Walleye

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Does anyone know anything about walleye fishing? My brother and I are going to try Sunday. The fishing report said to use shad rap and wally divers and I am wondering what colors.

[BEERHUNTER]

i catch them at greers ferry pretty regular on shad colored crank baits when i am trolling for hybrids,hot spots also work sometimes

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Thanks BEERHUNTER I was kinda leaning toward shad colored I also thought that I may try fire tiger. If anyone else has suggestions, let's her them.

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Will you be fishing a lake or a river?

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In the lakes and toward the mouths of the rivers.

[jguttery]

I haven't fished much for walleye here in Arkansas. But when I was stationed in SW Oklahoma, I used to have pretty good luck on lakes where rip-rap met up with a sand or gravel bottom. I would use a live bait rig, kinda of like a carolina rig for bass, but instead of a plastic worm, I'd bait with a nightcrawler or minnow.

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I haven't fished much for walleye here in Arkansas. But when I was stationed in SW Oklahoma, I used to have pretty good luck on lakes where rip-rap met up with a sand or gravel bottom. I would use a live bait rig, kinda of like a carolina rig for bass, but instead of a plastic worm, I'd bait with a nightcrawler or minnow.
I will try that also. Thanks. I realy don't know much about them but what little I have read but I want to learn.

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I didn't get to go last weekend. I think that I am going to get to go tomorrow. I'm still open to suggestions. :thumb:

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Well, we went this morning and the wind was so bad that we couldn't get on the main lake body much. We ended up fishing for bass in a creek mouth and caught a few before the trolling motor battery died and we left. We'll try again another day.

[Buba Garrett]

My next door nieghbor was catching quite a few walleye until all the rain recently here on Catherine, they moving so much water its been slow here lately, he catches all his on homemaid spoons

[TheBattman]

I have actually caught more winter Walleye while bass fishing that actually Walleye fishing! Makes for a really nice surprise!

The best time, so I have heard, is late March/Early April (depending on the water temps). Folks come down from Yankeeland to fish for them Walley at Greers Ferry. I guess being the home of the World Record might have something to do with that.

Of course, the last time I tried a spring Walleye trip up there, we not only didn't catch any and the weather was bad, but we were told we had missed the major part of the run two weeks prior! One week prior, AG&FC had done some MAJOR electrofishing in the same creeks we had planned to fish. They were surveying Walleye. The story was, they had shocked up one that would likely have been right at or a little bigger than the current record! But electrofishing REALLY messes up the fish...

Well, we went this morning and the wind was so bad that we couldn't get on the main lake body much. We ended up fishing for bass in a creek mouth and caught a few before the trolling motor battery died and we left. We'll try again another day.

[TheBattman]

One other story...(true)...

Went on a November fishing trip to Greers about 10 years ago. Watched Russell Langston, the retired UCA band director jig a plain spoon in a spot for about two hours. In that time he caught probably 15 walleye and 10 smallmouth from a 20ft. area. There were two other boats fishing the exact same hole using both the same spoon he was and other lures. Only two fish were caught from the same hole by anyone else (I did get one strike!).

I could take you to that exact spot right now. It is up Middle Fork - just inside on the right. There is a cove with a few docks and stumps. There are a couple of relatively deep holes - he was on one of them. I will see if I can find it on Google Earth and catch either a picture or link...

http://thebattman.spymac.com/images/Walleye Hole.kmz

That link is for a Google Earth placemark file... Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll just do an image.

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One other story...(true)...

Went on a November fishing trip to Greers about 10 years ago. Watched Russell Langston, the retired UCA band director jig a plain spoon in a spot for about two hours. In that time he caught probably 15 walleye and 10 smallmouth from a 20ft. area. There were two other boats fishing the exact same hole using both the same spoon he was and other lures. Only two fish were caught from the same hole by anyone else (I did get one strike!).

I could take you to that exact spot right now. It is up Middle Fork - just inside on the right. There is a cove with a few docks and stumps. There are a couple of relatively deep holes - he was on one of them. I will see if I can find it on Google Earth and catch either a picture or link...

http://thebattman.spymac.com/images/Walleye Hole.kmz

That link is for a Google Earth placemark file... Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll just do an image.
The link didn't work.

[TheBattman]

Actually, the link "is" good. The problem is the space between walleye and hole.

If you copy/paste the entire link (don't click it), it works. The link ends with kmz. I just tried it from here at work on a different computer.


http://thebattman.spymac.com/images/Walleye Hole.kmz

[duckhunter]

Battman I am glad to hear that someone else realizes that the electrofishing ruins the walleye fishing. I live on the Kings River in northwest AR and the Arkansas Game and Fish Com and MO Dept of Conservation have completely ruined an outstanding walleye spawning run by relentless electrofishing. For the past 4 years they have been electrofishing and taking the females and stripping the eggs and raising stockers in the hatchery. I think this is a great program if done in moderation, however they have beat this shallow clear river to death. AR will be down there one night and MO will be there the next. I have gone from being able to catch 4 or 5 walleye in one night that would weigh between 3 and 12 pounds, to catching 4 or 5 in a season. They say that the electrofishing has no ill effect on the fish or fishing, but I call B/S. If you present a fish with a very negative experience in the same area several years in row then I would be willing to bet that it won't take that fish long to find another place to spawn and in turn the offspring of that fish will spawn elsewhere as well. Eventually the spawning run will be no more. The last time I posted about this problem several members said that this was a myth just like the AGFC releasing rattlesnakes on the WMA's so call me out if you want to .:thumb: ( By the way I can prove the rattlesnake myth also )

[ragsdaj]

water clarity has a lot to do with your color selection. I have not fished for walleye in Arkansas, but up north we had our best luck with silver and gold finish baits in the morning and evenings with Chartruse being more productive in the 11:00 to 2:00 timeframe.

JonR

[S2KHAWK]

Don't put your finger in their mouth. :thumb: