The sun is back!

It has finally stopped raining. For a while I didn’t think our guests this week would see the sun. The forecast looks like decent weather in the near future with temps in the low 70’s. The cloudy and rainy weather this weeks got the walleyes snapping. Nice sized walleye were easy to find this week in 13-18 feet of water. Jigging with minnows or leeches was working really well with the hot colors being pink and gold. The biggest walleye so far this week has been 27 ½ inches and last week a 13 year old girl for camp caught a monster 30 incher. In the 13-18 foot range there seemed to be more walleye between 22 and 25 inches than I have ever heard of, with reports that guests were catching one over 18 inches to every one under, which is a really high ratio.
The Northerns seem to be in a funk a little this week. Casting with lures is pretty much a waste of time as far as I can tell. The method working the best is finding the main depth where the walleyes are and trolling rapalas through those depths. There have been many reports of giant Pike smacking walleye on the way up which means right now they are definitely feeding on walleye. The weeds are just coming up now which should bring the Northern to the weeds soon.
Here is a pic of a 42 inch Northern caught last week. This Northern held our leader board for one day until someone caught a 44 incher which was the biggest of the week.