Part 2 The evening trip out..
Got out onto the ice before sun down. Found a spot that was suitable but not exactly the spot I wanted,another house was in the area I was focusing on tapping the ice but being a good sportsman I decided to stay clear of him and go out a bit deeper then I was focusing on. Ended up in 45 F.O.W. wanted the 25 to 30 foot range. The area I was on has a nice decline from the weeds 4 F.O.W. to about 50 F.O.W. I really wanted the middle and await the walleyes to travel thru looking for dinner. I had suspended fish 5 feet under the ice according to the Vexlar. Every now and then we would get a nice thick red bleep about 5 feet under them,assuming Northern feeding off some sunfish,so after jigging a Go-Devil in front of him for a bit with no response dropped down to the bottom coaxed a couple fish off the bottom,but with no interest in my presentation. Made a quick switch to a glow hook in one hole and a red hook in the other. The red hook was the trick bobber went down and out of the hole comes the first walleye of the night a little 12 incher. So released that one reset and went back down to draw in some more,after about a half hour and our neighbor packing it up bobber down again. This time got a little excited another walleye pushing 16 inches, again released the fish reset and waited another 15 minute and ended the evening with one more walleye, but a 10 incher.. Nothing in size but now got an address of where to start to find the walleyes.
Couple days ago the house next to us speared a 42 inch Northern and a 38 incher. The older gentleman told me he has seen a number of walleyes pass by his spear hole claiming sizes reaching 6 pounds…
I will stay focused on this area for the next couple trips out and try and get in the 25 to 30 F.O.W. range and see if we can get something worth taking pictures of…