Had Father’s Day brunch with the whole family, then my dad decided he wanted to nap on the deck. I didn’t want to waste the beautiful weather so I drove up to a local spillway to chase some carp. Unfortunately I only saw two, both out in the faster current which makes presenting a fly tough so I decided to see if I could find anything closer to the dam that was willing to eat. I looked through the boxes I had with me, tied on a size 2 chartreuse/white clouser and started casting. The spots I usually catch crappie at produced nothing so I moved a little closer to the dam. During my first retrieve in the new spot I thought I snagged up on a rock until the snag started shaking and I pulled in my first ever walleye on a fly. Nothing too big, but it was fun and it’s always nice to add another species to the catch list.
Caught another one a little smaller, then a smallish crappie:
I ended up with 3 walleye and 3 small crappie that were absolutely inhaling the big clouser. Nice to get out for the afternoon, hopefully all the fathers out there had a good day as well.
I’m actually home in the Youngstown area for the time being since class is out for the summer so it was below Lake Milton in Northeast Ohio. As far as I know down around Columbus they don’t have any walleye, only saugeye, a hybrid of walleye and sauger. I haven’t been able to figure out why, but that’s been my understanding from following local boards around there.
I used to catch Walleye in Hoover back in the 90’s. A lot could have changed in those 10-20 years (wow i feel old now). Most of them were caught opposite bank from Red Bank boat ramp on that drop off during mid-summer. Mostly caught them on Beano’s.
