Thursday, July 25, 2013

Walleye Fishing Reports 7/25/2013 - 25 Stories - MN, Mi, NY, IA, SD, WA, WY, ND

Iosco County News Herald
OSCODA: Pier anglers are starting to catch walleye. Early morning through mid-day and again in the evening was best when using crawlers, leeches and body ...

Buffalo News
Warming surface temperatures should push these walleye schools deeper and ... still produce walleye in areas that should be just bass and gobies by now.

Aitkin Independent Age
Mille Lacs east – Midday walleye action has been best on the gravel and mud in 22- 28 feet with spinner rigs or live-bait rigs tipped with leeches or crawlers.

Bradenton Herald
Biologists slapped the lake with restrictive limits of only two walleye or wipers of 21 ... After measuring and weighing a nice walleye, Brack reached for a bucket ...

Kapuskasing Northern Times (subscription)
Professional walleye angler and Princecraft Boats Pro Staff. Planer boards? What are these? What are they used for? These are the questions that people often ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Annandale area: Walleyes are hitting on spinner baits with night crawlers or ... On Lake Bemidji, anglers are working shoreline breaks for the best walleye action ...

St. Ignace News (subscription)
The Straits Area Sportsmen's Club and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are teaming up to create a new walleye fishery in Brevort Lake.

The Register-Guard
Her academic subject of interest: the world's largest population of walleye ... Walleye pollock are possibly the most consumed fish in the world, according to ...

IceFishingFIRST
Most walleye anglers don't wish for the dog days of August. There is an exception, though, with a group of anglers who have large numbers of big walleyes ...

The Register-Guard
Her academic subject of interest: the world's largest population of walleye pollock. Prior to her departure from Eugene, Harvey said she wasn't worried about ...

Buffalo News
Lake Erie's walleye fishery flourishes this summer season and two weekend events again proved how the lake produces good-sized walleyes for anglers in ...

Mason City Globe Gazette
Kab is a world-class walleye fishery, and is also really good for perch, ... By doing a couple of things, though, we were able to catch walleyes under these tough ...

Sioux City Journal
YANKTON, S.D. | If I had to pick one of the South Dakota Missouri River reservoirs as being overlooked by most anglers, I'd have to say that honor goes to Lewis ...

Edmonton Journal
The walleye fishery became catch and release only after low harvest ... He credits that to what seems to be a rebound in the walleye population, and to the way ...

Jamestown Post Journal
The walleye fishing out of Dunkirk Harbor has been slow, with limited walleye reports coming. The upwelling event over a week ago had slowed things down, ...

Walker Pilot Independent
Summer walleye patterns were slow to develop buy they are here now. Deep drop- offs, underwater humps and bars, and even the deep edges of wee…

Columbia Basin Herald
Again this week walleye anglers report tough walleye days due to the explosion of ... The more serious walleye anglers are learning that these bugle eyes feed ...

Coon Rapids Herald
Ron Anlauf had to pick it up a bit to nail this nice mid-summer walleye. Submitted photo. When things heat up and the fish want something moving a little quicker ...

Yankton Daily Press
Fishing with one-ounce bottom bouncers and live bait indented for walleye, we ... The final count of seven species that first afternoon consisted of Walleye...

Casper Star-Tribune Online
Walleye fishing on Keyhole Reservoir remains productive. Fish are at six to ten feet of water. Worms have been the best form of bait. Fisherman out for walleye ...

Dickinson Press
AITKIN, Minn. — It's an angling irony. Walleye fishing has been very good on Mille Lacs Lake this summer. Most days, anglers on this treasured Minnesota ...

Isthmus Daily Page
Walleye is a special fish in Wisconsin, and Madison is no exception. Unlike some of the other local species, walleye is well represented around town with ...

Columbia Basin Herald
Main, chairman of the Columbia Basin Walleye Club, was worried about someone, especially children, falling in the lake fishing underneath the Interstate 90 ...

The Columbian
Summer steelhead angling improved in the past week with the best fishing in the estuary and downstream of Longview. But while the catching improved, the ...

Isthmus
Monroe Street, apartment boom, Max Dvorak, walleye fish fry in the July 18 issue of Isthmus on Thursday 07/18/2013 6:00 am. Article Tools: Read more ...

Detroit Free Press
Lake Erie: Good for walleye from the Detroit Light (the Bell Buoy) to south of the ... Port Austin: Excellent walleye fishing along the reefs and off the tip of the ...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Walleye Fishing Reports 7/18/2013 - 65 Stories - MT, MN, OH, WI, PA, WA, NV, MO, KS, AR, TN, VT, AZ, ND, MI, CO, IA, SD, NY

Petoskey News-Review
Now in its third year, a study of walleye movement and diet in the Inland Waterway is winding down. The study was spawned from concern about a population estimate done on Mullett Lake in 2009. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians' Natural ...

Chetekalert
In 2009, a citizen resolution was submitted at the Barron County Wisconsin Conservation Congress meeting to increase the Silver Lake walleye regulation from the statewide 15-inch minimum length limit and five-fish daily bag limit to a more restrictive ...

Walker Pilot Independent
The walleye and perch feed on mayflies, which has challenged anglers. Now they can get back to summer fishing action. Crawlers and leeches have been the best producer for a daytime or early evening bite. Covering a lot of water while trolling with a ...

Iosco County News Herald
HARRISVILLE: Is producing salmon, lake trout, steelhead and walleye. Lake trout were suspended in 70 to 90 feet. Steelhead and salmon were closer to the surface. Walleye have started to hit south past the State Park and to the north. Early morning and ...

NorthcentralPa.com
July 17, 2013. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) evaluated Tiger Muskellunge and Walleye populations in Nockamixon Lake between April 3 and 19, 2013. Towns: Harrisburg. Tags: boating crimes · fishing · PA Fish and Boat Commission ...

YouTube
... Ryan's video to your playlist. Sign in. Transcript No statistics available yet. Report. Published on Jul 17, 2013. MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake officials and members of the Columbia Basin Walleye Club dedicated a new public pier at Blue Heron Park July 16.

Houghton Lake resorter
Lake St. Helen was recently stocked with over 200,000 walleye fingerlings this year, according to a Department of Natural Resources press release issued last week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------. You must be an ...

Billings Gazette
The walleye bite has been very good with consistent weather patterns and warmer water temperatures. Fish the south end of the reservoir by trolling worm harnesses, cranks or slow death rigs and try jigging bay points (orange or perch colors), in 5 to ...

Daily Republic
Walleyes were our primary quarry. Our Game, Fish and Parks biologists feel that Oahe has too many walleyes. To correct this problem and promote an increase in forage species, such as smelt, Oahe has an eight walleye daily limit as opposed to four in ...

Silver City Sun News
Anglers using crank baits, sassy shad, curly tail grubs and topwater lures also reported good catches of white bass along with a few walleye. Expect the lake levels to drop considerably over the next several days. Elephant Butte: The surface water temp ...

ksl.com
Typically, the Walleyes and largemouth bass can be caught using hard plastic crankbaits and tailed worms or grubs. Utah Lake has several different docks and points around the lake where fishing is easily accessible. The marina on Center Street in Provo ...

The Cabool Enterprise
I don't know how that low dam could have done that, but I fished the river for years and never saw a walleye or a channel catfish. You had to fish someone's farm pond to catch channel catfish, and you had to go to the Current or Meramec River to find ...

WalleyeFIRST
Limits of walleyes the norm as summer patterns stabilize. Walleyes are being found deep over mud flats and reefs. Arnesen's Reef, Long Point area, Starren Shoal, North Bridges Reef, Knight, and Garden Island, all the way up to Little Oak Island are ...

The Chattanoogan
Water temperature is 86 degrees; lake is falling. Several bass are being caught at night while using spinnerbaits and jigs and soft plastics on channel banks and points in 15 feet of water. Walleye fishing is fair while trolling nightcrawlers on flats ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
AFTER-WORK SUCCESS: Becky Hanson Welter of Medina caught and released this 28-inch walleye after work on Gull Lake. “After about an hour of fishing, my bobber went under,''she said. ''At first my husband thought it was a northern, but when we got a ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Lake Minnetonka: The best walleye action has been at deeper depths (26-32 feet) during the early mornings hours (5-7 a.m.) and during the evenings (8-10 p.m.) using Lindy rigs with leeches on the main lake, Smith and Browns Bay and Diamond Reef.

Belmond Indepedent
Walleye are fair, with few bigger fish caught, but most anglers are catching a mix of sublegal and small legal walleyes. Some are catching walleyes drifting or trolling. Most of the action is either in deeper water on the various rock reefs using a ...

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Pigment abnormalities of the blue-ish kind among perch and walleye have been on the increase for more than a decade in Ontario and Québec, and the trend is extending south, according to Schaefer's research. The turquoise coloring occurs when the blood ...

Duluth News Tribune
Some nice walleyes were seen along with a few crappies and northern. After some campers left their camp site Fredin check the camp condition and found garbage, old camping equipment, and towels left. The campers were tracked down, brought back to ...

StarPhoenix
Anglers in Saskatchewan are being asked to help reel in information about a hybrid fish. Chris Somers, an ecologist at the University of Regina, is looking for specimens of a fish that could be a cross between a walleye and a sauger. It's known as a ...

Alpena News
Inland lakes and streams get other species, like walleye, trout and muskellunge, Cwalinski said. Some lakes get walleye because natural reproduction is at an all-time low. Biologists check stocking records and use fisheries surveys and angler data to ...

SooToday.com
Rob and John Eusebi (pictured below) are $5,000 richer today thanks to their first place finish in this past weekend's 3rd annual Kiwanis International Walleye Tournament. The two-day event saw 42 teams from across North America fish the St. Marys River.

White Lake Beacon
Not much for pier anglers besides catfish and freshwater drum. Water temperatures are just too warm. Muskegon Lake – Walleye have begun to turn on, and have been taken on the flats using crawler harnesses. Perch on deeper weed breaks but be prepared ...

Limits of walleyes are coming off reefs and from deep mud areas in Big Traverse Bay. Work the west side of Big Traverse near Long Point, the reefs near ...

Duluth News Tribune
Mille Lacs Lake fishing guide Steve Fellegy holds a 26-inch walleye taken on his boat Tuesday afternoon while fishing mud flats on the north end of the lake. Although fishing has been good on Mille Lacs, last fall's survey of walleyes was the lowest in ...

Lansing State Journal
The spoons — Mini Streaks — were doing their job, though they didn't get the memo that we were walleye fishing. We caught a few 'eyes, right off the bat, but the white bass wouldn't leave the baits alone. We were loading the boat with them (and ...

The Coloradoan
Managed as a warm-water fishery, primarily walleye and largemouth bass, fishers may also encounter wiper, crappie, channel catfish, yellow perch and bluegill. The approximately 500-acre reservoir is best fished from watercraft as shore access is ...

Grand Forks Herald
Ice fishing pressure hit an all-time high last winter on Lake of the Woods, but anglers kept less than half as many walleyes as they did the previous winter, results from a Department of Natural Resources creel survey show. By: Brad Dokken, Grand Forks ...

Timmins Press
As the Anglers and Young Anglers fishing tournament wrapped up on Saturday afternoon at the Mattagami boat launch, Paul Ethier and his sons Caleb and Max came in with a serious contender, a six pound Walleye. Ethier and his sons were serious ...

Columbus Dispatch
Ohio's major portion of fishing expenditures often is thought to be tied to Lake Erie, which has had star billing in the state since it rose from the “dead” during the late 1960s to become the unofficial “walleye capital of the world” by the 1980s. Yet ...

KSFY
Anglers have been coming to Chamberlain for years to test their luck on the waters and catch the elusive Walleye. Verla Gruis and her husband are from Sioux Falls and they come every year for the month of June. "It is a beautifully place out here ...

Mason City Globe Gazette
White Bass — Slow: Anglers should try fishing top waters in the evening when the water is calm. Look for schools of white bass breaking the surface and cast into them. Walleye — Slow: Storm Lake is at full pool. Boaters should use caution on Storm Lake.

Posts about Lake Winnebago Walleye Fishing written by krugerfarms.com.

Iron Mountain Daily News
IRON MOUNTAIN - Fishing success continues to be good, with reports of anglers catching bass, a few pike and walleye, and even some trout. Bob Kennard at Midtown Bait and Tackle in Channing said Lake Ellen and Witch Lake are producing bass.

Aitkin Independent Age
Television host Jason Mitchell and guide Jeff Andersen pose with a Mille Lacs walleye caught recently while filming an episode for Jason Mitchell Outdoors. Posted: Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:40 pm. Jason Mitchell films Outdoors episode on Mille Lacs ...

The Bryan Times (subscription)
Lake Erie fishing good for perch and walleye. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Posted: Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 2:11 am, Sat Jul 13, 2013. Lake Erie fishing good ...

Delphos Herald
Western Basin: Walleye fishing was good over the past week; the best areas were north of West Sister Island, south of Middle Sister Island along the Canadian border, “B” and “C” cans of the Camp Perry firing range and Northwest Reef (west of North Bass ...

Columbia Basin Herald
Walleye's have been reported to 11 lb. 8 oz. this week by Goose Island. Crab Creek has also been producing walleye for many fishers trolling using spinners and night crawlers and Rapala Shad Rap's. Perch are being taken all over Potholes Reservoir.

Albert Lea Tribune
The down part for me of seeking out the wiley walleye is that I tend to spend way too much time trying to find the hungry ones and waste valuable fishing time in the process. Spider in particular has some very good crappie fishing, and when you get ...

ABC 10 News NOW
The Department of Natural Resources this week announced the results of a long-term study to determine the contributions of hatchery-reared walleyes in the Upper Peninsula's bays de Noc and what those results mean for fisheries management activities.

Leader-Telegram
This net full of fingerling walleyes is about to be stocked in the Chippewa Flowage. Private groups have paid for the stocking of 48,000 extended-growth walleyes in the past few years. The recently signed state budget includes a walleye initiative to ...

GoErie.com
From Freeport to Shorewood, walleye have been over a 70-foot bottom. Steelhead, brown trout and a few lake trout have been mixed in catches. Walleye have been mixed with perch off Shades Beach, in 30 feet to 45 feet of water. Walleye have been over ...

Jamestown Sun
Dakota recreation report for July 12, 2013. By Pat Stockdill. Outdoor Notes: Alkali Lake, Buffalo Lake, and Tosse Lake in Sargent County and Lake Elsie, Lueck Lake, and West Moran Lake in Richland County have 14-inch walleye minimum length limit.

Evening Observer
The AMARA-CAN walleye tournament is a two-day team event that allows teams of two to four anglers to engage in fishing competition for walleye only. This is a timed event where the teams are divided into two flights - A and B. Flight A departs at 7 a.m ...

Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Maybe not if your looking for some fish for the frying pan, but if your looking for a quick day trip to a lake — that on some days will hold it's own against any lake for walleyes, smallmouth and muskies — it's worth a try. We really take it for ...

Plain Dealer
Paul Pacholski Walleye 2.jpg Paul Pacholski of Erie Hopper Charters nets a Lake Erie walleye. The veteran guide, who took state officials and members of the media fishing on Wednesday during Governor's Fish Ohio Day, relies on the drift-and-cast style ...

Grand Forks Herald
Limits of walleyes are coming off reefs and from deep mud areas in Big Traverse Bay. Work the west side of Big Traverse near Long Point, the reefs near Arnesen's, Garden Island, and Knight and Bridges islands. The Morris Point and Lighthouse Gap areas ...

Aitkin Independent Age
In the hierarchy of fish, smallmouth bass have (historically) barely rated a mention behind walleye, northern, muskie, perch, crappie and even sunfish — until recently. The Star Tribune rated Mille Lacs Lake the top lake in Minnesota for bass in their ...

Yankton Daily Press
This time of the year, fish have a lot of different conditions they have to adjust or relate to including: rising water temperatures, rising/falling barometric pressure, high water, low water and the summers bright sunlight all making walleye fishing ...

Jamestown Sun
I've taken seven-pound walleyes on big 1-1/4 ounce spoons and 20-plus pound pike on Dardevle Imps that weigh only 2/5s of an ounce. However, arthritis makes my shoulders ache before long, so I get lazy and fire up the 8-horse Mercury trolling motor.

Niagara Gazette
The current size leaders as of late Thursday were (with weight in pounds in parantheses): Carp (25.71), Walleye (6.65), Bass (4.19), Catfish (8.88), Northern Pike (5.46), Sheephead (7.57) and Bullhead (1.88). Entries are still being accepted. Locations ...

Aitkin Independent Age
The walleye are either biting on a Lindy Rig with a leech or a crawler. Pulling spinners with a night crawler also has been a good second option. “The fish have been found on the edges of the flat in 26 to 28 feet of water. Take the opportunity to look ...

The Department of Natural Resources announced today its annual walleye pond harvest and stocking of walleye fingerlings in east-central and northeast ...

Twenty years ago, my walleye tournament partner and I experienced success fishing a plain bottom bouncer, a red bead, and a single plain live bait hook either ...

While the sunrises are beautiful no matter where you are along Michigan's Sunrise Coast, some of the best fishing areas, not only along Lake Huron but the  ...

You could say that Mike Berg, longtime Saganaga Lake fishing guide and owner of Seagull Creek Fishing Camp, is having a good summer.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Lake Erie (Erie County): Frequent storms churned up the water late in the week. Many anglers stayed at home. Walleye were at around 70 feet, perch were at about 50 feet. Some nice smallmouths were released out of North East. Pymatuning Reservoir ...

Jamestown Post Journal
Fishing Report. July 12, 2013. By Craig Robbins (sports@post-journal.com) , The Post-Journal. Save | Post a comment |. LAKE ERIE AND TRIBUTARIES. Walleye trollers are doing well on the deeper bite out to 70 feet of water between Cattaraugus Creek and ...

Port Huron Times Herald
Lake Erie: Walleye fishing remains good for most with some reporting limit catches between Fermi and the Banana Dike in 18 to 20 feet of water with spoons. Expect to catch your fair share of freshwater drum and white perch. Those targeting perch are ...

Sioux City Journal
For the past several years, this lake has been kicking out good numbers of nice walleyes, with 2008 being the best year ever in the history of the lake. Fishing is a little tougher this year, mostly because of low reproduction the past couple of years ...

Springfield News-Leader
It looked as though a planned walleye fishing trip would be off, plus it was going to be a hot day on the water with temperatures around 90 degrees. However, when we arrived at the Mutton Creek launching ramp, we met Jack Bartow of Springfield, who ...

The Columbian
Kokanee fishing remains good at Yale Reservoir, trout have been stocked at Takhlakh Lake at Mount Adams and sockeye are fair game again in the lower Columbia River beginning on Saturday. At Ilwaco, ocean salmon anglers are averaging about a fish per ...

Bemidji Pioneer
Anglers can always grind a few walleyes out of the weeds with jigs and minnows or jigs and plastics. It is not an especially fun way to fish, with the jig needing to be cleaned of weeds after nearly every cast and also frequent bite-offs from northern ...

WalleyeFIRST
Float fishing or bobber fishing is a great way to target actively feeding walleye. With its eyes positioned on the top of its head a walleye feeds upward. A float will allow you to position your bait precisely above the fish. A Thill slip float will ...

Helena Independent Record
The walleye bite has been very good when conditions are right. Fish the south end of the reservoir by trolling worm harnesses, cranks or slow death rigs and try jigging bay points (orange or perch colors), in 5 to 35 feet of water, from mid-reservoir ...

Post-Bulletin
If you're a walleye angler, chances are you've got a few old spinner rigs buried somewhere in a tackle box. Now's the time to untangle them and put them to good use, because trolling a spinner rig is one of the best ways to consistently catch midsummer ...

Plain Dealer
Walleye fishing on Lake Erie is fair to good and many limit catches are coming from near-shore areas. The big reservoirs are all high and somewhat stained, the rivers are up and muddy and smaller waters are giving up lots of bluegill, bass and catfish.

Journal Times
Walleye success continues to be erratic, but a few nice catches have come along weed edges or deeper rock bars. Panfish action has been generally good, with crappie and bluegill found along deep weed edges and suspended near mid-depth cover.

The Beacon
Since Lake Erie was coined the “Walleye Capital of the World” by former Ohio Governor James Rhodes, it is worth noting that Lake Erie walleye received the most entries for one species in a single body of water (1,599) in 2012. Lake Erie also had the ...

Port Huron Times Herald
“There isn't anywhere else in the world that you can fish freshwater walleye like this,” said Rich Armstrong of Port Huron, Raymond and Patricia Armstrong's son. “This is a great place to come. Fishing is fun once you get settled in. We haven't gotten ...