All right.
Uh, what do you want to do this?
You want, you're gonna back me in?
Do you want me to under?
Do you want to back down or what do you want to do?
Well I can back down or you're gonna back me in.
That's fine.
If that's right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, if you want to back me out.
You know how to drive this one?
Hehe.
Oh, is that the, it's the shifter one, but you got to push buttons.
All right, you can go ahead.
You're good.
I still think about that, uh, we're interviewing you and that fucking walleye, you know, mid-interview.
Yeah.
Yep.
That's possible.
I'm right every now and then.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
That was pretty crazy.
All that happened just like that.
That's nuts.
Yeah.
No, me and Stup bringing up every once in a while too were like, I can't believe that
ever happened.
You know, that's just, it doesn't happen, but it did.
This goofy wind.
A bunch of little ones and we threw them back in the morning, we thought it'd be a good
day and then we got one more of the rest of the day.
Yeah.
And actually right where we were fishing, uh, just this last Sunday in the game, we were
right by the green cans that are right here.
Okay.
Well, I thought you said before I read it on the corner with that spot.
Yeah.
Yeah, they were in there a big time.
We had.
It is a lot better out here than yesterday, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, for sure.
Do the stores, do they pick up when they come across the lake or do they get knocked
down?
Um, most of the time they split it.
They go around it.
Okay.
Yeah.
But not yesterday, yesterday that was down four and something.
Yeah.
We had two and a half inches.
We had my house there.
Yeah.
And we started driving through it all the way to Claire.
We basically were chasing the edge of it and none of it all went out.
Yeah.
For this water, it was really dirty from yesterday.
Hmm.
I ain't going to guarantee you we're going to catch anything unless usually we like it
a little dirty, but this is, this is dirty.
Yeah, because we can just go right to here and we don't have to travel anywhere if you
don't want to.
It'd be.
It's up to you.
No.
We can go right here.
Okay.
And we didn't fish here that day.
We didn't fish here that day anyways.
We were all down that way.
We haven't been on it for just so long.
Yeah.
We got official license and we can help, okay?
Hey
Yeah, we used all my rods and my and Mikey blanks. We were in a tournament at his boat
But we use all my rods cuz they're they're sensitive to the Denali's or
They're one of the best ones I believe and then you can feel what you actually got on
Kind of like kind of like the last show
that
You can pretty much call any fish that you get that you got on
Oh
Gotta get some baits
So many to choose from
I
Should be windy enough today
Just to use this instead of the bomb or you know with the waves pushing out
Should be all right
Because usually you want to you want to use your kicker
When you're when you're trolling cranks so your battery don't die is quick
All right
Did you ever use these boards before no the last time I used planar boards was
Probably trout fishing in Canada a long time ago you want to seat up there last you're moving right up yep
Like right now we're going two miles an hour and that's usually at this time of the year
When the water is warmer
You want to go faster the colder the water it is the slower you go see like in a in
In the beginning of the year or when we were out that last time we
Oh
We were going like one two one three wood cranks, that's what you want to be at at that time of year anyways
Yeah, so then so you're out of the sun at all times
Excuse me one second this one's
Oh
This was a good one
Yeah, every year changes
With baits but my the number number seven minerals have been my
Good my favorite for the last couple years for sure
Yeah, glad we look in
And that clickers on your left no this site
Yep, so they don't take it off so you don't burn out the burn out the gears
Oh
Nothing on there at the board just tripped I just gonna grab a screwdriver
Yeah, I'm out when you just yep, make sure it
Yep, hold on. Let me do this before it gets bad
Yeah, you always always hold your thumb on it yep
All right, you're good with that one
Yeah, the water's pretty chocolatey today
Oh
Then you got to twist these three times so the line stays tight on top
Oh
They always say when the water is dark put dark stuff on but I really don't I
Think that's a wise tale in my eyes, but because we always
That they'll never really works for me anyways
Yeah
Here casually
Yeah, actually
Every day last week
That was all I was old from Monday to Sunday every day
I'm a little a little heated yet for me. Yeah, that was that was too much heat
Yeah, and it was tough fishing actually actually where we are now
Um
We did my dad and I we did very well the one day right here
And then the next three days I didn't I couldn't I
Didn't do hardly anything and then I had one good day in the mud I
Had four four good ones and one was over 25
and
But then of course you go back there on a tournament they they don't bite
That's just with them bag a little
It's hard to put two days together in this in this
System even though the system is is booming really well. There's a lot of
Lot of little you know the tens tens the four teens in here
What the DNR really needs to do is put a size limit because
Last week in in the tournament where we were fishing there was a lot of little local boats and in whatnot and they
They were keeping all them we were watching cuz we were right next to them. They were keeping all them real little ones and it's like
Really?
You don't get much off of them anyways, but if they come out here every day the week and keep three, you know
Yeah, it's just sad
You know in a lot of a lot of guys say the tournament guys are the ones that hurt this lake that is absolutely
False and wrong
Because we're the ones that put them back and then most of us fishermen
We always go out to Lake Erie where they want you to go and take them out take them all out take every size out
There that's different, you know, so you know and there's only
Yeah, yeah, there's two tournaments
Besides the local bar tournaments, but there's pretty much two tournaments that
That catching relief, that's why we can and we're a big Ollie series here, so
Yeah
So if you come out here, there's no other boats is that a sign of like what are you doing out here?
Or is that just like the whole lake is yours?
Well, I like fishing around by herself. That's that's normally what we do what we try to do
But yeah like today we are pretty much by ourselves, which is nice
So
We're 13 feet
So is this the quietest time of year? Yeah, late July. Yep. Yep. So pretty much
Pretty much from here on out like this week, and I'm holding I'm running a tournament out of Paula
Paula's pub and grill and
in Kalamaville
and
And yeah, we had a we just had a bad incident the other day actually though one of the owners
Husband Joey passed away
So that guy kind of screwed up with
Yeah, I think it's gonna be pretty slow day
day
With this water being pretty dirty like this, but usually I'm one of bagel
Half a day as she's clear already. Oh, yeah. Yep. Is that because it's shallow or just a wave action? Well
Zebra mussels cleaning up, you know years ago. We never had zebra mussels
They came from whatever different lake that were you know stuck in the live wells or something and got here
But
That's why it's hard to fish rockfish. It's why it's always nice to have
Pods little schools of fish out in the mud to get also for a backup plan because if the rocks are if it's
But this year was a little different actually a couple couple days we were catching them and you could see the bottom and you you were still catching the walleyes
Which is that never happens because they see your boat and they scatter, you know
Keep your chart up to date. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Uh
Is there ever a time where you're out here and you're like, you know, I'm kind of sick of when a bagel. I need something to do
I am already right now
Because we started fishing already in the beginning of April, you know, and I think and I think I had
Two or three maybe three
Three weekends off this whole summer of
Not having to worry about this, you know
But also we're going to uh
So I got a tournament this weekend and then uh, actually we have the the Voight and gable
Memorial next week and at nary tone tap that bar that we went we went by
um
Oh close to my house anyways and uh
uh
That's for um
Does for my partner that pathway last year or so so we got that one yet
And then we got the battle on the bay or the aim aim series yet and then battle on the bay
And then we go to eery
The second or third weekend in september and we go to eery back to eery again on the first weekend and
uh
October
You bring your boat back and forth
Uh, this want to be going september. I'm leaving it there and then bring it back. I'm when we come back and off
Yeah, because I'm toils nowadays that used to be
That used to be uh
Like 80 bucks for tolls now. It's 180 bucks there and back
It it's
Yeah, no
Yeah, they really raised
Oh, yeah, that's a fish
Good call
Down these fish been pretty tricky this year
Them sheep had it for you
But this one feels like it's pretty decent
There
I'm gonna bring it on this side
If it's a walleye, it's gonna be a pretty decent one one that I wanted last sunday
I
Yeah, I'm the best if you've been crazy but small mall
And that line is dawn pretty sure this is gonna be a good life
You got that net extended
Yeah
Clicker there. No, hold on. Hold on
Turn it
No, pull it pull it. There you go. Okay. Hey, now you gotta take off the board first
Or can you do that for me?
Two clips, right? You just yeah, just just squeeze it
Oh, you got it
Hasn't done anything yet. It's just pulling all muscle on this one
I
Still got 27 feet to go yet
Oh, yeah, this is gonna be a good one, buddy
Okay, now you're gonna want to get up there
Over here, you can don't you're gonna want to stand
Stands down
Oh
I don't know this one's acting kind of weird now, but it's okay. It's gonna be right here. Oh my god. Get him
I love it. That's what we're fishing for boys
That's nice
Oh my god
So what was he doing right at the end?
He was trying to get back down to the bottom
He was trying to get off and he down near dead, but he was hooked right through the hard part of the bone on the lip
Yeah, that's
Yep, I'll get him off now. I want to measure him up
This is crazy
Good net job
Why to make sure I wasn't the reason I didn't come in
Jesus now I'm shaking
Oh
Little skinnier on this one that usually they're a little bit fatter. So we got 21 and 3 quarters
That's wild. Yep
This one's gonna go back in the water
Oh, it's hitting
Damn it. Why did you get that in here?
Fuck
Got away from me
He's a little eager. Yeah. Oh, he's hanging there. Yeah, hopefully it'll be all right
They'll be good
He's that we were in last weekend. That was long and skinny. I'm one of the ones we want because it gets
It gets
Measured by length and then converted into pounds
Okay, but the walleye weekend was a straight pound, right? Yeah, while we can straight-pounds. Yep
The aim series is ran just like Otter Street now with the camera and the pictures same same stuff
I like it
A lot of guys don't like it
I like it because
You're taking a picture and you're throwing them back in right away. They aren't they don't see your life. Well
Yeah
It's like 99% of it come back out
Light and silvery they are. Yeah, like for a half second. I didn't recognize it a walleye because I was you know
My brain was waiting for it to be dark. Yep
Yeah, and actually a couple weeks ago I was in the weeds
up north
and it looked the
Obviously they they changed color
But uh
That must have been in the weeds up or they live in the weeds because they were dark
They looked like they came from Chambers Island up in Green Bay
Yeah, it actually looked like a like a rock bass. It was
Pretty neat looking
That's so slow, right?
What's that? Not so slow. No, no, I mean
That's fine. That's
I didn't think we were going to get anything being this dirty
Oh, thank god
Yeah, I I thought that emergency was gone already. No, no, I went it's not that bad
Not if we were drinking we'd have to go back to the truck
I
Try to figure something out. It's kind of uh, no, I'll
Okay
All right, six-pitch. All right, I'll take let me see if I can try to figure something out real quick for you
Okay. All righty. Bye
You have work to work
It's times 90
You
Oh, yeah
You
Yeah
Yeah, from being out in the lake all week last week my lips got sunburned like a
They're a little little sore
Last time we were over you all day before Ethan and I felt like we had sunstroke the next day. Did you? Yeah
That whole night. We were both like
Yeah
Another decent one
Not as big as that other one
I
Yep, this one isn't fighting at all yet hasn't did anything
It's usually that's a good good sign it. It's a walleye
But the bigger ones they like to jerk a little bit winter out there yet
I
Think I got a little one on my middleboard over there
I
Won't can you leave them out there
Yeah, yeah, we try to we try to put bring in two at the same time
Because he always want to keep tension he always want to keep tension on the line
Got it
Yeah
Yeah, this one isn't as big as the last one. It's feeling kind of weird like a sheephead. No
But it is stand down. No, it's acting like a sheephead. Yeah
Oh, you don't have that I got that
See what's hooked sideways. Yeah, so that's why it was stand down and until it gets to the boat doesn't it starts
out
jerking and
rolling
Really
It's on this little guy
Oh
Not very big
So what's the proper order when you're out here by yourself to do all this
Good boy, you can only have three lines. So if I'm by myself
Yeah, and it's tough to net a fish
By yourself
My buddy or my other partner. Oh, nope. It was weeds
My other buddy, uh, Mikey blank
He likes fishing by himself. I have no re I don't know why
Because I think it's boring in my eyes, but
but
Yeah, and he does he does pretty well by himself. I mean, that's the fish by himself
I
Already got to stop always I'm gonna hit bottom
I
Oh
Good probably yep, yep
Oh
This
You know, wow the only thing that the shad they you see many eyes but other than that
I wish we'd kill all the sheep head
Yeah during while a weekend down on the south end there were a little tight to shore
And we were catching dry and sheep head just you know 20 pounders. It's insane
That's pretty much all the kids were fishing and catching the kids in the canals in there. Yeah. Yeah, there are a couple of
Yeah
Oh
Oh, yeah
Yeah, this last weekend here there was there was guys perch jerkin
Yes
Well, you can tell they were killing the sheep head because there'd be there'd be 20 of them are on there
Right all the way around this boat. They eat this picture
Yeah, they need to do the DNR need to do something with them things right there
They're killing a they're eating a lot of walleye that they claimed 10 10 to 15 a day
Yeah
Yeah, and then my buddies on the other side of the point there down in there
So the sort of walleys are feeding on the minerals there's shiners in here like
In an enormous abundance it's stupid
They watch them they come up right on shore and they watch and they just open their mouth and they just
They're fucking nuisance
This lake is finally coming back like it's going to be something
But
But they need like I said they need to put a size limit a 15 inch size limit on it that they need to bring it back
It always was for years in all
Yeah, you mean
The rivers yeah, yeah, that's all it's all the same
Until you go up so far, I think I I don't know
I never go up that far because I'm not that type of a guy. Oh, I'll catch fish out here
Then I don't have to worry about what uh wrecking my motor on logs and
No
That gets pretty pretty skinny and shallow up there because there was a turn I had to go up there
But I'll never fish that one again
Oh
Oh my god, it's stupid. I can't yeah, we can't keep up
in homeowners. Well
A month and a half you're old on doing repairs. Yeah, because we only have one guy that can do them
I said I got two crews run in full fucking time. I said I I'm only one guy
And I said I'm not I'm not the guy that I do does that
I said I don't have time to
Yeah
Yeah, well part of that
But the phone calls that come in every day for me to go do an estimate on rooks
it's
Yeah, I did one this morning
80 83 square holes
Caught off just
Dormers and shit
I
Oh, we counted them 23 different areas on this roof that are all separated
It no, it's it's all it's by my shop in the whole state. It's owned the country
And two 70 year olds of their
They called me up or my son went and did the hover for me
and
And he goes, yeah, they want steel. They want echo steel on here
And so I got to the shop went on the computer and I'm like
No, I'm not doing this bit. I'm gonna call them and give them a
a close
So I called up the girl and
And I said okay, I will do your estimate
For you. No, no problem, but I'm going to get you close to a number by just looking at it
Not that you flip out or have a heart attack
I it's going to take me a couple hours to do this
And she goes, what do you think? I said well in between 90 to 120,000
She goes, yeah
I was figuring about that and I'm like, oh you wear her
Okay, and she goes, well, how much would a
Um, asphalt be instead of about 60 cut her in half
It's usually about half on every every job I do
And uh
She goes, oh boy. I better talk to my husband about this one. Can I call you tomorrow morning meeting today?
I said, yeah
And uh, she calls me up and she goes, yeah, we want steel only steel
Yeah ended up being 105,000
Yeah, yeah, she's coming in Monday morning to go to color and I'm like, oh
That's crazy. That's that's insane
This color's on fire, but yeah, and I just went to flea farm
Two days ago and I bought two more of them kind
Well, whatever it is, it's big
I can rip you forward
Yeah
Well, I can't even reel
Oh
The fish does not want to come over this way at all
I'm guessing it's hook sideways or something
So I'm not even reeling too
Yeah, I could see it on the back
Sheephead oak sideways
Yeah, I started wheeling a little bit faster
See like this fish here if I had a partner in the boat, they would be doing this
That was insane, uh, he's 25
Yeah
Flavor of people though, you know who I'm talking about
Yeah, they do that a lot
I mean, that's fine
I
What the hell is on here
They actually start making up a little bit
Oh
Oh, it's acting funny
It's not jerking
Oh
Got it
Go around that hook on the spring. Oh, yeah, you're probably gonna want to get the net on this one
What the hell is this?
It's acting weird
But it is going down
Or northern one of the two
There a lot of northern in here. Oh, yeah
Well, it's hook sideways
No, not cheap, but you're all good. Oh, and I got both beans. That's why it was like you were fighting each other
Oh
Jesus hey
What was that?
Was that a hawk wasn't it? Yeah, it was hooked on my
Yeah
I've never had that happen before. That was crazy
What the hell are you doing? You're gonna get fucked. Oh, man
God
Oh, this is this is not good
Okay
Oh
Fuck shoot shoot shoot now we get a mess
Did you get all that you gotta be shitting me
You'll never see that again. I guarantee you that that's never happened to me since I was born. No
I
Did you see that thing look at us that was mean
Oh my god, then boys are gonna shit tonight. Oh, man. You can't make this shit up
Oh
Every time we come out here. Oh my god
I'm gonna put these rods away because we're good, right? Okay
Look at the line. Oh, he's got your bait on it. Yeah the beets on her. Yeah. Oh, he's
You gotta be shitting me
It's like a kite
He needs an advertising
I get a good shot of that. Come here, bro
Right
That's crazy
Oh
A goose or a crane
Oh
Oh, I was trying to rip it out
No, that's gonna suck
Especially when he lands he's gonna know it
I
Was that they went
Oh
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