Took some clients out today on a walleye/smallmouth trip on Lake Wissota. For some reason it took me two hours to locate the hungry eyes this morning, but we did locate them…the only problem was they were running pretty small. Most fish came on firetiger shad raps on lead core line. I know firetiger sounds pretty generic, but my go-to colors were not panning out at all this morning. We stopped on a good concentration of walleyes and picked up a few eater walleyes before it started raining, a rain in which we still caught fish, including a catfish around the 8 pound mark. The bite stopped after the rain ended and we turned our attention to smallmouth. The smallmouth were raring to go! As we kept busy with the smallies during an even harder rain. One client hooked into this beauty of a channel cat. I am guessing right around 15 pounds.
Good day all together. Smallmouth and catfish made up for a strange walleye bite today. The water is pea green right now. Back at her tomorrow night. Hope to see you all out on the water!