Fun Fishing with Keith Scheuer...5//7/2025

Mother Nature has not been nice to me this season. When I have no one scheduled, it's nice out, and when I have a trip scheduled, she turns the fans on "High"!

So, with that in mind, when I was invited to go fishing on a friend's boat this morning, I said, "Yes". I wasn't going to let another nice day get away. The lake is nice only so many days of the year, so you have to take advantage of them when you can.

It looks like my trip tomorrow will be moved to Sunday, because Old Momma Nature wants to blow from the NE again tomorrow (17 to 23mph). Luckily, my customers are my neighbors, so it's easy to reschedule with them. It's neighbor, Dave's, birthday tomorrow, so it would have been fun to go tomorrow, rather than Sunday, but hopefully, Sunday will be nicer...and, it's still close enough to his birthday, to celebrate it. Should I make him a cake? Maybe, I will....we'll see. :)

My friend, Keith Sheuer, runs a Ranger 620, and wanted to get it out and run it... so, we were fishing out of his boat today. We launched from Catawba at 7am.
I go through a real adjustment, mentally, when I'm not in control of the boat, but Keith did a fine job, and I learned to relax and have fun, but by the time I relaxed, it was time to go in...(it's a big adjustment...lol)

We were fishing west of Green in 26 feet of water, and there was no one around us...that we could see, anyway, but that's not saying much, since it was pretty foggy out there for many hours. Once it did lift, we could see boats a mile to two miles away.

Our speed was 1.8-2.0mph

Water temp was 58.3 degrees

We first set up in the dirty stuff and pointed the boat in the direction of the cleaner water, so we would pass through several shades of water clarity. The fish were holding mostly in the kind where you can just make out your cavitation plate.
We went 10 for 13 before heading in.

The tally was:
Flicker Minnow 11s in "Flashy Chartreuse", "Firetail Hot Perch", and "Firetail Chrome Candy" caught at 47 (3), 72 (1), and 74 (2) back.
**(#) depicts how many fish were caught at that distance back.

Bandits caught at 37 (1), and 57 (2) back. "Fruit Dots" at 37 back caught one, and had a hard pull back, but it came off.
"Bumblebee" at 57 back caught two, and had a pull back/lost fish, too.

A baby "Spro" caught one at 85 back. I don't know the name of it...sorry. It's the goldfish color with the red head and painted dots all over the sides.

We had one more pull back on bandit at 90 back, but it came off.

We got off the lake at 12:30, and headed back through town, so the fish could be dropped off at Port Clinton Fish Co., to be cleaned. It was only going to take them 15 minutes, so we hung out until they were done. I bought a chest freezer last month, so now I can keep a fish or two from time to time. My kitchen freezer is very small, so I couldn't fit any, if I tried. Now, I can, and that makes me happy...:)

I invited Keith to stay, when he brought me home, and fried up some of that fresh walleye for lunch. It was delicious!

I have a trip scheduled for Saturday, with Gene Piscatillo, and it's looking decent right now, with winds forecast for 10-15 out of the west. That's doable. :)

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls