I arrived at Scugog Causeway late last night at 12am, with my 6'6 medium light spinning abu garcia ready for some walleye/panfish action and I notice people are leaving. One car left. As I step out of my car with backpack, bucket and rod in hand rigged up with a clip to switch between crankbaits and jerkbaits, I notice the last glowing float panfish man is leaving the vacinity, and I can only conclude that the action for panfish is down- GREAT NEWS! Maybe walleye have invaded the area and its my time to shine!
I get to the causeway and the winds are just howling at me, not to mention at the causeway it's a little elevated on the north side so the wind makes it extra tough. The current is rockin', as well, so I know theres no panfish but MAYBE walleye! The wind being so rough, I decide 3 casts with my husky jerk and 1 cast with my secret jerkbait and thats it, I'm going to the other side to catch panfish with a tiny original floater gold.
First cast with the secret jerkbait, i'm on a slow steady retrieve then BAM! Fish on!!! My rod doubles over, I get it away from the weeds, it jumps and I'm thinking bass. 3 pound smallie... It zings my reel over just to the left of me and clears the water. Oh man... 10 pound walleye?!? I'm thinking to myself. After an AWESOME fight with my rod in FULL bent over mode and slowly tightening the drag as the fight wears on, the brute gives in. It still had so much energy left but I pulled it onto the submerged dock for landing, totally amazed at how big it is. A tad longer than half my rod, and GOOD NEWS. I break the line to release it because I'm on 6'lb test, good thing I tied 15 lb flouro leader to the end (because I didn't want to lose my jerkbait), and I revived the fish before releasing it with no tension, it swallowed my jerkbait, o_-. it just sat next to the dock for a few seconds by itself after i figured i couldnt get the hooks out, what an adventure.