I did fair on the Walleye. I did best the first day, had twelve nice ones but then it was slow after that with just a few a day. I caught a few smallmouth and largemouth in the marina but only did that a few minutes each day.

I had a lot of boat problems, just bad luck. My slow oil leak seemed to rot my power trim cable insulation and it had to fall off second day of trip when I tried to tighten steering tension. This caused major wire shorting out and had to use duck take and insulation off other wires to be able to keep fishing. Then for some reason my bilge pump kept burning fuses, rewired that when I got home, along with rewiring the other. I don't know what was wrong, a switch maybe but just coincidence they both went out. Then I had a valve stem go out starting home on toll road and I just knew I was going to have tire trouble. Anyway made it home safe and sound.

I caught fish trolling cranks. It got very hot and humid and no wind. The last day my kicker motor wouldn't start, from weather I think. The heat was hard to take and the bite was slow. I found fish on the west side of north bass. Coming back I saw a lot of boats by ballast but I like to get away from everyone. that's the story of this trip, couldn't get away, had boats behind me everywhere I went.

I got some video but not much, and it's still on tapes, haven't even looked at it yet. I did get a lot of photos if anyone wants to see. I threw back all my walleye as I usually do anymore.

Photos on my website



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