It was a tough bite…marked a lot of fish but we didn’t get a single bite until about 1pm, small OOS smallmouth…caught a couple more moved on. Fishing continued to be slow. I suggested we take a run across the lake and up the river.
We ran quite a way up the river tried a few spots for walleye…still nothing. It was now like 2:30 in the afternoon, sunny and getting very hot. We decided to switch gears and drift down the river bank with the electric casting towards shore for pike. Saw my old boat
I tied on an x-rap, and there we were casting away, when I casted one over by a large rock. At first I thought I snagged the rock until it moved. It was a tank of a smallie. Dan and I estimated it just at or just under a nickel, we had a scale but just wanted to immediately release it…there way or may not have been a picture taken
Shortly after I had a 36†plus pike follow my lure to the side of the boat, I casted to it again, and again it followed my lure. I stopped the lure and the pike was just looking at it, at the same time I noticed I was drifting kind of close to shore…I looked down for a second to adjust the trolling motor to look back up just in time to see the pike spitting out my lure
I told Dan to try casting his lure to it.... but it what we were up to, it didn’t get that big for no reason…it just swam awayThe fishing slowed down after that and it was getting really hot and I was beginning to get sunburnt. I said to Dan “lets troll this last bay and see if we can get another big pike and go home†Turned into the bay, I was trolling the xrap down a weedline in 5-7 FOW when WHAM a fish smashed the lure and begain bull-dogging towards bottom. Thought I had a decent pike on the line…
It took all day but I got my walleye 3.21 lbs 21.5". Fished the area for a while longer Dan caught a decent pike and then we packed it up and I went home for a nice walleye dinner
