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I had longtime clients Jim Lewinski Sr. and Jim Lewinski Jr. We started out the day drifting the breaklines with Lindy Rigs. That produced zip! We hit several spots but nothing happening there. We finally ended up getting the boards and spinners out for the last 3 hours of the day and ended up with 5 "quality" sized walleye. Guests Joe Volpe and Rick Palasek were working the weeds and reefs yesterday and ended up with 9 nice eaters (sorry, no picture). They went back to the same program today and caught 8 more (picture). The average size was much bigger today though. Joe said "if you were not in the weeds, you were not catching fish". Here's a couple pictures of big and little Jim from yesterdays trip (and video) and a picture of the walleye Joe and Rick caught today.

Another great day on the bay today, as I had long time clients Denny Gustafson and Jim Lewinski from the Chicago area. Jim "the enticer" Sr. could not make the trip this time, and I'm sure the guys will let him know that he missed out on lots of fun. We got on the water around 6:30 a.m. and it was pretty fast and furious the first two hours of the day, then when the wind really kicked up...the fishing slowed. I was really looking forward to the wind kicking up, because that usually turns the fish on big time and I thought we would have a fantastic day fishing. I'm glad we got out there early, because the later it got, the slower it got. We did manage to get our 15 fish limit of really nice walleyes and we released some beautiful smallies as well. We caught all our fish drifting with floating jig heads tipped with just a small 2 inch piece of night crawler. We called it a day shortly after 1 p.m. and headed back to the fish cleaning shack at the resort. Hopefully the cold front moving through tonight doesn't shut the fish down too much, we'll be back out there tomorrow trying it again. Here's a picture from today's trip, good luck from all of us in the Bay de Noc area.

Today I had the opportunity to fish with part of a great family from the Orion area of lower Michigan. Only three of the five family members went fishing. Bridgette, Kathleen and their dad Mike came aboard for a five hour trip on the bay. We left the resort shortly after 6 a.m., and when we got to the Gladstone Yacht Harbor and I saw the flags already blowing...I knew it was going to get windy! As most of you know, I am not fond of a west wind, mostly because it makes boat control very difficult when all of the structure in the bay goes north and south. We put out two small drift socks to stabilize the boat and slow us down some, and by using the auto pilot we were able to keep a pretty steady speed of .9 to 1.0 mph. I was quite surprised at how many boats were out there this morning, especially for how windy it was. As for the fishing...it was actually pretty good, especially the average size of the fish. We didn't catch nearly as many small fish as we've been getting lately, and we had several nice fish over 20 inches today. Most were 16 to 19 inchers though. Harnesses and bottom bouncers caught all the fish. We quit shortly after 11 a.m. when the wind really started cranking, but we ended up with 11 really nice walleyes for them to take home and enjoy. I really enjoyed today, it's always nice to get families that enjoy spending time together in the outdoors. Here's a couple pictures of today's trip, good luck from all of us in the Bays de Noc area.

Two of the three illegal netters caught recently netting on Big Bay de Noc were sentenced today. You can see their sentences here: http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/516739.html?nav=5003 . Kevin Lee