11-28-08
The west winds that blew in the day before continued through out the night. This was a good thing because they kept the open water areas from freezing over. Even better yet, they had let up some making boat control much easier today.
We arrived at around 11:00am and not more than 10 minutes after dropping lines, Paul & Tyler were battling a double. It could have been a triple but Chuck lost his fish. Paul's first fish of the day was a dandy 22 inch sauger and Tyler pulled in a real nice 17" sauger. A couple more legals came in soon after before the bite slowed. That's kind of how the rest of the day went as well. We would get some steady action, then things would slow down for awhile.
Our best depths changed through out the course of the day. Early on, we did best in 30' of water or more. But with bright sunshine, it appeared as though active fish began to move into somewhat shallower water and we began to catch more fish in the 23' to 25' deep sections.
We ended the day with a total of 20 walleyes & saugers. Four of them were over 20" long, ten were in the legal slot range and the rest were shorts.
Dressing properly made the cold weather a non-factor and spending the holiday fishing with family just made it that much better. Catching lots of fine looking saugers, walleyes & and even a saugeye will make everyone look forward to coming back and doing it again next year.
Hope you all had as much fun over the holiday as we did!
