Walleye Opener Report

[Zubris21]

Well, Walleye opened today on the St. Lawrence and that meant an early start to the day for me. The alarm sounded at 3:10 to get me up and I was packed and on the road by 3:30, stopped by timmy's for a coffee and a bagel and then it was an hour and a half drive up for 401 to Morrisburg to meet up with my buddy. We had the boat in the water by 5:15 and it was nice and pleasant, only 2 other boats to start. All in all it was a great opening day.

 

We spent about 3 hours on the water and landed 24 fish between 3 of us. We kept our limit of some nice sized eaters, but of our total count 10 fish were over 26 inches and 8+ lbs, very unusual for this spot. We often get lots of 2-4 pounders and the odd 5+ but today was something else. (sorry to team kiss my bass, I didn't have any OFC 08 tourney signs) but I'll make it up on Quinte next weekend and northern Quebec the weekend after.

 

Here are 2 pictures of my buddy and one of me with some of the bigger eye's (anything over about 4lbs was released after a quick snap shot. More than I can say about some of the other boats!)

 

 

 

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll254/Z...ningday08-4.jpg

 

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll254/Z...ningday08-3.jpg

[young_one]

Great to hear that you had a great outing! I wish I went out today, but the rain. What did you catch them on? Spinners?

[Zubris21]

yup. bottom bouncing all the way? The rain wasn't too bad, had our wet suites on so it didn't get to us too bad, It is the reason why there aren't any more pics because I didn't bring my good camera due to the rain!

[irishfield]

Some GREAT fish there fella !

[fatherof3]

sounds like a good start to the season,congrats

[johnnyb]

wow...those are some nice 'eyes! I gotta get out there one of these days....well done!

[ccmtcanada]

Wow...what a great start to the season for you! Some real nice sized Walleye there. Congrats.

[Smokey]

Great fish, congrats and thanks for the post.

[mattyk]

sounds like a great day on the water.

[fishindevil]

Awesome fishing report/trip !!!!...great pics too you guys sure got into them today,well done

[2 tone z71]

man thats some great pics awesome report,we hit the bay today for 5 hrs man we got soaked,few big bass and a couple 3-4 pd Walleye

[b2kptbo]

Beauty, some nice ones 4sure...

[Chris]

Wow, nice report....right in my neck of the woods too. Thx for sharing.

 

but of our total count 10 fish were over 26 inches and 8+ lbs, very unusual for this spot.

 

Not really unusual my friend. I went to a meeting a few years back, hosted by Steve Kerr (MNR) regarding the health of that stretch of the Larry. He was saying that all species were encountering problems, except for walleye which were flourishing. That was 7 or 8 years ago tho', but the st. Lawrence has always had really good walleye populations. My brother used to volunteer to help with walleye spawning gates etc. and says there are some real monsters in the Larry.

 

[medmart]

Nice looking eyes great way to start the season

 

Rob

[Zubris21]

Not really unusual my friend. I went to a meeting a few years back, hosted by Steve Kerr (MNR) regarding the health of that stretch of the Larry. He was saying that all species were encountering problems, except for walleye which were flourishing. That was 7 or 8 years ago tho', but the st. Lawrence has always had really good walleye populations. My brother used to volunteer to help with walleye spawning gates etc. and says there are some real monsters in the Larry.

 

 

I'm not denying that there are monsters in there. I've been fishing that section of the Larry now for about 3 years and we almost always catch our limit. Usually the fish we get are anywhere up to 4lbs on average, with the odd one going 8-10lbs. I was just saying its unusual for us to get that many big fish in that short amount of time.