The daytime bite has been very tough on LBDN this season, serious cold fonts dropped the water temp to 52 last week.
Even though its late May the weed growth is just starting.
My friend Tom C and I started fishing a 5 PM CST. I worked south of the Squaw Pt. Narrows and checked several hundred yards south of the Gladstone Beach… the wind was SSE about 10-12 mph. I found some great humps between the Beach and black bottoms… sorry, no GPS yet…I am awaiting a new unit.
We continued south toward Green Bay and started marking pods of walleye and bait right on the deep water break in 32-35 fow.
I forgot my anchor!!!!!!!!!!!! Crap! We could have KILLED THEM!!!!!!!
I got above them and set my XXL drift sock…1/8 oz orange blade jigs were the ticket w ½ crawler… We went back further south one time to redrift and found a humongous school of walleye like I have never seen in my life!!!!!!! We picked a couple right away but the wind now was about 18 mph SE and I couldn’t stay on them, so we had to keep re drifting over them.
We had a great 4 hours… boated 16 walleye, kept 6 eaters from 15”-17”… several other bites missed… Tom caught most of his on the AL Erickson, 5’6″ Short N Sweet rod… He LOVES it! He also caught a 23” Pike and some 3 lb Sheepies.
Two days of strong southerly winds have raised the water temps to 62 degrees.
We both used 6# Stren 100% Fluorocarbon line… I used a Dobyns 702 MLXF and a St.Croix 68MXF.