Fishing Day Two with Curt and Cheryl...6/23/2025

[Capt Juls]

My Wisco crew was up and ready to go at 4:30, when I pulled into the White Caps Motel, to pick them up. We hit the gas station for some ice, and headed to Huron to launch. I found out, that the work at the Huron parking lot was finished, so instead of hitting Vermilion, we would save some time and gas by launching at Huron instead.

When we arrived, it was still dark out, so I took my time readying the boat and gear, before launching. But, by the time we were at the mouth of the river, it was light enough to see if there were any floating logs, or other obstacles that needed to be avoided on the ride out.


The air temp was already 80 degrees, and very humid. The sky was cloudless, the moon was a crescent, and Venus was shining bright. The wind was very light out of the SW at maybe 5mph, and the waves were 6" or less.


I decided that we would drive up to where we ended our trolling pass yesterday, because the fish were a little bigger over 43-44 feet of water, than they were back in the shallower stuff...hoping they were still around. They were. It took a while to get all the lines out, because they started chomping right away.


Bandits ran on both sides, behind Off Shore boards. Blue Chrome at 120 back, Purple Mist at 80 back, ran on the port side. That blue/green nameless one ran at 97 back and Sunspot ran at 67 back, on the starboard side. All of them caught fish. The bigger fish came on the cranks, while the smaller fish still jumped on the spoons.


The dipsey settings are the same as I've been running...
zero at 45 and 54 and three setting at 65 and 71 / 75.
After I took a spoon off and put a black and gold Ripplin Redfin on the three setting at 65, it caught several bigger fish, like the board cranks were catching, in quick fashion. It wasn't down a minute and fish were on it!


It was non-stop action and we were all reelers this morning.


Curt and Cheryl had so much fun they have already booked a 2-day trip for next May, on Cheryls birthday, and that makes me happy!


The fish were very cooperative today, and made their experience an exceptional one, and I explained that it's not always like this, and that they had two great weather days....on the lake, anyway. Once we got back on land it was very hot and humid...ugh.


Tomorrow, I have a reschedule from last season, due to Mother Nature's fury, so we'll finally get that trip in. I'm headed back to Huron in the morning, hoping to have the same experience with these guys.


Stay tuned....


Capt Juls