Boji Update

Walleye fishing has been slow, in the last two trips to Big Spirit, I have caught many fish and only 4 keepers. Dicus and I caught 3 keepers a week ago. Scott Berry and I caught about 25 fish on Monday of this week and had one 18 inch fish and a 17 inch smallie. However, on late Monday afternoon the muskies went nuts in shallow water. I netted a 40 for Mark Mitchell and he caught two more after I left. I had 3 skies to the boat in 2 casts. The first muskie came in hot and took a swing at my bucktail, missed and took off. On the next cast 45 plus came lazily to the boat with a small male by her side. They weren't interested in eating, the spent about 30 seconds behind the boat near the big engine and then lazily swam off.
Rick Dicus and I are going to a small prairie lake in Minnesota this morning, walleye fishing, I will report later.

I'M BAAAACK

Well it has been awhile. I have been lackadaisical in my posting on BojiLand.
The walleye opener was a bust for Scott Berry and myself, what with a lightning storm coming through every 15 minutes, cold and wind it was tough. We didn't even go out at midnite this year, too many storms in the area. We finally got out Sat AM, and pulled cranks on leadcore at the north end of Boji, Egralharve, Emerson, nothing. We made a decision to move to the first basin north of the narrows, there we contacted probably 30 walleyes Saturday afternoon. Water temp on East was 63 as opposed to 53 on West. The best lure was a Ripstick, in a purple back chartreuse side, white belly pattern, we also caught a few on Baby Thunder Sticks. Sunday we tried the deep water in Browns Bay on West Okoboji and caught one smallie.
Yesterday, Dianne and I went to Big Spirit, it was her first outing of the year, we had a blast. I didn't keep and accurate count but I lost count at 28 walleyes. We caught 3 keepers. I caught a 32 inch muskie, too bad season is not open, I would have had my first report of the season for the club. We caught them on 5Ft leaders, bare red #2 hook, 4-6 ft lead and a green bead, with a No-Snagg sinker, and a minnow or leech, in 10-17 Ft of water. It was a beautiful day for a change, light wind (just enough) although it was a little chilly.

Clear Lake Muskie

Well the Heartland Chapter's annual muskie tournament is over. Mark and I blanked on tournament day but we sure got cold. Man was it windy and cold. We caught 2 sub-legals and lost a big one on Friday trolling, but the tournament was Saturday. We actually were trying to pick up a few walleyes on Friday, when the muskies hit. The best area was from the fish hatchery east to the DOCK restaurant. The winning fish was caught west of that on Fishermans Reef, a nice 42 incher I believe it was. We had a great time and the Heartland Chapter did an excellent job, I believe Chris McCabe told me they had 62 fishermen this year, their largest turn out ever.
I am now getting ready for the walleye opener here at the Iowa Great Lakes. My friend Scott Berry and I will be hitting West Okoboji first fishing out of his 2050 Skeeter and then if that doesn't pan out we will move to Big Spirit and fish out of my Ranger 619. His boat is in the hoist so we won't have to fuss with taking his out etc.
The weather is supposed to warm up into the 70's this weekend, that will be heaven. The low here last night was 28. WOW