Don’s Marine Pro-Team had a great day on the water, Mark and I guided our good friend Cory Seuse on to his first trophy walleye. The fish measured 31″ and weighed in at (an unofficial) 10 lbs. This is a walleye of a lifetime in my opinion. We spent the afternoon trolling Rapala minnow raps in 18 to 20 ft. of water as deep as we could with out scraping the bottom. The key here was using lead core line to get down deep enough with the baits that we were running and to maintain the depths that we were. Trolling speeds were between 1.8 and 2.3 mph. I will say the big one was caught at 2.3. We were able to troll at these speeds with ease with the Yamaha 90 hp 4-stroke on the back of our Alumaccraft tournament pro 185 tiller. Because of overuse reasons I’m not going to say exactly what lake this fish was caught on, but I will say it was on the Madison area chain of lakes. So when it gets hot out, use good electronics to look for the walleyes in deep water. And when you find them, troll them hard. If they’re not biting keep trying different baits until you kind what they want, sometimes it can take a while, but sooner later they’ll tell you what they want and will be worth the wait. Good luck

–Jason Mazzarisi

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