Walleye fishing 05/02/10

I fished on Sunday with Kevin and Bob on my first excursion outside of steelhead and trout fishing since November 2009.  We headed up to fish Black River Bay and Guffin Bay off of northeastern Lake Ontario.  It was a LONG day, we spent about 15 hours on the water.  We were trolling for walleye, but as it turns out the bite was pretty turned off.  We ended up doing pretty well though, we got 12 fish and only missed one.  We boated 1 walleye, 5 northern pike, 4 smallmouth bass, 1 brown trout and one perch that was barely bigger than the lure it hit.  The end of the day was the most exciting, we trolled in the shallow water near shore looking for browns.  We ended up getting into some great smallmouth bass, two of which were about 3 and 4 pounds.  You never know what you might get out on the Lake!  Here are a couple pictures of the the sunrise on the water, the walleye and the smallmouths from the end of the day.


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About Ken Hubbard

I grew up in Pulaski, NY fishing the Salmon River and Grindstone Creek primarily. Stream and river fishing is where it is at for me. Hiking through the woods to get to that perfect spot and hearing the water rush by while waiting for the big guy to take the fly has a calming influence that I haven't experienced anywhere else. While I certainly enjoy casting to bass and trolling for walleye, salmon and trout, I would put on the waders, grab the fly rod and head for the river any day given the choice. Now that I have lived in the Syracuse area for the past 6 years, I have expanded my territory to local trout streams like Chittenango Creek and Nine Mile Creek. I still regularly fish my home waters and have also fished in Wyoming, Montana, Utah and of the coast off southern California. The list of fishing destinations I would like to (and more often than not, believe that I need to) visit include Argentina, New Zealand, British Columbia and Alaska to name a few!

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