes we had a 24 inch walleye in the boat. She took the hook pretty good, so it took some effort to get her back into the water, but she did eventually perk up and shoot back to the depths. In the effort to get the hook out we broke the line, and rather than tie up a whole new rig, my son just tied the hook to the end of the remaining snell. This resulted in a roughly 2 foot long snell. I was pulling around a rig with a 4 footer, so he was understandably concerned that his might be a bit short. This worry was quickly put to rest when he felt the next “whack” and hooked the 27 inch lunker you see in the picture above.
We tooled around for a bit longer, but didn’t manage any more bites, so we called it a night. Lindy rigs and leeches have produced fairly well so far. We may mix in crawlers on our next outing. Hopefully we can start to zone in on some keeper fish that measure somewhere between 12 inches and 27 inches.
