Fall Walleye Fishing

I’ve never done much walleye fishing in the fall, I’m usually chasing musky or deer or ducks. We are doing a trip to the Manitowish chain in northern Wisconsin this weekend. Where do you start looking for walleye this time of the year? I’m guessing with the warmer weather we have been having the walleye will be in summer spots, deeper water around structure (20-30′) and throwing jigs with crawlers and minnows will produce some fish. Am I on the right track?

I would check deeper water during the day but walleyes this time of year are putting on the feed bags. I would fish late afternoons into the night and use shallow diving stick baits in shallow water. Look for weedlines and shallow flats. They will be there.

Tucker02 wrote:

I would check deeper water during the day but walleyes this time of year are putting on the feed bags. I would fish late afternoons into the night and use shallow diving stick baits in shallow water. Look for weedlines and shallow flats. They will be there.

Thanks Tucker, I will give that a try!

Google John Andrews Guide Service and check his reports.He lives there and guides those lakes and that area.

See my reply on the winnibigoshish help/info thread in the general discussion forum. Tucker^ pretty much summed that up though

We didn’t find any walleyes shallow, the few we got were 20-25′ on main lake structure adjacent to weed lines. Only thing that was very active were the rock bass, got them everywhere!