St. Lawrence River 6/17

[ejt_30]

Got out early to try to beat the wind. Trolled deep for most of the morning with berkley flicker minnows looking for walleyes. Hooked one fish and fought it about 3/4 the way back to the boat and then it popped off. Never saw it. About 20 min later hooked another fish and landed it. It ended up being an 8 and a half pound northern. Kind of a slow day but can’t complain about catching fish and being on the river.

[kev]

nice pike!   

i've been up here for the bass opener, excellent fishing so far, just targeting smallies.  minnows working best for us.   we are near chippewa bay.

[ejt_30]

that’s a beautiful smallmouth. with the wind yesterday and today i have just been trolling because i find it quite difficult to maintain bottom contact with dropshots and ned rigs in this type of wind. Monday however looks calm and i’m hoping to catch some smallmouth then.