Thursday afternoon, Tom, Steve, George & I went to Zipple Bay after they finished work. We went to the same general area as we did on Tuesday and were fishing about 5:00 p.m. The bite was good and we caught lot of fish; mostly sauger and a lot of little ones we released. We kept seventeen; thirteen nice saugers and four walleyes. It was good for less than two hours fishing.

Tom practicing on little saugers.

Looking for one like he caught in February. (See 02/28/09 report)

George with a nice walleye

Steve with a good sauger

A couple of the Bosch Boys are up from Detroit getting things organized for the upcoming winter test season. With fishing not like it should be on the river, four of us; Tom, Steve, George and myself went to Zipple Bay on Tuesday afternoon. We left at 4:00 p.m. after they finished work and it must have been near 5:00 by the time we got to the lake. We anchored up in about twenty feet of water and the bite was good from the start. We used jigs and minnows; both chubs and frozen shiners. It didn’t seem to make any difference what color jig or which minnows we used, as we all caught fish. We lost count of the number of fish caught in the one and one half  hours that we fished, but we kept eighteen; twelve nice saugers and six walleyes. Numerous small sauger and walleye were released. The wind kept getting stronger and we were running out of daylight so we called it quits or we probably would have gotten our limits.

Steve with a nice walleye

Many of us are waiting for the weather to shape up and the fish to move in the river and start a good bite; both have been slow in coming.

Jonathan and his two girls are home for the MEA weekend. We made the best of a cold, dreary Thursday by getting a couple odd jobs done around the house and then Jonathan took Rachel skating at the arena. Friday, the weather began to change and Jonathan, Rachel and I fished the river for a couple hours in the afternoon. We caught two walleyes and a perch. Both walleyes were too big to keep. Rachel caught one 21-1/2″ and I caught one 25″. After an early supper Jonathan and I fished the river that last hour before dark and caught five walleyes. Jonathan caught one to big; 22″, one to small and a nice one 17″. I caught one 20″ and an eater. We both lost a fish that we maybe could have kept, so for the short time we fished it wasn’t too bad.

Jonathan and Rachel with her 21-1/2″ walleye

Jonathan with a nice 22″ walleye

After the beautiful summer weather we had in September, the current weather we are having is a little hard to get use too. If cooler water temperatures are suppose to get the fish a little more active, the next few days should help;  low temps in the twenties, highs in the thirties.

Diane and I have been gone for a couple weeks and fishing was put on hold. Reports were that fishing has been really slow up until the past couple of days. Friday I heard that the shiners are in the river and the bite has improved considerably. Now if we just get some sunshine, the last couple of weeks in October should be fun.

A snowy Saturday morning