Got up about 10km in front of the Old Reservation and threw out a 3/8oz white bucktail jig and trolled it up the trench to the mouth of the French. Six other boats on the water and some familiar faces out fishing. I inquired about the action from a few and was given relatively slow and poor for answers.
Around 2:30 parked the boat. Kids were content to eat and play.
After a half hour I'd caught nothing. Boat up the way had caught nothing and one occupant and the driver yelled back they'd only caught 4 between the 3 of them in almost 4 hours. Around that time I put on 1/4oz green jighead with a raspberry (purplish) red fleck 3" grub. First cast FISH ON!
For the next hour and 15 minutes 7 more walleye came to the boat and a nice one got off on Summer. Her fish was probably around 17-18 inches, but all the other fish were a fair bit smaller, except for one.
The past month or so I've had some really good days with the walleye. Missisicabi was a hundred or more fish with many in the 20-27" range. Today I was using the same tackle and fishing in similar current when I hooked into this fish....
And Summer wanted to be more involved with this one, so it became...
A 17" Searun Brook Trout. Absolutely phenomenal. This fish, like only a couple brookies before it, just blew my mind. This fish took 5 maybe 6 runs, 4 of which pulled off line greater than about 20' and it's second run maybe to 40'. Not only that, before I saw it I thought I hooked a monster walleye because it dug into bottom hard and then started shaking it's head like an eye on speed. And to top it off, it tail walked the surface just after it and I saw one another when it came close to the boat. She (and it was) was near the boat, the water clarity great today, it turned it's back and I watched it turn and run hard and when she got to her end went like 60 on me getting some slack and tail walked with the current. JUST AWESOME. I can't believe the power and determination of the brook trout. It fought every bit as hard, but with 10 times the spectacle of the biggest walleyes I've caught this year.
Like I said in one of my last posts about brookies... I LOVE 'EM. Not since May have I had one over 12". Man, was I happy today with this fish.
And so 4:30 came around and we headed for home. Tomorrows dinner... trout stuffed with walleye.
