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Location: Bay City, MI | Ok, you experienced walleye guys. I posted a topic regarding the lunar cycle and got some real good information. When I was a kid we had a cabin on a lake that was full of smallmouth bass and bluegills. I can remember putting on my little yellow slicker during a light rain after a front moved through, heading out to the dock with a spinning rod, and just nailing the bass. I ended up wet, but happy, and made my Dad real proud. How do you guys think the weather effects the walleye fishing? (Can you tell I'm new at this thing yet?)
Edited by frozenbeer 2/22/2004 12:23 AM
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Fronts definitely get the walleye biting. A little different than bass though. Bass, I know for a fact turn on about an hour before a front sets in. Walleye, on the other hand, tend to turn on within minutes of a front seting in. The vast majority of my most successful trips on the Detroit River have been minutes before it started to rain. Nothing like trying to push it to the last minute, then racing back to the dock and loading in a downpour. With a smile on your face!
No luck with the lunar chart though. Actually worse luck than usual?????
Edited by terroreyes 2/22/2004 12:48 AM
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Oh yeah, have some very nice catches in those low light conditions. In the early nineties, learned how to pitch jigs while vactioning in Northern Wisconsin on a small 166 acre lake. And one such memory had the same light rain conditions.
Now, I had jigged this particular rock pile many times with good success, but that morning must have caught and released dozens of walleyes with many over 20 and the largest a fat 25 incher!
This front also made me very happy! 
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| Many times in the summer, when it has been cloudy and raining for a couple days, my best bite happens when I look to the northwest and can see the clear blue sky approaching.(Front) They really like to strap on the feed bag before those hit. Only problem with that is, when you are on big water and that clear sky gets to you, so do some pretty strong winds and it gets rough real quick. In other words, time to get to shore, or it is going to be a rodeo ride for the rest of the day!
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| In the Spring I personally like to fish at night when it's raining-snowing and it's down right nasty out. I've put more fish on the wall or let big girls go for clients when the weather is like this than the rest of the year. It's mighty hard on your hands and equipment but for me here on the river that's when the big girls quite often drop their gaurd so to speak. Hutch Won't be long now. |
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| Nothing beats an unseasonably hot-muggy-windy day in May or June. |
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Location: Milw, WI | Extreme fishing seems to be a specialty of mine.
The worse the condions, the better the bite and size of the fish in my mind.
But some times I have to wuss out, getting old real fast and the body is really weather prediction meter at this point.
If the barometer is falling I want to be out there, walleye fishing. |
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| Hutch ?
What areas,type of structure do you target when night fishing for the big females? Is there a certain depth ? Current break ? Water temp that you look for ?
thanks,
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