near shore walleye

bigragu · 07-27-2009, 07:01 AM

A friend and I were on the lake Friday and covered the 18 fow to 38 fow between the Castlel and Beaver Creek. Caught two eyes, only one of which was a keeper. We drifted bottom bouncers, cast weight fowards, and trolled spoons and cranks on boards and dipseys. The one keeper came off the bar on a board in about 18 fow. Probably should have stayed in that area.

Just confused as to where the pack went and don't want to run way out. Any info would be welcomed.

**Toptrophy** · 07-27-2009, 08:14 AM

Ok, I've been watching this thread and can't hold my tongue any longer.

Fact #1. Yes your going to find small,Young walleye in close / shallow water this time of year. Just look to the west, Around the Islands area. What do you find there??? Yep, small young fish. Sure now and again you'll find a larger fish that was to lazy to move east with his buddies looking for larger school's of bait.

Fact #2. To find the large size fish (22-30in) You need to go deep and east. As we all have read this year has been "tuff" fishing. Less boats on the water cooler weather than we've been seeing in the past. But as they always do the big fish seek out that cooler water with less light and lots of bait. There is where you will find those fish. Someday they'll bite fast and others they'll just not bite for any reason.

Pick the good days and go deep, US Border deep. On the other days stay in close and pick threw the garbage fish,and pee wee's.

BTW,
The figures show the 30-45% of the Comm. charters are not going to make it threw this $$$ down turn. So this is what you'll not get a good report from this close click of guys. Pay for there service and you'll find fish. But I would bet a cold case of beer your going to be running deep to find those Aug. hogs.

**jig** · 07-27-2009, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by Toptrophy

Ok, I've been watching this thread and can't hold my tongue any longer.

Fact #1. Yes your going to find small,Young walleye in close / shallow water this time of year. Just look to the west, Around the Islands area. What do you find there??? Yep, small young fish. Sure now and again you'll find a larger fish that was to lazy to move east with his buddies looking for larger school's of bait.

Fact #2. To find the large size fish (22-30in) You need to go deep and east. As we all have read this year has been "tuff" fishing. Less boats on the water cooler weather than we've been seeing in the past. But as they always do the big fish seek out that cooler water with less light and lots of bait. There is where you will find those fish. Someday they'll bite fast and others they'll just not bite for any reason.

Pick the good days and go deep, US Border deep. On the other days stay in close and pick threw the garbage fish,and pee wee's.

BTW,
The figures show the 30-45% of the Comm. charters are not going to make it threw this $$$ down turn. So this is what you'll not get a good report from this close click of guys. Pay for there service and you'll find fish. But I would bet a cold case of beer your going to be running deep to find those Aug. hogs.

will they be on bottom or will they be suspened i have been getting them about a foot off bottom in close

**Toptrophy** · 07-27-2009, 09:27 PM

will they be on bottom or will they be suspened i have been getting them about a foot off bottom in close

Yep and thats where the smaller/younger fish will stack up at. No thremial cline (spelling) in that shallow water. The big fish in deep water will stack up about 2-4 ft above it. Thats where all the bait will be and its real dark and cool down there. With just the amount of light that BIG walleye like. And that majic temp they seek out this time of year. And thats where the big feeds are. Bait+Cool temp.+ Low light= Big Fish. We've seen it for years.

Sorry guys, You want big fish and a lot of them. Then your going to have to work for them. If you want smaller fish,Then stay in close or head out to the west. Your choice.

**jig** · 07-28-2009, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Toptrophy

Yep and thats where the smaller/younger fish will stack up at. No thremial cline (spelling) in that shallow water. The big fish in deep water will stack up about 2-4 ft above it. Thats where all the bait will be and its real dark and cool down there. With just the amount of light that BIG walleye like. And that majic temp they seek out this time of year. And thats where the big feeds are. Bait+Cool temp.+ Low light= Big Fish. We've seen it for years.

Sorry guys, You want big fish and a lot of them. Then your going to have to work for them. If you want smaller fish,Then stay in close or head out to the west. Your choice.

so you are saing that most of the young eyes will be close to shore at any time and the bigger eyes are out deep so you could fish for them in close any time that is where we have fished all year so far so if we went to get bigger go deeper i lost one that was in the 10 to 15 lb rang snapped 14 lb line at boat in close to shore like 35 feet thanks for info i fish the walnut area