The Nodak Outdoors offers some
of the best walleye fishing anywhere. Whether you prefer fishing
rivers, lakes, reservoirs, sloughs, dams, etc. there's a style of
walleye fishing for you. When the fish run shallow in the spring
and the fall you can throw a dart at the map and there's a hot walleye
lake within 30 miles. You have to get on the water to experience
walleye fishing like this.
Ontario Walleye Fishing
Ontario is walleye country. You can find great action
for these tasty, golden fish in a variety of settings, from the
Great Lakes to shallow and fertile cottage-country reservoirs, to
deep, clear rivers and lakes on the Canadian Shield.
Fishing begins in late spring as post-spawners concentrate at river
holes, river-mouths, inlets, rocky shorelines, sandbars, shallow
reefs, sunken islands, and emerging weedbeds.
Using jigs weighing 1/8- to 3/8-ounce, dressed with
soft-plastic twister-tail or shad bodies, marabou feathers or bucktail,
is one of the easiest and most effective ways to fish.
Hungry walleye dispersing from spawning areas seldom
refuse a jig, especially when tipped with a minnow or a worm. Vertical
jig or cast to rocky shorelines, shoals, and weedlines. In stained
lakes, chartreuse, lime green, yellow, pink, and white are effective
jig colours. When adding bait, use a stinger hook to catch walleye
that strike short.
During the late-spring/early-summer peak walleye
bite, these fish also hit a wide variety of minnow plugs and crankbaits
that imitate shiners or yellow perch, one of their main forage bases
in many lakes. These lures can be cast or trolled around shoals
and weedlines. Walleye love live bait, and a variety of slip-sinker
and bottom-bouncer rigs can be used to put a minnow, worm, or leech
in front of them. Drift with these rigs when wind or current allow
it, back-troll, or inch along with an electric motor or small gas
kicker.
Fishing Links
By mid-summer, walleye travel to deeper structure,
such as sunken islands, main-lake points, dropoffs, shoals, and
mid-lake weedflats. Spring tactics and baits still take them, but
are usually fished deeper, so heavier jigs, rigs, and deep-div-ing
lures are called for.
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