Whats in your walleye?

Cleaned up a few walleyes we caught north of Aitkin yesterday on the river. Looks like they are getting there fair share of frogs to eat. This does not surprise me as when the frogs head for water this time of year to bury them selves in the mud for winter they are a major target for walleyes to feed on. This happens on both lakes and rivers. What was surprising to find in one fishes stomach was a couple of oak leaves along with what was left of a frog. I would imagine that when the walleyes goes after the frogs or what ever he is chasing if something else gets in its mouth at the same time it goes right down the hatch with the intended dinner. I ha found weeds in my walleyes before but this is a first to find oak leaves.

Cool post Mike. I always think about going through the stomaches but never do when filleting, unless it is obvious. I had a walleye a few years ago that looked like it had a frisbee in it’s gut. It turned out to be a 8″ sunfish. I guess a guy has to find a lake with a good frog population and he should have some luck.

I know a couple buddies of mine that target the frog migration from point A to point B and hammer the eyes in the weeds while the eyes are chasing the frogs…

cool post Mike !!!

I get a lot of walleyes from the local lakes in the winter time packed full of sunfish 2″ and less in length… Never do I see a perch in the fish from these lakes(tons of perch in the lake). The Minnesota river the walleyes are generally fat with emerald shiners and shad right now to the winter.

Living in the cities… I havent seen a frog on the city lakes for 20 years .. and I remember that(one) frog.

I find myself going thru the stomachs in fish a lot. Number 1 find is always perch or fatheads. This spring I found a jig and shiner combination sitting nicely in a Winni walleye’s stomach. Going off of what Dave said, I fish a lake in St. Cloud during the winner that is full of perch, walleyes, and crappies. Every year the number one thing in the stomachs is little crappies.

Two years back I cut open the stomach of every walleye we kept here on Lake Wisconsin. What we found the most of by far was gizzard shad. Next was baby crappie, white bass and sheapshead.

Quite a few years ago, they planted a bunch of 6″ northern pike in Devils Lake. (Devils Lake, WI not ND)
Most of the walleyes we kept that year had these planted pike in their bellies.
Guess they were easy to catch so down the hatch they went!

Boog

Not a walleye, but years ago on a stream in the Richland Center area, I found a baby snapping turtle in the belly of a trout. The brown was only 16″ long and the turtle shell was probably 4″ long…

I have always heard of the frog migration, but have never found a decent area to take a shot at it.

Mark

i don’t know what’s stranger, a trout guy on a walleye site or someone actually admitting that they eat trout.
just kidding he he he

I was up north fishing for walleye one time with my family and when we came back to the cleaning house there were two guys standing next to us cleaning pike and one of the guys opened the belly of one of the pike and there was what looked to be a ball in the belly but when he cut it open out fell two baby ducks!!!!!

About 12 years ago on a rainy warm night in early October
the wife and kids and I were driving past Lake Koronis on highway 55 and it was a frog holocaust. The road was actually slick with frog guts for about a 100 to 200 yards. And survivors were hopping all over the place. Gotta imagine Koronis would be good if you timed it right.

dd

fish trap lake by little falls is FULL of frogs. Might have to try them as bait once.