It was going to be hot and sunny day, so maybe it will cut down the bug population. We could only hope! We woke at 7am, and were on the lake by 7:30. No breakfast again today…man, did we bring way too much food! We hit the spot directly off camp first thing and had our first fish in less than a minute. We connected on our 7th double of the trip shortly after, and we spent the next hour reeling up Walleye after Walleye. We also hooked the biggest Northern of the trip so far… a 14 pounder was not a happy camper in the canoe! We left this area and headed to a small island that we had not yet fished. As we neared the island I saw that we were in only 6 feet of water. Crap…. This was going to be a snag magnet. Just as I said that, Jody yelled “fish on“, and soon he grabbed a nice 25 inch Walleye from the water.

It was one of the biggest of the trip so far. We fished the shallow shelf for a few more minutes and caught 4 more Walleyes. We then drifted into deeper 14 to 20 feet water and continued to nail the Walleye. Jigs and twister tails were still our lure of choice; no need to try anything different. We had several more doubles, and boated a few more bass and Northerns. This I place was just fish crazy!!! We both decided we had enough Walleye action and headed to the deep water to try our hands at some more Lakers. We paddled out till we got to deep water and just drifted. I glanced at the depth finder and saw it was showing 80 feet. We were not expecting much action in this deep no structure area. We had been drifting for 10 minutes when Jody’s pole doubled over. He set the hook and spent the next couple of minutes coaxing the fish off the bottom. We were both sure it was another nice Laker and was surprised to see a Walleye in the 30” class. The fish made a run when it saw the boat and in a second it was gone. Oh well, that’s fishing!

After this misfortune we headed back to camp to grab lunch and took a much needed break. After lunch we decided to fish our close to camp honey hole. It was hot, sunny, and not much wind. We decided to try the 20 to 25 feet depth range under those conditions. That turned out to be a good choice, as the Walleye continued to eat our lures with vengeance! We boated another 30 Walleyes from this spot, a dozen bass, and just enough Northerns to be annoying. We decided we’d had enough Walleye action and headed to a shallow rock-filled back bay to cast for small mouth. The small bay coughed up many small mouth in the 1 ½ to 3 pound class. We fished this area for a couple hours before we left to try to find my lost reef. We arrived at the general area I thought the reef may be and started our search. I kept an eye on the depth finder but after a half hour of searching I still could not find it.

We then spotted a good looking main land point located north east of our location and we made our way over to the point and started to catch fish right away. Again, the magic depth was 14 to 20 feet; as long as we stayed in this depth range we caught fish. This was another spot that gave up Walleye, Bass, and Northern in random order. You just did not know what you would catch next. This lake surprised us as there seemed to be fish everywhere! We went in for dinner at around 6pm, and then hit the campsite honey hole till sunset. Again this spot was full of fish. We returned to camp at 9:30 for dinner, coffee, brandy, and a good cigar. We had planned to go to a unnamed lake tomorrow that we knew was full of big Largemouth but we decided against it. The fishing was just too good to leave.