PLANER BOARDS GONE WILD!!

For our second trip of the day, I met up with Brandon, Joe, Joey, and Carter and launched out of Sheffield. After about 30 minutes of running, we found some nice marks on sonar in 50 feet of water. As soon as the lines went in, it was game on! We had an incredible day, ending with a cooler full of 30 walleye, including several giants. The guys were all smiles chasing big girls all afternoon. I’m not so sure about Carter… ladies, from the pics I think he found himself a cutie! ???? To top it all off, we finished the day with a true monster that taped out well over the 31.5-inch “Judge” ruler, pushing right around 32 inches. It crushed a black-headed Wonder Bread #9 Flicker Minnow from Hammertime Lures. Flicker Minnows were absolutely on fire today, running anywhere from 40 to 90 feet back with up to three-ounce snap weights set at 30 feet. What a day, boys!

The winds were stiff, but that didn’t scare this crew off!! Cousins Cohen and Owen were tough and caught on quick. They were handling the rods like pros, taking planer boards off and throwing fish in the well!! After catching a couple fish off Marblehead we hit a dry spell. We decided to go back to our spot and hammered out 18 fish by 11:30. Cohen caught his very first Lake Erie walleye today! He also took our big fish of 26+ inches!? Cousin Owen was a close 2nd! His fish was shorter but a bit beefier. Bandits 25’ - 50’ caught all of our fish with exception to a couple on #9 Flicker Minnows. Thanks to Dad / Uncle Jimmy as well for your help today and for bringing these guys out!! Good Times!! Enjoy the Fish Fry!!

Started out Friday morning with Andy taking his new P. B. Walleye, the first fish of the day going 29 1/4 inches and 8.0 pounds!! As soon as we called out the right looking fish coming across the live scope screen, the planer board raced backward! We stayed on a small pod of fish on the east side of the camp Perry firing range, catching mostly 5+ pound walleyes. Bandits ruled the day at 30’ to 60’ foot back. Color didn’t seem to matter. The 2 of us Caught approximately 20 fish +/- a couple, throwing back the larger females. Sunday was more of the same fish and same program, just in another spot. I have the 23rd and 24th of this month available yet.