Big Pine

[ChrisWallace]

Got out for a few days this weekend, the weather was terrible, but I can't say that the fishing was at all.

I have to say, I started the year off making Bill Dance look stable in true Wallace fashion. As I am loading up, I am putting a cooler in the truck and putting new rods in the truck at the same time. I slam the door and precede to slam the door on two tips. So I had to stop at work to get them fixed before I went up north.

Traffic was real easy, it just sucks driving up in the rain.

Saturday morning at 12 am found me working the shallow part of a main lake bay running Lucky Craft cranks, the only thing that was really going were bullheads and yes I caught one, not snagged it.

Saturday morning my dad and I continues to work the same flat I was pulling cranks on, just out a little bit deeper, I lost a couple nice pike before switching over to power pro.

All the walleyes we caught were in 8 to 12 feet of water. My dad was using a Chartreuse Techni Glow Fuzz e grub while I was snap jigging a fireball jig. We had to use stingers, 80% of the fish we caught were on the stinger hook. Tipping them with shiners, as in typical fashion.

Water temps went from 48 degrees to 50 degrees. We were working a one foot trough on the flat that all around it is weeds and this drops into mud and is nice and clear of weeds.

Jigging is not my favorite style of approaching walleyes, but when thats the pattern, you have to go with it. Next weekend the water temps should be a little warmer that will let me run a leech and move off the flat and start working some of the corners and other areas. Hopefully the shiners will be back into the shallows and that will let me seine a few dozen and save 6.50 a dozen, I think we went through a little over 6 dozen minnows in two days. Plus that will let me run boards and cranks next weekend as well.

The fish were definatly in a post spawn and just starting to get into an early summer/late spring pattern.

My dad's 22 incher CPR'ed:




One of the pike that didnt bust off:


A nice 18 incher from this morning: