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Eric,
Managed to get a half dozen legal walleye
during the tournament there last weekend. Was a typical Chatfield bite. Lots of walleye but the 18 inchers were rare. All came in 8.5 to 10 foot of water and jigs tipped with half a crawler. Got several smallies in the same depth but 14.5 inches was the biggest.

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Fished Chatfield on Sunday. Fished from 6am till 3:30pm, only caught 3 shakers. 2 in 14' of water on jig & crawler, 1in 39' of water on rig w/6' leader and crawler. Couldn't get any pattern going at all. Everyone else I talked to, same thing. Oh well (thats a deep subject for shallow minds),better luck next time.

Dan

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I was out there on Saturday about the same timeframe. Trolled cranks for a few hours but didn't pick up anything, then went to jigging spoons and caught one eye about 18" and missed about three other bites. They definitley haven't schooled up yet like they hopefully will once the water temps get below 50.

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Went out again last night. Real nice. I was the only boat on the lake for quite a few hours. Caught nice walleye and a nice trout pulling stickbaits along the dam. Mainly getting them in 6 - 8 foot of water which puts you really close to the rocks. Needless to say, I also ended up getting stuck on the dam as I got to shallow. Nothing like having to push yourself off the dam with an oar. frown.gif LOL

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Hey Eric, When your trolling, are you generally fishing your baits off the bottom, or are you suspending them. I really need to prefect my trolling speeds, I think most of the time I'm going to fast, but it's hard to use the trolling motor up front, with my rod holders in the back.

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Last night I seemed to get more bites trolling them really slow about 1 mph. Open water trolling I usually troll anywhere from about 1.5 to 2.5 mph. I guess eyes will hit even up to 4 mph although I have trouble getting lures to run right that fast. If I were you, I would troll with your main engine and then just do S turns. That way your lures are doing different speeds at all times.

Along the dam they seem to like the lure to bounce on the bottom a bit.

I'm no expert by any means though. confused.gif

I think GMCO on here can probably give you better advice than me. He's won tournaments trolling.

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Thanks, I'd like to get out on Boyd a few times the next couple of days, if the weather holds out. Jigging is much more my speciality, (if I were to have one!), but night time seems to be troll time. With the water temps cooling, things should start picking up.

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Me and my dad were out today. 6:30 am to noon. got 22 walleyes and 6 bass. biggest walleye was 20". great day to be out on the water. kinda breezy though. got them with a small jig and a night crawler. maybe they are starting to school up now huh? when the eyes hit it was all from about 7 to 10 then nothing for a while and then started to get the bass.

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