Friday, May 25th & Saturday, May 26th
Ron Mannis and his nephew Ryan Osborne joined me for two full days of fishing for walleyes and saugers on Lake Wisconsin. Ron hails from Colorado and Ryan lives in Minneapolis, MN. Last year, Ron and his brother-in-law Gene came to Lake Wisconsin in early July and had excellent success. Gene couldn’t make it this year so his son Ryan came along instead.
The first day started out a little chilly, (47 degrees) but warmed up nicely with plenty of sunshine and very few clouds. Sunday was warmer in the morning, (60 degrees) but cloudy skies started spilling rain on everyone right around 11:00am. Just when most of the recreational boaters had hit the water. It didn’t take long, and most of the crazy people were gone. The rain on the other hand pretty much stuck around the rest of the day.
Friday we started out jigging with crawlers and Ron and I both nailed legal fish right off the bat. But the fishing cooled off quickly after that and after and hour or so, we switched over to slow trolling crawler rigs.
Over the rest of the day and most of Saturday, these crawler rigs trolled in 10-15′ of water put a bunch of fish in the boat for us ranging in size from 11 to 18″ long. We also caught a few trolling crankbaits, but those fish were the same size as the ones we caught while fishing with crawlers.
By the end of the day on Saturday, Ron and Ryan had caught 30 walleyes, 29 saugers, 2 crappie, 1 bluegill and 1 perch. Most of them came while slow trolling crawlers in 10-15′ of water.
Surface water temperatures range from 67 to 72 degrees on average.
It was nice to fish with you again Ron and it was a pleasure to meet and fish with you also Ryan.
Take care guys!