Forget The Crappies The Walleyes Are Biting

[laker67]

We found a bunch of them in 6 to 12 feet of water close to a flat where chunk rock turned to pea gravel and there was a little bit of timber on a wind blown bank yesterday up a Stocton. Our group ended up bringing home 7 keepers and the largest was close to 27 inches. One side of the tree was walleye, the other crappie.

I wish we had trees like that at loz.

[9LB]

seemed like 8 - 10 foot, good ole jig and crawler fishing mainly points and it did not seem to matter what kind. Caught most of them at secret fishin hole #6.

[Nwtf gobbler]

9LB, i apologize if my comments came across as accusing you of illegal fishing. I was trying to point out to another poster that you didn't necessarily keep all you keeper fish. Congratulations on you success, and I hope to soon be able post that I caught that many "keepers" too.

[9LB]

No problem bleeding shiner. I think you came to my defense. I have been accused of a lot worse then culling walleyes

I appreciate your posts and info. I am from Northern Michigan and have been trying to figure out these Stockton Walleyes for a few years now.

[Gilly]

"............ I am from Northern Michigan..."

Me too. Born in Marquette.

Thanks for the reports. Stuck in Omaha with the start of an early construction season otherwise we'd be on Stockton with you! Looks like a few weeks yet before we head down....save us some fish, guys.

[Nwtf gobbler]

Good to hear from you again Gilly.

Jason

[9LB]

Good ole Marquette Yooper, I am from Kingsford/Iron Mountain. Let me know when you up to Stockton and I''ll order some Pasties.

Maybe from Red Onion, Eh.

[charliehorsejigs]

The walleye need thinned out some anyway. We have caught some of them with 10 inch crappie in their belly swallowed whole. Also have seen them several times raiding the crappie nests in the mornings before the sun gets up and drives them deeper. Don't get me wrong, they are good eating, but they can be awfully hard on the crappie population if the lake is not up into the brush when they spawn. I think it's time the conservation department eased up on restocking the walleye all the time and focused more on the other fish in the lake. They could spend some of their resources to put in some more docks for people to fish from. Not everyone has a boat or is able to use a boat. Since Mutton Creek shut down their dock a lot of people can't fish or they have had to start going to Grand Lake. Talk about extortion on their out of state license prices.

[kwall]

Stockton is a WALLEYE lake , that's why the conservation dept. stocks it and very glad to have a place in the state to catch some hard to find --- you are blessed to have a lake like Stockton so close

[charliehorsejigs]

I do agree that we are fortunate to have a walleye lake in MO. It just seems that most of the efforts of the conservation department are for walleye and not the other gamefish. They are also stocking a lot of walleye in Tablerock Lake. The crappie population there needs a boost. It seems like they are decling in numbers. I don't know why they just can't stock some crappie and help restore the numbers of fish to where it should be.