July 17 Walleye Trolling

[rps]

As I reported earlier in the week, my troll motor is in the shop. I didn't bother to go out for the morning topwater bite. In the old days when I had no troll motor, I fished from a 14 foot boat I could scull with a paddle. I am not man enough to scull my wide bottom 18 footer.

I did go out at 11 and I trolled until nearly 5. I started at Rock Creek's mouth and worked back to Holiday Island. I fished tree tops and flats.

I found spotted bass in the 20 to 30 foot range, although nothing of great size. I scoped and caught most of them on the drop off sides of long points such as the fingers between Panther Creek and Owl Creek.

I caught three walleye. Two keepers, 18 and 20, and one short. All three came from 22 to 25 foot deep on chartreuse hard baits at 2 to 2.5 mile per hour.

While up at the mouth of Rock Creek, I witnessed one of those "I can't believe it!" moments you sometimes see on lakes. Some doofus in a "go fast for no apparent reason" boat pulled his son on a tube directly into the danger buoy. Knocked the kid off and stunned him. Luckily, the kid didn't drown, and Mr. Smart left the area before he hit the reef. I just sat there and tried to convince myself I didn't see what I had just seen. I mean, what kind of boat driver pulls a kid into a danger buoy?

[Sam]

Knocked the kid off and stunned him. .......... I mean, what kind of boat driver pulls a kid into a danger buoy?

Must have been a step-kid. Was he red-headed?