young walleye

[walleye2go]

Where is everyone finding these shorts? The smallest I've caught this year is 17" I fished Green and Rattle early and have been at Kellys the rest of the time. Just wondering.

I've had to throw quite a few back from American Eagle shoal, but there is a large school of fish North of B and C can extending to East of West Sister and over to the Kidney where many of the short fish are being caught. They were also getting them shallow out in front of Crane Creek and down the shoreline to Bessie...but I haven't heard anything about that bite for awhile.

Greg

[Bggeary]

Thanks Greg, not that i want to catch some, just wondering where they were all hanging out. That sounds to me like the 80's when the limit was ten.

[wakina]

I had my boat docked at Tibbles Marina on East Harbor in 04,05,06,07 and 08 fished both east of Kelly's and straight out of and west of East Harbor and the Bass Islands. I cannot remember catching a great many shorts east of Kelly's but did catch quite a few straight out between Kelly's and the Bass Islands but once you went west of the Bass Islands and got out around the reef complex the bite was on for those shorts in late 2004 and all of 2005. It was nothing to catch 40 to 50 a day in the area of the reefs.

Like I said before the adult population was really low and keepers were hard to come by once the water temp. got into the mid 70's, it seems that most of the adults went east those years. Once those 03 fish got to keeper size they would hang around on the western end of the lake in numbers great enough to give you some very excellent fishing even though the were not the trophy sized fish. They still made for fun and some very good eating.