ManCation 2015 May 23rd-30th.

[Buc-Eye]

Saturday May 23rd

We made it to the lake! Everyone was hoping to make an evening trolling run but some of the necessities of life caused some of the group to come staggering in late. There was talk in the beginning of the week about trying our hand at night fishing. As the last of the group came rolling in, the decision was made that it was too late to make a trolling run and that we were going to bolt to the shallow flats off the NE of Gull Island Shoal. Dark set and we started casting our stick baits. Soon after we set up, Ryan netted a nice walleye. Two other strikes were missed as the wind began to pick up. The waves were building and the combination of being that far out at night and the likelihood of fish holding in the shallows in rougher conditions was driving my mindset to head in. Just then, my phone rang and I received a tip that fish were being pounded off the lakeside pier. I don’t pier fish much at all and I have really never heard of walleye being caught in quantity off the docks this time of year. Not having a starting point for the week’s activity, I figured there must a good amount of fish in the area for such activities. I buzzed down to the lakeside pier and made a single drift casting past the pier (We didn’t catch anything) but marked a crazy amount of fish. This is where we would start the week trolling in the morning!