Thursday, August 29, 2013

Walleye Fishing Reports - 8/29/2013 - 35 Stories - MI, MN, WI, CO, WA, OH, ND, IA, MT, NY

Iosco County News Herald
AUSABLE RIVER: A few walleye were caught, but no big numbers. ... TAWAS: Walleye anglers trolling out around Tawas Point and north to AuSable Point found ...

Aitkin Independent Age
Mille Lacs Lake – The daytime walleye bite has been hit and miss, but the night bite ... There are a few walleyes being caught on leadcore and crankbaits in the ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
State fishing report. Kabetogama-Namakan: Hot weather has caused unpredictable fishing patterns, but walleye anglers are having some success presenting ...

Merrillfotonews
Good news for walleye anglers: state fish hatcheries have finished stocking the first of two waves of walleye to go out this year and the number of fish stocked far ...

Ashland DAily Press
LAKE MILLS – Good news for walleye anglers: state fish hatcheries have finished stocking the first of two waves of walleye to go out this year and the number of ...

Minnesota Public Radio
The state this year slashed the number and size of walleye fishermen could take from Mille Lacs - the chief reason people go there. Officials say they had to do it ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kabetogama-Namakan: Hot weather has caused unpredictable fishing patterns, but walleye anglers are having some success presenting minnows and jigs at ...

Bob Hague
An increase in funding for Wisconsin fish hatcheries means more walleyes for anglers to catch in the future. The Department of Natural Resources will be ...
Wisconsin Radio Network

Mike Ganzeveld, NPAA #111
Here's a press release for Devil's Lake. This year it will be the location of the National Walleye Tour championships from September 19-21. Readers f...
Walleye Wisdom

The Star Beacon
The Wine and Walleye Festival was a huge success for local businesses, according to the president of the Ashtabula County Chamber of Commerce, Jessica ...

The Spokesman Review (blog)
One proposal calls for liberalizing the daily limit for walleye to 16 fish on the waters of the San Poil River inundated by Lake Roosevelt (the San Poil Arm) to ...

Duluth News Tribune
Mike Berg scans the horizon of Saganaga Lake as he returns to Seagull Creek Fishing Camp after a day of walleye fishing. Berg has been guiding on Saganaga ...

The Coloradoan
Carter Lake: Fishing for walleye remains good in the evening and morning from the shoreline using worms. Anglers are having the most luck using trolling ...

Evening Observer
Walleye don't really offer much of a fight, but the really big ones tend to stay down before coming up reluctantly behind the boat. Greg Grabowski, of Colden, was ...

The Star Beacon
ASHTABULA — The fifth year of the Wine and Walleye Festival added a few twists including an attempt to break the Guiness Book of World Records for the ...

Columbus Telegram
This week, we had a good number of walleye that were weighed in. Michelle Hobbs hooked a four-pound, eight-ounce walleye on an area lake with a Rapala ...

Blue Springs Examiner
... the News: Teen arrested in WWII vet's beating death ... What to Watch: 'Breaking Bad,' VMAs top Sunday programs ... Kenneth Kieser: Lake Superior Walleye ...

Plain Dealer
Portman, Pacholski, Cochran and Lake Erie Walleye.jpg Sen. Rob Portman unhooks a Lake Erie walleye while on a fishing trip with veteran fishing guide Paul ...

Jamestown Post Journal
Anglers out of both Dunkirk and Barcelona are doing well in 80-plus feet. Working worm harnesses and stickbaits between 55 to 75 feet down for active walleye ...

Grand Forks Herald
OUTDOORS REPORT: Area fishing report. Hammered gold spinners tipped with crawlers are producing walleyes on the humps and structure in 30 to 35 feet of ...

Jamestown Sun
He told me about a unique walleye bite he had been on in the past few days. By: By Bob Jensen, Fishing the Midwest, The Jamestown Sun. We packed a lot of ...

Ottumwacourier
If you've ever felt that “thump” when a big walleye has taken the bait... if you've ever seen your line spit out the spool on an open bail as a walleye makes a run...

Toledo Blade
The ODNR reports that walleye fishing has been productive north of the Toledo water intake, despite algae issues in the area. Anglers have also done well ...

GoErie.com
The shallow walleye have disappeared in the Elk Creek area for the first time this ... However, walleye fishing off Elk Creek and eastward toward Erie is good ...

Daily Mining Gazette
Some of the more interesting are: Lake trout from 1892-1914, with no survival; Walleye were first introduced in 1904 and came by rail from Sault Ste. Marie ...

Jamestown Post Journal
The shallow reef areas have been good for walleyes. Some walleye anglers do quite well around reefs by casting and retrieving weight-forward spinners tipped ...

The Herald Argus
I much prefer to release game species to fight another day and only occasionally go out to catch a mess of panfish or walleye to eat. Sadly, some folks can't help ...

Plain Dealer
The walleye have been scattered west of Cleveland, but are schooled up between Geneva and Ashtabula. Catfish are still the stars of the inland lakes, where ...

Sioux City Journal (blog)
BISMARCK, N.D. | This was a good year for raising walleyes at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery — a record-setter in terms of the number of walleyes ...

Rapid City Journal
2 minutes ago. (0) Comments. Angostura Reservoir: Walleye fishing bite remains slow as rising water temperatures have sent walleye deep and curbed activity.

Billings Gazette
The walleyes are 40 to 50 deep right against the cliffs. Where the creeks flow into the lake some nice trout have been caught. — Ok-A-Beh Marina, Fort Smith.

Helena Independent Record
Walleye are being caught throughout the south end and midreservoir areas using a worm harnesses or Slow Death rig at varying depths, but most fish are ...

Evening Observer
Large-mouth bass have been holding near cover like boat docks and structures while walleyes have been staging at various depths near the deeper holes.

Buffalo News
Lake Erie's hefty walleye schools are out there but far. Lake Ontario's trout and salmon move closer to shore each week but still remain well off shore.

Iosco County News Herald
In Tawas Bay, a few walleye were caught on crawler harnesses in 20 to 25 feet off Jerry's Marina. AuGRES: Still has a good number of walleye anglers.

JackCentral
The muddy waters of Lake Mary are stocked with northern pike, yellow perch, bluegill, yellow bass, large mouth bass, walleye, channel catfish, crappie and trout.

The DNR Fisheries Division stocked 4,160,502 walleye fingerlings in 120 water bodies located throughout Michigan this spring and summer.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York conservation authorities are looking for public comment on a plan restore populations of a once common fish that's suffered a long ...
NCPR Daily News: 08/20/2013




Thursday, August 15, 2013

Walleye Fishing Reports and News - 8/15/2013 - 30 Stories

The Republic
LANSING, Michigan — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says 4.16 million pond-raised walleye fingerlings have been stocked in 120 water ...

WalleyeFIRST
Big numbers of trophy walleyes along with the eaters this week. Trolling with bright colored crank baits on down riggers or lead core line on the main basin in the ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
The population of walleye is declining on Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota's most popular walleye lake, and the DNR, local businesses and anglers find themselves ...

The Circle News
walleye_population1.jpg The walleye population in Lake Mille Lacs is the lowest in decades, and state Department of Natural Resources researchers are ...

Buffalo News
Key leaders in the Erie and Chautauqua county legislatures had a good time while trolling for walleye on Lake Erie off Dunkirk Harbor on Wednesday morning ...

Duluth News Tribune
Sam Cook column: Northern pike, in walleye-crazy Minnesota, get a bad rap. They smell bad. The little ones are pesky and annoying. Some walleyes purists ...

Price County Daily
The walleye bite has been good at daylight and dark but don't rule out a ... We are still finding the walleye scattered from six to 15 feet of water and the bite ...

Mason City Globe Gazette
Walleye — Slow: Most of the action is in deeper water on the various rock reefs using a small lead head with a quarter piece of nightcrawler. A few walleyes ...

The Coloradoan
Walleye conditions are good using bottom bouncers with a worm in deep waters during the early evening. Yellow perch is poor lakewide, though there are no ...

Gillette News Record
Posted 8/10/13. PLATTE, S.D. — Weather and walleye fishing are bringing more campers to South Dakota's state parks. Snake Creek, a state Game, Fish and ...

Coon Rapids Herald
When the walleye action slowed down late in the summer many anglers thought the fish lost their teeth. It made sense, some of the walleyes that were caught ...

Aitkin Independent Age
Summer walleye patterns were slow to develop but they're here now. Deep drop offs, underwater humps and bars, and even the deep edges of weedlines can ...

The Seattle Times (blog)
I fished 10 to 22 feet of water Monday and got 6 nice walleye and a bunch of small mouth bass and perch. Slow Death Rig's, and Silver Smile Blades do the trick ...

Daily Mining Gazette
Catches of walleye like the one above by the Henry Ciganich family of Holland were once common at Otter Lake. The two largest fish pictured weighed more ...

Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Crawlers and redtails are turning walleyes on the 15- to 20-foot weedlines of ... The majority of daytime walleye action continues to occur on the deep mud and ...

NewsOK.com
If you ever caught a walleye at Broken Bow Lake or a saugeye at Lake ... For 33 years, one of his duties has been collecting walleye and saugeye eggs from ...

Bismarck Tribune
Jerry Tishmack, a fisheries biologist at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, scoops walleye fry for stocking in North Dakota lakes. This year, the Game and ...

The Columbian
Buoy 10 season at the mouth of the Columbia River is off to a decent start although Tuesday's sampling at the Washington ports was 86 anglers with just nine ...

Leavenworth Times
City eyes new court software ... Fishing for Lake Superior walleye. A cool breeze drifting off Lake Superior made us shiver, a reminder that fall would soon arrive.

Helena Independent Record
The John Arnold Fish Derby is Saturday at Hauser Reservoir for walleye and ... The walleye bite has slowed a bit, but fishing has been consistent throughout the ...

Post-Bulletin
Dean Nelson, of Frontenac, nets a small sauger for Harlan Redfield during a Walleye Searchers of Minnesota event to take Zumbrota area veterans out fishing ...

KXLH Helena News
Fish biologists have been monitoring the perch and walleye populations on ... On Thursday, the Commission voted to increase the walleye limits and lower the ...

New Baltimore Voice Newspapers
Walleye and smallmouth bass have been the most plentiful fish, according to those in the know. "It's probably the best I've seen in 30 years," said Brian Ward, ...

Plain Dealer
While the walleye fishing has slumped, especially around western Lake Erie, the perch fishing continues to be very good close to home with limit catches ...

Bismarck Tribune
Walleye fishing on the Missouri continues to be better around the state line ... On Lake Sakakawea, walleyes are scattered but some of the bigger fish are still ...

GoErie.com
Off North East Marina, walleye are in about 90 feet of water, down about 50 feet. There have been reports of walleye in 55 feet of water off Shorewood, and in 50 ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Thursday morning, Griz and I were on the Mississippi, looking for walleyes but talking water moccasins. We found plenty of the former but none of the latter, ...

KPAX-TV
Fish biologists have been monitoring the perch and walleye populations on Canyon ... The FWP Commission voted to increase the walleye limits and lower the ...

Jamestown Sun
Devils Lake, Ed's Bait & Tackle, Devils Lake: Walleye success remains good. Work structure throughout the lake in 20 to 30 feet with crankbaits or spinners and ...

Delano Herald Journal
“Ninety percent of the walleyes are caught on 10 percent of the lakes, mostly ... Yellow perch are a staple in the diet of the walleye population on Lake Vermilion.

Grand Forks Herald
The deep mud and reefs continue to produce walleyes in 28 to 34 feet of water, where anglers are having their best luck using spinners and crawlers, jigs and ...

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Walleye Fishing Reports 8/8/2013 - 21 Stories

Clark Fork Valley Press
After a public meeting was held in Thompson Falls on March 19, many anglers that support the presence of the walleye expressed their opposition to the ...

Leavenworth Times
Fishing for Lake Superior walleye. Aug. 6, 2013 8:19 p.m.. Photo Gallery: Adult Men's Division 2 Softball. Aug. 6, 2013 7:32 p.m.. Get it to go ... Email Headlines ...

Buffalo News
Lake Erie's walleyes are heading north and west; Lake Ontario salmon are moving ... For walleye seekers the counsel would be go west and north, young and ...

Casper Star-Tribune Online
Walleye fishing in Keyhole Reservoir is still good. Try using worm ... Small walleye have been showing up, which is a good sign for next year. Fall fishing at ...

OregonLive.com
Willamette Valley/Metro: Walleye fishing on the Willamette River's Multnomah ... The walleye seem to prefer a little "bling" with their meal, in the form of a spinner ...

Gord Pyzer
How to catch more walleye and fewer bass when fishing in the weeds.
Outdoor Canada

It's a rough year to be a business owner depending on tourists around Mille Lacs Lake.

Midland Daily News
But while the audible walleye conversation usually focuses on at large lobe of Lake Huron, there are increasing whispers about walleyes from nearby inland ...

NorthcentralPa.com
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) evaluated the Tiger Muskellunge and Walleye populations in Blue Marsh Lake between April 2 and May 3, ...

Duluth News Tribune
Enforcement action taken for week included illegal length walleye, transport filleted fish while on water, transport watercraft with drain plug in, and no fishing ...

FishingWorld.com
Things change, that's the way it is. There usually isn't much you can do about it either, except maybe adapt. When it comes to walleye angling there have been ...

Sioux City Journal
PLATTE, S.D. | Weather and walleye fishing are bringing more campers to South Dakota's state parks. Snake Creek, a state Game, Fish and Parks campground ...

Walleye Central
Whether you're fishing for stripers in the middle sections of the country, crappies wherever crappies live, or walleyes in reservoirs and natural lakes, planer ...

Duluth News Tribune
Enforcement action taken for week included illegal length walleye, transport filleted fish while on water, ... A few walleyes were observed caught on area rivers.

Springvillejournal
WHOPPER OF A WALLEYE — Marcos Rodriguez brought in this 9-pound ... People that have never caught big walleye before are coming back to the dock with ...

Jon
Excellent walleye fingerling production from the Garrison Dam (9.7 million) and ... section leader, said with a record number of walleye waters across the state, ...
Dakota Country Magazine

KQCD
North Dakota lakes were stocked with a record amount of walleye fingerlings. One hundred ten lakes now have 11 million new fish. This is partly because there's ...

New Baltimore Voice Newspapers
Walleye and smallmouth bass have been the most plentiful fish, according to those in ... "The key to catching limits of walleye on (Lake St. Clair) is locating weed ...

The Beacon
It's been a strange fishing season this year. Normally we have to chase the nomadic walleye around to different areas of the lake as they follow their forage base, ...

Press Herald
WATERFORD, Vt. — A plan by fish and game officials from Vermont and New Hampshire to stock walleye in a Connecticut River reservoir between the two ...

The Tribune
WATERFORD, Vermont — A plan by fish and game officials from Vermont and New Hampshire to stock walleye in a Connecticut River reservoir between the two ...

Evening Observer
The walleye and yellow perch picture is starting to get a little clearer, but anglers may have to travel to get near-limit catches. The Northern Chautauqua ...