Will it ever get really good ? Amongst a couple of really promising days this past week we also had some days that were once again very slow to say the least. In 23 years of full time chartering I have not seen it this tough so far into June. The only bright side to this is that we have on almost every outing captured at least one monster Walleye around 10 pounds or better. This amongst our smaller then what everybody is used to catching catch. They have for the most part been all nice sized Walleyes. We have been way east, way west, in super close and out as far as 20 miles looking. And everywhere I go, we manage to catch a few. Even when we were 20 miles out which even surprised myself.
The best one that we were able to bring to the boat this past week was a 32 inch beauty that was just a hair shy of 11 lbs ! We've also started capturing some Steelhead which is always fun as I search further and further offshore looking for the "Mother Load". I sure haven't had much help out there. Nobody seems interested in fishing when things are tougher. I guess everybody else just wants to be a hero and start when things become suicidal. I wish I had that luxury. I have to go everyday. That's my job.
While well offshore this past week we also managed to capture two Lake Trout or Lakers as some people call them. Not to be confused with the Steelhead Trout which are quite common. I wish I had taken a couple of pictures of them but I did not. They were both caught on different days in different areas as I continue to scout around. One was around 3 pounds and the second one was around 5 pounds I'm guessing. Pretty unusual for around here. That tells me that there must be quite a few of them roaming around out there right now for whatever reason. While offshore we also captured a Walleye with a Mich. Dept. of Natural Resources tag in its lip which tells me that there are definitely migrating fish in the area from the west. Lots of the areas that I tried this past week had plenty of marks on the fish finder. They just don't seem real anxious to bite for us yet. Weird.
So we will be out again this coming week trying as hard as we can to get things really fired up. The weather looks to finally heat up and maybe that's all these fish need to turn on. Sunshine and a little warmer water. This past week for the most part was raw and cold on the water. Probably the worst June weather-wise that I can remember and certainly is dragging things down along with it. Hopefully this will be the week. I have the availability of one day for the remainder of this month for a charter and that is this coming Thursday, June the 25th. Anybody looking for a spur of the moment trip can contact me as always on the boat/ mobile # 216-387-2656. Perhaps this will be the real lucky day !
Capt. Walt
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