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Cat been demoted as mascot? 300 Copper Happee meal sounds kinda familiar...

Too rough out front to try - state park staff was trying to close the pier but some oblivious couple on the end would not leave. Trolled the channel and Mac wishing for a stray walleye or steel but mostly straining the cottonwood fuzz out of the lake - ended up with about half a dozen sheep some over 10# that fought quite well.

To quote Van Halen “stop looking out, start looking in” at least that’s my theory. Going to try out front tonight… But I mean it’s June so throw a dart.

Man there is just no pattern as of late. Appreciate the honest reports as much if not more than the hero shots. Note hero reference not pointed at Dan Agnello's post as he reports straight up and deserved that beat down in GH a few weeks ago.

One I cleaned yesterday had two spines and two partially digested 5-6” fish in it, round cross section not flat I’m pretty sure they were smelt.

Trying to sort out some issues with the boat. Trolled out front for half an hour before it died, again. Pulled lines got it fired back up and got back into Mac. Swapped out a few things trolled in there for an hour and a half (motor purred like a kitten) with constant marks with the downriggers bumping fish but never a hook up. Was a perfect night but just like every other year forces conspire against me to catch kings in the spring. It's kinda funny to a point...

Lake Ontario spoon wasn’t it? Kind of like NK great spoon but didn’t get far beyond its home lake…

We were 4/7 south of Saugatuck bite got better as the day went on. Fished 10am to 1:30. Had to find pockets of the cleanest water available in one case we had our outer board 50’ from the beach boat sitting on the first sand bar in 2.5’ of water. Two of our fish were as small of not smaller than the one you got. We ran 2.5-3.1 as the motor ran better north bound in the tail wind with a little extra throttle after sitting idle for six months.

Those Thin Fins have seen some stuff...

I recall stories of when the bubbler wasn’t there and you waded as close as you dared to the drop off where the hot water was pumped across the beach.

So when they close the plant can we plan on the channel filling up?

Never seen it less than 7’ deep through there but the lake can move a lot of sand in a hurry.

Thanks for the update. Be careful on the slime around those docks - member at another site I regular took a spill last fall and it ended up becoming fatal.

No worries. It's frustrating but fun when it works, and the fish are usually really nice. Forgot to add that I roll right along at 2.5mph give or take, which scares the crap out of the guys drowning worms.

Yep, planers and cranks. Just when you think you know what kind and color they want, another one becomes the hot bait, so I shotgun each trip based on conditions and then try to dial in color / type / depth if I get enough hits to make a pattern. Try to play chicken with the drop offs as the fish like to hold against them. My biggest walleyes have come on J-plugs looking for kings though. Which is weird as if they are targeting big lures, I also run a lot of deep thundersticks for kings and have never had a walleye hit one of those.

"My dad and I see tons of guys slow trolling the drop offs in the summer and they few guys I hear from say you'll pick some up but you'll also be dealing with catfish and sheephead left and right" And sailboat races, and ignorant power boaters, and territorial so called walleye charters that will run you over when you're the only other boat fishing. I swear though it's about 10 sheep per walleye, and one cat fish per walleye. At least the sheep are easy to tell as they hit and fight hard and tend to head up to the top. The cats stay down and head shake and every one makes you think it's a 30" walleye until it isn't.