Went on a solo trip this morning.
The night bite is about over, and the
good daytime fishing is about 2 or so weeks away. I just wanted to get out on a nice day and wet a line.
I got this brown where I usually get walleyes, I throw back all trout and salmon, so I didn't take the time to weigh or measure this one. They die pretty easy after the fight to the boat if you keep them out of the water very long.
That lure is 4.5" long...
I missed a REALLY nice walleye just short of the net (you know, the big one that gets away
)
He just twisted the right way to drop the lure about 2' from the net. Like they say, "It's all fun and games until someone looses a walleye"!! There was some *&%#@%!* going on in the boat after it slowly swam away...
Right after that one though, I got this 8.5 pounder on the same lure that the trout took.....
I picked up a small 1.5 to 2 # smallmouth and threw it back. We get a lot of those up to 6 or 7# all summer long by accident.
Then I lost another one! I was putting on an inline planer board, and as I was clipping it to the line I got a nice hit. By the time I took the board back off, slowly let the line out not to give the fish any slack, then pick up the rod.....
Well you can imagine how that Mongolian "C.F." ended...
Oh well...
A few minutes later this weird one hit a lure.
I thought it was a female with a load of impacted eggs, but when I cleaned the walleye, it was just a weird looking fish with a big belly. Must have been hanging around with some bass down there !!