Did you try trolling at night? I know with clear deep lakes alot of the times the walleyes will suspend over deeper water with the ciscos and the best way to target them is at night trolling cranks. were there any rock with patchy cabbage in the lake? i found this weekend that alot of the walleyes we caught were in scattered rock with patchy cabbage weed or weeds that just started to lay down.
I spend a week up there in June. The lake has a great population of walleyes in it. Unfortunately after the spring shallow bite dies off it can be tough to find the fish. fortunately, you can always find fish in the weeds. When I say weeds I mean deep cabbage(8-16′). A jig and minnow, pulling spinners or rigging chubs through the weeds works well. Also fish the steep breaks with jigging raps. Sidescan really helps locate these fish as they are sucked tight to bottom most of the time and are really hard to find on 2D. pitch up to the weed edge and work it back into 30′.
Hope this helps.
We did good on a deep clear lake using jigging raps on weed lines that still had green weeds, did not get one bite rigging or jigging, everything came on jigging raps. Find the green weeds with baitfish. Everything I marked deep was not active
Great info! Thanks!! Fishing the weeds makes a lot of sense. What doesn’t make sense is why I didn’t try I have the gear! I’ll be up again Oct 27th I’ll report how it goes.
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