Casa Loma
June 24, 2013
Bart
Olek and his family came to Casa Loma on Saturday June 22, 2013. I was scheduled to take his relatives fishing
on Monday. Bart and his dad Sonny would follow along. I was going to do things
a little different than I may do on a houseboat.
We
decided to head to Hitchcock Bay and work our way back to Casa Loma showing the
group a variety of spots during the day. We had a southwest wind blowing. We
started in the east end of Hitchcock on the north shore. We started with jigs
tipped with minnows. We contacted walleyes right away and found them between
two points spread out all the way between. We kept some nice keepers, through
back some big ones and decided to move on to the next spot in Hitchcock.
This
spot had two islands close together with a shallow water reef in front of the
island on the left. The wind was
stronger at this spot, again walleyes right away, nice keepers, and triples.
Fun! We caught several more and it was time to move to another area. We went to
Saginaw Bay. The southwest wind was hitting all kinds of shoreline in Saginaw.
We did not hit any fish immediately. We moved along the shoreline and there was
a small little point that was hooking the waves with a series of exposed rock
islands almost like reefs. I had switched to nickel Northland Baitfish spinners
tipped with minnows. The walleyes were
stacked in pretty good and they loved the spinners. We caught some really nice
fish having to release many, but also had really nice 16”+ walleyes. Once again
it was off to another spot. We headed to Brule Narrows.
We
did not fish the Brule, we graphed the holes on the east end, and they were
full of walleyes from 30-32 feet and also 34-36 feet in the forty-foot holes.
Next stop was Lost Bay.
Lost
Bay is a longer narrower bay with a few points and islands. A great portion of
the bay is about 8 feet and the bottom does not change much. We made a pass and
did not have contact with any fish. We made a second pass putting the boat
right on the break, where the bottom starts to rise to the shoreline. The walleyes
were right on that edge where the bottom changed from mud to rock. We fished two spots and were able to repeat the
production on the same kind of transition. Next we were on to Cranberry Bay.
It
was getting late; we tried a shallow reef fishing the windward edge. This was
the first spot all day that the graph was totally clear of baitfish and
clutter. It was also clear of fish. Casa Loma is very close to Black Bay. The
water is darkly stained in Black Bay and the rocks cannot be seen a foot under water.
The
guys wanted me to show them the safe way in and point out areas to fish. We did
that and headed back to Casa Loma to clean the limits of walleyes that we kept.
