Pool 16 7/14: The Boys of Big Island!

On this day I had the pleasure to fish with two great kids from Big Island, Nate Mueller 11, and Robert Taylor 13. I have had Nate out before and this would be Roberts first time walleye fishing. I had talked to the boys on Wednesday and told them that I would be picking them up at 5:00 am. At 4:15 I got a call asking were I was. These boys were ready to hit the water. Here they are with the biggest fish of the day, a nice 23.5″ eye that they boated as a team. This fish was CPR.

We hit the water at 5:15am. and headed down river to a clam flat that had been producing fish for me in the past couple of weeks. When we got to the spot I showed the boys how to set up the lines. I was very impressed on how little time it took them to set all four lines. Within two minutes of our first pass we had a fish on. It was a short, but they got the idea of trolling. We made this pass a few more times with just shorts coming to the boat, so we made a move to another spot just up river. Nate and Robert started to set the lines out and before they could finish, they had a fish on. Robert had just boated his first walleye, a very healthy 19.75″er and credit goes to Nate for netting this fish. The fish went in the box and was followed by a flurry of high fives. Robert is shown here with his biggest keepers of the day. My hats off to you buddy.

All of the fish were taken on Hot-N-Tots in 9 to 12 FOW. Trolling speeds varied from spot to spot, with our most productive being 1.9 to 2.1 mph. The area these fish were holding in had a duned bottom with a very subtle current break.

Again I would like to thank Nate and Robert for sharing a great day out. These two can fish my boat anytime. I don’t know who had a better time,the boys or me? Do yourselves a favor and take a kid fishin’.