Circle this season. From the moment the water falls through the mid-50s until ice-up, the biggest walleye in every system feed hard, shallow and in predictable places. More trophy walleye are caught per angler-hour in fall than in any other open-water period, often by the few boats still on the water. Here’s how to fish…
Everything that limits shore fishing by day reverses at night. On clear lakes, walleye push shallow after dark, onto riprap, piers, causeways, beach troughs and river mouths, right into casting range. A shore angler with two rods, a headlamp and a warm jacket, standing on the rocks after dark, is fishing the same water as…
If walleye fishing were reduced to one lure, it would be a jig tipped with a minnow. More walleye have been caught on this combination than on everything else put together. A jig isn’t really a lure so much as a delivery system: it puts the bait exactly where walleye live, within 18 inches of…