Walleye 9/20/14

[J-Doc]

Ahh.. "worm roids". Lol!!!

[Tanderson15]

I wash them in distilled water. We get in the tub together, after the bath I place them in wet paper towels. The next day I change the wet towels to new ones. Why, I have tan carpet in a boat that is almost 15 years old with tan carpet still. I then place them in a large almond nut plastic jar into a six pack cooler with ice packs on each side. Lasts all day with no mess. Even worm bedding is a mess. Some fishermen place them by the dozen in plastic bags filled with water in the cooler. They will puff up in the cold water. Worm pop is messy. I even made RPS get into slippers when he got into the boat.

[showmebass]

There is something funny going on in the lake. It's got to be turnover. The fish just aren't biting well at all.

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[Feathers and Fins]

Terry if you are getting in the tub with your crawlers that is true devotion lol.

They have been generating like Hogs at a buffet with Huskie served as the main course. Plus the rain has been a cold fall not typical warm summer rain and we never really had a good thermocline set-up like normal and I believe that is due to the very late spring cold temps.

I have noticed a bunch of sediment in the lake the last week now that shouldn't be there till typically in late October when the lake normally has a turnover. I do not think the lake is having a normal turnover this year as the thermocline never seemed to set-up well but its having a definite mixing of the water columns. Normally when this happens fishing is very tough the reason I believe is all that sediment is actually nutrition for the fry and baitfish and where it is concentrated is where we like to fish. Well we not only target it but those fry and baitfish being there bring in the predatory fish and they are gorging themselves on the bait.

Unless you can find cleaner water or moving water it is going to be very tough. The best option is to bang the bottom and make a ton of noise or use jigging spoons and hit the fish on the nose so to speak.

If you think about it we normally see this when the leaves start to fall we are just seeing this earlier IMO and I actually prefer it now then when a billion leaves to snag your lures are falling. The scary thing is its about 6 weeks early roughly as is all our weather which has me wondering how bad this winter will be. ( Breaking ice striper fishing anyone )?

[J-Doc]

Terry if you are getting in the tub with your crawlers that is true devotion lol.

I wasn't going to say anything. Seemed a bit weird to me. Lol!

[bfishn]

Washing your worm, sexing your shad, there's only so much you can do with live bait...

...and that, as Martha would say, is a good thing.