tough day

[Russ Hunsaker]

Got out this morning for the first trip of the year. On the water by 6:30 and headed out of Wild Wings. OMG I have never seen so many boats on the lake! Tried in close in front of the channel, nothing. Moved over in front of Davis Besse in 12' of water, nothing. Moved out to Locust Reef, moved to Cone Reef, got 1. Seen a pack of boats out by A-Can and my buddy wanted to run out, there must have been 50 charter boats in the pack. Water depth 25' and did the best we did all day with 5 to finish the day with 7, 3 of which barely made 15". I have no idea why spawning walleye were in 25' of water with a sand bottom. The water was dirty in close and then cleared up nicely and then got dirty again in the 25' area. All of the fish we caught with the exception of one were caught in dirty water.

Listened to many guys on the radio that had one or two walleye and several that had none. I expected the walleye's to be actively spawning and my usual spring hot spots would produce a limit. Strange thing that no walleye were caught on a jib tipped with a minnow, everyone of them were caught on a bare jig.

I am curious to hear if anyone had a good day this morning.

Russ

[rscotfish]

we fun fished Thursday with charter buddy only got 5. Friday went out with other buddy got 7 4 people crane creek turtle creek 8 ft to 16 ft got them on purple no minnows and got some on black Saturday went out with different buddy got 6 4 guys we tried all different colors and weights. some charters got limits Friday but the average was around 12 - 15 fish 8 guys long days the fish we did catch were very nice 24-27 inches I also noticed the fish had heavy red meat or mud lines I cut a lot of meat away even after we zippered them. Saturday we saw all the boats move out to 17 ft so we ran out there nothing then we saw a pack of boats out farther we ran out there 21 ft of water 1 fish. ran back in shallow off wards 10 ft of water 1 boat there saw him net 2 and leave we got 1 more there. great days on the water but expensive fillets but had new pole felt good to say fish on