Fishing with Bill and Melissa 7/15/18

I left the house at 4:10am, because I still needed to gas the boat and ice the coolers. I wanted to get to the gas station before all the tournament bass guys showed up again. (It's the weekend, and there are a lot of bass tournaments right now.)

All I want is my receipt for the gas when I'm done. But, since none of the "new" pumps at the Speedway will give out a receipt (always broken down), I need to go inside for one, which can take 20 minutes if I get stuck in line behind a bunch of them buying their snacks for the day. (It's too early in the morning for that type of mental harassment, so I got there early this time..:))

I hit Big Bopper's at 4:30 and grabbed a bagel and chocolate milk, while chatting with the Capts of the "Pooh Bear", "Pirate Clipper", and "Eagle Eye" boats... about the latest bite and programs catching fish....(with a little gossip thrown in for good measure and entertainment, of course). ;)

I had the option of going up to the Canadian side, since Bill said they both had an Ontario license. But, when I told them, "We have two options...1. Go up to the Canadian side to fish, or 2. Go back to Huron where I have been fishing the past few days.  And, if you want to go to Canada, then know that I haven't been up there since Father's Day weekend, and it would take some looking around before we started fishing. If we go back to where I was the past three days, then it's pretty safe to say we'll be catching fish in short order."  Both of them replied in unison, "Whatever you think is best...you're the Capt. We just want to catch some fish!"

(They all say that, verbatim, so I already knew we would be going back to Huron...lol)

We started out in 42' of water and trolled at 2.3-2.5mph to the NNE, towards deeper water....making turns, this way and that way, to see if the fish wanted it more from one direction than another.  As it turned out, they did. They bit when we headed NW, S, and SE, but didn't bite as well when we went any other direction.  They still bit, but just not as fast as the other directions mentioned.

The program was the same as the past few days too.  Flicker Minnows behind Off Shore inline planer boards, along with some BayRat baits too. The Flickers were at 55 back and the BayRats were 100-125 back. I only ran one of each, because we could only run 6 lines today. So, (2) boards, (2) #40 Tru-Trip Jets, and (2) Standard sized (#1) Dipsies

Spoons were run off the TT Jets at 85 and 91 back,  and the Ripplin Red Fins were run on the dipsies at 61 back on the 1 setting and 75 back on the 3 setting.  But, when the Fins didn't produce the way I expected them to, I put some spoons on instead. My dipsey bite improved then.  (I still need to find a better dipsey rod though...just not happy with these Shimano Telora's doing the job).

We did make one 1 1/2 mile move to the north to 44.7 foot of water, when my first spot slowed down. It was an improvement, and we were able to finish out our three person limit in short order.  We also caught a lot of young of the year walleye, white bass, white perch, and sheepshead too, so we were kept very busy this morning. ;)

Bill and Mel had a good time and learned how to work the Jets and Dipsies pretty well. They will be here fishing out of their own boat for the next few days, so hopefully, they can take what they learned today and apply it to their fishing....and hopefully, catch a bunch this week! 

I'm off tomorrow.....no trip scheduled.  I'll be back at it with the Coffman brothers on Tuesday and Wednesday. Thanks for reading!! :)

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls