I will try to add a few posts over the next few days that capture our excellent stay at VBL last week. Let me start with one that kind of tells the story about how easy it is to catch lots of big walleyes in August at VBL.
We should have known it was going to be a good week. It always is. But while fishing trout hole #2, I gazed down into the water and saw this crevice in the rock shaped like a….fish hook. It was most certainly a sign from the fish gods.
My future son-in-law Brian was celebrating his birthday during our week at VBL. We bought him a very special birthday present….the Ron Popeil Pocket Fisherman. Do you remember that slick invention? After experiencing a consistent bite every day, after dinner and beverages one night, we decided to fish the last hour of the day.
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLeKyY6Ooc&feature=plcp
Maybe next year we will give it a go with the snoopy pole?
While bottom bouncing was extremely successful for fishing these fish in 32′ of water, Brian and I also had a blast just jigging for these same fish the last day on lighter spinning tackle. Almost every time we saw a fish on the locator while back trolling, we dropped our crawler tipped jig and caught fish. The bottom bouncers were extremely effective in locating fish, but once you found them…even the Ron Popeil Pocket fisherman was effective. No real need for that $350 setup.
On behalf of the Boyes Group, I would like to pass on our sincere thanks for hosting the Muskie Madness Week and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay at VBL and had a great time!! This was our 7th year on Eagle Lake and we have stayed at a few other lodges but VBL takes the cake hands down! You can definitely count us in for next year. I’m happy to see you post some of my pics, they turned out well. Thanks again Gord for a wonderful week of fishing and your stellar hospitality, you run a first class operation, we look forward to seeing you next year!
