After trout yesterday, I wanted to look for some walleye’s this afternoon/evening.
My sled will be another week or 2 before all the paper work from the import is in order so we're on food. The snow is pretty deep up here and even with snowshoes it’s a major pain in the ass hauling the Fish Trap any distance. Also being my first winter up here I’m still at the beginning of a steep learning curve. There are so many lakes and access points that it makes it hard to decide where to start. We found a road (plowed) that crossed Lac Seul and decided to head out there and at least drill some holes in the ice and have a look.
We got set up off a bend in the shoreline beside a bay. We found a nice steep drop off to 20 fow and made a grid of holes in the area.
My roommate Graham got us started with a sauger.
Total surprise. In the summer we catch 1 sauger for every 100 walleye.
Fishing was pretty slow actually. I coaxed this 21” walleye to bite after pounding the bottom with my buckshot and minnow then letting it sit on bottom. The fish picked it up off bottom and I felt my line twitch. 21” is the top end of the slot on Lac Seul so back she went.
We did some hole hopping and looked shallower as the sun dipped towards the trees and I picked up a spanker walleye in 10 fow. That was it for our action on the day.
Not a sniff on the set line lines today. I was running a drop shot rig with a jig/minnow on the bottom end. I had a ton of confidence in this rig going into the day und was surprised it didn’t budge.
Here’s the Hbird all lit up with the backlight on.
