Greg and Randy: Roosevelt - 7/16/2022

Randy from Cabela’s and I take a day trip each summer. It was good to catch up with him and talk about sports, family, and fishing. It took us a couple hours to locate decent numbers of walleyes, but once we did the action was consistent from late morning to early afternoon. By 3 PM, we had 17 walleyes in the livewell and released several smaller fish throughout the day. Randy caught a couple smallmouth bass including an 18 incher that weighed 3 pounds. Our average walleye was between 16-17 inches and the largest one was 20 inches.

More information for club members: We launched out of Porcupine Bay a little after 8 AM and made the run to the channel above Buoy 7. There were several other boats above the Blue House. I don’t usually see many folks fishing that far up the Arm. Randy and I made the long trolling pass down the channel (over an hour) pulling bouncers/crawlers and caught a couple keepers in 25 to 30 feet of water. Next, we tried various depths around Buoy 7. Once again, the magic depth was between 25 and 35 feet along channel edges between the gravel slide and Buoy 7. Trolling downstream 1.0 to 1.4 mph with 2.5 ounch bouncers worked well. Various spinner colors worked, but a size 4 chrome Colorado Blade with blue or purple beads on a double hook harness was our top producer. A similar sized copper blade also put fish in the boat. Metal blades overall were more productive than Smile Blades, and we got very few bites trolling slower than 1 mph.