percent of fishing time actually fishing walleye vs other species

[laker1]

This being a walleye site I would think the time seeking walleye would be high ? Myself it is 5 percent walleye and the rest other species. I love my smallmouth bass and crappie. Do think the walleye is over rated and have we become fanatics over promoting walleye welfare over other species ?

[Northlander]

90% walleye, 5% crappies and the other 5% trout/salmon.

[gunflint]

99% walleyes. I will occasionally target a specific northern to get my rig back.

[JeffB]

80% walleye

[paceman]

80 Walleye

10 Panfish

10 bass

[andrew chadwick]

depends on time of year. recently its been

60% trout and salmon

40% walleye

[andrew chadwick]

depends on time of year. recently its been

60% trout and salmon

40% walleye

[DonBo]

100% walleye...unless the crappies are biting.

[SledNeck]

100% walleye after july, before that its 100% bass

0% crappie. Put it this way, Id rather spend a day in prison than go crappie fishing. If crappie fishing was the last form of fishing left, I would take up golf.

[solbes]

40% walleye

20% pike

20% bass

20% pannies

[OnAFly]

30% Crappie

30% Walleye

30% Pike

10% Bass

[slovene]

Walleye=99.99%

The other 0.01% of the time isn't actually fishing, but taking off any "rough fish" other than walleye that end up on the line!!

[HOT SPOT]

90% Walleye

9% Muskie

1% if all other season closed panfish and bass (to Boring/easy)Bass at least, it can be fun hunting for Crappie

[LMITOUT]

Walleye=99.99%

The other 0.01% of the time isn't actually fishing, but taking off any "rough fish" other than walleye that end up on the line!!

Best answer yet.

[Seabass77]

100% whatever's biting!!

I tend to target the bite that is going good on my home lake or my area. If the crappies are on fire and the walleyes are slow going, this is a no brainer. All things being equal or close, walleyes.

[CatchPhotoFilet]

100% a specific species for where I am at. Walleyes in MN, Big Pike in ND, Kings in alaska. You have to put the time in to catch the big ones!

[icctolson]

80% walleye

20% crappie (spring/fall)

[Bullwinkled]

Spring Walleye/Crappie. Summer 75% Bass (large and small)25% Walleye and panfish (sunfish/crappie). Fall, cranking or jigging for anything that bites.

Winter 75% panfish 25% Wallyeye.

A lot of this is predicated on where I live and fish locally.

If a lived close to walleye waters I would fish more.

Do not find bass boring at all, I enjoy casting a lot. Walleye can be very boring on central minnesota lakes reliant on stocking. I never get to the great walleye lakes much.

[JBMasterAngler]

Less than 1% for walleyes, the other 99% depends on time of year and what body of water I'm on, but it's usually bass (panfish in winter).

[Borch]

Open water:

Walleye 70%

Catfish 9%

Panfish 9%

Bass 7%

Pike 3%

Trout/Salmon 2%

Ice Fishing

Panfish 80%

Walleye 8%

Catfish 7%

Pike 4%

Trout 1%

[Steve Foss]

Lake trout = 85 percent

Pike = 5 percent

Walleye = 5 percent

Pannies = 5 percent

I essentially only pursue walleye/pike anymore when inland lake trout season is closed. The month-long window of first/early ice is one time I'm after walleye/pike because laker season isn't open yet. I've got a coupla lakes up here where I do tip-ups for pike all day and then transition into the evening walleye bite. Fried pike fingers are the only thing that tastes better than a lake trout fillet, so that explains that. My wife loves fresh walleye fillet, so that explains that, too.

Until January, when the real fishing begins.

I'd like to say I concentrate on ice pannies after winter laker season closes, but it's not true. By the time lakers are over I've been rode hard and put up wet, and I'm building up stamina for the spring laker opener.

The panfish come while fishing open water with my wife, who is a true slip-bobber assassin and likes nothing better than to anchor/drift a July cabbage line with small leeches and tank up on 'gills.

Things change. If you'd have asked me that question 15 years ago I'd have responded with: Channel cats = 85 percent. But walleyes still would have been around 5 percent. Walleyes are for Norwegians.

[mrfish1991]

10% eyes

90% anything that will bite

the only time I specifically target walleyes is on opener. and even then sometimes the weather forces me into a small bay and then I switch to panfish/crappie rigs.

When Im at home most of my time is spent targeting LMB but if they arnt cooperating i will dink around for whatever will take my bait.

[PerchJerker]

When I'm fishing around home (metro area) I rarely target walleyes --- occasionally I target walleyes near home (fall fishing) --- but usually I'm fishing with my young kinds and we go for pannies, or bass, or pike, or muskies.

The trips I take away from home are almost always specifically for walleyes.

[fishermatt]

Walleyes only from Opener in May to Close of season in February, then Sunfish thru the ice til Ice Out.

[MarkAlm]

I would say 90-95% of the time , the other 5% would be panfish

in the late winter ice . GLAD to see there are others as SICK as

I am. HA HA !