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What type of weight do you attach to a
Bandit or any body bait to get a down deeper. Is it a clip on with a round sinker or is it a cylindrical sinker?
I tried to use one one time and ended up with a big ball a line wrapped up, must have done something wrong.

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Another beautiful and bountiful day was initiated with a 7 am stop in a West Harbor Marina for a backup pair of sunglasses to replace originals left at dock. A smooth 25-minute cruse to the border between the Islands and two large Dipseys set on two armed with “MadMo Roy G Biv” down 45-65, two boarded jet 40s loaded with Stingers 35-65 and two in line Bandits 75-90 were deployed at 2.2-2.8 mph. A five-hour troll produced 9 keepers, two nice eyes dropped, some junk and one new inline board. A quick call reunited the grateful owner with his tool. Captains’ intuition prompted a lunch on the move to find muddy waters off Kelly Island state park which pushed us to Kelly Island shoal yielding cleaner water and fisherman. Systems duplicated found feeding fish and several tight circles rounded up the remainder of a 4 man limit at the N W point of the shoal in 20-25 fow. Blessed, we all felt returning the errant board brought good Karma. Best producer was the MadMo Roy spoons, gifted to the captain that morning because they share the same name, fallowed by blue chrome Bandits and distant last Stingers.

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Went out on Fathers Day always a blessing to get out for a bit. Fished close to west sister to avoid some of the wind. Decided to chance it in the wind we caught 8 keeper walleyes all on pink and gold harnesses 24 in leader . Just drifting tritoon handled great again.Anyone else have problems with big boats coming within 50 feet of them?

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Heading back to the lake this week will be posting reports for walleye and perch. Still breaking in the new Duckworth. Thanks to all who share info here.

Walleye limit yesterday north of West Sister about a mile off the Canadian line . Program jet 40’s leads 60 back Contender Spoons on one side and Crawler harnesses on the other. Dipsy divers leads 50 back on a #3 setting with Michigan spoons . 36 walleyes done in 3 1/2 hours back at the dock by 12:00 . No junk fish only one white bass . Hot orange color on spoons and harnesses did most of the damage. 68 pounds at the cleaners.

Did a late afternoon fish between tip of Kelly’s and Middle Island near the green buoy. Most of the water we worked was 43-47” with a lot of bigger fish hanging near bottom but also some nice fish suspended that were scattered in area. We fished copper backed stinger spoons off dipsies .. seemed like black red and copper seemed to be best. It was a slow but steady pick and we ended up with 7 keepers (3 nice fish over 20 and 4 17”ers) and probably 15 shorts. Oddly the mid afternoon bite was best as we were getting into higher quality fish.. as the day went on we had less of them and more shorts. My guess is they moved into shallower waters to feed.
Tons of muddy water around PIB. We ran until we found clean water and then immediately found birds, including a few white pelicans. There were also some very annoying and seemingly dangerous gill/fishing nets set up in the area… always thought that was illegal in US waters but apparently I was wrong. If anyone has any insight, I’d love to hear it.

Beautiful day on water with some nice bags of fish to show for it.

Also found an Off Shore planar board that someone outfitted with a metal arm on our way home.. if anyone claims it, I’ll get it to you.

Tight lines to all.

Well we made it back from the mountains. Beautiful but snow in the middle of June is a bit much.

We got off to a slow start. One of the two guests had to last minute cancel due to a family emergency. I offered to reschedule but Tom wanted to fish. We met up at Mazurek’s at noon. What a mess. The weekend warriors out did them selves. All four ramps were blocked by boats because only one person could back trailer and the others did not know how to run the boat. Meanwhile a go fast boat wanted to launch but he blocked the lane so the other boat trailers could not pick up their boats. Nothing was moving. I suggested to the go fast if he would pull up so the others could get there boats he would be able to launch. Go figure, he got shitty about how he knew how to use a ramp. But he did pull up and we finally got into the water, with about a 20 minute delay.

This was our first day back on the water and the Mayfly reports had me concerned. We had a few at the house but not bad, but I know what the hatch can do to the bite. So I headed East and set up on the line North of Cedar Point and worked South East.

We were marking fish deep. We set up 3 Bandits on both sides from 60 to 120 back and put down two scorpion spoons on the riggers at 35 down. The riggers started producing right away and nothing on the Bandits. We swapped 3 Bandits on the Stbd. side for TruTrip 40s. We ran the 100 back with a mix of scorpios and Stinger spoons.

We only caught one eye on a Bandit 120 back unassisted. The spoons caught non stop. But we were getting 5 shorts to every keeper. It was non stop checking for small fish. We had 8 nice eaters in the cooler (low 20 inchers) when the Black Flys came in with a vengeance. Tom would not use our spray because he is opposed to Deet. Me, I love Deet, lol. He shortly decided he wanted to go in.

It wasn’t a great day and allot of work for a 8 keepers.

I’m off tomorrow for Fathers Day.

Son and I trolled the south end of the bar along with a few boats drifting. Filled two limits of 18-20″ eyes. Not fast and furious, but got the job done. Both harnesses and spoons took fish. 40 true trips 55-75 back, 2.3-2.5 on the Lowrance. 45-49 f.o.w. Monkey Puke and mixed veggies, along with a purple orange yeck spoon were the favorites.