SEEMS LIKE WALLEYE

[Tom L]

Seems like we have many who fish Walleye, and there are a number of great YouTubes. This is one of a series specifically for WI. Enjoy.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how...ate=ive&vld=cid:910a43bc,vid:n_Z6znPyRvk,st:0

 

[Jon]

Walleye seem to have a way of rewarding persistence. Once you locate a school, catching five or ten isn't out of the question, the challenge is finding them in the first place.

 

[Tabby]

There is much to be said about that, but then again the underwater structure doesn't usually change much. Once you find a Walleye hole and figure out how to fish it, getting a limit is pretty easy to do.

There is a lake in Minnesota, just north of Duluth that I went fishing with my dad and uncles from the time I was about 8 until I shipped off to basic training at 17. They had been fishing this lake for many years and knew where each and every Walleye or Northern was hiding. Years later when on leave went back up there on my own along with a few friends. The locals said the fish weren't biting and were not bothering to go out. We went out in a rented boat with one of my old Johnson outboards and came back in several hours later each with a limit of Walleyes and several 30 inch plus Northern Pike (I like the Northerns, good eating as long as careful about Y bones) and the locals couldn't believe it. Which reminds me about a quip about fishing. There is a reason it's called Fishing, and not Catching.

One of those is that you are not going to catch fish by sitting in a bar. Winneconne is possibly the only exception to that rule. You can sit at the bar and watch your rods while having a Brewski or two, or sit out on the patio. There is a service window going to the bar behind you where said Brewskis can pass to you out on the patio.

 

[Alan]

There is much to be said about that, but then again the underwater structure doesn't usually change much. Once you find a Walleye hole and figure out how to fish it, getting a limit is pretty easy to do.

There is a lake in Minnesota, just north of Duluth that I went fishing with my dad and uncles from the time I was about 8 until I shipped off to basic training at 17. They had been fishing this lake for many years and knew where each and every Walleye or Northern was hiding. Years later when on leave went back up there on my own along with a few friends. The locals said the fish weren't biting and were not bothering to go out. We went out in a rented boat with one of my old Johnson outboards and came back in several hours later each with a limit of Walleyes and several 30 inch plus Northern Pike (I like the Northerns, good eating as long as careful about Y bones) and the locals couldn't believe it. Which reminds me about a quip about fishing. There is a reason it's called Fishing, and not Catching.

One of those is that you are not going to catch fish by sitting in a bar. Winneconne is possibly the only exception to that rule. You can sit at the bar and watch your rods while having a Brewski or two, or sit out on the patio. There is a service window going to the bar behind you where said Brewskis can pass to you out on the patio.

That’s the kind of local knowledge that doesn’t show up on any map. Once you learn a lake like that, conditions and rumors don’t matter much...fish are either there or they aren’t and you already know where to look.

 

[Tabby]

That’s the kind of local knowledge that doesn’t show up on any map. Once you learn a lake like that, conditions and rumors don’t matter much...fish are either there or they aren’t and you already know where to look.

Another thing was that I had a bunch of strip on spinners that we used to use with great success in my tackle box. When we stopped to get our fishing licenses I did not see any hanging on the wall. I asked the owner about it, and he brought out a few he had in back because they were not selling. Local fisher people had moved on to more modern bait. I bought them along with a couple of dozen chubs and night crawlers. Trolled the spinners and chubs for Northerns, and the occasional Walleye, then fished minnows or crawlers at the old walleye holes. Sometimes the old ways at the same old places work better than the fancy new baits in all the wrong places. Reminds me of a popular song, that was most likely popular years before you were born.

 

[critterpicker]

Another thing was that I had a bunch of strip on spinners that we used to use with great success in my tackle box. When we stopped to get our fishing licenses I did not see any hanging on the wall. I asked the owner about it, and he brought out a few he had in back because they were not selling. Local fisher people had moved on to more modern bait. I bought them along with a couple of dozen chubs and night crawlers. Trolled the spinners and chubs for Northerns, and the occasional Walleye, then fished minnows or crawlers at the old walleye holes. Sometimes the old ways at the same old places work better than the fancy new baits in all the wrong places. Reminds me of a popular song, that was most likely popular years before you were born.

As a kid , I used strip on spinners ( I think Weller made them) all the time. Frogs for bass and shiner minnows for walleye. I haven't seen them in a bait or tackle shop for the last 20 years. Believe me , I've been looking.

 

[Tabby]

As a kid , I used strip on spinners ( I think Weller made them) all the time. Frogs for bass and shiner minnows for walleye. I haven't seen them in a bait or tackle shop for the last 20 years. Believe me , I've been looking.

I will have to check my inventory. I think I have a few and am willing to share. Let me see what I have (just got home from work so it aint gonna happen today) and I'll let you know. They still work. LOL. Check the price on the spinner, 50 clents each, they are for sale for $30.00. The guy selling is out of his mind.

 

[Robin1]

HookedUpWI does good content on walleye fishing, especially around structure...watching the whole series is worth it.