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Hi Everyone :

I'm fishing one of the walleye lakes near Perth, Ontario. In the spring, trolling with a firetiger rapala worked very well. The weeds have grown in big time in the lake since then, and, in July, trolling with a spinner with a red/yellow grub attached worked somewhat, but now the walleye are impossible to catch when trolling. I am impatient when it comes to using jigs, so what do I do now ?

Len

Learn to be patient


DropShot'r

The spinners should still work really well. Do you think the walleye have moved to a different spot. I would try trolling the edge of the weed bed at high noon. Don't keep going to the same spot over and over all year. They tend to move as the season progress. But I am still catching them shallow 7' or so. Something I have noticed over the years is that in early season I use white and blue blades or white and red. As the season moves on I use orange or yellow blades. When its cloudy I use just the regular brass colour non painted.

During August I usually move out from the weeds and structure into the main basin as the bait fish abandon the weed beds. Odds are the bait fish have moved out and the walleye followed them. With the warm water temps in August the walleye are on the feed and extremely active as they usually want a crank bait moving at a quick pace. At this time of the year I usually start trolling cranks at 2.5 mph and speed up from there until they start hitting. The spinner and crawler is no good at these fast speeds and the fish are on the move and spread out chasing bait and usually do not relate to bottom so a jig would also be a poor choice.

So give it a try next time out, just move out into the basin about a 100 yards from the weed-line you where catching them on in July and fish a crank 5 to 15 feet down from the surface in 20 plus feet of water.

Now as August moves into September the suspended basin bite will end as fast as it started because the bait will move back to the shallow water for a short period of time. So try to pay attention on your lake to the bait fish movement.

Good luck and give the open water a try you may be pleasantly surprised...

-sheldon

Len you could'nt have got better advice Sheldon knows his stuff. My u

Len you could'nt have got better advice Sheldon knows his stuff.ee. My suggestion would to try cranks at dusk to night in 10 - 20 ft of water . We had great success on big gull a few years back.Oh yeah try a florocarbon leader as well in clear water.

Ron

I agree 100% with eye-tracker and scum king.
The secret is to go deeper!
Went out to one of my fav lakes around Perth today, and hooked into 5 walleyes ...all around 2 -2/12 lbs. All caught in around 15-20 ft of water with spinners and worms off drop offs! Jumped around several spots and found all in the same area

I was out on the Madawaska, trying for bass in the weeds in about 8' of water and caught a 15" pickerel on a white spinner bait. It was real yellow coloured, I have not caught too many of that colour on the Mad.

Further to my post that was this past Sunday at noon with an east wind blowing.