What is your best set-up to catch walleyes this time of year? I am heading up to Fall Lake this coming week and want to catch some eyes. We lindy rigged in early June and had great success in Canada, but I know this time of year is a whole different ballgame. Any input is appreciated.
Thats a hard one. Every thing can and will work this time of year. Been rigging, bottom bounceing spinner rigs, and long lining with boards, all been working well even the jig bite has been picking up for me. Take it all with you and see whats working. Have a great time 
I love a minnow or crawler (Half of one usually.) and a jig just big enough to contact bottom on a slow retrieve or drag. You have to be on a spot where you know fish are hanging out, because you really don’t cover a whole lot of ground very fast. Smaller crank baits can usually contact fish either on lead or long lining. The jig adds the precision approach when you want to spend a little more time over a group of active fish. All you want to do is drift or retrieve REALLY slow. In your mind’s eye, you want to see that jig moving ever so slowly and evenly along the bottom. The fish will HAMMER this in most cases. A snap of the wrist and a tight line is all you need to drive the hook home. Do not feed any line when you get hit. Just set’m hard. 
We used this approach on the River this last week with GREAT success. 
I just got back from Snowbank this weekend. Fall is close by. We used gold spinners, crawlers and leeches in 10′ to 18′. Brought 6 keepers home. Also caught 2 silver pike. Snowbank is mostly rock bottom.
Did you catch a lot of fish, or was it slow? What size fish were you able to boat? What was your biggest? Thanks for the info.
We kept all the walleyes we caught. They were 15″ – 19″. Went through 6 doz leeches and crawlers for 2 guys. Prob caught 30 smallmouth while fishing for eyes. We fished all day sat and till noon sun. we also fished for lake trout for a couple hours with no luck. The 2 silver pike we caught are actually blue looking. I hope the color turns out on the pic.
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Also caught 2 silver pike.
umm..just what are “silver” pike??
musky?
Have not heard that one before 
I think they are a different strain of pike. They are real and the coolest looking Pike I have ever seen! Blue in color that almost fades to a kinda green silver color.
Super cool looking fish. I have caught a 28″ and a 26″.
But here is a pic I found on another site.
“Up until the time I caught this fish, I had never seen one with this much lack of normal color or pigmentation. I had no idea this was what others refer to as a blue pike. Interesting to say the least. This is absolutely not a hybrid fish either. There is no Musky in Ft. Peck. This is a 100% Northern Pike.”
Well…You learn something new every day!!………
Looked it up in Wikipedia and here’s what it said…..
“Alternate forms
Northern pike occasionally breed with muskellunge to produce the hybrid commonly known as the tiger muskellunge[1] (Esox masquinongy x lucius or Esox lucius x masquinongy[2], depending on the gender of each of the contributing species). In the hybrids, the males are almost invariably sterile although the females are sometimes fertile.[3] Another form of northern pike, the silver pike, is not a subspecies but rather a mutation that occurs in scattered populations. Silver pike, sometimes called silver muskellunge, lack the rows of spots and appear silver or silvery-blue in color. (Craig, 1).
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