This will be a multi report, since I fished both rivers the past few days…First the Fox…
I returned to the Fox about 10 days after my last report where Pete Yake and I really did well with 60 fish in about 7 hours. This time it was my Pastor, David Anderson. We caught a very nice day and got into a pod of males right away…Drifting vertically with plastics…
As we worked into the deeper water of the channel we started finder some nicer fish in the 18-20″ range…We used bright colored 3/16 H20 jigs and chart/green core mini moxies…The wind switched to a strong northerly breeze of about 15 mph…the bite tapered off markedly
We really worked hard to catch about a dozen more fish thoughout the windy afternoon…Then about 5 PM the skies became overcast and the wind switched around to the SW…The east side dam opened up and I noticed an old timer struggling with a good fish just off the big flat near the Dam…He netted a dandy! So I moved down river a ways and started pitching a 2 1/2″ Live Target Lipless crank bait up on the shallow sand (which BTW was about 4 degrees warmer than the channel) Bango!!! I just love that “CRUNCH” when a good walleye chomps a lure! The next hour we had a ball netting eight 22-26.5″ Fatties and losing almost as many…Daves phone got slimed and I’m disappointed to say we have no pics of those gorgeous fish.
Lastly, I finally got to fish the Wolf for walleye Thurs and Friday…Well, a LOT of fish swam by the Shiocton Cam and my friend Mark Flunker (a Freemont native) said NOW is the time! It was a very interesting area of many tight Oxbows up near the spawning marshes, flooded by the early runoff. Unfortunately, those girls were not dropping back yet and very few fish were caught by the many boats we saw. The weather turned sour by the weekend with pouring rain and 36 degree air temps. My partner Paul Pohlson and I left at noon sat soaked and cold, but Mark and his buddy Mel stuck it out and Mark managed 5 nice eyes, pitching up into the brushy edges…You guys were real troopers!