Walleye/sauger help

  • BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    June 30, 2012 at 3:36 am #1333713

    Hey guys, im totally stumped with these fish. I’m fishing an area off the bank where I know there are walleye and sauger. There is a pretty good current and just millions of shiners at my feet in the current. It is just the perfect place for a walleye to hang out. It is shallow, only about 4′ deep. The white bass are in there busting up the shiners all day long, and the white bass fisherman are doing good. I’ve tried about everything I can think of to catch a walleye/sauger but its just not working. I know they are there because the white bass fishermen catch one or two every day by mistake on little 1″ tubes held in the current.

    I have tried lindy rig held in the current with nightcrawlers, leeches, and live shiners, caught nothing but sheep
    I have tried crankbaits, caught nothing but rocks and sheep
    I have tried jigs and plastics, caught nothing but sheep
    I have tried jigs and leeches, jigs and shiners, and jigs and crawler, caught nothing but sheep

    Anyone see the pattern?

    Anyone got any fresh ideas?

    smokinbobo
    Monticello / Guthrie, MN
    Posts: 382
    June 30, 2012 at 3:57 am #1080100

    Try a planer board with a spinner rig behind it – vary the length behind to board to cover different parts of the water column – the board will let you control where in the current you have your bait, or, fish what the bass guys are fishing, sounds like they are gettng a few.

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    June 30, 2012 at 9:32 am #1080112

    Have you tried fishing the low-light periods? Maybe try searching for some sort of structure nearby that is holding fewer of the junk fish. Sometimes you don’t have to look very far.

    What’s the bottom content?

    jwcarlson
    Posts: 74
    July 2, 2012 at 8:56 pm #1080520

    Just catching a couple doesn’t really mean there are fishable numbers. If you’re seeing those guys catch 1-2 every ten minutes it’s one thing… but if it’s 1-2 in 2-3 hours… that’s different. My wife caught a small walleye in about 10″ of water throwing a spinnerbait at a lake last year. That doesn’t mean I’m bombing 10″ of water the rest of the day wondering why they aren’t hitting.

    I’m sure someone can tell me I’m wrong here, but when we’re catching walleyes it doesn’t seem like we catch that many sheephead at the same time. At least 7-10:1 walleye:sheephead. And many places once we catch a sheephead that area is done for awhile. Meaning… the sheephead seems to be the last fish we catch even if we continue fishing… if that makes any sense.

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    July 2, 2012 at 9:23 pm #1080526

    Quote:

    Just catching a couple doesn’t really mean there are fishable numbers. If you’re seeing those guys catch 1-2 every ten minutes it’s one thing… but if it’s 1-2 in 2-3 hours… that’s different. My wife caught a small walleye in about 10″ of water throwing a spinnerbait at a lake last year. That doesn’t mean I’m bombing 10″ of water the rest of the day wondering why they aren’t hitting.

    I’m sure someone can tell me I’m wrong here, but when we’re catching walleyes it doesn’t seem like we catch that many sheephead at the same time. At least 7-10:1 walleye:sheephead. And many places once we catch a sheephead that area is done for awhile. Meaning… the sheephead seems to be the last fish we catch even if we continue fishing… if that makes any sense.

    Where are you from? I would love to catch 1-2 walleye every 10 minutes, 1-2 an hour is more like it for this area right now… especially with the high muddy water. The last few weeks most guys who are catching fish are pitching jigs to 0-3′ of water.

    jwcarlson
    Posts: 74
    July 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm #1080660

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Just catching a couple doesn’t really mean there are fishable numbers. If you’re seeing those guys catch 1-2 every ten minutes it’s one thing… but if it’s 1-2 in 2-3 hours… that’s different. My wife caught a small walleye in about 10″ of water throwing a spinnerbait at a lake last year. That doesn’t mean I’m bombing 10″ of water the rest of the day wondering why they aren’t hitting.

    I’m sure someone can tell me I’m wrong here, but when we’re catching walleyes it doesn’t seem like we catch that many sheephead at the same time. At least 7-10:1 walleye:sheephead. And many places once we catch a sheephead that area is done for awhile. Meaning… the sheephead seems to be the last fish we catch even if we continue fishing… if that makes any sense.

    Where are you from? I would love to catch 1-2 walleye every 10 minutes, 1-2 an hour is more like it for this area right now… especially with the high muddy water. The last few weeks most guys who are catching fish are pitching jigs to 0-3′ of water.

    Haha, I’d love to catch 1-2 every 10 minutes as well.
    All I’m saying is, are they catching them consistantly? If so, why not use what they’re using? If it’s just 1-2 in an hour maybe it’s just a fluke… that’s all I was saying.

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    July 7, 2012 at 4:38 pm #1081805

    I ended up downsizing and now I’m doing pretty good. I’m using two 1/16oz jig heads with 2″ magnum crappie tubes, and 2″ twisters.

    Even got a double the other day, 1 sauger and 1 walleye at once.

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