Breaking The Rule Here On The Upper End

[rps]

This morning I left the marina very early and motored down lake nearly to Big M. There I ran into a long time acquaintance I had not seen for a while. He has a place on Owl Creek and likes to fish walleyes. He used to fish often with Martin, an OA member who passed last year.

We began to fish the same structure. I was deep because last time I was out the fish I found were deep. He fished 15 feet of water. He lost two, caught a short and then picked up three keeper walleye. He kindly invited me up into the shallow water he was fishing and that was the kiss of death. I managed one short and he stopped getting bites.

He headed back to his place and I began looking for something new and different. Bill Babler does not like me to go down lake of Big M. He's afraid I might play with his pet fish. I went anyway since I was only walleye fishing. All bass I caught were immediately released unharmed.

I wound up catching four walleye with two keepers.

Now I will break the rule. Where I caught them is so far from me I won't be back for probably another year. How I caught them is so challenging I doubt many will even attempt it. So I will share explicit details. Find point 23. Stay on the same side and go back uplake to the first cove. Both points at the entrance to the cove are timbered, rocky, 45 to 60 degree banks. I fished both points with a 1.5 ounce bottom bouncer on 50 feet of line at 1.2 mph using one of the worm harnesses I make in firetiger. That put the bait 25 to 28 feet down. I was in 30 to 40 feet of water fishing the rig through brush and tree tops.

Why would I break the rule? Can you imagine how much joy it will bring me to think of some desperate soul trying to execute that pattern and stay sane?

(Insert maniacal laugh.)

[Feathers and Fins]

Im insane and have your harness's Im game and the thought of harassing Bablers pets could make it worth it.

[rps]

Im insane and have your harness's Im game and the thought of harassing Bablers pets could make it worth it.

Oh. I forgot about you.

[Feathers and Fins]

[Bill Babler]

Absolutely anyone that would even consider that pattern on those specific points needs to be recommended for some type of psychiatric evaluation. I have caught big fish on both with a float-n-fly and at times will try and work a jerkbait on them, but it scares the BeJeeberrs out of me to even look at them.

Going way outside the box is how you learn, and if anyone things he can troll something thru that kind of a locations please have at it.

RPS, I'm in wonderment of your success. Congrats and you have my blessing to spend all the time and money and equipment you need to pursue your quest thru a tree laden area like that.

Good Luck

[Ham]

Oh. I forgot about you.

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[powerdive]

How is Scott?

Go back up the shoreline about a mile-n-a-half, and you're on the 2nd best early summer walleye spot on the upper lake. (First is the one you spoiled for our old friend.) Go straight across, and bouncing those flats and ditches will produce sometimes.

But no, you've gotta make it hard on yourself.

[dtrs5kprs]

You walleye guys will do the darnedest things to catch those wet rags. Thank goodness us bass fishermen have more sense.

[5bites]

Lol wet rags.

[Ham]

I've gonna guess 5bites hasn't had a 26 inch walleye grab an alabama rig being tossed on braid yet. Dead guys would feel that bite.