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| There is a good thread about deep walleyes so I thought I'd get your opinion about skinny water walleyes. I have seen them in less that two feet right in the middle of the summer and in the winter under the ice too. When and where do you target skinny water for big walleyes? What is your favorite presentation? I use jigs almost only. Use some cranks, too, like the Reef Runner and Rapala.
What do you look for and use? |
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Location: Milw, WI | In the spring on the WI river I find the larger female walleye up shallower than you would think.
I think they are sunning to warm up.
But if you find them and are slick you can get them to bite, while everyone else is asking his buddy, why is the guy fishing in there it is to shallow. |
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Location: Rhinelander | I find walleyes VERY shallow on lakes here in northern Wisconsin most of the year on windy days, and at night and early morning. I look for the obvious, like rock points and bars in the wind, and the not too obvious like subtle breaks on a sand edge with a bit of non emergent weed. |
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| We find them very shallow on the Mississippi all the time, all times of year. One foot, 2 feet, bottom line is they will be where the eating is good, they are opportunists. |
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| Whenever the wind is blowing on Mille Lacs, I start my day off in about 4' and slowly work out from there. If the sky is darker, I'll even start in less than 3'. Many times this last few years my whole day is spent in less than 6' of water, and that is spring, summer, and fall! |
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Location: Annandale, MN | Hey...we get a great shallow water bite on central MN lakes such as Koronis, Minnewaska, Green, Big Stone ect on the wind-ward side of the lake and the longer it blows the better it gets. Look for BIG mud-lines adjacent to inside weedlines. I cast 5"+ stick baits into 6" of water. The plugs are mostly in bright colors, with a crank-pause-crank-pause or steady retrieves where it bounces off the bottom.
I'm getting anxious just typing this....Jon
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Location: Wi | I fished walleyes in Butte,Pogan,and Bago,all Post spawn fish.Look for early weeds with rock nearby.I know a little about this pattern since winning the Biggest payout ever on Lake winnebago in May of 2002 in less than 1ft. of water.Good luck. |
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Location: Rockford MN | I've caught walleyes on the Miss in less than a foot of water. 3 cast 3 fish over 8lbs. Once you find the spots that hold them your in! Always the same lookin spots. Big fish are laying there waiting to be had. I'm not talking wing dams I'm talking shoreline. |
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Location: Lincoln Park, Mi | My biggest walleye came in 1-2 feet of water on a small river here in Michigan. Right around the end of October. You could see it shoot out of the rapid area with it's fins sticking out of the water like a shark and chasing baitfish upstream. Awaesome sight! Took quite a few casts but got her to bite finally. They hang out in the shallows there in late fall or if the water is that low during the spawn in the spring. Never caught one shallow on a big body of water like Erie though. The shallowest I've taken one on Erie was the first fish of last year in 9 feet off Celeron Island. |
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Location: Upper Sandusky Ohio | In Early June on Erie I use a technique that I have yet to see any one else use. That's not to say others don't but I have yet to see anyone else put it to use. The way it works is this. I fish a 21' Trophy Walkaround. As we troll with Jet Divers and spoons, I'll go up on the Bow, and cast a weight forward on what is called a splash count. That is I begin my retreive as soon as the bait hits the water, burning it back. I will cast out at about a 45 degree angle ahead of the boat and what it does is put a bait in that area of water before the boat can spook the fish that are high in the water column. Sometimes if the water is flat enough I can see my bait through the retreive, and see the fish hit it, so I guess that would be about 2 feet down or less. Most of the time when I do this we are fishing over water 25-32 feet deep.
Edited by Trophy 2/19/2004 10:12 PM
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Shallow walleyes