Smith Bay trip July 11 -18th

[T]

Sorry for the delay in posting this trip, but work didn't stop while I was gone.  This years trip to visit with Grant and Lyn was great.  I had my son and best friend along.  The trip started out with weather being hot & humid!  The first morning we caught a lot of fish with some good size to them.  By that afternoon, the fish had gone deep.  The remainder of the week we would fish one spot and within  an hour the bite was off.  We would to another another spot and catch fish for an hour.  Then move to another.  We caught plenty of fish, bass, pike and walleyes, but we had to keep moving around. 

Like I said the weather was very hot and humid the first couple of days, but cooled off by Tuesday when the winds picked up.  Our best day of fishing was Weds, the day after we had heavy winds.  My son and I fished Chamagen Bay Weds. morning and each boated over 30 walleye.  Unfortunately, the rest of the week, we had very little wind.  We mainly drifted rock ledges and points.  We also trolled the hump with worm harnesses and hot & tots.  Most of our action was drift fishing though. Our count for the week was 17 pike (the biggest being 37" caught off the dock by my son), 21 small mouths and 217 walleye.

All in all another great week with Grant & Lyn.  I have already started the count down to next year.

[Jay Thomas]

Thanks for your report.

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. When you mentioned that you and your son each caught 30 walleyes on Wed morning in Chemagan Bay, were you fishing the Blue Barrel area or further up into the Bay? What depth was most productive for the week? Thanks in advance.

Jay

[T]

Jay

I fish further up in the bay.  I have never caught much at the blue barrel. Most of our fish were in 16 to 21 feet of water around structure.  Leeches caught bigger fish, but worms out fished everything.