First Fishing Report of the Season...4/3/15

[Capt Juls]

Well, it's that time again...Weeeeee!

Even though my 3 day charter for today through Sunday was rescheduled earlier this week, for the third week in April, the forecast for today changed enough from then, until now, to make it out on the water for the first trip of the season. (They were traveling from South Dakota).

It was a "fun fishing" trip with Capt Kevin Swartz, who I work with during the season.

It was also a trip to make sure everything on the new Ranger was working properly. I am happy to say it is.

Anyway, today was fun! The fishing was pretty darn good. We had a two man limit of nice walleye within 3 hours. The biggest two were a 29 incher and a 30 inch fish. The rest were a mix from 23-27 inches...nice eaters.

We were pulling Smithwick Perfect 10's with a 1oz snap weight at "20/20" and "30/30" in 27' of water near the firing range. Colors that caught fish were the blue/chrome, Tablerock Gold, Juice, and Lemon-Lime Crush. We also caught two eyes on a Pink Lemonade DHJ12 at 125 back. Speed was 1.3mph.

When I got home there was a nice surprise waiting for me... the new Ulterra was sitting on my front porch. It finally came! Woot! Woot! lol
I installed it on the boat, and it turns on, but I didn't want to deploy it until it was in the water, since I don't know what the up/down setting is, and I didn't want to damage anything, if it were to hit the winch on the trailer. Better safe than sorry, eh?

I've got the next two days off, and then I'll be fishing straight through from the 6th to the 28th...unless the weather dictates otherwise.

So, the next trip out will be Monday. As of right now, the weather forecast looks like it will be a fishable day, so stay tuned.....

Capt Juls