Tonka

Has anyone made it out lately? A guy got a brute that went 6.8 on a digital scale by working docks. I haven’t been out there for a while. Pretty soon some walleyes should start showing themselves around the channels as well.

Yeah, I got out. Went out to Big Marine this week, found a nice school of 3 lb’ers. I was using a Tournament Frog in 25′ of water.

See you on the water-
ej

I see how you are! I hope you and Steve share lots of fish ‘cuz I get to be all alone!

Real funny…

Hey ej, how’s this sound? Tommorrow I’m throwing the duck boat in the back of the truck and towing the Stratos to Big Marine. Figure I’ll hunt til 8 than prefish the rest of the day. Thought you might like that plan.

Ha! I hope your waders leak!

Wondering if anyone has an idea on how most of the fish where caught in the tourney this week or in general. I was out last wekend a got some nice ones shallow but I am wondering if deep is the place to go for the quantity of the bigger ones. Also, any idea on what the water temps are?

Thanks!

What tourney?

We had our last tournement of the year on Sat (sorry about the time delay in post) and what a great day it was on the water. I would like to say that the best part of the day was the fishing but it wasn’t. The trees are close to full colors on the lake and that made it ever more enjoyable to be out there.

My partner and myself started the day by fishing a shallow weed flat and on the 5th cast I connect with a 3.5# largie on a pop’r. I wish I could say that the topwater action was consistent but that was the only bite that I had all day throwing it and other topwater.
After not getting another bite on this weed flat we started fishing shorelines that usually hold some nice fish in the fall. We ended up finding sporatic fish on some docks. Some of the docks that we caught the fish on ‘looked’ like they should be holding fish while ones that shouldn’t hold anything held some. The best docks that we found, very close to deep water with great structure held nothing. The best part about the fish we did catch under the docks was that they where nice size. So we decided to fish all the shorelines and docks that we thought might have some good weed growth around them. We switched off between senkos, spinnerbaits, small cranks, topwater, and jigs but the only thing that we found to work was the senkos under the docks.

I had a coupple of knocks in deeper water on a spinnerbait but it felt a little northerish.

At days end: winning weight was 13.6 and I finished second with 12.8.
It was a tough day on the water with not many limites brought in. There was another club tourney out there that seemed to have done about the same.

On a side note: The weeds are still very thick in the shalow so bring a knife.

Nice job! And thanks for the report. Seems like things haven’t really changed alot.