Club Fish Day: Hunters - 7/8

We had 4 club boats at Hunters on Saturday. Sam and Janett, Bruce and Greg, Travis, and Larry Q. None of us had fished the area this year, so it took a while to find a decent bite. We fished 3 or 4 spots in the morning before settling on a productive shoreline in the afternoon. Travis had the hot hand catching 13 keepers. Bruce and Greg put 9 walleyes and 2 trout into the boat. Sam and Janett caught a handful of small fish. We lost track of Larry around lunch time, but he had at least one walleye in the boat.

More info for club members: Bruce and Greg were on the water by 8 AM and fished a weedy flat about 4 miles downstream of Hunters on the Ferry county side of the lake. Bruce caught a 17 inch walleye within the first 10 minutes of fishing, but nothing for the next hour. As club boats joined us, Travis informed us of some information he got at the boat launch. Other anglers had caught walleyes shallow (12 to 20 feet) on Friday near Mile Marker 60 on the Stevens county side of the lake. That info proved to be good. Travis fished that area and picked up a half dozen keepers throwing Shad Raps into areas with Rocks and weeds. Shady spots in the morning held the best concentration of shallow walleyes. By the time the rest of us joined him, the bite had slowed. In the early afternoon, Travis found more 13-16 inch fish 2 miles below Wilmont Creek on the Ferry county side of the Lake. Bruce and Greg joined him and we consistently caught walleyes in 25 to 35 feet of water trolling spinners and crawlers.