How naked I feel leaving this gear at home!?! Tough decision for sure! Anyways ry and I landed at camp on north hero Friday morning. Spend the day on recon of the north, looking for weeds, bait and big fish, covered water and found some decent prospects. Saturday morning we started before sun came up trolling for walleye and pike, after a hour or so we started catching a few decent pike nothing to brag about but good for canning pickled pike so I kept em, around 830 Andy has a rod fire,and the board is buried underwater.. that’s a good fish ! After a good battle “thinking it’s a pike” up comes a big eye!! After she came in the net she went in the box and back at it, not long after I get a walleye in the net she goes!
Then pulled after pike come in, all decent but not big enuf ,
After a move and setup didn’t take long to get back on a decent pike bite, rods were firing constantly between pike and smallies, then Andy gets another buried board!
After a great battle a 36” 10.78lb pike in the box, set gear back and bam! Another giant! But what we thought was a nice walleye turned out to be a decent catfish! lol
After weight in Saturday morning we were sitting pretty good
On the board, Andy was 2nd walleye 2 pike! Pretty good start
Sunday morning team decision we stayed on the same program fight more bass and pike with not much walleye luck
They moved and we couldn’t find them again, Monday morning we stayed on the same water, temp was perfect, plenty of bait just couldn’t get em to bite. At 1030am we pulled out of the north and headed to otter creek for a last day hurrah . Dropped in the otter and had fish bite the rest of the day, they just we not derby winners. Great time tho for sure! Again my crew was awsome, great guys
My son Rylan, Andy white “River rat” and Kelly price
Congrats Andy on your 4th place walleye!! Fantastic job! I and Andy boated a nice brown !
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Boating wise by far that I've experienced. Catching fish always helps keep up the morale and comradery for sure but thats pretty much always a sure bet fishing on Controlled Chaos with Johnny 
Can't always catch fish that win or are in the top tier but seems to be a pattern forming 
Definitely started the Derby off on the right foot tho with a solid fish in the box at (8:30 am) hard to wait for a weigh station to open as alot of you guys know, till 9 am. By that time we were on an epic gator bite and couldn't just leave. Did finally pull the plug and let them alone, very hard to do but was likely the best decision as there were 4 giant alwives already coughed up in the box 
. Throughout the weekend we boated a dozen different species which always keeps the gears turning in your head on what the next bite might actually be. And talk about a knee knocker when your in search of a giant pike and your board dissappear for several minutes ensuing an epic battle just to be a, with no disrespect a 15# sheepshead! In all we had an epic weekend, tho I did have to email the head honcho several times as we led cool water team all day Saturdy into Sunday only to finally get on the board for a few hours that afternoon and bumped off by Monday. Also released a fairly decent smallmouth Monday that was a mistake, lessons learned completely trumped by the time enjoyed among friends and family. Thanks again guys for another great weekend.
