Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Fishing from Terry's boat

What a great weekend! Terry brought his new boat to Madison to fish Mendota all weekend, and we definitely made the most of it.

Friday night - Launched the boat around sundown and fished the bay north of picnic point. Each caught a northern on crankbaits in 10 ft of water. (no pictures)

Saturday morning - Got up early and hit the water at 7am. The wind was pretty strong from the northwest, so we trolled the north shore of Mendota with the same crankbaits in 12 ft of water. Terry caught a big smallie and 2 northerns, and I caught 2 northerns followed by a 16.5" walleye.







Saturday night - The wind was starting to die down. We basically did a repeat of Friday night only on the south side of picnic point. Terry and I each caught a largemouth and a northern. I lost 3 or 4 fish because I didn't set the hook very well. Need to work on that!





Sunday day - No fish, but holy smokes was it a gorgeous day!

3 comments:

Fish Whisperer said...

Ben, nice fish and you are right a really nice day. Funny how the better the weather the less fish we catch.
Tight lines

Jeff Douglas said...

Nice going! Wow, I sure miss those whopper Mendota smallmouths like Terry is holding. Good northerns too.

Wolfy said...

Nice multi-species trip. keep it up.

joe