While many anglers find themselves anxiously awaiting the cool blow from the north, often times lakes are in the latter stages of an old bite. Fish seem to become a bit smarter or simply stuffed full of food as they’ve located the most readily available “Chow supply” and are devouring it. Hungry fish not finding food are easy targets. Full fish within a huge supply of food……Not so much.
Anglers truly need to be “Spot On” in both technique and location in the late stages of summer patterns. I just spent 2 days guiding with my good buddy with a larger group. We truly put a lot of nice fish in the boats that included limits of beautiful eaters and slots, but producing spots were not widespread. The second day we ran into a group that had 1 Walleye mid-day. I said “Yep…..She’s a bit tough right now”. He replied “How did you boys do?” Almost not wanting to answer it I said…….Well ” Between our two boats I believe we have 28 eaters here as we’re pulling in for shorelunch”.
I do believe he is thinking “Tough” obiously has a few different meanings when it references a box of fish. Still….. numbers can be deceiving; Though we were catching respectable numbers and size…….We both only had a couple spots producing.
These are truly the “Dog daze” of summer, but expect that bite to juice up shortly boys!! 
