Sunday, October 29th
Finally, my first fall walleye fishing trip of the year. And who better to do it with than my favorite trash talking, crappie/walleye/sauger fishing client than Brian Bollnow and his good buddy Eric Novak. This would be Brian's third trip of the year with me and Eric's second. These guys really don't care if they take any fish home, for the most part, they just want to catch them, take a quick picture or two and let them go.
We started out jigging but only found a crappie or two doing that so we switched over to trolling crank baits. At first that didn't go to well either but slowly we started to figure out a pattern. It just took a little work to find the right depth, lure, colors and locations. Once we did that, the rest was fairly easy. At least in the morning it was. It was pretty dead during the middle of the day but picked up nicely late in the afternoon again. I do enjoy a little trash talking myself so even the middle of the day went by fairly fast with these two guys in the boat. They can certainly dish as good (or better) than they get it.
By the end of the day, we had pulled in five saugers over 20" long, three more between 15-19" long, three crappies and on short walleye.
Not bad for the first walleye/sauger fishing trip of the fall!
As always, it was great fishing with you again Brian and Eric!
