Snuck out after work for a bit last night hoping to find a walleye dinner. Set up at 3PM on a sharp break coming off a large shallow flat in about 17fow. The key was being just outside of the weeds. All of the walleyes I cleaned had 3 to 4 inch perch in their bellies, so if you can find the weed edge and a bunch of small perch, the walleyes will eventually come in for dinner. Most of my fish came under a float, with a simple hook and the biggest fathead I could find hooked under the dorsal fin, set right off the bottom. My second rig was a 1/8th slender spoon with minnow head that I used to scrounge and pound the bottom. Seemed the fish would come in and look at it, and then the bobber would go down in the other hole. I did have two big ones come unbuttoned on the way up on the spoon though. I was using a new rod that has good sensitivity but just doesn’t have enough backbone to bury the hook in those bigger fish. Oh well, the ones I did land tasted great.
One other thing I noticed was that every so often my flasher would mark a bunch of clutter coming off the bottom, and I started to notice that it correlated with fish coming in. I think these eyes are rooting up the low lying bottom vegetation to flush small perch out, which is why it was key to have the minnow right off the bottom.
