fishing report 5-5-09

[Jason Boser]

Its almost that time of the year for the opening of Walleye. We did our annual spring ritual of taking brochures and fish batter around to the resorts yesterday. All the resort owners were pretty optimistic about the opener. The nets were gone Friday out of cutfoot and the fish should be ready to bite. As far as anybody knew there would be no closure of the area around little cutfoot so that will open up that whole area between the channel of williams narrows to cutfoot suix inn. The fish should be out on the big flats by bowens, all over cutfoot and it should be a good bite. Keep the jigs small 1/16th to 1/8 oz, keep it shallow, keep it slow and find some shiners and you should be able to catch some fish this year. The weather looks good so enjoy another opener and be safe

Good luck fishing

Jason Boser

[wayne123]

Jason - Do you have any criteria for when Shiners are important? Somedays it seems that Shiners are all they want and then other days it seems like a fathead is as good as a shiner.

Anyone else feel free to reply with your thoughts too.

[Jason Boser]

for myself as long as they are running I try and use them. but I know that sometimes chubs work just as good

Jason

[PEATMOSS]

Jason - Do you have any criteria for when Shiners are important? Somedays it seems that Shiners are all they want and then other days it seems like a fathead is as good as a shiner.

Anyone else feel free to reply with your thoughts too.

During the first 2-3 weeks up here my general rule of thumb is, if I am hungry for walleyes, I use shiners. If not, I'll use something else.