Far North Walleyes

[Guest]

Question? I am heading up to Canada next week on a fly in. What are the best methods to catch walleyes at this time of year? We are 165 miles north of the border. We always do well up there but I wanted some more info on how to get to the bigger fish. What are the best depths and areas for the big ones. I know there are 30" plus in this lake. I think the real issue is that there are just to many 20" fish. Any tips?

[fishnutbob]

I own a fly in cabin north of red lake ontario.I went up the middle of june we used nothing but jigs with crawlers half a crawler on a jig worked great. The biggest walleye Ive caught was a 10lb on a tinnsel tail jig with a 6inch leech no live leeches in canada but berkley makes a power leech and a power minnow try both the minnow in the blue and silver, 3 inch also I would bring some plugs like rapala for trolling and dont forget, a must the big doctor spoon in silver. Good Luck

[Guest]

If you want to catch a trophy walleye then you have to fish a lake that has them. Not every lake in canada grows trophy walleyes. The more north you go the more this is true. I other words the walleyes in the lake you fish most likly don't get much bigger then 20 inches.
If you wanted to catch a trophy pike I'd bet you would go to a lake that has lots of trophy pike caught out of there every year right. Other wise what's the point of spending all that money to catch the same size pike you could catch at a lake 20 min. from your house.
When looking for a lake that grows trophies be sure to ask the owner how many walleyes they catch over 28 inches every year, and if they can send pics of these walleyes.

[Renneberg]

BigTroutHunter is right. I know a guy that goes to Church Hill (south of Hudson Bay)every year. He's been going there for 12 years now. He said the catch hunderds of walleyes, and the biggest walleye they've ever caught out of there was 22 inches. You would think that catching so many walleyes that he would catch one over 24 inches sooner or later, right. The only reason I can think of is that the lake just dosen't grow walleyes that big.