Sak Van Hook walleye

[Vollmer]

Got on the water this morning, not too awful early. I think we were floating by 8:00 am. The wind had been blowing out of the West for a handful of days, now, so we started on the East shoreline. We didn’t go far before we were marking fish, so we threw the cranks in and started trolling.

The fish were in that 13-15 fow range, and quite abundant. We were pulling flicker minnow 9’s at about 2.3 mph. The two of us had our limit in about an hour. All of the colors we had on were catching. Blue smelt, firetiger and wonder bread.

We decided to keep on fishing, for fun. We kept trolling, but switched to live bait. That was working well, as well.

Looking forward to a fun summer!

 

[wslayer]

Nice score . . .

 

[Allen]

We did well at Van Hook this past weekend. Fished the north end of the Van Hook arm Friday through Sunday morning. We didn't quite catch a limit of keepable walleyes either Friday or Saturday, but on Sunday we did catch a nice limit for the four of us. Overall though, it seemed like everyone was at least finding a few fish.

The strange thing is that the fish were up in 4-6 ft of water, the deepest we caught a fish was somewhere between 10 and 12 ft (we really didn't put much effort into locating deeper fish). Crawlers on a chartreuse and white striped spinner was the best producer, but other colors of spinners also produced. Speed was highly varied, I normally try to pull spinners about 1.2 mph, but at times using the big engine we'd be around 2 mph, and were still catching fish. Water temps ranged from 73-76 degrees where we were fishing.

The best fishing was on Sunday when we ran across fish in a shallow mud line as the wind picked up. We caught 13 keepers in less than 25 minutes. Other than that they were kind of spread out in time and distance for most of the weekend. Good times, as we were only out for a little under 3 hours on Sunday! Most of what we caught will be used for a fish fry at the local Senior Center this fall.

We also caught a fair number of small drum, a few goldeye for the pelicans, some white bass, and it was also the first time a Redhorse sucker has ever been caught off the Toon, or for that matter any boat I was skippering.

Be careful up there, lots of shallow water a long way out from the shoreline!