Fishing with Andy and Tasha Takos 7/17/14
It was a perfect morning...the kind that keeps us coming back for more!
I met Andy and Tasha Takos at the Walmart parking lot at 5:30 this morning, and loaded them into the truck. Once again, we headed over to Huron to launch over there. I love that launch, and the ride out the channel in the morning, because it brings back a lot of fun memories for me.
The sunrise was simply gorgeous...and, we didn't have far to go. Since I hadn't fished over there since last Saturday, a friend of mine, Duncan Wooster, had given me his latest program and spot from yesterday. Thanks Duncan!
All I will say is that it was shallower than I had been fishing over there for the past few weeks, so I was surprised by that. I'm still running crawler harnesses with the #2 Tadpoles with both single Colorado crawler harnesses and double willow leaf crawler harnesses at 1.5mph. Leads were 31-45 back and all leads took fish at some point or another this morning. I was mostly running orange/green combos and purple gold combos today.
It was just a short 4 hour charter this morning, but we got it done with about 1/2 hour to spare. Tasha caught her first fish ever, and it just so happened that it was a nice fat 28 1/2 inch walleye! What a way to get introduced to fishing, eh? I hope her expectations are not set too high now though...lol She reeled it in like a pro, because one more flippity-flop on the surface and that fish would have spit the hook! (It was barely hooked when I went to get the hook out...whew!)
Andy was doing a great job helping me set lines, even though he's never used Off Shore boards, or any inline planers for that matter, he learned very quickly. And, while his wife was reeling in the majority of the fish, he was managing to keep the lines going out while I helped her get the fish in. We were working like a well oiled machine this morning. Both of them commented on how much work it is to troll like we do, but as long as we stayed organized it went very smoothly, and we had a lot of fun with the sometimes chaotic events.
We even got to witness another waterspout this morning. This one was much bigger than the one up by Pelee last week, and stayed on the water for a long time, which is kind of unusual, but it stayed well to the north of us and we were never in any danger where we were, so we just kept fishing.
Tomorrow I am headed back up to Pelee with the same customers as last week to try for walleye and smallmouth again. I'm pretty sure there are no more waterspouts in the forecast and the weather is starting to warm up again after this cold front we just had, so it should be a fun and relaxing time.
Stay tuned....
http://www.julswalleyefishingadventures.com/Blog.html
