Saturday Jan 10th Solo Trip

[taxidermist]

I headed out Staurday solo, it was a bit cold and the aluminum boat a bit light in the fron t end with the wind. I htrew some of my favorite large lures all day, caught a bucnh of fish 2 generators were on they said.

Caught some small browns 6-9" yea I said they were small, lots of rainbows some really fat. Seems theother six boats were not catching much, one young guide humbled himself to come over and findout what I was using, which the most productive lure was a CD-3 rapala over the shoals. I showed him and he ask if I had any extra, I said yes, he ask how much? I said will let's see time and pace should have a lot to do with price, right? he just dropped hs head lower. so I said you got $10.00? we made the deal and I headed on down river.

Fishing slowed really slow about 3 PM and I was trying different lures and techniques and in the shoal about Stetsons I hung what I thought was going to be a thumper brown, it headed down stream and I went with it then it settled into the hole across from Stetsons, I worked it and the clouds made the water dark I could see a flash once in a while but it was just really really heavy. I could see the big flash and not wanting to pressure the fish. 6# test line and a light action rod, I just played it as gently as I could.

had to work the motor and it was a pretty good challenge, I finally got the fish up for a good look and its was a walleye!!! 28 inches long 17 inch girth. Yes I kept it, I cannot ressit a mess of walleye!!!!!

I thought as I headed to the shop in Flippin, do I mold this fish for reproductions or do a skin mount. Hum if I mold it I loose the meat. " I guess I am just a fish lover, I skinned it and we had fresh waleye fillets the fish had a belly full of eggs and we had almost 4 pounds of fillets.

Seldom do I put my animals in front of customers for mounting but since I dont have a walleye on the wall I figured this time She comes first!!! So its mounted and drying.

Since the river is mainly for trout I also figured you die hard fly fisherman would certainly want the trout eater out of the river!!!!