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Interesting read, I didn’t know you switched up but can certainly understand.
Even being a bass guy, if I was to ask the average Mille Lacs walleye angler what are the main presentations they use, I think I would be pretty familiar with most of the concepts. i.e. fishing bobbers on the reefs in wind, rigging on gravel and sand in spring, flats in late spring/summer. Trolling cranks in summer over the flats and in no man’s land etc.
How do you (or anybody else) think the average Leech Lake walleye guy would respond and how close to that are you fishing?
Average Leech angler would have a much shorter vocabulary–no doubt. And for good reason–most of the time before mid-June in “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
If it ain’t a jig/minnow at Leech, or a big maybe– a rig/livebait combo, an even bigger maybe–spinner bouncer rig, it probably is not happenin’. Tough to argue with the jig/minnow success the first few weeks of the season–if one finds the fish of course. But that all said, I have purposely forced myself to go non-traditional Leech Lake methods and done well–much better than the jiggers at times. Of course, I have caught plenty on jigs and minnows like the rest. And failed a few times also…
Simply, no matter at Leech or other places, one has to adapt to the scenario/weather one finds the fish or one has to fish. No doubt, every method you mention above has a time and place at Leech Lake no less than anywhere else. I’ve had big days on leadcore/cranks, bobbers in bobber type scenarios, finesse rigs/livebait etc. etc.
The challenge at Leech compared to a lake like Mille Lacs, is that there is a lot more shallow ( less than 10-11ft.) of fishy haunts compared to fishy deep water haunts–just because there is much more shallow water generally. But that said, where it is deeper, one can find loads of walleyes and fish the methods accordingly–and has to at times when the shallow fish are hard to find or hard to make bite. ( this past Tuesday was a prime example as even with a big wind on the main lake “good spots”, the jig bite was hard to make happen from what I heard. But I and another guy landed 17 walleyes in a couple hrs. of lines in the water in twice the normal depths of the jiggin’ spots–5 nice keepers and 12 over 20″–Mille Lacs type deep water livebait rigs.)
I think the bobber bite in shallow water at Leech is highly over looked. As is the deep water leadcore bite. I doubt I have even come close to scratching the surface in either regard…
LOL Being an “outsider”, I am just trying to stay out of the way. All I know is–it is one BIG lake!!
