Thursday, July 11, 2013

Walleye Fishing Reports 7/11/2013 - 60 Stories

Fremont News Messenger
The large number of 10- and 14-inch fish, which are too small to keep, represents a bright future for walleye anglers. “It turns out to be the 2010 hatch may be a little better than we thought,” Zody said. The 2003 spawn, which produced a massive ...

Brainerd Daily Dispatch
It's been several years since I was fishing out on Mille Lacs but what I saw was appalling. Hundreds of dead walleyes floating on the surface. A friend recently told me of a guide who took some customers fishing out on Mille Lacs and caught upwards of ...

Casper Star-Tribune Online
Walleye are biting on nightcrawlers right now. Try pulling worm harnesses on 1-to 2-ounce bottom bouncers in four to eight feet of water at a one mile per hour or less. Some anglers are also pitching jigs baited with half of a nightcrawler into two ...

Iosco County News Herald
OSCODA: Walleye have slowed in the river, but water temps are coming up so they should be making their way in and out. Crawlers and body baits seem to be hot right now. Lake trout seem to be in 70 to 90 feet of water and suspended along with a few ...

Detroit Free Press
Lake Erie: Walleye fishing remains good, with some reporting limit catches between Fermi and the Banana Dike in 18 to 20 feet of water with spoons. Washtenaw County: Bruin Lake was producing some decent-size pike. White bass and white perch were ...

Austin Herald
In the summer when walleyes move off to offshore reefs and cruise mud flats they become scattered and if the water warms quickly they may become lethargic. Probably the most overlooked aspect of walleye fishing is the use of sound. Sound travels at a ...

GoErie.com
Some years ago, I had a floatplane-pilot friend who enjoyed few things more than touching down on Canadian lakes that were flush with fish. On a couple of occasions, we landed on Oak Lake, finding it rich with walleyes that bit baits indiscriminately ...

Daily Miner and News
Ron Kruse holds up his 28 1/2 walleye as he became the first registered Master Angler under the new Master Angler Awards Program run by the Northern Ontario Sportfishing Centre. The centre introduced the program this year for anglers across the Lake of ...

Dalles Chronicle
Walleye fishing has been good in the The Dalles pool. Current Columbia River regulations for sturgeon and spring Chinook can be found at the Sport Fishing Regulation Update page. Salmon, Steelhead and Shad: Steelheadcatch rates were poorover the ...

Billings Gazette
Bighorn Lake, Ok-A-Beh: Great fishing for smallmouth bass which are taking cicada-looking black flies on the top, may even pick up a walleye. Lake has filled to full pool, not much driftwood. — Ok-A-Beh Marina. Bighorn River: Still not much happening ...

WalleyeFIRST
"This trend will continue," said Johnnie Candle, local guide, tournament champion and expert at catching walleyes on artificial lures. He said many of the lake's walleyes remain relatively shallow all spring, summer and fall, making crankbaits and jigs ...

WalleyeFIRST
Big pike are being taken by walleye anglers on reefs as well. Musky anglers are having good success as weed growth increases, specifically red cabbage. Good numbers of quality fish caught and released. Weedlines, rocky points and bays with boulders ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Big Stone Lake: According to Schmidt's Landing Resort, the walleye bite has slowed, but anglers are catching a few walleyes along weed lines on the south end of the lake or around Manhattan Island and the reef from Mallard Point to Lookout Point, using ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rumors floated at Mille Lacs recently suggested the Department of Natural Resources might expand the lake's 2-inch walleye harvest slot, liberalize its two-fish limit — or both. The reason: Relatively few walleyes have been taken from Mille Lacs this ...

Walker Pilot Independent
Walleye were biting best on crawlers and jumbo leeches and hitting on crank baits at dusk. A long leader with a red bead and red hook, trolled slowly, has been very effective. A jig with a leech or a half crawler was also doing well in Walker Bay's ...

The Newark Advocate
“Lake Erie should fire up for perch and walleye fishing when we finally get some thunderstorm-free weather,” said Bernie Whitt, of Anglers Supplies in Fremont. Rain and thundershowers have been almost daily across the Western Basin for more than a week.

NewsNet5.com (blog)
The mud line caused by the recent wind and rain continues to force walleye anglers deeper in some areas. In the western basin, the Port Clinton head boat fleet is fishing further north, almost to the Canadian border in some cases to find fish. Shore ...

Tasty summer meals are swimming in the lakes and river all around us and nothing goes better with a cold summer beverage than freshly fried walleye.

KELOLAND TV
If you ask long-time fisherman Freeman Paquet, getting twice the number of walleye from the lake in a day is a great change. Four was fine in the past, but he hopes the limit doesn't drop back down anytime soon. "Sometimes you go out for four fish and ...

Creston News Advertiser
Channel Catfish - Good: A lot of channel catfish are in the rip rap near shore. Bluegill - Fair: Crawler pieces hung about three feet below a bobber over the fish mounds will still catch some bluegills. Walleye - Slow: A few walleye have been caught by ...

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Dylan Smith of Orange admires a 26-inch, 6.5-pound walleye that he caught last year in the Connecticut River near Fairlee. Vermont and New Hampshire biologists are proposing to expand the walleye fishery in the Connecticut by stocking fingerlings in ...

OAK LAKE, ONTARIO — Maybe walleyes are our best shot at world peace.

You don't hear much about fishing for walleye in the summertime around here but they can be caught –so I've been told. I've been on a mission to get pictures of ...

Last week, I spent a few days on the water fishing for walleye. My destination was Canyon Ferry Reservoir. The walleye bite on the “Puddle”, as Bob Culp from ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mike Murphy of Woodbury landed one of many walleyes he hooked beneath the falls of the English River as it enters Oak Lake in Ontario. Guide Isador “Izzy” Belvin, in the stern, netted the fish, one of hundreds caught on the fly-in fishing trip. Photo ...

HollandSentinel.com
Three spawning reefs are planned for the southern St. Clair River in an effort to increase the number of whitefish, walleye and sturgeon. The reefs will cost $2.3 million for the U.S. Geological Survey to build, with funding by the Great Lakes ...

Coon Rapids Herald
The late spring may have delayed the start of the walleye season, but the action started out red-hot and is still going strong. The only difference is the depth that most of the fish are being caught has gradually moved deeper. On Leech Lake, for ...

GoErie.com
I have not mentioned how walleye or perch are affected by water temperature. There is a very good reason. I do not think either of these closely related fish species are affected by water temperature nearly as much as salmonids. But they are affected ...

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Want walleye in southwestern Pennsylvania? Aim for the Allegheny River. But if you're a sucker for smallmouths and sauger, move over to the Mon. For more than 25 years, the state Fish and Boat Commission has conducted fish population surveys in the ...

Battle Creek Enquirer
Lake Erie: Anglers are seeing good walleye fishing between Fermi and the Banana Dike in 17 to 19 feet of water. The dumping grounds south of Bolles Harbor are also producing good numbers of walleye. Most fish are being caught on purple and pink ...

Can an Ohio walleye record set on Lake Erie in 1999 be beaten? Fisheries biologist Travis Hartman of the Ohio Division of Wildlife believes it will happen soon, ...

HILLMAN - It's a little misleading to call James Farm Pond a “walleye pond.” First of all, the 3-foot-deep pond east of Hillman is a bone-dry, grassy meadow most ...

Grand Forks Herald
In the Northwest Angle area, walleyes are congregating on deep structure, where gold, orange and chartreuse jigs are good bets for targeting the fish. Look for deep reefs in Little Traverse Bay and the Skeet Island area in Ontario waters. Muskie and ...

Walker Pilot Independent
Hot strategies for summer walleyes by Ron Anlauf Action Outdoors The Pilot Independent. The late spring may have delayed the start of the walleye season but the action started out red-hot and is still going strong. The only difference is the depth that ...

Jamestown Sun
Photo courtesy of Bernie Kuntz Sun Outdoors columnist Bernie Kuntz holds a 30-inch walleye he caught at Amisk Lake, Saskatchewan, last month. The fish weighed between 10 and 11 pounds. (First of two parts). “It is a great day to be alive!” someone ...

Watertown Public Opinion
Codington County fisheries By Bryce McVicker, Codington County Conservation Officer The Public Opinion | 0 comments. Codington County fisheries continue to produce limits of walleye for persistent anglers. After the Spring and Summer of 2012, what some ...

Walker Pilot Independent
Walleye action continues to be good on Leech Lake. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Posted: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:14 am. Walleye action continues to be good on Leech Lake by ...

NewsNet5.com (blog)
CLEVELAND - The walleye bite remains steady on Lake Erie, and surprisingly good on a number of inland lakes. Yellow perch are also providing fast action on the “Big Lake,” while bass, channel catfish, and panfish have settled into their summer patterns ...

WalleyeFIRST
The fishing is fantastic. Summer patterns are kicking in. While walleyes are still being taken jigging with frozen shiners, pulling spinners and crankbaits have really heated up. Walleyes in 12 - 30' of water in front of Pine Island, 27' - 32' out from ...

Boston.com
''Walleye are highly aggressive and they eat the other fish,'' said Don Pelletier, president of Trout Unlimited, Ammonoosuc Chapter. ''There are trout and salmon in there and Trout Unlimited feels the walleye would do a real job on them.'' But a ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
related content. HAPPY ANGLER Neleh Hash, 10, of Lakefield, Minn., celebrated her first walleye, caught on a jig and minnow at the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods. Holding the fish was her grandpa, Jack Beardsley, also of Lakefield.

The Newark Advocate
Walleye fishing was good with many anglers drifting and trolling worm harnesses. Area reefs, especially Northwest Reef, west of North Bass Island, have been producing plenty of walleye limits. Deep waters between two and four miles east of Kelleys ...

Osakis Review
Anglers in the 2013 Osakis Lions Walleye Tournament June 15 and 16 were right in the middle of that. A total of 436 walleyes were caught in the tournament, including 242 the first day. The biggest of those was seven pounds brought in by Pat Mulroy and ...

Twin Falls Times-News (blog)
The highlight of our fishing adventure was reeling in a walleye with not only a jig in its mouth but line, rod and reel attached to it. My fishing partner accidentally knocked his rod overboard after baiting his jig. He quickly dropped anchor, and we ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
"I was catching largemouth bass in about 8-feet of water off a weed line, using a jig and fake minnow with 8-pound test line. We were leaving in 10 minutes, and I thought a huge bass or walleye hit my line. I was surprised when I got this to the boat ...

Port Huron Times Herald
The U.S. Geological Survey plans to build three spawning reefs in the southern St. Clair River to increase populations of lake whitefish, walleye and sturgeon. The three man-made reefs will cost $2.3 million and will be funded by the Great Lakes ...

HAYWARD, Wis. -- The muskellunge might be the fish of lore here, but the walleye has been the bedrock for nearly a century. And the walleye are in trouble , ...

conducted an open water trolling clinic on sat and caught 13 walleyes and a 36 inch pike out in the open basin. water temp was only 60 degrees and it didn't ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Battle Lake: Walleye action has been better than normal on West Battle Lake. Most anglers are fishing drop-offs at 15-20 feet during the day and at 10-15 feet in the evenings using leeches. Anglers are catching some walleyes on the west side of Otter ...

MuskieFIRST
Lake of the Woods MN Fishing Report. Published July 2, 2013. Summer fishing on Lake of the Woods Minnesota has been spectacular. Jigs, spinners and cranks all catching fish. Summer patterns are kicking in. While walleyes are still being taken jigging ...

FishingWorld.com
Late summer walleyes can be a tough nut to crack but it doesn't have to be that way. Not if you're willing to put a road trip to a big western reservoir like Sakakawea and Lake Oahe in North and South Dakota in your monthly planner. Red hot summer ...

ksl.com
(Pete Milburn, Sportsman's Warehouse) The Starvation slam is you catch walleye, perch, smallmouth, and of course rainbow trout and hopefully a brown trout all in the same day and that's what we are going to try and do today, pull off a grand ...

Last week, I spent a few days on the water fishing for walleye. My destination was Canyon Ferry Reservoir. The walleye bite on the “Puddle”, as Bob Culp from ...

Tasty summer meals are swimming in the lakes and river all around us and nothing goes better with a cold summer beverage than freshly fried walleye.

State of Michigan - A three-year effort to tag walleye across the Inland Waterway in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula has proved successful for the ...

Grand Forks Herald
Tracy Wicken (left), Grand Forks, and her mother, Irene Wagner, also of Grand Forks, show off the "double" of big walleyes they caught June 4 during a mother-daughter fishing trip to Ballard's Resort on Lake of the Woods. Wicken's fish measured 31 ...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kemos is a professional walleye angler and self-employed businessman; the outing was part of his preparation for an AIM Pro Walleye Series event based in Oconto in July. But as most anglers know, the smallmouth bass and musky fishing in the area is ...

Buffalo News
Just a few minutes after New York Walleye Association volunteers had the Lunker Pool set up next to the new fishing pier that Saturday morning at the Chestnut Ridge pond, Edward Hajduk brought in a lunker bluegill he caught from that pier. The 4-year ...

St. Cloud Times
But Leech isn't the only lake going. I talked with guys on Mille Lacs that continue to catch walleyes, although they are spread out a bit more than a couple weeks ago. Winnie and Upper Red continue to produce limits of walleyes with relative ease and ...

Port Huron Times Herald
CLAIR — A 4-ton sculpture of a walleye has a home along the banks of the Pine River. The sculpture, a community project fostered by the city's public arts committee, is installed at Rotary Centennial Park across the Pine River from the St. Clair ...

Iron Mountain Daily News
At Witch Lake, Kennard said walleye are biting good. He had a customer in Wednesday who caught his limit. At the Sport Shop in Iron River, Don Ciochetto said anglers are catching trout using nightcrawlers as the fly hatch continues to lag. The ...

Columbia Basin Herald
Excellent trolling for walleye and trout have been found on the east side of the sand dunes to Medicare Beach and the West side of the dune face to Potholes State Park. For decades fishers have trolled Rapala Shad Raps and Lure Jensen Needle Fish and ...

WatertownDailyTimes.com
Trent Durocher displays a walleye caught and released in the St. Lawrence River as an example of the fishery bounty in St. Lawrence County. ARTICLE OPTIONS. A A. print this article. e-mail this article. The revised edition of the St. Lawrence County ...

Trib- Today
Tasty summer meals are swimming in the lakes and river all around us and nothing goes better with a cold summer beverage than freshly fried walleye. Summer is in full swing, which means more and more boats are hitting the water. Obviously, Lake Erie ...

Gant Daily
“We turned some nice walleye. On our last trip we picked up four that were 25 inches, 24 and two 22,” Brown said. “The DNR biologists who also work the river walleye stocking program were saying this is unbelievable.” However, walleye between 18 and 26 ...

Jamestown Post Journal
Walleye anglers have seen a good walleye bite out of Barcelona since last weekend. Walleye have been running higher in the water column, which is common for this time of year out of Barcelona. Trolling in 55-70 feet of water with worm harnesses and ...

Starjournalnow
Walleye action has been surprisingly steady; we continue to hear of pretty good catches of decent fish that have been taking jigs tipped with crawlers and leeches (which is best seems to depend on the lake). Walleyes seem to be holding where they ...


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