Can you say 30½ Walleye? The morning was brisk and rainy. With the rain coming down, we took out time making our way to our boat. Once we made it to our spot, the rain stopped and clouds started to clear. That’s when the walleye woke up. We pulled in walleye after walleye for over 2 hours, and by the time we caught ‘em all our arms needed a rest.

After a quick dinner, we eagerly made our way to the Narrows. We made our first cast right at dusk. Kyle brought in a 32” Northern on his first cast. After casting the shoreline for about an hour. We headed back into the Narrows.

At about 10:00 it was getting hard to see. The skipper wanted to head in, but the captain is in charge, and we weren’t going anywhere. We were back in the narrows putting the Suick lure to work. With the first cast, Jimmy brought in another northern. Just 2 casts after the fish was released, Jimmy brought in a 35” Northern. Now it was too dark to be out, but we still had to make one more cast. The fish hit my lure like a ton of bricks. After a 5 minute battle we got it in the boat. The obvious assumption was we brought in a decent sized northern. Once we dragged the fish into the boat and took a closer look, we couldn’t believe our eyes. We brought up a ginoramus Walleye with a 9” Suick perch colored lure. 30½” 10+ Lbs., with pictures to prove it. It was the icing in the cake for a great day of fishing at Uchi Lake Lodge.

Wind from the East is a beast. But not at
Uchi. Our first day was somewhat slow as
we tried to find them in this wind. Good
numbers jigging in 10- 20 feet on rocky bottoms. Size was somewhat small.
We began to look for larger fish and had
luck in the evening as Sean caught a 29″
walleye trolling a weighted J13 clown pattern Rapala.

Morning started with rain and winds however didn’t deter the Shad Rap Group from venturing out.
Trolling in high winds, Don Eisen caught and landed a 42 inch northern, using a smithwick - silver and blue. Honourable mention goes to Ron for netting said northern.
Honourable mention goes to Chuck for lending Don the lure.
To date, northern sizes go 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 (no 33, no 34), an a 35 and of course the 42.

Fri 6/6/08

Great fishing yesterday. Tons of walleye and northern. Most spots produced.

Last night while fishing on dock saw cow and baby moose trying to cross lake, just across from lodge.

Our first time guests and beginning of the season guests had a great time, enjoyed the service and said the meals were awesome.

FISHING was a little rough when they first arrived but they tried different depths and structure until they found right combination…and it paid off!

Rocky, sharp sloping shorelines in 18-20ft of water was the ticket. They recorded many fish above the 20″ mark with the following notables:

Mark: 24.5″
Mike: 26.5″
George: 25.5″, 27.5″, 28″

The bite was so light they didn’t feel any taps or bites but would only feel slight pressure, having to wait over a minute at times to let the fish work it’s way up the minnow to the hook. The fish caught were so thick and fat that they had to throw the conversion chart from Field and Stream out the window as it was an insult to their fish!

A great time had by all guests and a pleasure to have for the guests.