The goal was to not only catch fish, but to learn some different tactics and techniques that he could take back with him to Brownsville, MN where he can hopefully, apply them to his home waters on the Mississippi river.
Today we started by running crankbaits out just far enough to tick the bottom occasionally and the walleyes seemed to like that. Todd and his dad, Dale caught several before things slowed down. Next we trolled through the stump fields for and hour or so, which did not produce quite as well. Then we switched over to slow trolling night crawlers behind bottom bouncers. This produced the biggest walleye of the weekend for Todd. A nice, chunky 21-1/2" walleye. Nice fish Todd!
The rest of the day was a mix of slow trolling crawlers and faster trolling with crankbaits.
By the end of the day, Todd and Dale caught 14 walleyes, 5 saugers and 1 crappie.
Take care and good luck fishing!
Boog