Question for the PROS

[Guest]

Ive got a question for the pros. I fish the St Louis River in Duluth a lot and i only catch walleyes during the daylight hours. Ive tried many times to catch eyes at night but it just aint happenin. I would love to get into some midnight eyes. ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated.THANKS

[garytheguide]

I dont fish there, but go to the bwca-duluth- range forum, and they will help you out...good luck and set the hook!!

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[Guest]

The water may be too stained for a night bite. Try night fishing in the fall. Night time is for sleeping anyway.

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[Walleye_GFA]

Yea dont it suck to only get the eyes in the daytime !?!?!?!!?!?

Wally

[Shorelunch]

Is it generally true that night fishing is better in clear lakes (Bemidji, Tonka, Mille Lacs) than in stained lakes like LOW?

[Guest]

have you tried pitching jigs/minnows or cranks into the shallows 5ft or less? if not give it a whirl it does wonders for me on the miss and prairie so i would think it might work there too the shallower the better. just watch out for those nasty boat and motor eating rock fish and log trout! their mean at night good luck and give it a whirl.

[musky hunter]

You aren't alone on not catching fish at night on the St. Louis. When it gets dark down there, the bite seems to end. I remember catching one nice walleye in near darkness, but have never caught one after dark. However I went out one July night under a full moon for musky's. No luck. But all kinds of smaller fish were rising. Never seen anything like it during daylight down there. I switched to rapallas and tried to catch the rising fish, but to no avail. I thought they were smallmouth. But after that night, I nearly vowed to never be caught out on that river again after dark because navigation is so difficult and it's so easy to get out of the channell and in trouble down there.

[Guest]

the primary night lakes are generally clearer water. those stained rootbeer waters just dont seem to produce much after sundown.
i know of a few lakes around home that are shallow and clear and the only time to catch fish is at night or in the late summer when there is a heavy algea bloom..

[Northlander]

Not a night bite on the river. I suspect because of the stained water. I keep hoping I can keep fishing after dark but never do much. Catfish are all I try on the river after dark. Thats a lot of fun. Oliver and up.

[Toad]

Who says all dark water lakes and rivers don't offer a nightbite? Ok, so I agree, you guys are generally right, but remember, these are walleyes we're talking about-- exceptions always exist. For instance, how about great seasonal nightbites on rivers like the Red and the Minnesota, and at times, the Mississippi. Mille Lacs hasn't always been a real clear lake, yet the nightbite's always been good. Or lakes such as Big Stone / Traverse, in addition to a bunch of small stained to dirty lakes in my home region, or any number of darkwater impoundments throughout the west and lower midwest-- some of which receive heavy daytime recreational use.

Years ago, a group of us staying on LOTW's Northwest Angle were told you couldn't catch a walleye after dark. Didn't take but a few hours one evening to prove some of that contention wrong in a big way. Today, I'd hesitate to knock the nightbite on any lake or river 'til you've given 'er a go yourself. Walleyes originally evolved as a river dweller-- one greatly capable of seeing well both day and night, even in dirty water. Wasn't that long ago, either, that most walleye anglers still considered crankbaits to be bass lures that walleyes wouldn't touch.

-a friend called Toad