Played a little hooky today and spent the afternoon on Demontreville. This is a good fall crank bait lake (for Bass). The pattern is to look for green weeds, usually coontail, and swim a crankbait around the edges. Today it was tough to find a decent looking weed bed and when you did the Bass weren’t cooperating. I popped one right away but that was it for the next several hours. As sunset approached I was throwing a silver colored Big-O and caught a small Northern. Two casts later something hammered that plug and went the other way. The fight was so different my first thought was Bass. Then I saw the white spot on the tail: Holy smokes, a Walleye! I couldn’t have been more surprised if I had hooked the Loch ness monster. The fish even took some drag. Fun stuff. Demontreville is your basic Bass/Panfish lake, shallow warm and weedy with little rock and no sand to speak of. The DNR website says that they’ve thrown some Walleyes in there but that usually doesn’t amount to much. When you factor in my legendary inability to catch Walleyes, it wa a remarkable evening.
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