Friday, November 23, 2012

Walleye Fishing Reports - 11/23/2012 - 15 Stories - WI, ND, IA, MI, WA, IL, OH, ONT


Plain Dealer
The Lake Erie walleye fishing has been fair to very good in near-shore areas from the Western Basin to Cleveland, but big waves forecast for today and Saturday are a concern. Steelhead trout fishing has been slow, with rivers low and clear. The inland ...

Plain Dealer
The Lake Erie walleye fishing has been fair to very good in near-shore areas from the Western Basin to Cleveland, but big waves forecast for today and Saturday are a concern. Steelhead trout fishing has been slow, with rivers low and clear. The inland ...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Walleye anglers had their best luck during dark hours around weed beds in 5 to 10 feet. Casting over the tops of weeds with minnow-style stick baits will catch active walleyes. Soaking a medium golden shiner or red-tail chub on a No. 8 treble hook ...

Sawyer County Record (blog)
This is a good time to catch big walleyes. Cast crankbaits over the tops of weeds in 4-8 feet of water during dark hours or fish walleye suckers under lighted bobbers. During daylight hours, concentrate on deeper structure with fatheads or walleye ...

With the highest perch, pike and walleye numbers in the past 10 years, Devils Lake ice fishermen are looking at an ice fishing bonanza. “It's significant that we ...

Mason City Globe Gazette
Walleyes, sauger and saugeyes can be caught on a variety of baits, but it's really hard to beat a jig: Pure and simple, jigs are the go-to bait of many of the best walleye catchers in any of these regions. Walleyes will eat jigs tipped with plastic or ...

Mason City Globe Gazette
Cedar River (above Nashua): Smallmouth bass — slow: Anglers are catching smallies while fishing for walleye. Walleye — slow: Fish the deeper holes using minnows or nightcrawlers. Decorah District Streams: Northeast Iowa streams are fishing well late ...

Iron Mountain Daily News
Walleye catches were down except for those night fishing. They did well when trolling stick baits in 10 to 28 feet of water along the reefs near Kipling or 12 to 25 feet near the Black Bottom. Some nice walleye were caught near the Escanaba Lighthouse ...

Columbia Basin Herald
Bass Fishers are continuing to have good smallmouth action on the face of O'Sullivan Dam. The Crab Creek area is producing some largemouth bass action as well. Walleye action is still slow. As our weather gets colder the walleye fishing will only improve.

Mica and Steve Killenger weighed a six-fish basket of walleyes for 22.13 pounds earning, $1,700 which included the big fish for the event a 8.27-pound walleye ...

Sawyer County Record (blog)
Walleyes action is good during low light/dark periods on minnow baits fished over weeds in 4-8 feet and walleye suckers under lighted bobbers. On sunny days, work deep structure with minnows on jigs or Lindy Rigs. Crappies are active around weeds in ...

Napa Valley Register
Marianne won the AIM Pro Walleye Series in August. (Thanks Outdoor Life for this note.) This column has long celebrated the growing number and success of female anglers. Here's another sign that you can place at the very top of your sport. Who will be ...

WBIW.com
In a partnership between the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, inmates at Terre Haute's Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) will raise channel catfish for DNR's new urban fishing program and walleyes for selected ...

The Cabool Enterprise
A year ago, Sondra got a special fishing rod for Christmas, a custom-made light rod with spinning reel which is made for six-pound line and best used for white bass, crappie, trout, and walleye and bass less than four pounds in weight. I told her this ...

Net Newsledger
It's turning cold in walleye country across the northern half of the nation, but ice-up is still a while away and there are still many great opportunities to catch some open-water fish before you have to turn to the ice shanty for your angling fix ...


It was quite the day for Marlin Ingebretson of Mayville.

Elmira Star-Gazette
Pronti is making a habit of catching wall hangers, and his latest is a 31-inch walleye hooked in September while fishing the Chemung River. Pronti caught the bruiser — his biggest walleye ever — on a stickbait around 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 downstream ...