Guided Drew, Drew and John for a full-day trip today starting at around 8:45 am, so we had two Drews and two Johns on the boat today. The guys have been doing this type of fishing both with me and with one of the Drews for a good decade or so.
Today's fishing was weird. We had a ton of midges out, intermittent wind and varying degrees of cloud cover. One of the Drews had the hot hand today and overall we got into the double-digits, but it didn't feel like a double-digit day out there the way things played out. Today seemed slow but we kept looking back and Drew would be hooked up, whether we fished shallow or deep or north or south.
Fish are about as scattered as they get - you can find good numbers in 30 feet of water, 50 feet, 100 feet, 120 and so on. Massive amounts of baitfish haven't moved in quite yet, but bait schools (all alewives) are around, both shallow and deep. It was a very cold winter and thus far it's been a very cold, wet spring, so this is what we're dealing with.
I cleaned three lakers today and all of them were stuffed with recently eaten live alewives. One of the fish Jack cleaned from yesterday's trip had devoured a perch. Perch are around the shallows and they're still getting pounded by perch anglers, that's for sure.
I have pretty good availability for the rest of this week into Monday and then sporadically throughout the rest of May. Fishing remains solid!
