KI Island Area

[West Basin]

Fished from off West Harbor in the South Passage to between SB and Kelleys to north of Kelleys and then Gull Island Shoal last Sunday. Real late start - 3:30pm to 7:30. Same. Very few walleye marks and not much else. Drift fishing. Only caught a few white perch, two sheepshead, two catfish, and two small walleye one a keeper, for three guys 5 hours. My underwater camera caught a group of sheepshead. We went over some groups of heavy marks on the bottom just west of the shoal and immediately caught the two catfish, nice size. Those marks were probably all or mostly catfish, as it's their spawning season.

One note was the water was green from 5-6 feet down all the way to the bottom. I usually don't see that until July. My guess is the water in those areas isn't preferable to walleye (lower O2?) so for the most part they were not there.