Better ! But still not great ( not yet ...) Our second week back home went much better as I am getting a few things figured out. It is a lot tougher to stay on the fish when you are the only one looking. Seems like ever year nobody even bothers fishing for Walleyes until "The Trophy" starts to bring in rack full's of fish and then everybody is a Walleye "expert" and guess where everybody wants to to be ? You guessed it. That's all that anybody cares about. Where's Walt fishing ... ? Same thing every year and this year is no different. Whatever. It is what it is. After 23 years of full time chartering I guess I'm used to it.
Anyway we managed to get into the high teen's a couple of days this past week and even on the days that were a bit slower we still captured some HUGE Walleyes. On Tuesday we had 5 Fish Ohio award citation fish of better then 28 inch's with the biggest Walleye being 31 inches and just a hair under 11 pounds. Awesome fish ! We have not had any throwback fish at all as of yet. Just a nice grade of Walleyes. We have not stumbled upon any Steelhead Trout yet either. Maybe as we stick our noses even further offshore. This will happen whether we like it or not the first time the wind kicks big out of the north and we don't have any choice but run out further and troll back with the wind and waves.
The fish that I have found have been rather close to shore as most always are in early June. We've fished in as shallow as twenty foot of water with some nice fish being caught and I have caught them as far out as 55 foot already. The fish that I am finding right now are very high in the water column. Most people tend to under fish these fish this time of year. Spoons off the boards with Jet Divers have been doing most of the damage thus far for us. My big Dipsys have not been very productive at all as of yet. I've tried everything but they only on occasion capture anything. This will change very soon, trust me. My downriggers have caught a whopping one fish so far for us; 30 ft. back with a shallow lipped stick bait and 30 ft. down. Whoopty doo ! LOL !
We are back at our own dock now at the newly repaired River Marina and it is AWESOME ! I can not begin to describe how nice everything is. It is a beautiful modern state of the art facility and is much nicer then it ever was. Amazing what a quarter of a million dollars will buy you. Money well spent as far as I am concerned and we are all happy to have the hub for our charter industry here in Ashtabula back up and running. The marina store is only a day or so away from being 100% open as well. We have been departing the dock between 5:00 and 5:30 a.m. at the latest so if you have a upcoming trip please take note. We also have the next 3 Thursdays open for a charter for anyone looking. Any one of those dates will make a excellent choice for someone especially as each passing date goes by and we get back on the right track after everything seemingly running a couple of weeks late this year. Call me at 216-387-2656 for more info and a booking.
Capt. Walt
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