Arrived late afternoon and handed the better half her rod while I decided what technique I will be fishing...first cast she makes latches on to a nice pike of between 5-6lb range.
So I land that for her and bait up her yellow jig head with another minnow and return to my business of tackling up....but bam she is into yet another fish right on her next cast..yet another pike I thought.But then see this golden bar come up from the depths...this time a nice walleye of around 3lbs.
By this time I am getting concerned that I was not going to get to fish,but the wife was kind enough not to catch anything for a few casts,so I was able to get my bait into the water.
Throughout the evening we continued to catch loads of small pike.
Then it was my turn for some decent action.My yellow jig and minnow was suddenly snapped up by something which decided not to come up from the depths and gave a really nice fight on the light rod I was using.
A big smile on my face appeared when I saw yet another walleye coming up and I realised that it was a real beauty for the area we were fishing.
After rooting around for my scales,stuck the beast on them and the neddle registered right at the 6lb mark.
Heres a pic-sorry about the crap quality,I think the wife was having a smoke at the time she took it!
Having caught my first walleye of 2007 I was over the moon that it was such a nice fish.
Carried on fishing until dusk and managed to continue catching lots more pike and even caught yet another walleye of about 2lb.
Didnt want to go home by then but decided that we had to..just to check that our teenagers had'nt burnt the house down!!
Will be hitting that same spot very soon!!
I hope to get into a few of those this weekend...Just need to hook up the fishfinders to find that crucial break.