This past weekend, we caught some on plain jig/minnow comob's, hair jigs tipped with minnows, blade baits and crank baits. The hard part has been figuring out which one they want and when they want it.
The feeding windows are pretty short right now and because of that, it's critical to be in one of the right spots at the right time. I know I missed a few opportunities this past weekend because we were not where we needed to be when we needed to be there. It's pretty easy to see that now after the fact but it still bugs me when that happens to my boat. I feel like I should know better but it still seems to happen from time to time.
The biggest reason why my boat ends up being in the wrong place at the wrong time is because at this time of the year, I'm often looking in a few uncoventional places for a hawg walleye. We found one on Sunday morning but unfortunately, it shook the blade about five feet below the boat and we never did get to see her. That was disheartening to say the least but it happens. Just gotta get back on the horse and keep after it when something like that happens.
18-21 feet of water was by far our best depth this past weekend but we did pop a couple from 15' early in the morning and again at last light.
We are still catching quite a few small walleyes & saugers as well. They're pretty good at stealing minnows off the jigs without getting hooked.
Blades probably took the most fish for us overall with jig/minnow combo's coming in second and crankbaits third. Crankbaits did take the biggest fish for us though and the crankbait bite should continue to be good for the next two or three weeks.
If you don't much care for trolling, hair jigs & blade baits should both be really good over the next two weeks as well.
