LAKE X
June 10, 2006

Myself and Steve headed up to Lake X in his vintage 1962 Chevy Impala 4 door with a boat, motor, and trailer towed behind. We headed straight to where we have had success in the past, and sure enough we got into the Walleye pretty quick. Unfortunately the wind was terrible and our anchor was too small to hold us so we ended up moving around trying to get out of the wind. We managed to get 5 decent sized Wallys before we had to move, so we were doing well already. We ended up finding our way to the end of the lake and exploring the outflowing river system, found a couple of holes that would probably be good early in the season, we'll be back. After exploring the river we decided to head to a sheltered bay for some Pike action, and did we ever get into them. We didn't catch any trophy Pike, but there is something about pulling a buzz bait across a lily patch and watching a 3lb Pike come rocketing out of the water, missing your lure, and then as soon as he hits the water again he smashes your lure and the fight is on. Wow, we had a lot of fun pulling in Pike after Pike, we even managed to catch 5 that were large enough to keep. Before we called her quits for the night we drifted across the front of an Island where again with the buzz bait, we pulled 4 decent bass out of the trees and rocks that lined the shore. They were nothing huge, but you can't keep any over 13" this early in the year. We headed back to the launch where we packed up and headed home to clean the fish that we had just caught.