Walleye Flies?

Post by **MTF** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:17 am

Hey all,

Wondering if some of you could recommend and few flies that you have had luck catching walleye on. I figure any minnow looking streamers would work but I would like to hear what patterns are working for you.

Cheers,

Post by **fishin mission** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:00 pm

send todd b an email he fishes walleye all the time

Post by **Todd B.** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:09 pm

All of my eyes this season have been caught on my own olive woolly bugger pattern

Hook: #6 Mustad 9672
Tail: Sculpin Olive maraboo
Flash: UV Cyrstal flash
Body: Olive Dun crystal chenille
Rib: gold wire
Hackle: Olive hackle
Weight: 1 meduim gold conehead followed by 1 medium gold beadhead
Thread: 6/0 hot orange or red

Tungsten heads work better but cost a lot more. The key is to keep your fly on or near the bottom. If you don't want to chuck heavy flies you'll need to use full sink line and a short leader to keep your fly close to the bottom.

Olive/white Clouser minnows would be another good fly to try.

Cheers,
Todd

Cheers,
Todd

Post by **MTF** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:21 pm

Todd B. wrote:All of my eyes this season have been caught on my own olive woolly bugger pattern

Hook: #6 Mustad 9672
Tail: Sculpin Olive maraboo
Flash: UV Cyrstal flash
Body: Olive Dun crystal chenille
Rib: gold wire
Hackle: Olive hackle
Weight: 1 meduim gold conehead followed by 1 medium gold beadhead
Thread: 6/0 hot orange or red

Tungsten heads work better but cost a lot more. The key is to keep your fly on or near the bottom. If you don't want to chuck heavy flies you'll need to use full sink line and a short leader to keep your fly close to the bottom.

Olive/white Clouser minnows would be another good fly to try.

Cheers,
Todd

Cheers,
Todd

Thanks Todd, I'll try a store bought olive wooly bugger. What about a deceiver in red,yellow black pattern?

Post by **Musky51** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:17 pm

Marc

we need to fish!!

J

Post by **MTF** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:04 pm

Musky51 wrote:Marc

we need to fish!!

J

Yeah for sure!! When you wanna go?

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:44 am

[quote="marcthefisherman]Thanks Todd, I'll try a store bought olive wooly bugger. What about a deceiver in red,yellow black pattern?[/quote]

It's not one that I would use given that I'm fishing for eyes in relatively shallow river and the eyes tend to be on or near the bottom most of the time. Under these conditions I find the weighted flies work better.

If you were fishing deeper water (i.e. Bay of Quinte) where the eyes can be anywhere in the water column, then I might try it (with an appropriate sinking line).

Post by **Dore** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:58 pm

I seriously had no idea that you can catch walleye fly fishing !

Post by **Todd B.** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:49 pm

Around here about the on thing you can't do on the fly is punch through grass mats for LM or troll 120' down for Lakers. Anything else is pretty much within reason.

Post by **beachburger** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:56 pm

Around here about the on thing you can't do on the fly is punch through grass mats for LM

Bah. Your flippin' fly weighs more than any flippin' jig you can buy in a store.

Post by **wetwilly** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:04 pm

When I first moved to the Quinte area in early 70,s there was scarcely a
walleye to be found.
Those few who fished for them often trolled with flies hooked behind a small spinner, kind of a spin fly?? I suppose.
"Yellow Sallys" and "Quinte Pickerel" were the flies of choice.
The Sallys were a heavy bodied version with feather wings and the Pickerel were essentially a yellow/black bucktail streamer.
Can,t find an image of the latter.

Post by **Todd B.** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:33 am

beachburger wrote:Bah. Your flippin' fly weighs more than any flippin' jig you can buy in a store.

Hey.., It's called the "Dredger"!