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Fishing with Mark and Dr Steve 11/25/18
I left the house early this morning to go get my boat out of storage for today's trip, gas up the Ranger, and get some breakfast at Big Bopper's before heading over to Mazurik's to meet my crew.
They were meeting me at 8:30, so I had a lot of time to visit with some other captains that showed up at Bopper's too. It's been a while since I had seen the bunch of them, so it was a good way to start the day! :)
Mark was driving in from Fremont and Steve was driving in from Sandusky. Mark showed up a little after 8, so we chatted while we waited for Steve to show up. He showed up right on time and we were launched and in the water by 8:30.
After letting the G2 warm up to temp, we headed to the northeast side of Kelly's to start looking. I stopped short of the south green can at the shoal and didn't mark much, but saw a few boats on the west side of the shoal and north of north bay trolling. But, just before I was going to move west, I got a text from someone saying they already had 6 in the box (they had launched 20 minutes before me), and gave me some numbers, so we turned and headed 4 miles southeast to give it a shot.
We set up with Bandits behind Off Shore boards at 75-120 back at a speed of 1.3-1.4mph. We picked up 4 fish, but it wasn't on fire. The marks were spotty...really good...then, nothing...then, really good...then, nothing.
Just about the time I was going to turn and go back through a pod of fish, I got a text from another friend showing me his screen full of marks from top to bottom and said it was a pretty good bite, so we picked up and moved to the west again. Luckily, it was a nice day and we got to go open up the engine and let her sing. :)
We caught their two limits, and three of mine (but one I let go, so it would get a chance to live a little longer), before we ran out of time, and headed in.
Bandits 80 back and P-10's 20/50 and 30/30 with a 2oz Guppie weight were our best leads overall. The Lemon-Lime Crush P-10 with the orange belly took a bunch...as did the Attention Deficit Bandit.
It was a very nice day on the water. The air temp was a warm 48 degrees and the water temp was 42. It was mostly overcast, but the sun did pop out in the early afternoon for about an hour. The wind died around noon and went to nothing, so the lake was like glass.
The guys had a good time and learned some little tips and tricks for using inline planer boards, so they can apply it to their outings out on the lake too. :)
I might be fishing with the Chapman's again on Friday if the forecast holds.....fingers crossed!
Stay tuned....
Capt Juls
