First Walleye Fish tomorrow

[gordy28]

Hey there

Opening up the boat and doing a spring clean up at the trailer tomorrow

Hoping to get out for 3 or 4 hrs after lunch for a walleye fish

Forecast is for clouds with some rain and a good wind - so perfect I think

Plan is to target to key areas:

One main lake weedbed targeting outside edge in 9 - 11 feet of water with stick baits and/or crawler harnesses

Other spot is a main lake reef with weeds on the edge and a quick drop to 18 - 20 feet deep - will use cranks or potentially drift with jigs or harnesses

My challenge - on our lake my walleye results are spotty unless fishing at dusk, and typically later in the season - which we dont have the luxury of

 

Any thoughts, tips areas of improvement on the above plan? With limited time want to make sure we maximize high percentage areas for this time of year

Cheers

Gordy

[jimmer]

Sounds like you're planning everything right. The weeds do seem ahead of last year, so It's tough to find the emerging weeds to troll over. Stick to the weed edges and the lower the light conditions the better. You might want to try shallow weeds also if the clarity of the water is a little stained.

[gordy28]

Well we only managed to fish for an hour and a half by the time we opened the boat, raked the leafs, cut the grass and other chores.

Balsam was super windy and rough. We have an 18.5 foot deep hull boat and coming in we could only manage half throttle and still got a sore but and soaked.

1 eye about 17 inches or so, caught trolling with a flicker shad (Gary parsons doesn't lie lol)

Couple of small perch as well

No pics - forgot good camera in the car and cell phones were locked in the glove box to avoid ruining them

Cheers

Gordy

[chris.brock]

I'd say you did pretty well getting one decent fish in that short time and windy conditions on Balsam, nice job

[gordy28]

Thanks

It was fun

The boat has a 150 optimal on it. Typically you can't get it to troll at less than 3 mph. Today with the wind, when heading straight into the chop she hit 0 mph and blew backwards. It was tough boat control lol we didn't even bother with the bowmount

Balsam can get nasty

Cheers

Gordy