walleyes on gun

[knoppers]

planning on trying gun next friday for some walleyes, and was woundering were is a good place to start. I have tryed by the island at the rock, and lost two last year. is there a better place to try, any help would be great.

[trent]

i would love to be the guy to tell you where to go to slay the ice walleyes on gun, but am self-admittedly skunked every year on the ice.

if you know the lake, there are the two islands, big and small. the big island has a sand bar right next to it, making it an attractive piece of structure. and the small island is riddled with rocks and access to the deep water.

that being said, i've logged hours and hours at each island with no walleye success. leaves me wondering if all of my open water spots still hold eyes in the winter? shallow, 15-18 fow near structure?

good luck, i hope to get back up there after the 15th.

[charliepete2]

Knoppers...I don't have any info for you, but I've been thinking of trying the lake myself after checking out the stats in the McGregor area map book. It definitely looks like it has the potential for a good Walleye Lake. Let us know what the ice conditions are like if you make the trip. I was up fishing last weekend and found some wide variation in ice depth around the area. I was glad we had the 4-wheeler along, I'm a little skittish about taking a truck out on 12 inches of ice.

[knoppers]

Hubercita

there was still about 10-11 inches of good solid ice, I used my sled to pull my house, don't think I would drive a truck out untill we get some colder days and nights. ice thickness can vary when its warm out.

tryed by the little island with no luck, just one perch about 3 inches long.

[83walleye]

In-laws sold their cabin last summer, but I spent the last 22 years fishing walleyes on Gun. I had my best luck in 9'-12' of water, just off the weedline. There are any number of spots that hold fish. You speak of the small island with the big rock - directly east of this big rock is a sunken island shaped like a big orange slice - kinf of slopes northeast from the big rock. Edges of this orange slice - 9'-11' almost always hold fish. Straight across towards shore from the big rock(due east) is a really nice cabin with a dark brown boathouse. If you draw a straight line from the big rock to their boathouse, veer left about 30 degrees(north) to find the edge of a bar that comes out - you'll have a long stretch - maybe 200 yards northward, probably 100 yards off shore - of 9'-11' weed edge to try.

There's another bar in the northeast corner of the main part of the lake where the water comes up to about 3'(we've seen boats bottom out there in low water during the summer!) that stretches from Gun Point on the northwest shore all the way across to the east shore. Plenty of weed edge here too - maybe 200 yards worth. We've caught walleyes as shallow as 6' on the lake side of this bar. Split shot, #6 hook, minnow seems to work best, but jigging may do well too. Lots of northerns up here - had good luck with tipups along the way as well.

Good luck - I have some other spots that you could try in the summer. My "trapline" has about 20 spots or so...and remember, practice catch and release on anything in the 20" and over club. Stocking really keeps the walleye population going, but the big ones can only help...

[united jigsticker]

I've spent the last 15 years fishing Crappies on Gun, heck I even lived on the lake for 3 years.

Walleyes?

[knoppers]

I was fishing in 17' of water on a good drop. I think I was too deep. a cabin owner stopped out to chat, and he pointed out the old spear hole behind me and said they speared two nice northerns, but saw many walleye swim through.

[83walleye]

What kind of depth do you suppose they were spearing?

[knoppers]

I would say 5 to 8 feet of water there. there is a very sharp drop off at this point.