The Walleye Bite Has Slowed Down Some

[Mike Worley]

Best walleye bite lately has been on jigging spoons on drop offs about 36'-40' back in the creek channels. On Sunday in the Oakland area 10 minutes into the trip a client caught a nice 27"er the rest of the day saw only a couple of shorts and a few bass boated. A couple of days before that in the same area caught 0 walleyes but a mixed bag of white & black bass + a flathead catfish on the same spooning pattern. I think the main problem right now is turnover related it appeared a couple of weeks ago that the process was about complete but some really warm weather moved back in and reset the process. Next weeks forecast calls for much colder weather which hopefully will get it rolling again and get the fish biting. On the plus side I've been hearing from some bass fishermen that on cloudy windy days the fish are biting crankbaits & jerkbaits in shallow water again back in the creek channels with a few keeper size walleyes mixed in. The fish seem to be really scattered right now from about 10'-40' with lots of shad moving back into the creek arms where the water is more stable.

[lonkm]

Best walleye bite lately has been on jigging spoons on drop offs about 36'-40' back in the creek channels. On Sunday in the Oakland area 10 minutes into the trip a client caught a nice 27"er the rest of the day saw only a couple of shorts and a few bass boated. A couple of days before that in the same area caught 0 walleyes but a mixed bag of white & black bass + a flathead catfish on the same spooning pattern. I think the main problem right now is turnover related it appeared a couple of weeks ago that the process was about complete but some really warm weather moved back in and reset the process. Next weeks forecast calls for much colder weather which hopefully will get it rolling again and get the fish biting. On the plus side I've been hearing from some bass fishermen that on cloudy windy days the fish are biting crankbaits & jerkbaits in shallow water again back in the creek channels with a few keeper size walleyes mixed in. The fish seem to be really scattered right now from about 10'-40' with lots of shad moving back into the creek arms where the water is more stable.

Mike have you found any crappie?

[Mike Worley]

Yes, we have been catching a few crappie on jigging spoons. The crappie seem to be scattered also about 10'-40'.