Walleye on the Fly?
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I’ll be returning home to Michigan and will be spending the week at the family lake house which is full of largemouth bass, bluegills, perch, and walleye…the typical Midwestern lake fare.
We do it here all the time. But if night fishing the walleyes may be shallow.
A full sink tip with a nuetral bouyancy minnow pattern can let you do somethin gear dudes can’t …leave the thing in their window.
What is up with photo bucket?
I’ve never gone after walleye on the fly personally, but I guide I know back home (WI) swears by simple rabbit-strip leech patterns. He would probably know since he holds the line class WR for the species. I don’t know about MI, but wild leeches in WI tend to be brownish, so I would recommend a grizzly-tan colored leech pattern. I would definitely go w/ a pretty heavy sink-tip line. Let it get down in the water and slowly strip it in. They are almost always light biters so you’ll have to keep the line slack free to feel the take. Good luck.
Taylor
Thank you to everyone with your suggestions so far…
I am going to have my father do some checking around with the fellows at the lake to see how deep they are fishing for them that time of year and may try to jump in the boat wtih one of them if possible.
I like the leech pattern idea…and was also thinking that a deep clouser might do the trick.
This isn’t saying that they won’t hit them but I think that fish has the least appetite for a clouser deep minnow out of any of the large predatory fishes I’ve ever fished for.
I’d bring a 10 wt. with a WFF if you have one and some wire.
Common misconception is that you need a wire leader with wallys. Their teeth do not interlock and I have never had a bit off from one.
The case gets more complicated in multi species water and your hard tied/bought creations get nipped off by some hammerhandle snot rocket.
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