Saturday we had our 29th annual company outing out of Sara's Marina in Espyville. We had rented 29 pontoons, and 1 fellow had his own, 30 total pontoons on the lake. We had about 125 people attend, anglers who have fished all their life or first time in years, sons. daughter, wives, freinds.
I'd say overall we caught 12-15 walleye, of course their is a contest for the biggest and we do the prizes for 6 places.
1st - 27 1/2 " 7lbs-7oz, real fat!!
2nd - 26 1/2"
3rd - 21 1/2 '
4th - 20"
5th - 19 1/2 "
6th - 19"
A few other 16" - 17 " were caught, but not like in the past years. We also caught quite a few crappie, 16" white bass, few bluegills and perch.
The Crappiethon was also going on at the same time, they had some beauties, the biggest I think was 2.75 lbs, may be wrong on that.
I feel we were a week or 2 early, usually we catch quite a few more but never did we catch a 27" in all the years.
Matt the Fish commission fellows was on hand, nicest guys you could meet, aklways helpful. Add that to the hospitality Sara gave us at the maruna and overall we had a great outing. Next year number 30, oh yeah in all these years like I said last year we never caught a muskie, no one really fishes for them but you know the old " got em on a crawler "stories!
I'd say the bite is a tad slow, wind was out of the East was my excuse for only catching 4 little perch