favorite structure for ealy season eyes

[lindyman]

What's everyone's favorite structure to fish around opener. I like fishing pockets in shoreline and between islands that are close to shorline. Also rocky ledges off points. Do you prefer sand or rock?

[BDR]

For certain lakes, I prefer weeds. Specifically "curl pondtail" and "milfoil" hit the edges with jigs and plastics or leech. And pockets in the upcoming weeds.

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JR's Tackle
Catch-N Tackle and Bio Bait

[This message has been edited by BDR (edited 05-09-2004).]

[LocalGuide]

My favorite would be a sand flat, adjacent to a sharp weed line in 10' of water.

My next is a rocky point with a weed patch on the top. That way the eyes can dark out from the weeds and get ya.

Pretty much any transitional area are pretty key in my walleye search.

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[Mike Walerak]

I prefer sandy areas with rocks mixed in. Right now in SD I am catching 'eyes on sand bars that have clups of boulders and brush in the mix. The most important thing to remember is that you are looking for baitfish not walleyes. Once you find the prefered baitfish the walleyes won't be to far away.
One other tip: look in the traditional bullhead spots. Walleyes love chowing on them this time of year on many lakes.
mw

[slick814]

Guess that depends on what Lake I'm fishing...
Different lakes hold 'Eyes on different structures. Mille Lacs, sand flats are my favorite, but up north, I prefer to find underwater reefs, humps, gravel, boulders, you get the idea..
Oh.. and of course, the BEST structure is the kind that the fish are on at the time!

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[greenwinger_13]

Well i am not an awesome walleye fisherman like a lot of you are, but i like to work the rocky drop-offs on points "powerbars" i call them. On vermillion, i enjoy watching 25 people sit on a sand bar and pull-up little dinks, when i sit just around the corner and get my limit of 18" inchers in 15 minutes. On the lake i live on, Ely Lake, the walleyes are there and beautifully sized... but you have to work ridiculously hard to catch them usually.

[iceguy75]

My personal fav. is weed points as the weeds are just starting to come up. Fished with a slipbobber and a leach, I've had alot of luck with that presentation on alot of lakes in a few diff. states.

[DARK30]

I spend very little time on lakes for walleyes but I will be this weekend. After dark we'll be anchored in 2-3 ft of water and throwing orig floating raps up into about 1-2 ft of water near a creek inlet. Later we'll fish the outlet in the same manner. No lights and no noise.

Good luck everybody!

WET NETS!

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