FIRST OFF I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU Rockman for giving my brother and me a ride out to your spot and letting us fish with you this past Saturday. YOU know I will be back and I think we might just convert that bass head brother of mine to a walleye guy. By the end of the night we sure had that house spinning the wheeler around in circles bit down pretty good. I just need new spikes now.
Second, I want to say sorry to Ole for not waiting for him after the bait store stop. My brother and I figured we would walk out to the first break and then wait for you. Then Rockman offered us the ride to the second hump so I could not resist fishing out on new ice with Rock all day hoping for some video. By the time we got out there I remembered you didn't have your wheeler. Beer's on me next time.
NOW FOR THE REPORT
As I said before we went with Rockman out to the second hump and were told to explore all over the place and pick up on any patterns. Well my brother had the upper hand for the first 3 hours. He caught 4 small walleyes (12†or less) that were released and 4 other perch with one making the bucket @ 10â€. He (being a bass guy) had a simple setup with a small Jammin Jigs fire tiger designed small jig and fathead minnow. He just waited them out all day as I think he fished in only 5 holes all day. He also had two tip-ups (one being mine) out with shiner minnows on the out side edge of the hump. I was surprised that these didn’t get hit, but then I pulled one of them up and he had a hook that a shark fisherman would be envious of. I laughed and left it out of the water so I could finally fish two lines.
At 2ish Rockman and company headed in to the first hump to fish for perch but we stayed and hit more of the edges of the hump to what normally were 30 feet which is now 27 because of the low water conditions. First hole I pulled a nice fat 10†jumbo on a dropper rig with minnow head, then it went dead. I left my bobber rig down and went hopping. I worked a small perch for 20 minutes and finally pulled that one up. I then decided to head back to the house and noticed my bobber was gone. I set the hook with nothing there. That was on a small jig and shiner. I set that back up with another shiner and continued to jig. From 3:00 to 3:30 I caught 4 little walleyes and had something snap my line with the bobber and shiner.
We then moved to the top of the reef again for the sundown bite and proceeded to pick up water (16.5â€) and another jumbo. Thinking the bigger fish were going to bite brought a flurry of smaller walleye and then Rockman packed it up and off we went on another exciting ride towards shore. A couple quick famous Rocky reef burger baskets we were headed for home.
I was hoping to shoot some video but we couldn’t get on a consistent bite for that, hopefully next time. Rockman thanks for the hospitality and the rides, Patti great burgers as always. TILL NEXT TIME.
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