Alwaki June 27-July 5th

[Ozzy30]

We just got back on Sunday afternoon from another fantastic trip to Alwaki.  Unfortunately for Brian and Tina it was pretty quiet, but for us we normally have 10 plus boats around us fishing in that area of lake and there really is no pressure right now.  The walleye fishing was slower than usual for amount of fish but the quality was fantastic.  When I say slower than usual we still caught our fish to come home and enough for 5 meals.  Our biggest walleye was 28" trolling a hot n tot.  We did mostly trolling in the evenings with the family but in the mornings I jigged, i used the slip bobber this year after seeing john's pictures from the week before and I did catch 1 a day on it.  We caught 23 lake trout this year with only 1 over the 65cm but atleast 8 more between 58-65cm.  3 of our lakers came when we were trolling hot n tots for walleye.  We trolled a few days this year for pike and walleye during the day instead of just lake trout.  Caught 5, one between 7-8 pounds and another just over 5lbs.  I kept those 2 fish also.  We also took a day and fished for smallmouth and caught 7, kept 3 around the 3 pound range.  The weather was fantastic with no rain other than the 1st saturday.  Can't wait to go back in 2.5 weeks.  Water temperature hit 80 degrees 1 day but I was still catching lake trout only down 36 feet when trolling deeper water.

[GregL]

Wow! Nice job man!!! 28" that is a pig walleye!

Sounds like you got the Lakers figured out for sure! I am shocked they are still so shallow in this heat. Did you have any wave action from the wind?

[Ozzy30]

Hardly any wind all week.  We may have had 1 day where you could say it was a pretty good chop but other than that it was pretty smooth. 

[GregL]

No wind and all those fish, good job man!

[Kill Switch]

have the walleye moved to mi-lake shoals and drop offs?
thanks for the report.

[Greg]

Great trip Ozzy!  Glad to hear.

Greg

[Jay Thomas]

Nice report Ozzy30. Thanks for sharing your info. How deep were you finding most walleye? I'd say you did quite well on the walleye considering that the surface water temperature hit 80 degrees one day. Congrats on the 28 incher. Congrats as well on your lake trout success. You always do well lake trout fishing.

Jay

[Ozzy30]

When we troll we will troll water depths anywhere from 13 ftw to making turns out in 80ftw and they were scattered all over.  I usually fish 11 feet down to 15 feet down with my hot n tots.  For the fish being on the shoals they are there but either not hungry or they are scattered all over the place.  I really only found them stacked together once during the week. I could see the bait going a little deeper my last 2 days there so this week or next I think they will be on fire.  Jigging I was from 8 ftw to 35ftw there was really no pattern to them other than find bait on bottom and find more fish.

[limacharley]

Great fishing Ozzy. nice report.