My 2 cents. This year isn’t fishing like typical fall fishing yet and the bite has been tough. If I were going this weekend I would say just cover as much water as possible. 15-25 ft trolling would be where I would focus. You will get a mix of smallmouth, walleye, and northern. Good time to experiment with the lead core. 2mph. the faster you go the less deep your baits run. You will be able to see with the rod If you are hitting bottom. If you are, you are running too deep so reel up 4-5 cranks. Each color (30ft) estimate will get you 5-6 feet down. No need to be kissing bottom. if you are within 3-5 feet you are probably okay. If you are catching 1-2 fish an hour this year, I would say you are keeping up with most!

If you stay 15-20 ft you can get by just long lining deep divers.

I agree we had one keeper in the slot and another 23 that were very thick. Much different than May/June.

Same for us. Lots of bait/fish around. Sunday morning managed 3 walleyes, 5 smallies, 2 northern trolling lead in 19-27ft rock/gravel from about 10-12:30pm then went and tried some other stuff with no luck

I go both ways with FFS. It is fun to use, but takes some of the relaxation out of fishing. With the little bit of stain in the water, the fish haven’t been as boat shy. Next time out I will likely lindy rig the breaks on the mud. The fish out there can still hide from ffs if on the bottom. Get on the deep side of the breaks and you will likely get some fish. Our most consistent pattern on the lake is still trolling cranks the last 2 hours before dark. 15-22 ft, variety of colors and sizes. From May to October, it just works! Smallies and Walleye mix. Kids enjoy picking their lures, reeling them in, and screwing around in the down time.

AIM uses a very generous length/weight conversion. Saturdays Walleye shootout uses the MTT conversion. Our bag in that was 22.68 Saturday. Those same fish would have scored over 28 pounds on the AIM conversion they use. The Walleye shootout and AIM events over the weekend both took a 27 inch average for their big 5 fish to win. However I would put the actual weight of most these 27’s well under 7 pounds each this year.

We had a good weekend fishing. Lots of action but biggest was 25 1/2 which didn’t help us much in the tournament. But boated about 50 fish in two days so can’t complain.

We did not crush them by any means over opening weekend, but enjoyed the nice weather and nice fish. Ended up with 14 and a smallie. 17-25 inchers. Mix of skinny and healthy.

Anyone have any luck over the weekend? We fished pretty hard Saturday with only a handful of real small ones to show. Saw very few get caught.

What size weight are you using and how much line out at 1.3-1.5?

Any secret colors or more detail on spinner presentations that have been successful? I have been using gold or yellow orange, 7-8ft snell leading up to a 2 oz bouncer or snap weight kept off bottom. planer boards and no planer boards with very minimal success on gravel and mud pulling 1.1-1.3 typically.

Agate reef all they way down to lakeside reef we catch them that time of year trolling cranks for walleyes in 15-17ft. 50/50 walleye smallie mix

Opener weekend was okay for us. Boated 20 in probably 10 hours of fishing. Jig and fathead. Good Luck!