It's Been a Month Already....11/12/2025

It's been a month since my last scheduled trip, due to reschedules and cancellations, due to wind.  Somehow, it's nice out when I don't have a trip scheduled and it blows when I do....deep sigh. Oh well...no one can control Mother Nature, and it is what it is. At least most rescheduled, rather than cancelled, so there's that silver lining. 

I got out a couple of times with a friend to just get on the water on a nice day, but the results were less than stellar, so I never wrote about it.  The first trip was out of Marblehead a few weeks ago, and while the fish were in the area, the bite was not. Well, that's not completely true....the bite was there if you were going in the right direction in relation to the currents happening that day.  We were on a SW to NE troll, but the bite was happening on a NE to SW troll. lol   We only caught one small walleye.

We never turned around to go the other way, because we had also brought perch stuff, to try for them if the walleye bite failed us, so we went to try for perch instead of making another pass the other way.

Well, that decision resulted with the same outcome....nothing....not even a nibble, so we headed in after about 4 hours.

The next time out was for perch....again...mark them, but they wouldn't bite. We were rewarded with one throw back and one jumbo after 6 spots and 3 hours. Then, we tried trolling for walleye. We marked fish in the zone that would make you think they would be eating, and it would be a good bite, but they refused.

We had one pull back with a big fish, but it came off half way to the boat. So, we called it and went in.

So, nothing really to write about.  I have been busy cleaning up the gardens, yard, and house during my time off, to get ready for the boring season of winter. 

Sure, it's pretty and all, but I hate the gray dull hues, and cold winds, when there isn't any snow around. It's depressing. I can't wait for spring when things start turning green again, and I can grow stuff. :)

I do have a scheduled trip this Friday and Saturday, and right now it's blowing 20-30 from the WSW for the second day in row. It was blowing hard from the NE and then the NW prior to the wind switch.  It will start to lay down tomorrow and hopefully will put some water back on this end of the lake, so the ramps aren't too shallow to launch this weekend.

The weather report is showing warmer temps this weekend, so I'm hoping that doesn't show up with wind.  The wind forecast for Friday, as I write this, is showing winds out of the south at less than 5mph. It's switching to the east during the morning, but shows it only getting to 10mph in the afternoon, so that's good. I hope it doesn't change. It's going to be a run to find clean water, I think. 

I plan on meeting them at Vermilion, since they are coming over from PA that morning. He's a farmer and gets up early, he said. It's a 4-hour drive, too...so, meeting them in Vermilion would shorten their trip by 40 minutes, and put us closer to fish that might be willing to bite. Fingers crossed!

Saturday is showing a SSE wind from 12-20mph. I'm hoping that the water inside by Vermilion will have a chance to clean up enough through Friday, that it's fishable on Saturday. We shall see.

I might just take along some perch stuff in case we do well on the walleye and can target some of those jumbo perch over there, too.

Then, the next scheduled trip isn't until the 21st, and it's too far out yet to look at a forecast. 

I still haven't caught my 6 walleyes for my freezer, for the winter. I like to make walleye chowder over the winter, and only need 6 walleyes to spread over the months.  I need to catch some perch, too, to take to family in Wisco, for Christmas.  Maybe Mother Nature will find it in her heart to give us good weather and stable conditions, so we can get a few more good trips in, with fish willing to bite aggressively (making it easy!)

I'll let you know how we do on Friday....

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls