We were planning to fish Sat 8/8 and the forcast called for a beautifull day.I talked to two captains the day before and the said they both were also trolling for walleye Saturday.They both gave me numbers pretty close together,but when I asked what program one captain ran last time out,he said all 14 rods had out weighted bandits.I asked why,and he said the spoons only catching junk and shorts.
I arrived at Johns' place at the CIC 6am Saturday and assembled all the gear and headed to those numbers NE of Kellies.Had some small rollers still coming at us from previous day NE wind.Arrived at our spot and set out 2 spoon harnesses on dipsey and 4 bandits on inline boards with 2oz weight.But,the two captains were not in sight.Maybe we beat them to a spot or stopped short to check out some marks.There was a few boats around us but the sonar did not have good marks.Caught a couple of small white perch on our spoons,but after 40 min without a keeper sent out a text to both captains.John wanted to pick up and head to bouy but I had heard that that cold water had shut off that bite.One captain said he was south of me and had 7 fish.Gave me numbers of a hot bite and said he was thinking of moving there.I did the math and told John that spot was 5miles south and 11miles east from where we were.He said lets go and off we went.The captain decided to move there too.
The program that worked for us was purple bandits on the 4 boards at 140,two at 150 and 170.All with 2oz weight after 50ft.Had the two dipseys out also and they continued to catch some junk.Eventually we did pick up 2 keepers on one dipsey and the other was changed out to a shallow lip crank that caught one keeper.Took about 2.5hrs to get our 12 that weight 28lbs and I do not believe we caught a short all day.We did lose like 4 fish near the boat too.
Had a long ride home and as we were nearing Catawba point noticed a lot of boats around.It was 1:20pm and then realized all the boats had Trump flags and were headed to port Clinton.Then as arrived at entrance to CIC had a boat jam with a line of boats headed out of CIC and launching at the Catawba ramp to head to the rally.Saw the flotilla of over a thousand boats several miles long ride past the CIC as we sat at the CIC lakefront.Great way to end the day.