Great weather and a good day for fishing!

[Cliff Wagenbach]

Finally a nice day to get out on the water!

My clients and I left the dock at 8:30am and returned at 4:00 pm today

We boated a total of 70 walleyes, 3 pike, and 3 perch. My clients kept their limits of 14" to 16-1/2" walleyes.

3 slot walleyes, 21-1/2, 20-1/2, and 18-1/2 inchers. All 3 pike were in the slot. 26" to 32" fish.

Only one perch was big enough to keep, a fat 12" fish.

All fish came out of 26' to 32' of water.

We used leeches,chubs, and pike suckers on lindy rigs for all of the fish.

With the weather forecast for the next few days, the bite should get even better!

Cliff

[IceHawk]

Great report Cliff sounds like some good fishing! What are you guys seeing for surface temps up in your country?

[Cliff Wagenbach]

50 degree water this morning and warmed up to 54 by this afternoon.

Cliff

[SkunkedAgain]

I feel sad when Cliff boats in one day more than I've boated in the last several years combined :-(

[Fish Head]

Cliff could find fish in a bath tub.

[Cliff Wagenbach]

I got out alone again this morning.

Very slow bite everywhere that I went and mostly small fish yet.

Managed to boat 19 walleyes in one spot that had quite a few fish and kept my limit of 13-1/2 to 16-3/4 inch walleyes for supper tonight!

The walleyes there were in 26 to 31 feet of water. All were caught on a lindy  rig with  green and orange glow beads and leeches as bait.

Almost no fish were seen in about 6 other spots that I checked out!

Cliff

[delcecchi]

Use a heavier sinker to fish more vertical? 

[Cliff Wagenbach]

Use a heavier sinker to fish more vertical? 

​That is exactly what I do Dell! I use a 3/4 oz. sinker most of the time.

That being said, I still get times that the bite is just not serious enough and I miss a lot of hook sets!

It sometimes helps to drop some slack line out as soon as you feel the first hint of a bite, wait a few seconds, and then feel for the fish before you set the hook.

Cliff

 

[Cliff Wagenbach]

As Mark stated in his post, these fronts really have messed the walleye bite up!

Still catching lots of the smaller fish but nice keepers are hard to come by on most days!

Caught my first walleyes of the season on crawlers today! About 1/3 of the walleyes boated this morning came on 1/2 crawler on a lindy rig.

24" was our largest walleye this week.

26' to 35' was the best depth the past few days.

Water temps dropped to 58 degrees again.

Good Fishing!

Cliff

[trolloni]

Heavier weight for deeper water yes , lighter for shallower, i like to use the minimum weight  needed to maintain bottom contact ,the wind will dictate sinker size too.I was always told go as light as possible,but what i feel is key is maintain no more than 45 degree of angle on youre line while trolling ,boat control is key in lindy riggin!

[Cliff Wagenbach]

We are finally starting to see some nicer eaters and a few slot fish in their regular haunts this week!

Not an all deep water bite anymore! Catching walleyes in depths ranging from 12 feet to 40 feet the past few days.

Still using Lindys though. Minnows,leeches, and crawlers are all working, but not necessarily all at the same spots!

Still a mixed bag also. Largest today was a 27 inch fish.

 

[redlabguy]

Nice fish, Cliff! I always like big fish pictures because the bigger the fish, the bigger the grin. I saw you out in my neighbor about noon. Glad you had a good day. Looks like everyone in the boat is happy.

Dick