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(Provided by Lindy Lures)
By Daniel Quade
Wherever open season allows the pursuit of walleyes, early spring is prime time for tapping one of the year’s best bites. Wherever open season allows the pursuit of walleyes, early spring is prime time for tapping one of the year’s best bites. Thanks to the spawning migration, big numbers of fish gather in predictable places, offering savvy anglers a shot at banner catches.
For veteran fishing guide Jason Muche, the open-water period’s early days mean finding places where lake-run ’eyes focus on warm inflows. On his home waters of Wisconsin’s famed Lake Winnebago Chain and Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, that means keying on tributaries such as the Wolf and Fox rivers.
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(Great Lakes Fishery Commission)
The Lake Erie Committee has announced its recommended total allowable catch (TAC) of 11.081 million pounds of yellow perch and 4.027 million walleye for this season.
These recommended harvest levels represent a modest decrease in allowable yellow perch harvest and a modest increase in walleye harvest for 2014.
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By Abe Smith
(Provided by Smithwick Lures)
Smithwick Perfect 10 RogueCharter captains on the Great Lakes don’t waste much time testing every new lure that hits the market. They know the two or three best baits for trolling for walleyes and that’s that. Don’t even bring a new lure to the party.
So, when a lure crashes in from nowhere to enter the ranks of elite Lake Erie walleye baits, the old timers get a little upset. Solid belief systems are shaken. Old confidences are questioned.
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(Provided by PRADCO Lures)
by Daniel Quade
First-Freeze WalleyesA shout echoes unanswered across the barren icepack of Minnesota’s massive Upper Red Lake. It’s hardly a call for help, much less a greeting. It was veteran walleye guide Jonny Petrowske, proving a point about getting away from the crowd to corral first-ice ’eyes.
“If I yell at the top of my lungs and no one hears me, I’m far enough away from other anglers,” he grins.
Petrowske says that even aggressive walleyes get skittish when clamorous hordes of winter warriors overrun the ice. Since the only reply to his thunderous vociferations was the raspy, disapproving cackle of a raven drifting overhead, it appears we’re good to go.
We’re targeting early winter walleyes shortly after the mighty lake’s surface has solidified. Shallow and relatively featureless, Upper Red is typical of many fisheries that are first to freeze, and first to offer a chance at hardwater walleyes.