Friday morning Adam and I started the weekend getting on the water and trying to find the fish. We struggled initially, trying our standard spot, but we could not pull a fish out. Conditions were warm and relatively calm. There were boats absolutely everywhere on the lake. We tried bottom bounchers for about ten minutes before we gave up on that venture and headed across the lake to our other spot. We pitched crankbaits in our spot for awhile and I did manage another slob waldo.
We tried trolling awhile after that and came up with one northern and a small walleye on our first loop. Trolling the old roadbed I did finally boat a good pike.
We ended up catching a few more walleyes throughout the mid-afternoon. Despite Paul's many death threats, we did throw all of these fish back. With it being mid 80's, we didn't figure we would do so well keeping them alive anyway.
We headed back into town to re-organize everything and get things ready to accommodate Paul, Cathie, and Rachel for the evening fish. We had a quick bite of food and got on the water.
The boat ramp I got permission to use on the other side of the lake left a lot to be desired. What looked like a great boat ramp turned into axle grinding, tire burying, motor crunching uh-oh. We tried three go's at it before giving up and trying to put in off of the road like everyone else. This was worse...
What everyone else lacked was a boat load of people and gear. We finally did get it out into the lake but a chunk of concrete did it's handy work on the prop.
Right off the bat Cathie started us off with a waldo.
Even the Mrs. managed to boat a fish!
We worked the bay until almost and I caught a couple more walleyes to throw in the live well. We ended the evening with Adam boating another SLOB GATOR!!!
It was a great cap to a great day! We dropped everyone off at the dock Nick and I fished at earlier in the week, and got the boat out without too much trouble.
This was merely the beginning of our trip and trip and tomorrow would hopefully bring a few more walleye for the freezer as well as a couple of pike to satisfy my obsession.
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