Rock River, Lake Koshkonong Walleye Report 6-12-05

Summer walleyes summer walleyes is my favorite times of the year. Most pro’s and everday anglers will say fall and spring is the best chance for a trophy walleye for the wall which I don’t disagree. But all my trophys for the wall have came in late June or July and August.

Check out the rest of my report to see how I CPR 25 inch + walleyes like this one.

Now what do I mean by summer walleyes water temps have to be in the 78 to 80 degree range or higher which came very early this year. There’s two techniques that I use to catch big walleyes like this one on the left. First techniques is vertical jigging the river and the second is cast jigs and live bait or plastics. If you use these two techniques you will sooner or later catch walleye like the one on the left which all of these big walleyes I did CPR.

This year there’s three reasons why the walleye bite is so good on the rock river this summer. Number one, bait fish spawning, number two, cooler water in the river in some places, and this year number three the white bass fry hatch. Usally the white bass hatch is done and gone before water temps reach 80. Because of these three reasons I have been catching walleyes over 25 inches like this one on the right.

Ok, now it’s time to let the air out of the bag and tell you all how I caught these awesome walleyes. I always start off in the summer with live bait until I find out how active the walleyes are. If the walleyes are on a biting frenzing I always go to plastics. The plastics of choice was the paddle tails by B-fish-N tackle Company and a 1/8oz pink/white nuckle ball jig by Fin-tech tackle Company or the jig of your choice but the pink/white nuckle ball jig by fin-tech work the best to catch walleyes like these on the left which these four walleyes I took home for a fish fry for my mother and family. Most of my fish came in three fow or less in cooler water or on clam beds. Some of the walleyes were caught up in the channel of the mouth of the river going into lake Koshkonong in 8 to 9 fow, but the biggest walleyes were caught on clams bed at the mouth of the river which was going out of the lake on the west side by Newville. Good fish are being caught trolling on Koshkonong on the rock piles and by the springs. Also the big white bass are also on a biting frenzy on the lake. The algae bloom is bad but all that means is shade for the fish and a pain in the butt for the trollers. But if you use a little split shot above your crank bait it will help you keep the green slim off your bait.

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