Quiet weekend?

This place has been dead since the reopening. Looked like a great weekend to be on the pond, how’d it go?

Everyone’s too busy catching some of the non-existent Walleyes to post up a report.

We were out of the Sha Bush Kung access yesterday morning. Trolled cranks for a few hours while it rained all around us, caught one. Then we switched to spinners on the flats and caught one right away, then the weather appeared to kick up enough that we ran off the lake. Would have waited it out, but one of the guys wasn’t feeling up to it.

I didn’t make it up. Planning to go up this weekend.

Guessing it’s much slower than early season ??

Here is the best report I can muster up.

I made it up to Father Hennipen this weekend to camp with my fam and extended fam. I took Friday off to fish alone, I knew I would need the pretherapy going into a weekend of fully loading my boat up and playing untangle guy for the cousins, aunts and uncles.

Friday (day time): I was super pumped to hit the mud and rig with live bait. So I did from about 8am till 11am with fish every where and they wouldn’t touch a leech or a jiggin rap. Moved to trolling lead and stuck a nice fat 27″ eye and left the mud about noon. Went over to some mud rock transitions to fish smallies and found a couple willing to eat cranks.

Friday (evening): Picked up some cousins and loaded my boat. They wanted to eat fish so we went after smallies. The easiest thing to do with 3 not for frequent fishers in the boat was troll spinners and leeches. We trolled rocks on the south end. We did bad at getting eaters with only two smallies under 17″ and one pike at 28″. We must have caught 10-12 walleyes tho and man are those shallow rock walleyes aggressive. We also managed a 18.5″ smallie that almost ripped the rod out of my sisters hand (pictured).

Saturday: Went out (two different times) and did the same thing as Friday evening. Biggest eye was 25″ (pictured) and we must have caught around 25 of them. One more pike at 26″ and no smallies.

Sunday it blew and rained so we hit a smaller lake for gills.

Hilight was that cousins and uncles who don’t fish much got to have a good time, catch fish, with 3 people catching the biggest fish of their lives. They were all so perplexed as to why we couldn’t keep walleyes as they heard that walleyes just reopened. I didn’t have enough time in the boat to explain the saga to them lol

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Eyes were slow for me

Nice, Evan– That smallie is a tank!

Plenty of boats on the pond Friday we stopped on our way up to fish the Miss . All the boat landing we went around were almost full already Friday.
We did not do so hot on the smallies we tried for picked up 5. Did see floaters of eyes and Tullibes . Smallies are fat tanks though fun when you get them on.

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