Walleye this - walleye that - PIKE?!?

[Aquaman01]

All I keep hearing & reading is "walleye-walleye-walleye" - am I the only one, besides Lunker that is gonna lustily chase after Esox Lucius?

I'm having opener with my 4-year old son, and I'm not gonna bore him too much with a bunch of boat control, endless jigging, lindy-drifting, etc. I want to put him (and me!) on action!

I'm thinking of searching a bit with a black #4 or #5 Mepps, or maybe jigging a big fat sucker on a bucktail jig, and then throwing a QSR/sucker with a spinner blade in front.

The lake I'm hitting is small, with a shelf from shore, and sharp drop-offs over 10'-40' to another shelf and then a big, deep basin. I'm thinking starting against the drop-off with the smallest shelf, and working back from shore and deeper down with each cast. The weedier the better.

I'm hoping this approach puts a couple of nice eater-sized northerns in the cooler, and a bunch of pics on the camera.

Anybody else?

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Peace and Fishes

[Fisher Dave]

I will be chasing northerns myself on the opener. I am literally surrounded by nearly untouched northern lakes, and the rivers here are full of them too. There are some locals who fish but tecnology hasn't surpassed the ugly stick, wal-mart line and red-eyes quite yet. There are plenty of walleyes around .. but they can wait until later (night) when anyone else that actually made it out goes home.

I'm in the northern part of the state and the water is still in the mid 50's. I'll be focusing on the shallow water with large rapala's and spoons looking for the pike chasing the panfish around.

If you ever want to make it to this part of the state be sure to look me up. Maybe someday we could get mr GFA, mr mom to stop up too(if his wife lets him out) ...

[Aquaman01]

Fisher Dave -
What part? My family and I are going up to Kab Memorial week. E-mail me - [email protected]

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Peace and Fishes

[Lunker]

As metioned, I too will be chasing our friend the pike. I think I'll hit the top of the emerging weeds that are coming up. I was out yesterday fishing for sunnies, and there were a lot of fish of all species submerged in the weeds. They pop out to hit baits, so ill throw spinnerbaits and cranks. If that doesn't produce I'll do some trolling I think. Good luck all

[Lunker]

Well, I didn't really need to chase the pike. No one was having any luck on artificials on opener, so I stuck with leeches for walleyes, ended up catching 2 pike, and losing about twice that many. My first cast with a leech yielded a 21", caught about a 24" later on a minnow. Broke a couple lines as well.