"We'll get our first fish within ten minutes," Ted Takasaki told me as he steered his boat out of the harbor at West Wind Resort on Minnesota's Upper Red Lake. Actually Takasaki, a long-time walleye pro, had contended confidently that we'd catch an abundance of fish back when we first began making trip plans several months ago. He fishes Upper Red Lake every year during May and June, and the fishing is always fast and furious.The walleyes took any possible suspense out of the ten-minute challenge. The first fish bit about four minutes into our first drift, and we had at least two (maybe three) in the first ten minutes. We ended up catching fish four different ways over a day and a half, but the most effective technique was drifting along a breakline and dragging Lindy X-Change Jigs rigged with fathead minnows or shiners across the bottom.
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