Any tips?

General area you’ll be fishing out of, and how far you’ll travel would be good to throw out.

Deuces wrote:

General area you’ll be fishing out of, and how far you’ll travel would be good to throw out.

You are 100% correct… I will be staying at Trappers and fishing from there. Closer the better but I am willing to go wherever needed as long as the wind is rolling in crazy waves. Have a 19 foot tin boat with a 150.

Having stayed out of Trappers last year, Huddle’s Reef is a go-to. Purple iridescent crawfish shad raps trolled over the reef caught us fish. Seemed very color specific. That was an afternoon bite. Recently, it has sounded like a night bite is the most reliable pattern out there. Shallow sand long-lining cranks. Good luck!

It’ll be a drive but Walker bay tends to be your best bet come late July-Aug. Find some flats around 25-30′ and hit those at dawn and dusk.

Fishing out of Trappers, you should consider the mid-lake reefs or second breaklines offshore. Given the time of year, I’d probably start looking in 13-17′ and adjust from there.

Leech is a different lake in the big basin vs Agency/Walker bay. Those bays are very clear and deep, while the rest of the lake is much shallower and more gin-stained. So in most of the lake, the walleye won’t necessarily be in that 25-30 foot range (though they will likely be so in Agency/Walker bay).

For tactics near where you’ll be:
Northerns and walleye can probably be found pulling cranks over some of the mid-depth bars near pelican island or over shallower flats at sunset.

-If there’s wind, work the windward side of any points/bars.
-Boy bay is shallow-plenty of pike,
-Consider the islands or potentially stony point/ottertail if nothing else is working.
-If all else fails, the bite directly above/in emergent weedlines should get some action.