Short, Short, Short, Short

[taxidermist]

we have caught a lot of fish the past couple of day. walleye and bass. Chrome Hot and tots, blue or black backed, deep rouges same colors. But man on man we have not caught a keeper!!!

I told one of the AGFC Commissioners I was going to just take a skillet and grease and start doing shore lunch to get rid of the short fish. Also told him he would have to check my scat for evidence.

Anyway You cannot beat Bull Shoals for walleye numbers!!!

[Ham]

Maybe they will grow some over the year and we will have more keepers next spring.

I feel like I caught a lot of accidental walleye while bass/crappie fishing this year, but not a whole lot of keepers.

A few more > 18 inch fish sure would be nice.

[rangerman]

Fish deeper , the big girls are there.

[BrianS]

Yeah fish deep for the gooduns

[Martin]

Just got home from fishing the mid to lower lake area since Friday. We didn't get in to Peel until after lunch and ended up fishing 3:30 to 6:30..

Had 12 walleyes with only 3 being keepers...But catching 12 walleyes anywhere is fine with me.....lol....

Saturday, didn't get out until 10:00 a.m. and ended up with 4 keepers out of ??? walleyes total...Had a boatload of rookies and kids, so we all had fun (it resembled work for me), but several of the kids and grandkids caught their first walleye of their lives, and that was my mission.

This morning we only fished a couple of hours but it seemed much tougher. We had 2 walleyes, one of which was 17.9999999 inches long, but we threw her back. I'm not going to teach those little boys to cheat.

All fish were caught with bottom bouncers, crawler harnesses and nightcrawlers. Friday they were hanging out around 25 to 26 feet. Sat they were all around 20 feet and today, everything was at 17 to 19 feet.

Everybody had fun. Lots of "stop and go swimming", cause it was hot !

Tired, sunburned. Just the way I like it ! lol.

[powerdive]

Miller time at last, Marty!!!

[Martin]

It's 5 o'clock somewhere !

[Mike Worley]

Martin, glad to hear your trip went well. I fished Sunday also and it did seem that the early morning bite was slower than expected. But by noon we found the same thing that you did, the walleyes had moved up to the 15'-18' range. Also the keeper to short fish ratio had improved to about 2/1 with the late afternoon bite back in the 22'-26' range.

[Ron Burgundy]

Martin I heard a story of a guy that got caught with a short walleye at Holiday Island and it cost him $250....A guy could buy several cranks with $250!

[Martin]

ar.walleyes, you are one tough dude ! It was H O T yesterday (Sunday). I would have liked to stay longer, but most of my crew were really sunburned and tired. (They DID use lots of sunscreen). Glad the keeper ratio got better for you. The bite really does change throughout the day. Were you still using crawlers and bouncers ?

And Ron Burgundy, ouch ! A $250.00 reminder to measure your fish good and don't cheat.