New Town / "River" Area - Saturday, June 26, 2010

Prepare for War!

After reading Greg's reports I like to steal his approach and use one liners to open the report up.  By war, I mean northern wars and no, not Canada.

Fished Saturday.  Wanted to get out early and my brother and uncle were both up at the crack of dawn.  The issue, so was the weather God's.  It was raining, wind was blowing very hard and did I mention raining?  Instead, we trouble shot a wiring issue on my brother's Yar-Craft.

About noon we attempted to fish.  Was out for a while and struggling to find fish.  Caught some small sauger and then the weather started up again.  I spent quite a bit of time running to areas I could get cell reception to check the radar (that's where that HDS antenna would be sweet).  Storm looked like it was going to go south.  It did but the rear-end of the storm was uncooperative.  It built slowly and it produced enough rain to push me closer to the ramp just in case it really came down.  It never did but my rod tips started to snap, crackle and pop so that was enough for me to head to shore.  My brother came in shortly after and it was a good idea as it down poured where he was at.

We compared notes and had pretty much the similar things.  Ironically, the last twenty minutes of fishing before we got chased off showed us spots that might produce.  At about 5 pm or so we went back out.  Could have been later I guess but I can't remember.  Each went our own ways and we ended up boating four keeper saugers each.  We drifted slowly and jigged a point as the moon rose.  Pretty fun and there is something else goofy.  We celebrated by screaming at the top of our lungs as my brother vertical jigged a walleye up.  Or so we thought.  It ended up being a saugeye.  But the point is, there was walleye blood in it.  That's a first.

Sunday we fished again but this time three in my boat.  Compiled all data and made an educated guess where to start.  Plan was to beat the wind but fishing by 7:30 it didn't take long and the wind was blowing.  Oh well, that's the beauty about God's country. Lots of places to hide.  We fished from 7:30 to 12:00 and boated many small sauger.  We ended up keeping 9 sauger.  Half of them were "wow" fish as you netted them.  Pretty neat to see 2.5 to 3 pound saugers.

Depths over the weekend were from 18 to 28.  Slow presentations worked for us.  Thought about trying cranks all weekend but when a jig and a minnow works, why bother.  Although, I am really starting to wonder if the Lord is punishing me.  I still have yet to have a walleye in my boat this open water fishing season.

Water is staining and the temp, get ready for this, was only 65 degrees on Sunday.  Wow.  It appeared other fisherman were doing similar things, that is, fishing the same water column.  Maybe walleyes are up further north (evident by Team Lund).  It is go time though and there should be easy limits.  But there is not.  Maybe this warm week will do something?  All I ask is pretty, pretty please.

Oh and for the preparing for war?  All I'll say is folks that like to fish gators with tip-ups through the ice are going to get a work out this winter.  There are two to five pound pike everywhere.  Mark ten years down (or maybe a couple years less) and we'll have some 20 pounders available once again.  Until then, get ready for bloody finger tips (one of them slimmers got me good!) and lost tackle.  I'm already nervous my somewhat developing crank supply is going to go backward...

P.S.  Minnows were the ticket.  A couple on worms and one on a leech.  Gulp?  I tried it but I reverted back to dead minnows (which was all we had left after the little saugers burned through the good supply).

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Region: New Town / "River" Area

Categories: Fishing