I happen to be on holidays at the same time as he and so I offered to take him for a walleye hunt on a local lake 45 min from home.
We arrived at the lake at 09:30 under sunny skies , north winds and cooler airmass.... not good conditions for walleye.
My sonar showed a lot of fish in the 18-20' range with the majority of fish hugging bottom.
We started with bottom bouncers and worm harnesses, I had one fish on but lost it before confirming it was an eye, I could tell that me neighbor didn't like this "bottom bouncing" type of fishing and he wanted to CAST for BASS.... well, I'm not a BASS fisherman (too bad cause I now know the name of LAKE X
) so we compromised... I said we would troll crank baits along the shoreline in 16-18FOW... this should produce some bass and "MAYBE" a walleye or two.Well it worked, I trolled a flicker shad, and my neighbor trolled a cotton Cordell perch from about 11:00 until 3:00pm.
Neighbor caught;
>22" walleye
>19" Walleye
>3 nice size SMB
> 2 nice eater perch
I caught;
17" walleye
3-4 nice sized SMB
we kept;
2 walleye
3 SMB
1 perch
drove home with the fish in the live well, cleaned them and had my family over at his place for steak and fish for supper....
Here's a pic of the neighbor holding the two eyes
I'll be doing the same.
er to me!!
