Author Topic: strangest place you've caught a walleye (Read 24366 times)

walleyechaser · « **on:** Jan 15, 2007, 09:15 AM »

I have 2

1. In 2 fow in broad daylight on a hot summer day throwing spinnerbaits for bass

2. Jigging for trout in 70 fow in midwinter about 5 feet from the bottom.

tbirdbassr · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 09:21 AM »

The hennepin canal its 100' wide 2.5' deep and looks like flowing mud lol

pikemaster789 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 09:22 AM »

Cant say Ive specifically caught one in a wierd spot, but I caught about a 3" eye in the middle of the summer out in the middle of the lake.

Also caught one in about 3 feet of water by a dam, on a crayfish, on a 90 degree day. I think he came up by the dam because there was cooler water there?

hali-man · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 09:23 AM »

Quote from: walleyechaser on Jan 15, 2007, 09:15 AM

In 2 fow in broad daylight on a hot summer day throwing spinnerbaits for bass

Exactly. Hey- That's my spot! 8)

walleyechaser · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 10:56 AM »

Quote from: slipbob on Jan 15, 2007, 10:53 AM

they'll readily take lures floating at rest on the surface at night also

Oh yeah thats a blast when you get them doing that. We discovered that one by accident one night. Had to stop trolling for a minute. My buddies lure was floating on the surface and a 20" slammed it. Then we caught 4 more like that.

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 11:02 AM »

In a shallow slough in the spring where I'd never caught one...and a 4 pounder out of a lake where there weren't "supposed" to be any walleye

walleyechaser · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 11:19 AM »

Quote from: PIKEGUY on Jan 15, 2007, 11:02 AM

and a 4 pounder out of a lake where there weren't "supposed" to be any walleye

I've done that a few times.

holeinhide · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 15, 2007, 02:02 PM »

In a pool behind a dam that was 3' around and 9" deep just picked him up with my hands. He must have washed over the dam from a previous flood.

Pasquatch · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 28, 2007, 06:21 PM »

I guess it would be the one that I jigged up off the bottom of about 55' of water.

RLWagner · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 29, 2007, 07:34 AM »

Jitterbuggin on the surface.

bladebait · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 29, 2007, 07:40 AM »

With a buzzbait fishing over a weed bed. In fact, I have caught several this way. $:-\$

calvin21 · « **Reply #11 on:** Feb 01, 2007, 06:25 PM »

In a little neighborhood pond on a spinner bait. I thought that the pond only held bass and bullhead. Turns out some guy down the street had put some in there years ago. Don't know how they survived thought it would get too warm in the summer

perch-man · « **Reply #12 on:** Feb 01, 2007, 08:47 PM »

A sink hole 8 miles from nearest river that it ran into in early spring

spoonfed · « **Reply #13 on:** Feb 04, 2007, 09:40 PM »

salmon fishing lk huron over 130fow down 60ft off a rigger on a dodger squid set up.

michiganbowhunter · « **Reply #14 on:** Feb 04, 2007, 09:45 PM »

Quote from: spoonfed on Feb 04, 2007, 09:40 PM

salmon fishing lk huron over 130fow down 60ft off a rigger on a dodger squid set up.

i had a similar experience in lake huron. except i was in about 60 fow and had stinger spoons about 35ft down

HIMO · « **Reply #15 on:** Feb 05, 2007, 06:22 AM »

Plenty of bait. not one walleye to be seen. LOL!!!!!

fish_boy · « **Reply #16 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 04:36 AM »

I caught a 5 pound walleye when I was flipping docks for bass in a marina. Never thought that when I had the hit that I'd be pulling up a walleye.

mobile_man · « **Reply #17 on:** Feb 12, 2007, 12:23 PM »

I was fishing for northern with a buddy of mine on cedar lake. We were using buzzbaits, had a 15" hit it, nice eater!!!!

fishstalker · « **Reply #18 on:** Feb 22, 2007, 08:57 AM »

off the back off my boat, at night, after i spotted its eyes with my head lamp. the old spot and stalk method, works GREAT. goes with the name!!!
~FISHSTALKER

peterpike · « **Reply #19 on:** Feb 23, 2007, 06:54 PM »

found a rapala on the shores of the genesee river during the salmon run. put it on and in a foot of water was winging it back and forth real fast right in front of me fooling around pulled two 17"ers in like that. didnt fight them hooked them then pulled them out. lol

producetim · « **Reply #20 on:** Feb 23, 2007, 07:02 PM »

on the bottom of the hudson river with a live herring fishing for stripers

iceplank · « **Reply #21 on:** Feb 25, 2007, 04:27 PM »

irondequoit creek on an eggsack for steelhead in march. Peterpike- the genny is filthy with eyes in that stretch but no one fishes 4 them except afew rochester natives such as my self. I ate one 18 incher and I think I know what Kodak toxic waste tasteslike with a touch of silt.

TrekJeff · « **Reply #22 on:** Feb 26, 2007, 09:46 PM »

The biggest eyes I ever catch are during the steelhead run...unfortunatly eye season is normally closed. One year when fishing at hardy dam in Croton Michigan, it was a task to keep the eyes off your fly. It wasn't uncommon to pull in 10 pounders like kids catching gills in the back yard pond. The biggest had to have pus ;Dhed at least 15-16 pounds. I didn't have a scale and with the DNR on the other side of the river I didn't take the time to find one. If anyone can match eyeballs with size reference, I could have easliy stuck my thumb into it's eye socket, still having clearence. It was a HAWWWWWWWG. Oh, and it hit on a size 12 stone fly.

peterpike · « **Reply #23 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 08:58 PM »

ya iceplank ive caught plenty of eyes in the genny but dont eat anything below the falls. now in the southernteir is a dif story

zamboni · « **Reply #24 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 09:01 PM »

Quote from: walleyechaser on Jan 15, 2007, 10:56 AM

Oh yeah thats a blast when you get them doing that. We discovered that one by accident one night. Had to stop trolling for a minute. My buddies lure was floating on the surface and a 20" slammed it. Then we caught 4 more like that.

That during a full moon? Or just during any night? I figure the moon would give off the needed light, but with a walleyes eyes, maybe they don't need the light.

OTIS · « **Reply #25 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 12:18 PM »

The full mood definitely helps!

MikeThePike · « **Reply #26 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 03:11 PM »

Got a 16" on a bluegill chunk fishing for cats.

Wild-man · « **Reply #27 on:** Mar 02, 2007, 02:05 PM »

WE GOT MANY ONE DAY IN THE HEAT OF A +27 AFTERNOON IN 3FT OF WATER CRANKIN' FOR PIKE ON PIGEON LAKE!!! BIZARRE!!!

runtfisher14 · « **Reply #28 on:** Mar 10, 2007, 08:14 AM »

Got one under a bobber with corn in a trout pond.

iceplank · « **Reply #29 on:** Mar 10, 2007, 10:16 PM »

cmon! that one takes the freakin cake if you are serious!

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