On Saturday morning I met James Lebow for a trip to Rufus Woods, and this time he brought along his son Michael. We launched his boat at the middle net pens and ran up to the upper pens and spent some time fishing for trout. Not having any luck, we switched to bottom bouncers and spinners and started trolling downstream. We didn’t get a bite but agreed that it was worth another pass. This time we had better luck and Michael landed a nice walleye. I had put on a mirrored orange Smile Blade and the fish loved it, and we got two more on the next pass. We did the same thing on the next pass and lost a big one. The next time we made this run we got another fish and Michael wrestled with a really big fish. James coached him through the process and got a whopper walleye into the net. The fish measured 31 inches and the big female, which we released, must have weighed between 10 and 12 pounds. When the wind came up and we headed for the dock we had five big walleye in the live well and had lost at least three, one right at the boat. What a day!