| Sometimes determining the best walleye fishing | | | | walleye. Fishing techniques often fishing the entire |
| techniques involves looking at the common | | | | structure to assure that nothing was missed in |
| mistakes that people make when they head out | | | | your efforts, but it is usually more fulfilling to |
| to the lake for a full day of fishing. Setting | | | | target three or four areas of the structure for |
| yourself up for success means allaying fears, | | | | best results. |
| myths, and misinformation and building knowledge | | | | One of the best walleye fishing techniques is to |
| based on pure proven fact. | | | | look for baitfish. Walleye are quite instinctual and, |
| For example, when people head to the lake on a | | | | to put it bluntly, dumb. They simply follow the |
| boat, most think of the area as a big fish bowl, | | | | food in their daily migrations, so where you find |
| with specimens swimming to and fro throughout | | | | baitfish, you are likely to find walleye. A |
| the entire body of water. However, the true | | | | depthfinder can be of great assistance in this |
| angler is aware that fish tend to gather and hold | | | | endeavor, easily locating a school of baitfish that |
| in certain areas, and most of the lake may be | | | | you can follow throughout the day. Some of |
| fruitless despite all efforts. Walleye fishing | | | | these tools can also help you identify the |
| techniques used by these anglers have been | | | | transitions between types of floor in the body of |
| developed through the years with the assistance | | | | water, allowing you to target the ridges where |
| of maps, depthfinders, and fishing reports that | | | | walleye are bound to be resting. |
| offer helpful hints of where the bites can be | | | | Walleye fishing techniques also take into account |
| found. To tweak your technique, choose three or | | | | the weather on any given day of fishing. If you |
| four spots in the lake that seem like productive | | | | are fishing a flat, try to do so facing into the wind |
| areas based on your research and target these | | | | because the wind helps hold the fish in place by |
| instead of wasting your time trolling the entire | | | | directing the current of the water in the same |
| lake with no results. | | | | orientation. Therefore, they cannot idly fall over a |
| Often areas where there are large underwater | | | | ridge into deeper water and will be easily targeted |
| structures tend to be great fish gathering spots. | | | | in the small prison that you've created from the |
| When you find a structure (perhaps a sunken | | | | other side. Also, walleye don't like brilliant, bright, |
| island or a gathering of debris), you should start | | | | hot light like the sun and will stay further towards |
| by targeting the transitional areas, where the | | | | the bottom or, especially on a sunny day, you |
| bottom may change from hard to soft, sand to | | | | should be targeting shaded and shadowy areas to |
| rock, or similar, since these are favored ridges for | | | | find walleye. |