Sore mouths?

[Bobberboy]

Anyone know anything about walleyes going through a stage where their mouthes hurt and effect the way they bite?

[JohnMickish]

One of the oldest wives tails known to man. From what I understand it came about from the lack of success during the late summer months. The poor fishing was blamed on the fish not biting due to sore mouths when actually it's probably because of an abundance of forage fish in the lake. It couldn't be because of poor fishermen.

Pike losing their teeth is also a wives tail. Don't believe them.

[PerchJerker]

Yep. Fish are biting all summer long. If you're not catching them try changing your tactics and location. Like mnfishingguy said, there's A LOT of forage out there right now, and the young-of-the-year forage are getting bigger!

[Slabasaurus]

The lake I fish is full of walleye food. Now I just noticed that there's a new hatch of crappies that are going to be AWESOME in 2 years for me. But right now they, and the perch (I caught a bunch of 2-5" perch off of my dock last weekend), are keepin Walter full. Each eye i've landed this year is probably cuz i slapped it in the face with a leech/spinner and they had to eat it. Like me with blueberry pie... but that's another topic. Oh. And they got a little seasick in the live well and showed me how many perch they had in their bellies. Lots, and they were decent size.

This weekend I am going to try big fatty minnows under slip bobbers... and probably jig something that is not a minnow.

[SkunkedAgain]

Actually, you're all wrong. The walleyes' feelings get hurt because we keep fooling them over and over again, so they decide not to bite our lures out of protest. My old roommate read it in a magazine once so it's true.

[tacklejunkie]

I used to think that. I heard it from so many old timers I figured it was true.

Over time, I learned to troll spinners with a leech or crawler in deeper water in late summer with success.

Now, my late Julys and Augusts are reserved for nothing but Lake Trout fishing, anyways

[Slabasaurus]

I had hoped Walter (the walleye, not sobchak) wasn't so fickle that they would actually not bite out of spite and protest...

[james_walleye]

Isnt it along the same lines as the northern pike losing their teeth and not wanting to bite....

[jigginjim]

After several larger pike have gone thru my taxidermy shop. I have seen many of the pike DO have replacement teeth. It looks as they have teeth ready to fill in were one maybe lost. Which I'm sure is true.

But as for the sore mouth? Get a net 1/4 mile long x 8ft deep. Sien all the little bait fish out the lake in mid-July your august fishing will be great. reduce to food supply.

[tunrevir]

I always figured that the walleyes got sore mouths from all of them hitting my cranks and jigs over the summer

Tunrevir~