Mid-season Nation River walleye report

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Hi all:

 

Been doing quite a bit of ice fishing on the weekends, this year has been more difficult in landing walleye. However this week the fish have really turned on. Been moving around to a number of spots, with most outings producing one or two table-sized fish. From my experience the sturgeon seem to be increasing in numbers, some traditional walleye/sauger spots have been inundated with sturgeon and ling. Two of the larger sturgeon have been mid 20 pound fish (released back as quickly as possible), ling at 5 and 5.5 pounds. I have since moved off of these spots after a couple of outings due to the number of out of season sturgeon present there. A few nice walleye have been landed with two just over the 7 pound mark(both released). One outing even produced a catfish at almost 40 feet of water on the Ottawa, caught on a water bug that surfaced in one the holes drilled in the ice. Here are a few pictures from this winters so far.

 

Stick Bug catching catfish

 

Nation 7 pound

 

Sauger

 

5 pound Ling

 

3.5 pound

 

monster walleye

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Nice fish and thanks for sharing.