We each had six days off work, which meant we had to use two days driving back and forth and that left four days to fish...
The first day the weather cooperated and after a little work finding a productive pattern, we decided to go to my friends "can't miss" smallie spot. Well we found fish all right but they were walleye and northerns.
At one point I caught nice fish on 4 consecutive casts. We kept catching slot walleye {18"-23"} and it took some work to catch walleye small enough to eat. {When we caught walleye over 23", we tossed those back}.
We actually lost track of how many fish we caught which was great and raised my hopes for the final three days, but alas it was not meant to be...
Here's a decent slot fish caught casting a #7 black/gold shad rap into 5' of water over the tops of emerging weeds.
My friend with a bucktail pike.
During the last three days of our trip, a BRUTAL cold front came through which dropped the temps 20+ degrees along with nasty 25 to 35mph winds and non stop rain. I have never in my life seen such wind and rain that never stoppped, not once, not ever
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Sure we got out a few times those last three days, but crossing the fat part of Eagle Lake in the wind and rain was quite the experience...
The brutal wind did not allow for any type of finesse fishing because even in a sheltered bay we were still being blown every which way.
Luckily we still caught some fish but I didn't take many pictures because of the rain.
Here is a pike caught when the rain miraculosely turned to a mist for 90 seconds.
Even with mother nature giving us a royal screwing I still had a great time. While hoping for a break in the weather that never came, my buddy and I spent our time talking about life, love, women, etc. Great memories were made.
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