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Fishing Report
8/8/08
Lately and I
have been having a terrible time with thunderstorms, lightening,
rain , heavy winds with big waves and when I could get out I
simply could not catch many fish. So today I decided to try
some fishing during the week. The weather has been pretty
miserable on the weekends for the most part, so I decided to
take some time off from work and meet my brother Jerry to go out
fishing for the day. We took off from long point a little
 after
eight o'clock and headed for the reefs at Bridges. I pulled up
to the north hump at bridges and worked slowly across the top
with the electric trolling motor. We had five fish before we
finished the first trip across the top of the reef. We worked
back slowly across the top and by the time we got back to where
we started we had two more, a wonderful start to the day. We
covered most of the top of the reef looking for some better
fish, but they were hard to come by. Jerry schooled me pretty
good this morning catching five for every one that I caught. He
was using a jig and a
leech, I was trying of very small silver spinner and a leech, I
did switch to a jig after a while but it didn’t help much for
but a jig seemed to be what they wanted. The fish were mostly
small, lots in the 12 to 13 inch range. We did keep six on the
North hump between 15 and 17 inches. What I lacked in numbers I
did make up for in size scoring a real nice 26 inch walleye.
The fishing
seemed to slow up for a bit so we made our way over to the South
hump at bridges and immediately found fish there as well. We
caught
 the
last two keepers there to fill our limit of walleyes and decided
we'd head out to the mud to try some deep trolling to pick up
couple of saugers. We stopped in the middle of nowhere, my
secret spot, between Garden Island and Lems Reef. We trolled in
36 feet of water running about 2.75 mph and we let out anywhere
from 125 feet to 150 feet of line. Most of the fish were caught
with about 130 -140 ft or so feet of line. The crank bait of
choice for today was a blue colored # 11 tail dancers. I have
had good luck in this spot at other times. We thought this
would be as good a spot as any to start, we hadn’t trolled for
very long when we started
catching fish, the only trouble was they were all too big with
the biggest being 27 inches long and really fat.
We lost track
of how many fish we caught most likely somewhere between 20 and
30 with Jerry catching most of them. The biggest fish we caught
were a 20 inch, a 23 inch, a 24 inch, 26 inch and a 27 inch.
The 27 inch was the best fight I’ve had this year, I would've
bet anything that was 29 to 30 inch fish.
 One
interesting thing from today was while we were trolling out in
the mud we caught a lot of spiny water fleas on our line. This
was the first of the spiny fleas that I have seen this summer.
Not sure what it means but it is interesting.
In all it was
a wonderful day. The temperature was mild the winds were light
no rain, no lightening, no hurricanes, no rouge waves and best
of all we weren't at work.
Scarface
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