Got A Tullibaby On A Windy Morning

17" VMC Fly/maggots

8.90" VMC Fly/maggots

7:20-9:30AM Tullibee Hole 25'
31-29℉, Cloudy/Partly Cloudy, 13-20mph SE

I got out a little later than I should have.  There was snow on the truck and on the road.  As far as I can tell I was the second one at the access.  A couple of trucks drove on when I was unloading.  I walked out which ate more time.  It was quite windy.  I got to the area drilled three holes and put the camera down first.  Then I put waxies down on the bobber rod.  The first fish of the morning was the bull gill that bit at about 7:50AM.  I was not on point with keeping the fish. I had to fill a bucket with water using the hawg trough in hopes the fish would survive if I wanted to release it.  That took time and the fish went belly up so I had to keep it.  I'm pretty sure there were others down there that were gone by the time I got my line back down. About had an hour later the tullibee showed up.  There were at least two of them by the marks I had.  Fortunately, I got a bite and hooked it in the shoot.  Excellent fight.  I got the camera and transducer out, but I got caught up on the bobber line.  Landing these slippery things is tricky.  I was using 3lb test. After that, I might have had one more tullibee come through. But who knows I also had crappies come through that I got to see on the camera.  I watched a crappie charge the Fly and suck it in, but I didn't connect with the hookset.  I had perch messing with me by the bottom and eventually put the camera down to watch them.  It was quite windy and my right foot was cold so I called it a day at 9:30.

Sullivan Sucked

My massive morning catch

9:00AM-12:15PM
38 degrees, pretty calm, partly cloudy

I woke up late.  I fished the same holes as yesterday and a set of 4 somebody drilled yesterday.  Had what were probably some small tullibee in one of those holes for a while.  I couldn't get them to bite.  My glasses came apart sans picture.  Dad came with Kaylee and brought me an old pair.  I managed to lose the screw right before dad arrived. Dad had an extra screw that fit.  I had to take off to get mom the Expedition.

3:30-7:00PM
34 degrees, cloudy, a bit of wind out of the NW
I got my gear switched into Jenny's van.  I decided to hit Sullivan again.  I was kind of thrown off as a couple people were sitting where I wanted to try.  I went on a wild goose chase trying to find the big weed flat.  Eventually I found it.  I got some small perch.  The walleyes I was hoping to get never showed.

Sullivan & Rock

8.5" Glow Demon

 8:00am-2:00pm at Sullivan
Warming up to the mid 30's, mostly sunny, light winds
I got 3 sets of holes drilled and started fishing just as the sun came out from the clouds.  I got two nice sunfish in the first hour or so.  I think I had a school of tullibee under me for a while, and I got them to chase my lure up and down but not high enough for me to see them.   I didn't get a bit from whatever they were.  I really wasn't rigged as well as I could have been.  In the afternoon I put the camera down to see what was down there and it stopped working.  I decided to quit at that point and bring the camera home and get something to eat.

8.5"er from another vantage point

3:30-8:00PM
36 degrees mostly sunny, light winds very pleasant to fish
I started by drilling about 6 sets of holes.  Then I started in the set farthest North by the reeds.   I got a couple of sunfish, perch and had a pike break a Demon off.  I think I also had the pike hit the Grass Pig.  These fish wanted wax worms, not maggots.  Eventually I moved out to the deeper holes and the crappies showed up.  I forgot to take a picture of any of them.  My second to last fish was a pike on the Demon with a Minnow.  I got 1 last crappie on a Demon and Minnow.  I actually went and checked my holes on Sullivan but nothing showed up so I didn't fish.

14 Crappies
4 Sunfish
4 Perch
1 Pike

A true Rock "jumbo".

7.5" Sunny on T.H.E. Jig

They wanted waxies not maggots

He wanted a minnow