This trip actually started out at Pathfinder on Saturday morning. We arrived, as usual, very early and instead of hitting the water we hit the mussel patrol. When we topped the hill at the reservoir we realized it was quite windy. But, since we had driven this far we decided to give it a go. The waves were 3 and 4 foot and very hard to maneuver. After a couple of hours of getting beat up by the wind, we had only put 2 fish in the boat (we couldn’t get to our hot spot) and decided to throw in the towel.
From Pathfinder we turned south-west and drove to Rawlins to re-fuel before hitting Seminoe. We planned on pre-fishing the lake before Erik’s Uncle Butch and friend LC showed up Sunday morning. The wind was not as bad, but still a nuisance. We spent some time fishing some areas we had caught fish in sev
eral years ago, but only boated 2 walleye- we were looking for trout 
An older fellow told us to go way up in the Platte arm and we decided to do just that, but to wait until morning when the guys were with us. After picking Butch and LC up in Sinclair we made our way up the Platte arm and started trolling along rock cliffs. Within moments LC had a fish on. Unfortunately it came off before we netted it. The rest of the morning we had several fish hit, several more on and ended up putting 4 in the cooler. We were a little disappointed that we couldn’t show Butch and LC better fishing, but they had a good time and got to take home some fresh trout and that is what really matters!!
Just enough time to recoup at home and we are off again. We picked up Chad and left for Glendo around 3:15pm. We were fishing our spot in Muddy by 5. The bite was slow and it was HOT(92º). After only a few minutes the wind came up quite strong, so we decided to anchor to stay on our spot. Michelle started fishing a smaller rod under the boat for perch and did well. Moving to another spot didn’t prove to be any better fishing. But we persisted in the heavy winds and it paid off. By 8:15pm the fish really turned on! We picked up 13 fish within about a 45 minute period before it got dark and we packed it in for the night. Our walleye ranged from 16-20” and the perch were 10 and 11 inches.
Gordon even tied Erik’s all time record of 7 in a row this morning. By 11:30 our arms were tired and we were ready for our first shore lunch of the trip. MMMMMM fried walleye only seconds old, beans, chips and cantaloupe. We ate like royalty- we always do. After lunch the fishing was just as fantastic. 
We had on 2 quadruples by the end of our fishing day. The wind got increasingly strong, so we decided to call it a day around 3:30.
We broke our fast at Smitty’s before hitting the final trail to Jan Lake. Arriving around 1pm was perfect. Our room was ready at Jan Lake lodge and we were able to unload the boat and unpack the truck. Since the day was so young we decided to go out fishing for a couple hours. We started in the back of Harper’s Island and pitched jigs. There were some fish, but not many so we decided to move to the other side of the island. 
This proved to be much better fishing! We easily caught and threw back all 4 limits. There are definitely several age classes of fish in this part of Jan. We caught walleye ranging from 10” to 20” today. We called it an early evening and went back to the cabin for steaks and noodles. Great first day!
After contemplating going back to Glendo on Friday night the 5th, we decided the weather wasn’t nice enough and beside we will be in Canada fishing walleye in just a few days. But, we just couldn’t stand it. There are fish biting, it’s better than it has been in years- why waste a day at home when we could be slaying walleye?? So, we decided to go Saturday morning for just a few hours.
Glendo is only 75 miles from home. What an easy trip! We put the boat in at Elkhorn around 6:15pm and started the search for Walleye. We fished until 9:00 landing 11 and missing or loosing several others. It was a gorgeous night, dead calm and clear. We could see several clouds open up over Laramie Peak throughout the night.
