Good week of fishing
This turned out to be a pretty good week of fishing overall even though the start of the week wasn’t so great. I went to my Carp spot to see if the bite was on. When I arrived they were jumping which is always an excellent sign. Baited up the area and sent my boiles a flying and sat down with the radio on. After 4 hours of no hits and several weeds on my hooks I gave up for the day. On Wednesday Sheldon and I planned a pre fish of Mississippi Lake for our Walleye School. We launched out of 9A and within 10 minutes we were on fish. I was running a 2 ounce bottom bouncer with a spinner rig and a juicy night crawler and before I could get the rod into the holder we had our first walleye. Sheldon was running a Flicker Shad and the crankbait bite wasn’t too hot. By the time he switched over to a slow death setup I had landed 6 walleye. Even though the fishing was awesome we had to move and check our other spots. The fishing slowed down in these spots even though we were marking several fish on bottom. After about an hour of checking these spots we headed back to our starting point and the bite was still hot. We finished off the night 17 for 18 with the smallest eye being around 15″ and the biggest at 19″.
Saturday came with some rainy weather, but we and our students braved it out and it turned out to be a great decision. We started the day at a local restaurant and covered off what we would be teaching for the day. Chris and Dave were awesome students, they fishing backgrounds were a little different but they both knew how to handle a rod that’s for sure. We made the run from the Carleton Place launch to one of our spots and we started to mark fish right away. We covered off how to run and rig bottom bouncers and hit that area for about 20 minutes. By that time to rain had stopped but the walleye in this spot had lock jaw. We headed to our second spot and we were on fish within 10 minutes. In fact Chris caught his first walleye. Sheldon will post the pictures in his blog. Not to be outdone Dave started getting into the walleye as well. He seemed to have the hot stick for the first 30 minutes. He caught some nice walleye, but also a nice Pike and some very fat Sun fish. We took the time to show Chris and Dave how to tie their own spinner rigs and what was cool is they ran them and caught fish with them. We left that spot and covered some more trolling techniques with crankbaits, planer boards and lead core. That type of bite was working that day and after about an hour of that we went back to bottom bouncing and started to get back into the walleye. It was a great day on the water and we hoped Chris and Dave learned a lot.