Walleye Fishing Reports - 2/6/2013 - 9 Stories - MN, OH, IA, AR, ND, SD, WA

Lake Erie perch and walleye hatches down last year

Akron Beacon Journal

It takes two years for walleye and perch to grow big enough to be caught and kept by fishermen, officials say — and there are still plenty of good-sized fish out there from better years. Walleye and perch are among the most popular sport fish in Lake ...

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Milliman honored as top walleye angler

Dubuque Telegraph Herald (blog)

Congratulations to Wayne Milliman, who was named the Mississippi Walleye Club's Fisherman of the Year during its awards banquet on Jan. 26. Milliman participated in all six of the club's tournaments and finished the 2012 season with 62 points, just ...

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Mike Bleech: Fishing for walleye in the winter can be a lonely game

GoErie.com

Now, as February begins, might be the best time to try to catch big walleye from the river, or from a few other waterways in our corner of the state. French Creek gives up its share of big walleye. Although I have not been there in several years ...

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Walleye catching on at Beaver Lake

Log Cabin Democrat

After 10 years of stocking baby walleye by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in the 31,700-acre lake and after careful monitoring of these fish, the conclusion is that walleye are doing well in Beaver and apparently are there for the long run. “We ...

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Dakota Recreation Report for Feb. 1, 2013

Jamestown Sun

Try working deep humps for walleye and perch. Southeastern lakes remain steady but nothing spectacular for success. Overall, erratic weather is creating irregular patterns. However, there is steady perch success with wax worms and minnows on spoons, ...

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Walleye decline prompts harvest cuts in Mille Lacs

Minnesota Public Radio

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Concern about walleye in Lake Mille Lacs where the population is at its lowest level in decades has prompted regulators to cut the total amount of walleye that can be taken from the lake. It's a measure aimed to balance the needs ...

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New walleye limits on Mille Lacs make dead fish a bigger deal

Minneapolis Star Tribune

State officials have cut walleye allocations -- which include released fish that die -- in half this year on Lake Mille Lacs. hide. Walleyes, Minnesota's state fish. At Lake Mille Lacs, the number of released walleyes that die is crucial because they ...

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Restricted walleye regulations extended on Namakan Reservoir

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Experimental walleye fishing regulations on lakes Kabetogama, Namakan, Sand Point, Crane and Little Vermilion are being extended for another six years. The regulation, which requires anglers to release all walleyes from 17 to 28 inches, was put in ...

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Columbia River regional fishing reports show some sturgeon and walleye action

The Seattle Times

Recreational salmon fisheries in 2013 began under permanent regulations except barbless hooks are required when angling for salmon, steelhead, and trout. Modifications to the 2013 spring chinook fishery will be considered at the January 30 Compact ...

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Walleye Fishing Reports 12/28/2012 - ND, IL, MN - 5 Stories

Dakota Recreation Report

Dickinson Press

32 F tailrace temperature. * North Dakota Game and Fish Department District game wardens: Keep trash off lakes and access points. Lake Tschida slow for walleye. Sheep Creek Dam fair for walleye. Raleigh Reservoir and North Lemmon Lake producing a ...

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Record walleye caught in January earns Fish of the Year honors

Chicago Sun-Times

Nick Tassoni locked up Fish of the Year honors way back on Jan. 7 when he caught a 14.75-pound walleye, breaking Illinois' longest standing gamefish record, while fishing with his father Dave on the Pecatonica River. The record-setting walleye was ...

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Fall River Walleye Tactics | thenextbite.tv

River fishing for walleyes heats up in the fall, so get ready for some of the best fishing of the year. Rivers and jigs are like peanut butter and jam… they go ...

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Survey shows high walleye take on Lake of the Woods

Grand Forks Herald

Kit Beckel, a guide for Sportsman's Lodge near Baudette, Minn., holds a 25-inch walleye caught on a jig and minnow in late September near Stony Point. Creel surveys from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources confirm what many anglers already ...

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Dakota Recreation Report for Dec. 21, 2012

Jamestown Sun

Pike spearing continues but many potential lakes in Barnes County iced over with cloudy conditions. A few lakes in Stutsman and LaMoure counties have better water clarity with some small pike success in 5 to 7 feet. Lake Audubon producing small walleye.

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Walleye Fishing with Pro Fishing Guide Tom Neustrom

Professional Fishing Guide Tom Neustrom of Grand Rapids Minnesota, teaches a customer walleye fishing tips and techniques on Lake Winnibigoshish. Visit Tom's website at http://www.mnfishingconnections.com for more information about guided fishing trips.

Ice Fishing Northern MN- Monster Walleye

Chasin' The Dream with Cody Croteau. Monster 10 lbs walleye caught as we go walleye fishing in northern MN with great success!

Hot Perch Bite On Winnie

ON LAKE WINNIBIGOSHISH

For the cold-weather angler, winter fishing's big payoff is peering into a crystalline cylinder of clear water while ice creaks loudly ...

And fish bite.

With luck, as with fishing in other seasons, in winter a rhythm sooner or later commands an order to things.
On Wednesday on this huge lake, through about 17 inches of hard water, that order was: Bite. Wait. Bite. Wait.

Set the hook.

Read The Rest Of Dennis Anderson's Story On Winnie Perch

( I know we are WalleyeTackle but sometimes you have to fish the hot bite )

Baudette, MN will host AIM events on beautiful Lake of the Woods in 2012 and 2013

AIM announced today, a two year deal was signed with the Lake of the Woods Tourism Bureau where the town of Baudette, MN will host AIM Pro Walleye Series and their revolutionary "Catch, Record and Release" tournament format for two consecutive years.  The 2012 Pro / Co - Angler tournament dates are August 16, 17 & 18 and the 2013 tournament dates will be August 15, 16 & 17.


For 2012 AIM has also announced that the previous $250 registration fee has been dropped. Additionally, AIM has also lowered the previous $1,500 Pro entry fee down to $1,200. Co- Angler entry fees are $300 and all Co-Anglers will fish all three days, randomly paired with a new Pro on each day.

It's been nine years since the city of Baudette and Lake of the Woods has hosted a true professional walleye tournament and AIM and its owner's couldn't be happier to be asked to bring that excitement back to the area and showcase it's now incredible population of walleye. Local anglers agree that right now, walleye fishing on the Lake of the Woods is as good as it has been in recorded history. August is "trophy time" on the big lake and with the AIM CRR seven fish limit, anglers and spectators alike could see daily bag weights easily exceeding 50... but perhaps even 60 pounds!

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Lake of the Woods Walleye at Sportsman's Lodge

 In this episode we head north to Lake of the Woods for some phenomenal walleye fishing thanks to Sportsman's Lodgel Be sure to listen to the fishing tips brought to you by Beef of Fathead Guide Service.

Red Lake is hot for early season walleyes

By: Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald


WASKISH, Minn. — Finding Jonny Petrowske’s fishing spot on Upper Red Lake was as simple as finding the 2-inch cigar butt he’d poked into a chunk of ice somewhere along the north shore.


Perhaps that explains why we didn’t have another fish house within miles of us one Monday morning. Minnesota’s portion of Upper Red Lake covers 48,000 acres — the remaining 60,000 acres lies within the Red Lake Indian Reservation — and a glance across the big lake suggested at least 60,000 ice chunks covered the frozen horizon.


That’s a lot of ice to not find a cigar butt.


“It’s a lake where you have to be away from people” to do well fishing, Petrowske said. “We see it all the time.”


Mission accomplished.


Petrowske, 36, of Waskish, operates Outdoors with Jonny P., an outfitting business that includes guided summer fishing, fall bear hunts and sleeper fish house rentals. Upper Red Lake has flowed through the family for more than a century, and Petrowske is the fourth generation to make a living on the big lake.
There’ve been a lot of changes here in the past 20 years: The collapse in walleye populations that in 1999 triggered a recovery program in state and tribal waters, the crappie boom that turned Upper Red into a mecca for slab panfish in the wake of the walleye collapse and, more recently, the walleye comeback that has returned the big lake to prominence as one of Minnesota’s top walleye fisheries.
Before the walleye population collapsed in the 1990s — the result of overfishing in state and tribal waters — fish larger than frying-pan size were rare, Petrowske said.


“These are bigger walleyes than we’ve ever caught,” he said. “We used to go to 6 feet of water, hook on a minnow and drop a jig and fill the bucket with small fish. You never caught a walleye over 16 inches. I remember my sister caught a 3-pound walleye, and it was big news.”



Fast start
Ice fishing on Upper Red got off to a fast start as soon as anglers started venturing out in late November. The fishing last weekend slowed for many anglers — too many people and too much noise, according to Petrowske — but he was confident the spot he calls “Fail Safe” would produce a few fish.
The spot had all the ingredients for attracting walleyes, with a rock hump that topped out at 7 feet before dropping into 12 feet of water and a muck bottom.


Two days earlier, Petrowske had hosted a film crew, and three anglers iced 74 walleyes in a matter of hours.


The sun was shining that day, though, and the walleyes were on top of the hump and biting “as fast as you could catch them,” Petrowske said.


This day’s forecast called for sunny skies, as well, but someone forgot to tell the clouds. So Petrowske set his Otter portable fish house in deeper water.


The clouds, he figured, would drive the fish deeper.


“The best fishing has been from 10 to 2, but it changes every day,” he said. “It changes with the weather.”


Lines were in the water less than 15 minutes when Petrowske iced the first fish of the morning, a 17½-inch walleye too big to keep because it fell within Upper Red’s 17- to 26-inch protected slot limit.
He followed up with a 15-inch walleye a couple minutes later, but the fish flopped out of his hands and back down the hole before he could put it in the bucket.
“Oh, well. I wanted a 16-incher anyway,” he said.



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Ice Fishing Tactics to catch walleyes all day long

Lake of The Woods
Jon Thelen talks about how he keeps reactivating fish all day long.
Lindy

Minnesota Walleye Ice Fishing

a good morning of walleye fishing in north eastern Minnesota. We were fishing in 5' of water from the bottom of the ice using full minnows on a jigging spoon. this action was all caught on video from a hat cam from hatcams.com