Bass have been great - and even saw a horizontal funnel cloud

6.5 lb Walleye in bright sun, shallow, rocky water

Water Temp: 26.5 degrees C

Wind: Low

Waves: Low-Medium

Clouds: Mostly clear

Sun: Bright

So I thought I'd take my brother-in-law out to the 'almost guaranteed' pike bay so that he could experience a pike first hand. No such luck. So we moved and hung around a point to catch smallies with whole worms, and guess what, he gets a pike but he had no leader so it broke off. So we fished from 7-9am this morning and caught nothing. We were almost ready to go home but I decided to head towards a wind-swept island and caught this on the first cast in 5-7 feet of water, at around 9am under bright sun. He fought very well - I thought it was a pike for sure but it turned about to be Mr. Walleye. He was released unharmed.

We caught some smallies and just before heading home I decided to try a new rocky island. Turned out that it had a very small hidden weedbed. Had a pike on, and dozens of 2-3 lb smallmouth - what a great day. They were hitting worms, spinners and spoons: (note some pictures from previous days are mixed in below) -

Another big walleye

Whole worms. That's all they seem to eat on this lake. The bass, the walleye, they take the worm in their mouth, and hold it there for all their fish friends to see. I have yet to gut hook a fish, even when I've let the fish have the darned worm for 3-4 minutes. The walleye, are sneaky. They not only hold the worm in their mouth, but I can't tell the difference between a rock bass nibble, or a 5-6 lb walleye. Even the smallies bite lightly. In contrast with lake trout and pike, which slam lures, you gotta finesse these guys. They're just not hungry enough, there are too many baitfish in this lake.

Fishing was slow for 5 days. Now it's crazy hot.

So I switched to worms after 5 days of zero bite. Nothing worked, jigs, gulp, you name it, they just weren't biting. So I switched to whole worms, hooked once and voila:

And I also caught a nice sized Walleye!

Pike Caught last week: