Shallow Walleye's

[Xenos]

Just looking for opinions as to how users fish walleye shallow.

I normally just horizontal jig.

[RJ]

I got that stringer earlier this week on shallow running cranks....

I think if they are in shallows they actively feeding so covering water would be the plan...I could be wrong though


Xenos, How was the Mad this weekend?

RJ

[eye-tracker]

Techniques I like to use for shallow eye's:
I will cast jig with power jig worm or twister tail, reel in pause...wait for tick and set hook. Great in rough chop and high winds.

Mepps spinner with 3" twister rig'd with a single keeper hook (Great weedless lure)

Shallow Minnow Cranks, if they are up shallow on rocks I will some times use a diver crank that smacks into bottom to get a reaction.

[wolfe]

Eye-tracker,

Just curious as to whether you end up with a few bass this way. I was briefly attempting this style of shallow fishing today (Otisco Lk. has walleye, too) with lures similar to those you describe, but we started picking up too many bass and so moved off. Any advice? Thanks.

W.

[Kingmann]

RJ wrote:

Xenos, How was the Mad this weekend?

RJ

Let's just say it drove us MAD.

JasonM

[eye-tracker]

Eye-tracker,

Just curious as to whether you end up with a few bass this way. I was briefly attempting this style of shallow fishing today (Otisco Lk. has walleye, too) with lures similar to those you describe, but we started picking up too many bass and so moved off. Any advice? Thanks.

W.

Wolfe...
I get this question alot
I catch very few Bass fishing shallow for walleye, but I do catch the odd one and it is usually a small mouth bass because they like the same location as walleye. I target the eyes in water that I think they will be feeding on bait fish, usually in heavy winds 15-25 mph. Last night on my local lake I fished island drops, mid lake humps and flats (3-5 FOW) and caught lots of walleye and no bass. I work my baits quickly and look for active feeders...Also if I know an area holds bass I will not fish that area until end of june. On some lakes I know of one rock pile holding nested small mouth and only 50 yards away another holds walleye when they are up feeding from the main basin of the lake.

I wish there was an easy answer to this one but there is none...

[Xenos]

Other than the musky and the huge perch, I got skunked. I couldn’t find walleye anywhere and I know this water, it's full. All I can figure is there up on the shore. I have my game plan for this Saturday let’s see if I can get skunked again.

[Mahumba]

Hi,

Water temp should dictate where you are going to fish. Right now up here water is 46-48 degrees. Walleye are anywhere from 3 feet to 10 feet.

Mid lake humps are ok. (Actually got a 12.2 pound walleye in 6 feet of water on a mid lake hump.)

What are the water temps where you are fishing? Oh yeah we do catch small mouth bass while fishing for walleyes.

Here's one from a small lake up here that was caught by a good friend. The only thing that could of made this a better bass is if I caught it!!!!!.




Roger Mayer.



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[Xenos]

Main channel was 48-50 not just at the surface but down as low as 50 feet ( we were everywhere) all we saw were hundreds of carp in 9-12 feet of water ( Aqua Vu). Up the inlets it the water got as warm as 58. I jigged all over and ran stick baits along the shore and up the inlets off plainer boards Ran the baits anywhere from 1.4 – 1.9 Mph.

[Mahumba]

At 58 degrees they should still be in less than twenty feet of water.

Any good rock piles or islands which can channel the current through smaller areas?

Anything that'll concentrate them will help you. They should be well into the feeding at those temps.

*Try what Eye Tracker mentioned.*
Techniques I like to use for shallow eye's:
I will cast jig with power jig worm or twister tail, reel in pause...wait for tick and set hook. Great in rough chop and high winds.

This will force you to slow down a bit and really work a good looking area. Maybe try fishing at lower light levels be it early morning, evening or on cloudy days.

[url]http://www.thunderbayfishing.com/


Roger Mayer.[/url]

[wolfe]

Mahumba,

That is one of the nicest smallies I have ever seen. Shouldn't have the word "small" in its name at all!

W.

[MichaelVandenberg]

Wish they had a drowling icon...What a fish!

Mike

[Mahumba]

Yeah that was a brick of a smallie. There are a few like that in that lake. More common are the 19 inchers like the one I'm holding. (caught just after my buddy got the bruiser) And the water temp at the time was 45 degrees!!!!!

The forage base for these smallies are smelts. Nice and fatty. The lake is less than a mile wide by 1.5 miles long. Mean depth is 12 feet and the maximum is 55 feet.

The walleye in this lake are large to.



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[eye-tracker]

Temps on the lake I am fishing is 68 F...the walleye are feeding in their summer hang outs on mid lake humps and shorelines of islands when the wind is blowing, or causing a current between islands and mid lake humps. One area has a sand bottom that meets rock...this spot has been hot the last few day with the strong south wind bashing into the sand shore.

Last year at this same time the water was only 48-54F. The average depth of the lake is only around 8 feet so the water is warming up very fast with this warm weather.

Xenos...they are out there somewhere feeding...now you just have to find them