The Big M 5/22/2013

[Quillback]

Started off with a bit of a topwater bite, only put 6 topwater fish in the boat, but good keeper sized LM's for the most part, spots weren't participating in the topwater bite for some reason. After the top water shut off, did some shaky heads, craws, and jigs but couldn't get anything going, picked up a dozen or so on that stuff but smaller 12" fish for the most part (I'm blaming it on the weather change). Back on the trailer at noon.

Threw a Rage Tail Lobster at a dock, felt a bite, set the hook and hooked into something that felt like a water logged stick. Felt a little movement, and I thought maybe it's an old T-shirt that's been sitting on the bottom. Got it up to the boat and saw that it was a walleye. 19" fish, but I was merciful and released it.

Water temp 70, 6-8 feet of visibility.

[dtrs5kprs]

Threw a Rage Tail Lobster at a dock, felt a bite, set the hook and hooked into something that felt like a water logged stick. Felt a little movement, and I thought maybe it's an old T-shirt that's been sitting on the bottom. Got it up to the boat and saw that it was a walleye. 19" fish, but I was merciful and released it.

So it was an aggressively fighting eye...

[Jason Essary]

quil, ohh I would have released that fish in the grease. Still have yet to catch an "eye" on a texas rig. If one makes the mistake it will be costly for him if he is 18".

[Flippin]

Nice report. Somedays it is just doesn't happen.

[Quillback]

So it was an aggressively fighting eye...

HAHA, that is funny!

[Quillback]

quil, ohh I would have released that fish in the grease. Still have yet to catch an "eye" on a texas rig. If one makes the mistake it will be costly for him if he is 18".

It was a tough call, just didn't want to deal with cleaning fish.

[fishingaddiction]

Quill, were you getting the TW bites in shallow water or deep? I would have put the eye under the knife for sure. Thanks for posting.

[Quillback]

Quill, were you getting the TW bites in shallow water or deep? I would have put the eye under the knife for sure. Thanks for posting.

I was getting my TW bites around a couple of gravel points, most of the fish were in about 3-10 FOW. But there was surface activity all the way out to mid-channel over 50+ FOW. I didn't chase those fish, but they were there.

[powerdive]

"Threw a Rage Tail Lobster at a dock, felt a bite, set the hook and hooked into something that felt like a water logged stick. Felt a little movement, and I thought maybe it's an old T-shirt that's been sitting on the bottom. Got it up to the boat and saw that it was a walleye. 19" fish, but I was merciful and released it."

QB, you cradle-robber, don't make me re-post that.

Congrats on releasing an obviously valuable fish (unlike the target species).