Island area fishing report 6/4/21

We started West of Rattlesnake island on the fringe of the pack of boats. Minimal marks and only boated 1 throwback in an hour. Wind was stronger than we thought it would be and after dodging several drifting boats and other trollers, picked up and headed to the East side of Middle Bass (we did not see any walleye netted during our time West). Marked some decent fish East of Ballast and trolled North towards the border. Ended with 5 decent Walleye after a few hours. 2 throwbacks and 2 more lost on way in. Only saw a few fish netted out of all boats working the area. Ran bandits and spoons at all depths and varied speed between 1.8-2.6 mph. Could barely see props on my outboards. Radio chatter indicated some were catching limits high in the water column. Not us.

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Thank you for that report. THats the area I like to fish too. I thought this time of the year that entire area would be loaded with hungry fish.

We started west of RI and did the same thing you did so we moved to East side of NB. We ended up with a limit of nice fish mostly on bandits up high 35 back at 2.1.

We went west of northwest reef and found a school away from the chaos of the island packs. We made four passes and had three limits of decent fish in about 90 minutes. It was non-stop action sorting through some of the smaller eyes. Flicker minnows and deep little rippers from 5 to 15 feet deep. We were back at the ramp by 10 am.

Took boat out for first time yesterday, mostly to check out new gear and just enjoy a boat ride on a sunny day. Got an intentional late start, saw big pack of boats between islands, decided to stay clear and go south east. 2-man limit by afternoon, ran flickers to start 35-50' back, switched to bandits as day heated up.

Sorry for the late report, Crew of 3, 6-4, a little breezy, Started East of North Bass and saw/caught nothing after an hour, so dropped down South of Lucys point, picked 3 here and made and then trolled East between the Islands. Eventually got 12 more keeper Eye's and a few shorts, and a few Sheep. Had 2 FO's , 1 was an eye and one huge barn door size sheepshead. Ran #1 Dipseys on 5 rods, best settings were 3.5/75' 2/55' and .5/36', 11 eyes on spoons with no particular color, although 3 came on a translucent pink backed spoon. 2 eye's came on the .5 dipsey with small green cranks, and 2 came on a #30 jet diver at 90' with a pink backed colorado blade. Spent 5.5 hours trolling, no certain direction trolling seemed to be better than another so really had not much of a pattern/program to follow. Hoping to get out later in the week, so perhaps the mud off of PC will clear for some "close to home fishing" . 1 neighbor limited closer to N. Bass, one had 15 in the middle where we were, and another neighbor caught 5

Good to get out and enjoy our beautiful lake!!