Old Fisheye on Guided Trip to Red Wing

[blackeagle]

Hey Old Fisheye Here,
Well I have a short story on our (Walleye Carl, Fisheye, and our Contracted Red Wing guide,
Dave Cook, ) trip to fish the Mighty Mississippi at Red Wing.
Left at O-Dark Thirty, Started our big catch all the fish in the river day at 9:30 am. Watched 3 boats owners try and start their boats for the 1st time of the year with no success and had to reload them back on the trailer and then say “It started okay when I put it away last fall”.
We went to the Dam area along with about 100 other boaters. Fished for 2 hours with nothing and failed to see any fish boated. Then moved to Hay Creek and again nothing and seen no fish boated. Then moved all the way to the ice at Lake Pepin, and again no fish. Then moved back to the dam after a few stops at secret places, with no results again. At the dam things picked up, there were more boats and still no fish. Did see two fish boated. Big Carp and a Quillback. Walleye Carl got excited………
At 6pm we loaded our guide’s boat and paid our guide fees and he said he was sorry we were such bad fishermen. He stated that he has never seen such bad fishing at Red Wing.
So, No Fish Caught, No fish Seen, No Fish bites, not even “Oh I just missed that one” Nothing,
Just a nice Bright Sunny, no wind, 60 degree day on the river at Red Wing.
Did I mention Dave has never fished at Red Wing.
All the way there, Carl & I told him how great of a fish day it was going to be. I think a remark was heard saying if you can’t catch fish at Red Wing you might consider retiring from fishing…Ha HA
Well as usual just spreading the true facts of fishing.
Old Fisheye

[jighead-two]

Now wait a minute. Three experienced adult male walleye fishermen go to Red Wing in March, and never catch a fish? Yeah right

[TONY TIGER]

Hey i think i just head that story about it ran when i put it a way I can't say who because he's helping me fix my boat and is good help But asked if it would be ok to bring his boat out so i can fix it for him when he comes out to help me Well what can i say Just so he don't lock my keys in my truck this time I just think a old fisher man would make sure the bout would start be four you leave the house and not at the boat ramp. Just glad i never did any thing like that in my life

[thalweg87]

As you can imagine, any trip with Fisheye and Carl is an adventure.

On the drive up, Fisheye spent most of his time informing me of all the fish we were about to catch while Carl spent most of his time napping in the back seat. Occasionally Carl would sit up and nod his head. Initially I thought he was expressing his full agreement with what Fisheye was saying about the upcoming day. Later I figured out that his head was just bobbing up and down as he was nodding off for his next nap.

While out on the water, Fisheye kept trying these really wild colored jigs. He said they came as accessories for his Lake of the Woods outfits. I got to thinking after dropping them off at home that maybe the lack of fish in our boat (and those within 200 yards of our boat) was a result of the fish being scared off by his jigs. We would have needed binoculars to see fish caught outside of the visual blast radius of his lures.

On the bright side (other than the weather), they were both very good tour guides (I got to see a lot of the river that I would not have seen if the fish really were biting) and the ham sandwich Carl gave me was pretty good.

[obd6]

I really love a good story.
Terry your story was exellent
Tony because of situation yours was great.
Dave you just knocked it out of the park great story.

[dbonwell]

Sounds like Dave can polish a turd and make it look good,