Walleye on a fly?

Anybody gone after walleye on a fly rod. Plannint to try my hand at some
pike fishing on the fly, yea I know it sounds like fun. Figured while I was
at it I might try to catch a few walleye. Always used spinning gear and
jigs. Any of you guys tried them on a fly rod. If so how? Thanks

OG,

I gather that Walleye are pretty deep most of the summer.

I guess that is one reason there are suppose to be so good eaten'.

I have heard that some do catch them on flies at the right time and place.

Maybe spring and fall?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA

Web site: www.kiene.com


"oldgoat" wrote in message
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Anybody gone after walleye on a fly rod. Plannint to try my hand at some
pike fishing on the fly, yea I know it sounds like fun. Figured while I
was
at it I might try to catch a few walleye. Always used spinning gear and
jigs. Any of you guys tried them on a fly rod. If so how? Thanks

In flowing water in my part of the world at any rate (the northeast), in the
rivers where they coexist with smallmouth, you can often clean up on walleyes
with a fly rod by simply waiting until the river is a couple shades off color
and fishing for them in the same lies the bass utilize in clear water. Behind
rocks, in the pockets and eddies in the heads of runs, etc. This works well in
the Allegheny, Juniata and a lot of the smaller streams where walleye and bass
are both found.

I think the key is to find a lake where the walleyes are in water
shallower than 30 feet so you can get to them.

I was not using a fly rod, but did recently go walleye fishing on Lake Erie.
If 30' is the upper bound for deep water fly fishing, then it would have
been possible for me...the deepest we fished was about 30', with most being
in the 20' range.

I think the key is to find a lake where the walleyes are in water
shallower than 30 feet so you can get to them.

I was not using a fly rod, but did recently go walleye fishing on Lake Erie.
If 30' is the upper bound for deep water fly fishing, then it would have
been possible for me...the deepest we fished was about 30', with most being
in the 20' range.

Tim Carter wrote:
I think the key is to find a lake where the walleyes are in water
shallower than 30 feet so you can get to them.


I was not using a fly rod, but did recently go walleye fishing on Lake Erie.
If 30' is the upper bound for deep water fly fishing, then it would have
been possible for me...the deepest we fished was about 30', with most being
in the 20' range.

Walleye fishing is a religion in Minnesota. I didn't get it -- I guess
it's a cultural thing. The serious fishermen use minnows. For artificial
lures, jigs work best in my experience.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Tim Carter wrote:
I think the key is to find a lake where the walleyes are in water
shallower than 30 feet so you can get to them.


I was not using a fly rod, but did recently go walleye fishing on Lake Erie.
If 30' is the upper bound for deep water fly fishing, then it would have
been possible for me...the deepest we fished was about 30', with most being
in the 20' range.

Walleye fishing is a religion in Minnesota. I didn't get it -- I guess
it's a cultural thing. The serious fishermen use minnows. For artificial
lures, jigs work best in my experience.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

GregP wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:29:54 GMT, "oldgoat"
wrote:


Anybody gone after walleye on a fly rod. Plannint to try my hand at some
pike fishing on the fly, yea I know it sounds like fun. Figured while I was
at it I might try to catch a few walleye. Always used spinning gear and
jigs. Any of you guys tried them on a fly rod. If so how? Thanks



Your best bet would be in the spring, when they come into
shallower water to spawn. Otherwise you will have to dredge
for them and even then you are not likely to reach them in
deeper lakes.

Or you could fish at night. They come into shallow water at night and
feed aggressively. The hard part is finding the shallow water feeding areas.

Willi

GregP wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:29:54 GMT, "oldgoat"
wrote:


Anybody gone after walleye on a fly rod. Plannint to try my hand at some
pike fishing on the fly, yea I know it sounds like fun. Figured while I was
at it I might try to catch a few walleye. Always used spinning gear and
jigs. Any of you guys tried them on a fly rod. If so how? Thanks



Your best bet would be in the spring, when they come into
shallower water to spawn. Otherwise you will have to dredge
for them and even then you are not likely to reach them in
deeper lakes.

Or you could fish at night. They come into shallow water at night and
feed aggressively. The hard part is finding the shallow water feeding areas.

Willi

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:14:02 -0500, Kevin Vang
wrote:

In article ,
says...
Anybody gone after walleye on a fly rod. Plannint to try my hand at some
pike fishing on the fly, yea I know it sounds like fun. Figured while I was
at it I might try to catch a few walleye. Always used spinning gear and
jigs. Any of you guys tried them on a fly rod. If so how? Thanks



At this timw of year, the tricky part will be finding them in shallow
water. Usually, but not always, that will mean fishing at night. You
will probably do best by getting up a few hours before sunrise. As a
side benefit, you will probably have the lake all to yourself

If your lake has a Hex hatch, try to get into a shallow muddy bay
around midnight or so. Bounce a small weighted Olive Woolly Bugger
on the bottom -- walleye will come from all over to hit the emerging
nymphs. Sometimes they even hit them on the surface too, so it
wouldn't hurt to carry a few dries, but this is actually pretty
rare.

If it gets really windy, head to the windward shore. Wade out into
the surf and fish the edge of the mud that the waves stirred up.
Walleye and pike will hunt the edges of the mud for baitfish that
come to feed on the bugs and stuff that get stirred up in the mud.

Good luck,

Kevin


My son, when out with his uncle, encountered a hex hatch where the
walleyes were going nuts on top, hitting the duns. He didn't have
anything to match.

The town of North Bay, Ontario are taken over every June by a massive
hex hatch and the locals claim that fishing is impossible during the
hatch as all of the fish in the lake gorge on them.

Now if I could only get a boat . . . . .

Peter

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