Fishing with the Chapman's 7/10/14
Well, you all know how much I have been wanting to get up to Canada to fish.... today, I had that chance. My customers, Steve Chapman and his son, Jeremy, got their Canadian Lic this morning at the Wharf and met me at Mazurik's at 7:30. We launched by 7:40 and headed out. There was a NE roll on the lake, so even though it looked flat, we couldn't go WOT like I was wishing I could. lol
It was a beautiful morning, but I was watching a storm headed right for the area I wanted to fish on the radar. It looked like it was going more north, but when we started fishing, we could see that it was a slow mover that was not going to miss us.
We made a half a pass on Mill Point, and couldn't even get all the boards out. We caught a bunch of sheephead, and two walleye (one was a nice fat 29 incher) before we spotted the first of three waterspouts to appear. The first was on the other side of Pelee, so we kept fishing. The second however, dropped down and hit the water behind us by about a mile or a mile and a half. That one looked like it was on track to hit us if we didn't pick up and move out of the way. That one dissipated as it got further away from the island though, and the second one appeared near the same area. I think the heat over the land mass was what was causing it, and as it moved away from the island they fell apart. There was a wall of rain though that also kept us out of there. My crew didn't have any rain gear with them, so we moved south and talked about what to do next. We decided to make the run back down to the area where I was fishing yesterday. I was so bummed! I waited so long to have customers who had their Canadian Lic, so I could go up there, and then this weather happened....arrrrggh!! Phooey.
Anyhooo....
To make a long story short, because I still have to scrub the boat and cut the grass...ugh...
We ran the same program as yesterday, and picked up 9 more walleye (one short of their two man limit before we ran out of time). Jeremy was cracking me up with his whining about the sheephead and when he thought he had another one on, it turned out to be a big fat 30 inch walleye! Which, by the way, he is now having mounted, as it was the biggest walleye he's caught to date, and it was a great memory for today. :)
I'll be running back to Mill Point tomorrow with new customers (a Father and his two teenage daughters), so we'll try it again. It should be fun keeping the girls busy reeling in all the sheephead up there. But, I'm confident there are some big walleye up there too.
Stay tuned....
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