I Have Heard About It but…

Have never had it happen in my boat until last Sunday.

Took the wife out Walleye fishing,our location from the prior day was loaded with boats so I decided to head south on Pool 4,after Picking up 3 nice keepers and fighting the wind for 3 hours I decided to head back north and make one pass and call it a day, after I got on location the wife didnt want to fish anymore so I talked her into just putting her rod with a Denver Rig on in the rod holder and just watch it for me (it was to my back side so I couldnt watch it).

Towards the end of our last run she said there must be weeds on the rod she was watching and decided to reel it in.

Low a behold she had NO weeds but a DOUBLE on the Denver Rig.Tho they weren’t of the keeper size she was excited !

All I could say was “weeds smeeds some people have all the luck”

How many of you other fisherman have had this happen ?

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I fish Dubuque rigs a lot and it happens about once or twice a year, and like your double, they are typically sub 15″ saugers. I think it happens when I go through an aggressive school of smaller fish. But several years ago my buddy had a pair of walleyes that went 20″ and 22″.