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My buddy came up to visit me at my cottage today, with the plan to fish a neighboring lake. Unfortunately,he got held up and we didn't get out on the water until 1030am. He wanted to take home a couple of Walleye, but with the late start and bluebird skies, I wasn't very confident that was going to happen, as he had to leave by 4pm. However, the combination of a south wind, chop on the water, a falling barometer and an approaching cold front had the Walleye on a mid-day bite today...even though this is a clear water lake. This is in Frontenac which is zone 18, so the restrictive slot size often makes it difficult to put together a fish fry. We caught several others (larger than 20") outside the slot that went back to swim. Drop shot Jerk Minnows in 25 to 30 fow got almost all the bites. As usual, my Vizsla had to photo bomb any shot I took of my buddy.. A beautiful few hours to be out on the water for this time of year.

Hi all, Weather was great again yesterday, had to go...lake was calling...lol. I boated a bunch of crappie and quite a few nice bass on the brush piles, nicest smallie was a 19"er. I did a bit of scouting around shore lines I don't usually pay much attention to, found some interesting structure holding fish(crappie, bass and walleye) always fun finding new stuff. Got a really cool picture from the Active target of a complete pine tree lying on the bottom in around 30'FOW. Had to get back to get my kid from school but decided to spend half an hour at the entrance to the creek and cast for pike, got a bunch of snot rockets and missed a doozie.

Yum!

If you don't have digital charts, you better be going slow.

AKRISONER just a little word of caution. Been in the marine business for over 20 years. As soon as a boat comes in take a picture of all sides and any damage, scratches,etc. Take pictures of before work is done and after work is complete. Get the owner to fill out a work order in advance in his or her hand writing being explicit as to what they want done and ensure you document the date and time you call them to come and pick up their boat, and how many times you call. While most boaters are good people there are others that do not belong on this planet and will try to take advantage of you. I've seen it all. They come in for an oil change and want a new boat back, or accuse you of damaging their boat and will settle for a free repair. Electrical problems are the most time consuming and expensive repairs if you have to chase the problems through out the boat and through the different harnesses.You fix something, they come back a year later after having used it for a full summer and tell you something is wrong again, and want a warranty repair. Get a credit card or a substantial deposit to ensure the boat owner has some skin in the game, if not, you may be the owner of a boat and it will cost you 500 plus to scrap a boat or a lot of heart aches to try and sell it for what you have in it. Its a cheap way for someone to dispose of a boat.Its not a neccessity like a car. They just leave it with you. Not a joke... I know...Anyone want to buy a boat, or seadoos I have a few of them.

We fished hard last week with absolutely no luck on Wednesday and Thursday during the day. Nothing was biting. But Thursday evening we got a 44 inch musky. Then the bite got better the next few days and we landed about 5 muskies. We could see the muskies breaching the water but they just weren't biting the first 2 days. Me, I got skunked!!! LOL!

wow...beauties

you’re lucky Come on winter cant wait, love winter

Sorry for your lousy luck Barry, down here in the banana belt we're still enjoying shorts & sandals weather.

Very nice catch.

Nice haul!