Walleyes for Christmas

The Christmas holiday is such a wonderful time of year!! For many reasons including catching walleyes! Things are starting to get cranked up…finally…on Rainy Lake. Sand Bay has 5 to seven inches in most places. A little more in some spots. There is still a fair amount of slush out there. Snow machines are the only way to go right now unless you have a packed trail already.

I have found the quality fish a bit shallower than what I would typically expect. That may change as I can finally venture to some more remote areas. We should see some big walleyes coming from Rainy over the next week or two. The BIG one got away the other day…would have been an awesome picture. Here are a couple though. Get to Rainy Lake soon!!

Nice fish, love the colors on them northwoods eyes. Any lure working better than the rest right now. – QB

QB,

No kidding! The color of the walleyes here is definitely pretty cool. You see a lot of variance depending on what part of the lake you are on.

Colors and lure choices…hmmm… This is what I’ll say about that, go with your “confidence” baits for starters. My confidence bait just happens to be jigging raps or the Nils Master. Old habits die hard I guess, but day in and day out all winter long they will eat these baits. There are days where I end up using a spoon but not very often. Anything glow works well, maybe a little orange in there. Anyway, my point is go with what you are confident with and you will score. I always have a set line with a minnow down as well. Some days I end up with 2 set lines down if you know what I mean!

Oooops! There are Crappies for Christmas too…

Those are some nice rainy walleyes right there!