Friday, May 30, 2014

Walleye Fishing Reports - 5/30/2014 - 60 Stories

WTVA
Approximately 54,000 Gulf Coast strain walleye fish were recently placed in the Monroe County river by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, ...


Sioux City Journal
ST. PAUL, Minn. | Business owners on Mille Lacs Lake have mixed feelings about new state rules prohibiting late-night walleye fishing expeditions.


The Beacon
The Walleye Festival parade made its way around town from the Port Clinton High School Saturday, May 24, at 1 p.m. Residents and visitors lined the ...


The Columbian
Walleye fishing has been good for the past two weeks in The Dalles pool in the Columbia Gorge. Ocean salmon fishing opens Saturday. Anglers may ...


CBS Local
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It's the height of the walleye fishing season and every weekend, lakes around Minnesota are filled with anglers searching ...


Iosco County News Herald
OSCODA: Pier anglers are catching a good mix of Atlantic and chinook salmon, steelhead, brown trout and lake trout. Walleye are coming in from the ...


WalleyeFIRST
Professional fisherman Jim Carroll fishing with his good friend Matt from Liebels Guide Service on Lake Sakakawea out of New Town, North Dakota in ...


Dickinson Press
Spotty walleye success on Lake Sakakawea with generally good success once they're located. Some success around Pochant Bay, Mallard Island, ...


Pioneer Press (blog)
DNR and Anoka County staff observed dead walleye, largemouth bass, channel catfish, carp and bluegill on Centerville Lake at the time of ice-out.


Bismarck Tribune
Walleye fishing on the Missouri River is good right now with a lot of eater-sized limits being caught. A variety of tactics are working from jigs tipped with ...


NewsNet5.com
Walleye are hitting on Lake Erie and so are yellow perch. Inland, walleye, saugeye,… Where to catch walleye, bass, and perch · More Video. Life.


Bemidji Pioneer
Spring peak is the name often used to refer to the short part of the walleye calendar when the big female walleyes are fully recovered from the spawn ...


Casper Star-Tribune Online
The walleye bite has been good for some and tougher for others on Keyhole Reservoir. The jig and minnow bite is over until fall. Anglers are having ...


The Missoulian
Fishing in the past month for trout or walleye might have been good, but anglers who might have wanted to find out could not launch their boat on one ...


Billings Gazette
Closer to Billings, Cooney Reservoir reportedly was fishing well for perch and walleye. The rivers are on the rise with temperatures climbing and ...


Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Walleye will be served from 4-7 p.m. Union Church raises funds to distribute Christmas and Easter Baskets in the Hackensack area, offers an after ...


Sioux City Journal
He still catches cisco by chance when fishing for walleye. "Used to be a like a tradition around the fall where guys would get them and smoke them for ...


Aitkin Independent Age
Mille Lacs east – Walleyes continue to hit minnows on the rocks in 16 feet or less with some fish being taken during the evening hours on crankbaits in ...


Sioux City Journal
It wasn't long before we had three walleyes in the boat. Two were about 16 inches; however, the third did not reach the 15-minimum inch limit which is ...


The American Outdoorsman
Some of the best walleye fishing in the midwest can be found out in the middle of the bay of Green Bay.


wearegreenbay.com
Walleye tournament casting $1 Million into local economy. Millaine Wells. 05/29/2014 02:16 PM. 05/29/2014 02:19 PM. Today, 237 teams took off from ...


Wisconsin Aquaculture Association
The farm is one of nine private and tribal farms given grants to produce walleye fingerlings under the initiative. Construction should be completed in ...


Chetekalert
Anglers' daily bag limit for walleye was increased to five per day on 269 lakes, to three per day on 171 lakes, and to two walleye per day on seven ...


Pioneer Press (blog)
Muskies, walleyes and largemouth bass appear to have been battered, but northern pike and panfish seem to be in good shape, the Department of ...


Chicago Sun-Times
AREA LAKES: Tom Albright: Orange jig and crawler worked magic at Busse for walleye to 22 inches and largemouth to 19. Ken ''Husker'' O'Malley, ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune
Big Stone Lake: The best walleye action on the south end or far north end of the lake early in the mornings or later in the evenings, trolling with ...


Mason City Globe Gazette
Walleye - Good: Walleyes are biting well. Island, Dodge's Point, State Reef, edges of reeds, and shoreline docks. Yellow Bass - Good: Yellows have ...


Buffalo News
Buffalo Harbor trollers offer mixed reports on the walleye bite. Many have tried the Hamburg shoreline between bouts of high winds; the boat traffic is ...


Outdoor Canada ⋅ Gord Pyzer
Spring can be a challenging time for walleye anglers. Sure, the fishing can be great because the famished, post-spawn walleye are feeding ...


DMK Restaurants
“Thanks to one of the most hateful winters in history-which caused a freeze-over of so many Midwest rivers and lakes-the walleye will be nice and fat ...


Omaha.com
Fishing in Iowa has improved significantly over the past three decades.


IDOfishing.com
Since last wednesday the 21st the bite has been strong, it does not matter cranks or crawlers in terms of what the walleye want just find the active fish ...


The American Outdoorsman
The Green Bay Walleye. by theoutdoorsman on May 28, 2014. I saw a news release recently that indicated a major bass tournament was going to be ...


ChicagolandFishing.com
Got out to the chain with my buddy BigDog for some walleye action this past Friday. Launched about 6 am from Barnacle Bobs on Marie. Started on ...


mdwfp.com
JACKSON - The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) recently stocked 54,000 Gulf Coast strain (GCS) walleye into the ...


Port Clinton News Herald
PORT CLINTON — Anglers are quickly catching their daily bag limits of walleye and perch around the Lake Erie Islands and shoals, according to a ...


WalleyeFIRST
SPOONER - Daily walleye bag limits for anglers are increasing as of Friday May 23 on 447 lakes in northern Wisconsin, including several lakes in ...


Walleye Central
In late spring and early summer, lots of fish species will be in shallow water. Panfish and bass will be in there spawning, and walleyes will be hanging ...


MuskieFIRST
Madison - Wisconsin and Minnesota scientists are studying a little-known and vulnerable fish whose disappearance could mean smaller musky, pike ...


Isthmus
So, I was pretty excited last Saturday when I dispatched my first walleye, a seventeen-inch fish that I caught on Duck Lake in Michigan's Upper ...


Iron County Reporter
At this time, they collected data from primarily muskellunge, northern pike and walleye. They also took samples from yellow perch and small mouth ...


Big Rock Resort
First off, I'd like to say happy Memorial Day to everyone, and to thank our veterans for what they have done, and continue to do for us. I hope everyone ...


Stray Cat Charters
The water temp is starting to warm a little and getting the walleye in a biting mood. Fishing has need good from Toledo Beach Marina north to Bolles ...


upnorthexplorer.com
DNR staff has started surveying around 20 lakes in northwestern Wisconsin to measure the growth of bass and walleye populations, two of the state's ...


oodmag.com
A group of us stayed at a camp on Big Island and the Walleye were starting to bite. In 3 1/2 days were caught 17 Walleye. Most were in the 19 to 22 ...


NewsNet5.com
For many in northeast Ohio, that means a fishing trip to Lake Erie to catch some walleye. And there's good reason for that; Lake Erie is the walleye ...


Michigan-Sportsman.com
It's been a great year on the big lake and early bluegills were off the wall this year and walleye have been steady for this area. My wife and I have been ...


outdoorsmenforum.ca
I know there are probably some people here who would love to get some walleye on the fly, so here's some advice and experience. couple days ago I ...


Lake Ontario United
Silver creek 5/25 - posted in Walleye: Weather report looked good and heard of some real good eye action out near my buddies place out on Erie, so I ...


Veooz
Awesome day Walleye fishing on Lake St-Louis #fishing #walleye #livingthedream http://pic.twitter.com/yVNPZATV3n. Awesome day Walleye fishing ...


National Pro Staff
I managed to find some good weed in 5-6 FOW and was lucky enough to get into a few Walleye and OOS bass. I finished the day with 3 walleye in the ...


Veooz
Captain Phillip Oswald with his biggest walleye of the short season with a 23.5 incher caught in northern MN http://pic.twitter.com/o6r1hMwLO9.



Columbia Basin Herald
Two other anglers have been catching walleye, up to 16 inches, but most 12 and 14 inches. On Tuesday, six walleye were caught by two more ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune
As anglers head out for Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer resort season, there are hints that the second-largest lake within ...


St. Cloud Times
Going into Memorial Day weekend, the state's walleye bite and supply of live bait seemed to be improving. With some warm weather finally covering ...


montanaoutdoor.com
Fishing in the last month for trout or walleye might have been good, but most anglers that wanted to find out couldn't launch their boat on one of the ...


washingtonlakes.com
Our featured lake for this month is Moses Lake, specifically Moses Lake and walleyes. Marble Eyes, AKA one of the best freshwater fish you can eat.


michigan-sportsman.com
Buddy and I hit up Lake St. Clair for a evening troll for walleye. We started out in 12 FOW but after only one pull back we made the move in shallower ...


walleyetelevision.com
This 9 part seminar, presented by Seth Burrill of the Angler's Xperience, will help you understand the walleye and how to become more efficient at ...


Wjjq
As expected, the Wisconsin DNR has raised the walleye bag limit on most northwoods lakes. Each year the DNR releases preliminary walleye figures, ...


Bemidji Pioneer
The hot bite for walleyes typically gets going when surface water temperatures exceed 50 degrees, so the best walleye fishing of the spring is still ...



WalleyeFIRST
Johnny says the pike are everywhere and super active right now and there's plenty of walleyes mixed in with them. With temps now approaching the ...


WalleyeFIRST
A lot of nice walleyes getting caught with most of the fish coming out of four to seven feet of water. Most of the fish are getting caught with slip bobbers ...


Jamestown Sun
Some walleye success along drains and feeder creeks into the Red River. Best reports continue coming from smaller lakes with some pike success.


Aitkin Independent Age
I spent the better part of three hours driving up and down the west side of the lake May 10 during the walleye and northern fishing opener, visiting with ...


Prairie Star
On Fort Peck Reservoir, walleye fishing is steady in Fourchette Bay and the Big Dry Arm and seems to be on the rise lake wide. Ackley Lake: It is ...


Petoskey News-Review
Lake Erie: Inconsistent weather has caused walleye to scatter and move into deeper water. Most of the fish caught were taken in 18 to 22 feet near ...



Friday, May 23, 2014

Walleye Fishing Reports - 5/23/14 - 40 Stories

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Anglers have questioned the Mille Lacs protected walleye slot for many years, wondering if it's hurting the lake's fishery — and the people who depend ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune
Detroit Lakes area: Water temperatures have remained a bit cool, but anglers still are catching walleyes at 5 to 12 feet, using jigs and shiners on Sallie ...


The Daily Progress
To meet a growing interest, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries officials are set to stock the Rivanna River with southern strain walleye ...


Iosco County News Herald
TAWAS: Pier anglers are taking Atlantic, chinook, brown trout and pike outside the wall during the day while night anglers are taking walleye and ...


Chicago Sun-Times
HEIDECKE: Jon's reported a few limits of walleye by casting the rocks. Ken ''Husker'' O'Malley of the Water Werks Fishing Team found walleye tough.


WDIO-TV
The vessel Channel Cat samples walleye, yellow perch and sturgeon in Lakes St. Clair and Erie. On Lake Michigan, crews aboard the Steelhead ...


Buffalo News
Nighttime walleye runs have been so-so, but the bass bite has been so good. Drifters out of Buffalo Harbor use emerald shiners for good numbers of ...


Mason City Globe Gazette
Walleye - Fair: Anglers picked up some more walleye this week. Try casting jigs tipped with a minnow or piece of nightcrawler. Focus on the points and ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune
Anglers who land a walleye with an orange tag will receive a free lure. Those who catch a walleye or northern with a yellow tag will receive information ...


Aitkin Independent Age
Mille Lacs east – With the cool water, most walleyes are being caught in 16 feet or less on the sand and rocks. The north end sand has been ...


lakestatefishing.com
If you have never fished for walleye's with Jerkbaits your missing out. When walleye's are up shallow feeding in the Spring and Fall, this technique is ...


ozarkmountainregion.com
The spring Walleye are moving to main lake Brush and can be caught with a jigging spoon. Check out www.blackburnsresort.com and click on Scuba ...


Port Clinton News Herald
Richard Kraus of USGS puts a transmitter in a walleye. The transmitter will allow agencies to track where the walleye goes and what its habits are.


Kenora Online
Walleye season opened this Saturday but many anglers weren't bringing home many fish. With the long cold winter and ice still covering part of the ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
And great walleye fishing is occurring next door to the Twin Cities on the St. Croix River, reports guide Dick "the Griz'' Grzywinski (photo above, while ...


Port Clinton News Herald
PORT CLINTON — Anglers are bringing home trophy-sized walleye and reeling in crappie, bass and sometimes perch, a local bait store owner said.


Pueblo Chieftain
Just as a reminder to fisherman Saugeye and Walleye must be a minimum of 15 inches to ... A few stocked trout being caught-Walleye has slowed.


WDIO-TV
Lake Vermilion has water levels very high also, however the large walleyes are biting but catching a few fish below the slot limit has been a challenge.


lakeontariounited.com
posted in Walleye: Anyone here fish western basin of Lake Erie? Im heading there next month and its been quite a few years since Ive walleye fished.


blogspot.com
Leech Lake Walleye and Fishing Report. Stick and move, stick and move is a boxing reference that means, take your shot and move on and this ...


wisconsinoutdoorfun.com
He was throwing a white five inch mister twister on a lead headed jig and caught his biggest walleye of his life. More on fishing: Fishing news from ...


Detroit Free Press
Walleye can “hear” their bait from quite a distance away, using the hearing sense of the lateral line that allows them to sense vibrations like an ear.


Detroit Free Press
My friend had spent a scant hour and a half walleye fishing. ... But springtime is walleye time on the Detroit River; my chance would come. Several ...


Kansas.com
Anglers congregate to try for walleye and saugeye at Kanopolis Reservoir on Thursday afternoon. Kansas' oldest federal flood control reservoir still ...


NewsNet5.com
Cleveland - Despite the cool, wet weather walleye fishing is heating up on Lake Erie. Inland, crappie continue to cooperate. Yellow perch, bass, and ...


South Bend Tribune
“We're all nervous about shad in the river, but we are seeing a lot of quality bass, and walleye,” Deegan said. “Pike are all over the place and crappie ...


Mesabi Daily News
Twelve-year-old Lucas Hultman of Eveleth with a 28-inch, nine-plus-pound, walleye caught from shore in Lake Vermilion at Hoodoo Point ...


grandforksherald.com
In that moment, all was right with the world, and the arrival of spring was made official. Minnesota Walleye Opener 2014 will go down as a keeper for ...


lakestclair.net
Canadian side near the cow pasture. Any depth over 30 feet. Any shallower and you are on the smallies and silvers. Chartruese with black finesse and ...


allbookez.com
(west and central basins) and Michigan (west basin ... model for eastern Lake Erie's walleye ... of Lake Erie walleye for 2009 based on fishing .


The Sudbury Star
Many of us are always eager for the third Saturday in May, the walleye season opener, and this year is no exception. No question, weather has been a ...


St. Cloud Times
Some anglers experienced stellar walleye action while others struggled. Most blamed the cool water temperatures and late spawn for their lack of ...




idofishing.com
with temperatures below freezing and daytimes highs in the upper 30s to 40s the walleyes in south dakota are caught in somewhat of a rut. we still ...


onews.us
SPRING VALLEY — The Illinois River has done more than run through the life of Adam Sandor. It's helped shape it. Search Results -


Beatrice Daily Sun
Registration is now available for the Nebraska Walleye Kid's Fishing is Fun Clinic, which will be held Sunday, June 8, at Rockford Lake, East Side, ...


Walker Pilot Independent
As we slide into the early fishing season, there are some tried-and-true fishing techniques that seem to work season after season. The trick is ...


Casper Star-Tribune Online
The Northeast Wyoming Walleye Association had 18 teams in its recent spring tournament and caught 173 walleye bigger than 15 inches. A 24-inch ...


Mason City Globe Gazette
Walleye -- good: Some walleyes still being caught on rocky shorelines. Anglers are mostly using a 1/16-ounce lead head jig and minnow or twister ...


Jamestown Sun
Some walleye success in Barnes, LaMoure, Richland, and Sargent counties. Try working areas with some current in reservoirs near inlets or bridges ...


The Plain Dealer
Fishing guide Jerry Abele (left) of Head Hunter Fishing Adventures unhooks a walleye for Middle Bass Island angler Bob Burket. (D'Arcy Egan / The ...


Hometown Focus
Despite having limited areas to fish the walleye opener on Lake Vermilion was a success for most of the anglers that I talked to over the weekend.


adirondackalmanack.com
Fishing for walleye takes some serious understanding of the habits of the fish, and a detailed knowledge of its feeding and resting areas in the ...


michigan-sportsman.com
Anybody fishing Brimley Bay (Waiska Bay) for those eye's? Was thinking of bringing my boat up around the 20th to fish the bay!? I know the ice just got ...


upnorthexplorer.com
Walleyes. What a great stringer of early season walleyes. Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014 3:30 pm. Early season walleye strategies Steve Carney ...


keloland.com
A state fisheries crew member who will soon be identified (I just know he will be!) holds an egg-fat female walleye to be spawned during ...



Friday, May 16, 2014

Walleye Fishing Reports - 5/16/14 - 45 Stories

Escanaba Daily Press
ESCANABA - It's time to reel 'em in! Today marks the walleye and pike season opener in the Upper Peninsula and after a long winter, anglers are ...


Escanaba Daily Press
Today is a day many people wait all year for - the opening day of walleye season. If you were out at any of the area's boat launches in the early ...


Bemidji Pioneer
Most of the successful walleye anglers were fishing in a river or close to a river inlet or outlet. Once the river walleyes are done spawning, they may ...


Post-Bulletin
Don Pereira, DNR fisheries chief, said the DNR is seeing problems in even the premier walleye lakes. In an interview in Nisswa on Friday, the day ...


CBC.ca
There is good news and bad news for anglers in northwestern Ontario as the long weekend approaches. The good news is the ice is finally ...


The Columbian
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, nine boaters with two walleye kept; three boaters with six bass kept and 65 released; eight boaters with with six ...


durhamregion.com
Their voracious appetite over the next couple of weeks makes walleye easier to catch than in the middle of the summer. That being said, they are still ...


Detroit Free Press
Lake Erie: Walleye were caught in Brest Bay and off Stoney Point. Try crawler harnesses with bottom bouncers in 20 feet or deeper. Purple beads also ...


Dickinson Press
Heart and Cannonball rivers fair for pike and walleye. Water temperatures remain cold on south-central area lakes. Best Missouri River success ...


Post-Bulletin
Cindy Gibbs of Brainerd casts for nothern on Gull Lake Saturday, the opening of the inland walleye/northern season. She was a guide and helped ...


Pioneer Press
Walleye numbers in the lake have decreased in recent years as bass and panfish populations have increased. As a result of the winterkill and a ...


Springfield News-Leader
The cold weather has knocked things down. Crappie being caught on minnows and jigs. Walleye are being taken on any chartreuse-colored bait, and ...


Petoskey News-Review
Walleye, pike and muskellunge season for the Upper Peninsula Great Lakes, St. Mary's River and the inland lakes opened on May 15.


toledonewsnow.com
The 34th annual Main Street Port Clinton Walleye Festival will take place May 22-26 at Waterworks Park.


lakestatefishing.com
The pic Rooster posted was his dads fish, unless his dad signed up as a member it will not be the winner. We are determining the winner and will ...


news.nom.co
Walleye season may be delayed by frozen lakes: A thick ice cover on inland lakes could threaten the opening of the walleye season in northwestern ...


dnr.state.mn.us
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will hold two public meetings to provide updated information on the existing walleye regulation on ...


michigan-sportsman.com
I was filleting a couple of eye's that I caught last night. I opened the cooler which had the fish on ice and noticed that one of the fish had what looked ...


walleye.com
Well, I have heard about the walleye wings for a while now and finally decided to give them a try. For those who have never heard of them, it is the " V ...


ohiogamefishing.com
We started off perch fishing last saterday and only had 2 by 11am. So we went trolling. Fished until 4 and caught 6 nice eyes. 2 biggest were a 8 and ...


idofishing.com
last saturday after what always seemed like the longest week of the year the mn fishing opener finally arrived. and just as we've been doing every ...


ozarkmountainregion.com
The walleye typically move downstream to the Cranfield area of the lake to the Robinson Point area of the lake in early May and are doing so now.


wn.com
Great Lakes fishing could not be greater, and inland lakes have an inside track on everything from walleyes and pike to a plethora of panfish. A major ...


theoutdoorwire.com
If you want to catch walleye, Lake Powell is the can't-miss spot. "Walleye fishing at Lake Powell is red hot right now," Cushing says. To catch walleye at ...


ontariofishingforums.com
Sturgeon Lake Walleye - posted in General Fishing Discussion: Hey all, I will be going to Sturgeon Lake this Monday for walleye fishing, has anyone ...


Manitoulin Expositor
SHEGUIANDAH—The giggles, murmur and chatter to be expected from dozens of elementary school children on a field trip during a bright spring ...


Mason City Globe Gazette
Walleye - Fair: Anglers have still been catching walleyes on the east shoreline and near the island on rocky shorelines. Anglers are mostly using a ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune
Still, the lake has seen considerable activity in recent weeks, as state fisheries managers tag walleyes and northern pike as part of an ongoing ...


Buffalo News
Great Lakes fishing could not be greater, and inland lakes have an inside track on everything from walleyes and pike to a plethora of panfish. A major ...


Iosco County News Herald
HARRISVILLE: The water is up, the docks are in and the fish are in. Atlantic salmon, lake trout, steelhead and walleye are in and around the harbor.


ctvnews.ca
There are new fishing limits on Lake Nipissing due to depleted stocks, but who's doing the over-fishing? Cindy Males reports.


idofishing.com
while i sit here with a cracked rib, lamenting lost fishing/work time i finally am getting this post out. this past week the menominee river found only a ...


New Baltimore Voice Newspapers
If 44 straight hours of walleye fishing sounds like the perfect weekend, then the Marbleye Classic has constructed it for you. The walleye fishing in the ...


Eau Claire Country Today
A $423,500 state grant should go a long way in helping the Gollon Bait and Fish Farm near Dodgeville gear up to produce more walleye fingerlings ...


Price County Daily
The DNR says last fall's drawdown of the Chippewa Flowage in Sawyer County is contributing to some of the healthiest young walleyes they've ever ...


In-Forum
Baudette, Minn. - Of all the excuses anglers could make for not catching fish Saturday on the opening day of Minnesota's walleye season, weather ...


Duluth News Tribune
One angler eager for an early walleye dinner decided it would be a good idea to grab two spawning walleyes from the stream the CO was watching.


outdoorhub.com
K.J. Houtman explains how a professional angler can try to make it in the walleye side of the fishing world.


basspro1source.com
Post-spawn walleye need some help to wake up. Use a jig and minnow combination this spring to reel in these sluggish fish.


michigan-sportsman.com
There are plenty of walleye left in the tibb. We are still getting limits of good fish. You do have to work for them but they are there. Grizzly.


wkow.com
Yvonne Prettner Solon catches walleye. NISSWA, Minn. (KTTC) -- Gov. Mark Dayton and Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon kicked off the 2014 fishing ...


Mankato Free Press
High skies, flat water ... they can be any walleye angler's recipe for snake bite. In the clear waters of Leech Lake, such conditions can make it tough to ...


grandforksherald.com
Jason Laumb of Grand Forks (left) nets a walleye for Bob Glassmann of Roseau, Minn., on Saturday morning while fishing in Four-Mile Bay of Lake of ...


wordpress.com
With really good water levels and plenty of fish around this is a great time to be hear for both walleye and white bass. My friend Dave caught 240 white ...


upnorthexplorer.com
The DNR says last fall's drawdown of the Chippewa Flowage in Sawyer County is contributing to some of the healthiest young walleyes they've ever ...


activeboard.com
Water temperature 45 degrees on the lake, means the walleyes are in shallow spawning. If you catch a fish in shallow, chances are it still hasn't ...


La Crosse Tribune
PAUL (AP) — As anglers hit Minnesota's lakes today in the season opener, many will be trying for a tasty walleye. But the state fish wouldn't be in most ...


Post-Bulletin
Mike Knapp works with a female walleye at the DNR egg take station on the Pine River north of Pequot Lakes, Minn., on April 25. The DNR collects ...


Monday, March 17, 2014

Giant 20-Pound Record Walleye Pending In Washington

by In-Fisherman Online Staff

Veteran river rat John Grubenhoff landed an enormous walleye on Friday, February 28 from the Columbia River that eclipsed the 20-pound mark and by all accounts will demolish the Washington state record walleye.

Grubenhoff was fishing the McNary Pool section of Lake Wallula, which is located between the McNary and Priest Rapids dams at the confluence of the Snake River. “It’s a transition area where the free-flowing Columbia meets Wallula,” he noted.

Knowing that the river’s walleyes would be staging adjacent to spawning areas, Grubenhoff targeted a breakline and current edge that coincided a short cast from a rocky, windswept shoreline. “It was the perfect scenario,” he said.


Indeed, Grubenhoff caught a 14-pound walleye within 10 minutes of dropping his line in the water. While that fish would top most anglers’ big-walleye lists, he was after an even bigger prize. Having caught an 18-pounder several years ago, Grubenhoff had his sights set on a state record. “Actually, I’ve been fishing for that girl for 29 years,” he said.

See the pic of the 20 lb fish and read the complete In-Fisherman article