Well, it didn't go as we hoped, but we managed to each get one and experience several other chasing fish. We arrived to a huge lake cool down that had sent both the trout and the walleyes into a slump. Locals were saying fish were in the 90-110' range and scattered out all over. We fished 8 hours on the first day and only got one 18" fish. We ended the day in some good walleye holes and couldn't get them to eat either. The fish we did catch came out of 40' with the bait.
Friday morning, we woke up to a lake wind advisory and hit the water anyways, spent some time working over some areas near the shaft houses where would manage the wind a bit better and came up with a zero. We ran back towards the marina and started fishing points there working west to the east side of Big Duck Creek for walleyes, picked up a few small ones. Got tired of the line bow and the wind blowing through our ears and got off the water about 1pm. At that time, waves were just shy of 5' out on the main lake, but they had all of big duck creek to build.
Saturday morning, we woke up to flat calm conditions that were expected all day and hit the water. We ran to Haxby point where the wind had been piling up hard the day before and found the bait pushed up from 15-30' I smacked a 26.5" in the first 5 minutes, followed by a number of chasers and two hits that didn't hook up. About 30 or so minutes later my buddy hooked into a 22" and at several times we had 2-3 fish on the livescope that we would be working. I watched a large fish swim in and flipped my bait out to it, stopped it above its head and started reeling it up, it chased and hit, when it came into sight, I found that instead of a trout, I had a 28.5" walleye on that just crushed the large paddle tail I was using. I also managed about a 30" pike the same way. The fish completely disappeared from sonar once the sun got high at about 11:30am.
We found anywhere from 53-57 degree water that the locals said was in the 60's like a week or so ago and at that the time, the bite was on for most species. Very cool place, and ill definitely go back again some day.
Thanks for all the replies.
