Go Fish! With Ryan

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Catch Up Post! We've been on the lake every day that the weather has allowed lately, and man has the fishing been awesome! Making updates to the facebook page, not as awesome.
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7/26 - What an absolutely crazy bite we had this morning!

The snotty lake slowed us down a bit, but we took our time getting to the grounds and made it happen.
I had enough time to set rods outside of the target area I found Thursday, and when we hit the sweet spot it was a fire drill. Fish were coming in as fast as I could get rods deployed and fish in the livewell.

Most active fish were in the 65-75 foot range and we were getting them on small shallow divers behind dipseys and worm harnesses of every shape and size.

The average fish was on the big side for myself and most of the other captains I ran into today. What a stellar time on the water with returning guests. It was a birthday treat to say the least!
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Late start, but it was worth the wait.

As soon as I checked the buoys this morning I decided to delay the party.
We bumped our start time a couple hours to let the lake settle nicely and she sure did. Some leftover rollers on the way out at 7:30 lined our path to the Lake Erie gold today. Our biggest one of the day was right at 28 inches and marked a lifetime biggest walleye for Jake. Man was I anxious when I saw that massive white mouth headed for the net. Today it was our job to supply the fish for tonight’s family fish fry and we did precisely that.

Slow rolling worms showed off big time today. The suspended fish were fewer and farther between when I was fishing that 70-75 fow. Most of the fish we were catching were in the bottom 10 feet of the water column, and that is my happy place.
I opted for riggers over bouncers today and riggers pulled some serious weight today.
My in-line weights and dipseys have also done a great job as long as I dial them in with my live scope. There are lots of ways to measure and guess how deep your baits are running, but this completely removes the guess work. Sometimes we just walk the baits right into the fish and repeat. What a blast!
Depth matters most friends.
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Trip number two from 7/8 was a last minute adventure.
The lake was just too good to be true for the morning crew, and I had some time in the evening, so I made a call to this duo and they were able to make it happen in a hurry.

We hit the same grounds as I did in the morning with a similar program and the results didn't disappoint. We had a shortened window of time with the evening launch, but the lake and the fish cooperated nicely and we were able to load the livewell in no time.

It's been a blessing to watch so many of these kiddos grow into their own fishing ability and today was an awesome example of that. I've been lucky to witness this young man go from barely knowing the best way to get a walleye to the boat to watching him jumping to grab rods the second they get a bite. What a blast, and what a rush!

Awesome times on a beautiful lake, and I was heading to do it again the next day.

That reminds me, let me know if you'd like to be put on the "on-call" list and maybe we can make this happen for you too.

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Catch up post from a little bit ago.

Father and son a long time coming.
A graduation present, and what a gift today was.

A gift certificate for a graduation present a while back connected us, and luck would bring us together. I had a last minute cancellation and they happened to be available. Crazy how that happens.

We were met with a beautiful lake and some hungry walters. It never gets old introducing new folks to the crazy fishery we are so lucky to have.

We hit the deeper side of the south side of the trench to start our day and the fish didn't give us a ton of time to do our thing before they started in on us. The fishing has been nothing short of amazing lately and this day played out that was as well. Dipseys rods continue to do a ton of work for me. We had a hard time keeping 4-6 rods in the water until it was time to wrap up our walleye adventures and head for the sheep grounds. A little bit of jigging, and then we were headed home to pack up their catch.

Harnesses continue to produce for me. Colors don't seem to be as critical as depth, and dialing depth has never been as easy as it is with live scope.
The way my unit is set up, I can see the harnesses and even the swivels on my lines at depth, so dialing in the baits to the fish has never been more precise.

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Glass lake and hungry walleygators.

Doubles for the day started off the day with a new crew that I’ve been looking forward to fishing with. Our email and text exchange prior to the trip had me primed for the hilarity that we had today. We had a great time and man did these guys smoke them in the rods today. Only a couple of their fish came unbuttoned all morning. If you can call it “all morning”.
We had a million of our closest friends at the launch this am, that lead to a delayed start. A long-ish boat ride was made shorter thanks to Yamaha Outboards and we were in the honey hole in no time.
The rods were flying and the shenanigans were plentiful.

Overall the game plan was the same as normal, but our target depth was a tiny bit shallower all day. 65-75 FOW. I went slow, I pulled worms, and we filled the livewell a couple times 🎣🎣
Fishing remains crazy, if you like to get out you better get to me before it’s too late.

Trip two of the day landed some more great for a family trio that were 2/3 completely new to walleye fish and 1/3 completely new to fishing total. Who would have thought a first ever fish catch would happen today and who knew it would be a 20”+ walleye.

Great day overall, now sleep, back at it tomorrow.

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Double boat duty today!
Thanks to Ed Soboslay for joining in the fun again this morning.

Coming off the crazy conditions yesterday we knew it would be a puzzle to solve out there today. We headed to some familiar territory and it was a little off. I started a little in the shallower side and had a decent bite right out of the gate. We had rods moving constantly until we hit the 75 foot line and it dried up in a hurry. We were both filling our boats in short order. One slide north for me, a reset further south and our second short north slide loaded the livewell with some great fish this morning.

It was a pleasure to join my guests in celebrating a retirement and new beginnings with these fellas. Overall we had a great morning and despite our plan taking some tweaking we still had a quick trip overall.

Fishing was best for me in 65-75 FOW and we’re still targeting fish that were hovering around the 40 foot mark.

Great times on the big pond this morning!
Meat bags for days!!

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