Sunday report

Fished a half day today with my boss and his two nephews. The two boys like to fish but have no access to a boat and have never done any walleye fishing. The trip was a trade with my boss for doing some food plot work at my woods and planting about 60 trees for me. The first spot I checked wasn’t holding any fish other than a single lake Wisconsin silver salmon (sheephead). That spot wasn’t my first choice, but the spot I intended to fish had a dozen or more boats on it and I wanted to get the guys accustomed to fishing jigs without having to worry about getting messed up with other boats.

I could see Joel Ballweg was among the pack of boats so after a quick phone call to see if it was worth getting in the mix, we headed on over and joined the fray. We managed 3 slot fish (24, 22, and 22 inches), a 19 1/2, a 17, a dozen or so 12 to 14 inch fish, and too many silvers to count. The bite slowed way down around 11:00 and we called it a day at 12:30. The three slot fish and the 17 came on crawlers, either a jig or a lindy rig, and the 19 came on a white paddle tail. All fish were caught in 6 to 11 feet of water. It was a good day on the water. Decent weather, some slot fish, and the boys got to take a couple fish home to eat.

Pictures are of the three slot fish.

Nice job John!

Glad to see you were able to put the bosses boys onto some decent fish!

This heat and humidity is going to get the Mendota cats rolling. Time to go nocturnal. Thanks for taking me out on Sunday after those Lake Wisconsin eyes. Jon works hard to put fish into the boat and we caught quite a few. It was very cool to see some of the new electronics in action.

Thanks Kevin. I try hard. Don’t seem to get the results I expect very often, but you can’t hit a home run every trip to the plate.

I think your expectations of yourself are unreasonable. It is good enough for me to have your boat mark. I am sure it won’t last long with as many hours you are putting in.

I wish the lake would have produced the fish it does now when I was a kid and growing up there. I used to catch a few eyes out there but not too many. We used to catch a ton of striped bass at the dam with a few eyes mixed in when they were feeding on the minnows. Do people still fish the dam after dark for stripers? They used to be lined up along there end to end where ever the lights were. Seeing these reports makes me want to get out and try fishing there again when I’m back visiting the family, maybe someday.