Several weeks ago I was catching lots of walleye butt the bite has gone away and am in a slump since the temps have went up. What methods / time of day or night / depths / area's are you guys able to catch them?
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Several weeks ago I was catching lots of walleye butt the bite has gone away and am in a slump since the temps have went up. What methods / time of day or night / depths / area's are you guys able to catch them?
We caught several nice ones in the middle of the day at Melvern last summer on 5/8oz jigging spoons and then at night scrubbing a grub. Spoon fish were as deep as 40', grub fish were as shallow as 2'.
find the shad you'll find the eyes we've been catching them on the flats 8-12' fow pulling slow death rigs .5mph up to 1.5 mph
Schools of shad are all over the lakes. Is there anything special about a particular one?
Its about time for transistion to summer mode. Gold blades, Gold hopkins spoons deep water during the day. Trolling cranks after midnight. Also, time to start watching the thermocline.
Taking all under consideration. What is scrubbing a grub? And now to see if I can find some hopkins spoons locally. I did find a good article on how to fish them.
Find the schools of shad close to structure where you're marking fish. If there's marks on and slightly off the bottom it's most likely fish raising up to get at the shad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flint
Scrubbing a grub is using a slow, straight swimming retrieve with a grub, keeping it as close to the bottom as possible "scrubbing the grub" on the bottom of the lake. Academy carries the Hopkins and also a house brand of a shad spoon that works very well and it's size and shape mimics the shad that are everywhere right now really well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flint
Thanks. I dont know if the new Academy in Topeka is open yet but I'll try the bait hut first.
tell don don high??Quote:
Originally Posted by Flint
We found them with cranks in 35-40 ft last weekend. When we found those balls of shad at ~20ft suspended on the road bed, they had walleye and white perch (a lot of perch) following not far behind/below. Match crank size to shad size. And you'll have to use something to get down deep. Dipsy divers, snap weights, etc. Good Luck.
Got a few jiggin spoons at the bait hut to try out this Wednesday. Might have to run a heavy bottom bouncer ahead of a crank to get down that deep.
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Fishing milford today landed 4 eyes in around 5 ft of water while fishing for smallmouth. If your local lake is having this blue geen algea problem I think this discolored water is keeping them shallow even mid day this 26" eye was caught 1 pm. Normally with clear water there eyes are too sensitive to be this shallow this time of year for where I was fishing.