Dewey Schultz has fished with me many times over the past several years. We started out fishing for crappies first this afternoon. One thing I like about fishing with Dewey is that he's always willing to try new things. So instead of just trying to catch crappies on the same old minnow below a bobber, we decided to see how many we could catch on plastics. We did drop minnow rods right over the side of the boat as well, but Dewey never did tie on a bobber.
I rigged up several different jig/plastic combos and Dewey cast them into and under the piers and surrounding shoreline while I slowly motored the boat around with the bow mount electric. This did produce crappies but not as fast as the past couple of outings. As luck would have it, the biggest crappie caught in my boat so far this spring came on a minnow line fished straight below the boat.
Later in the afternoon, Dewey and I decided to leave the crappies behind in favor of trolling for walleyes and saugers. This went pretty slow as well and the only fish we had to show for our efforts was a dandy 21" sauger that snapped up my shad rap as I was pulling it out of a snag. First time that's ever happened.
Surface water temperatures were running between 64-68 degrees in the bays today!
Thanks again Dewey! It's alway's a good time when I get to spend a day or afternoon fishing with you.
Boog
