Wow. Very nice.

Geeez Moses you're gonna have sum those dudes crying in their beer with those pictures.  Congratulations!!!

Thanks guys, hoping to get back on Arthur this weekend if I can get the to do list taken care of after work during the week.

python73
Cold front coming after 4 days of rain... this weekend will be a wash.  If you get out there, good luck.  I think I'll do some maintenance instead of beating my head against it.  

Of course, the weekend that is cleared for fishing for me!  I'll just change up what I am doing and target cats if need be.  I wasn't going to replicate Moses' 6 walleye outing trolling anyway!  I'll probably end up trolling just as long as he did, with maybe a catfish or pint sized wiper to show for it.  Better yet, non-stop assault from 6" bluegills on my crawlers!!!
 
Just hope the temp swing doesn't shut down everything.  At this point, I will be fishing!  If I am catching, even better.  If that means dunking worms under a bobber to avoid a skunk, so be it!
 
I'd imagine the water temps going from 50s to 70s in a week or two, has some seasonal patterns going haywire regardless.  Even if Saturday forecast changes, I don't have much confidence in filling a cooler with eyes (or one in my cooler).

I'd be fine with it, if some 9" slab gills!  Mine are usually smaller than my crawler harness...
 
I swear that some of these guys are just pulling our chains on catching walleye trolling!  I hit up the lake hard, trolling about 10 years ago, when I first got my boat.  I didn't catch squat trolling (besides a few cats).  I swore it off for a few years.  A few more trips with no luck, and I will likely be swearing it off again!  I can slam some "nicer" bluegills when targeting them (really targeting perch and crappie).  Why catch smaller gills, maybe 1-2 per hour, wasting gas, when I can just pull out the bobber and jig head set up, and pull in fish after fish?      

Made it out yesterday am, two eyes,six channel cats and a few dropped fish. No gills which was nice for a change.

Nice 'eye Pork!  Where'd you hide during that weather though?  That was crazy.  
 
As for the launch... won't even get spun up about it.  Pick your poison anyway.  At the McDaniel's launch you have idiot kayakers parking in the turn around so you can't get a trailer past them.  The world would be a lot better place with about half the people here now.  

Plan to be on Arthur Saturday.  Yearly catfish trip.  Got my Grundens ready... bib and jacket.  Look for a big guy in banana yellow rain gear on the 422 side and give a wave.  Might take a brush and scrub my boat floor; might as well make lemonade right?  Still have bluefish scales from last spring in that floor.  

Turns out that Sat will be a beauty North of 80.  Might change plans and go fish in BTDT's house.  Kind of trips up the catfish/wiper plan, but big crappies and possible walleye(s) is attractive.  And we can kill and grill LMBs now right?  :) 
 
edit... just checked bass regs.  June 16 for kill N grill.  SIGH.  

BeenThereDoneThat.UPDATE:  Bass open at Pymie Sam!

 
The only thing I can catch at Pymie is the bottom and stumps into my poor boat.  Pass.  

BeenThereDoneThat.Should of been here today (08/06)....... 😎

What are you European?  Assuming you weren't fishing in the future, Arthur was bangin also.  Might be my best day there ever.  Odd that your temps are that high.  Arthur is low 70s still.  Well, mid 70s anyway.  
 
I did a double shift.  8a-noon with one buddy, let him off the boat and fished for a couple hours solo, then second buddy showed up and we fished till 11pm or so.  Second buddy nailed a 18" wally on a crawler.  Tiny little #6 hook and no leader.  Thought it was a small cat until I went to net it.  Fish of the year so far for us.  Place is crawling with basstards beating the water to foam.  Wish they'd catch all the 12" LMBs sucking down my minnows.  
 
Lost a megacat that ate one of my crappie rigs and cut me off on the boat when I couldn't turn him.  Only wiper we saw was a sub 12"er.  Alwives are in the 5" range and not really packed up yet.  I'd say the lake is running a few weeks behind the normal summer curve at this point.  Weeds are still pretty thin.  
 
Gotta do some cleanup on the boat and gear next weekend.  

Ice - my trips to Pymie have been such terrible failures.  With boat v stump, trailer explosions, bottom snagging... afraid I have no business on that lake.  Glad you guys are crushing it though.  

Fished a crappie tourny yesterday on Arthur...winning weight was over ten pounds for 8 fish...never saw crappie that big caught there...big fish was 2 lbs...we caught plenty of fish but only had 5 lbs 6 oz...caught 5 hard fighting strippers as a bonus...good day 

 Prob. gonna wade it tonight for Byrds, my favorite type ov fishing by far. Good to see the Crappie tourney had good results. When we catch a 12" Crappie there we are impressed, at Pymie we release any under 12", the sz. & girth on the slabs are very impressive, plenty ov 9" Gills & when you get into a pack ov Perch they make some nice fishstixs, the Cats r plentiful both lakes.
 
Arthur is my favorite since I have confidence there, have fished it regularly since the year it was made.
 
crappy

nice eyes crappie