Back at Merritt to Fish All Day

Again on this day I went fishing at Merritt with friends both in the morning and evening! We started by anchoring up in 5ft of water and cast 1/32 oz. jigs with ½ crawlers and leeches. Both morning and evening fishing worked well catching numerous small Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill and Yellow Perch. Rigged up a dead rod/dead stick to dangle live bait just off the bottom. We caught some nice and some smaller Smallmouth and a nice mess of Bluegill using this technique, no keeper Walleye but we had fun. Never got the Walleye chop winds but a nice morning of fishing. Evening trip was cut short by rains and lots of lightning and of course, a good Walleye chop during the storm!