Jeff Zappia & Lester Herman are a couple of pretty good walleye anglers who wanted to sample the walleye and sauger fishing on Lake Wisconsin. If possible, they wanted to learn a new trick or two while they were at it. Neither one had ever slow trolled crawler rigs and since I didn't thing we would have a strong crank bait bite anyway this afternoon, that's what we started with.
That turned out to be a good choice for Lester especially. Less than a hour into the trip, Lester fought it out with a dandy walleye. It took a while, but he finally brought a gorgeous looking 28 inch walleye to the net. Shortly after that I'm pretty sure they could here us on the other end of the reservoir. We did quite a bit of hoot-en and holler-en there for a minute or two.
The smiles and adrenaline rush lasted long after all the pictures were taken and the big fish was released. We all pretty much knew that no matter what happened the rest of the day, this trip was already a good one. The bite was pretty slow after that, but we did put one more keeper in the box at that first spot.
Later in the afternoon, we switched it up and trolled crank baits. The first two or three spots didn't produce much more than baby walleyes and white bass.
The last spot we hit produced a real nice slot size walleye for Jeff so we immediately turned the boat around and went back thru it the other way. Wasn't long and Jeff was hooked up with an even bigger fish. This time the battle lasted considerably longer and we were all pretty sure this was no walleye. Eventually, Jeff brought this 26 inch catfish to the net.
We still had time for one last pass and this time Lester scored on a keeper walleye of 17 inches. With the sun getting lower in the sky, we all agreed that it was time to pick up our lines and point this boat towards the landing where we came from.
I'm pretty sure Jeff, Lester and I were all feeling pretty good about how this day turned out. There really aren't many things that feel as good as the ride back to the boat landing after a really good day of walleye fishing.
Thanks again for the great day guys. I truly did enjoy this day!
Boog
