Walleyes and mayfly hatch??

[FishnBear]

What is the best way to catch walleyes during the mayfly hatch?? thanks in advance

[gunflint]

Other than finding a different lake for a week what has worked best for me is slip floating a small leech in the middle of the frenzie and a lot of patience.

[DEADhead]

throw out a mayfly imitation with your flyrod and hope they take it

[axel]

I WOULD BUY AN AMPLE SUPPLY OF MILLER LITE AND LEAVE THE BOAT HOME.

[Team Otter]

Suspended fish can be very active during the mayfly hatch especially during mid-day. I have caught quite a few fish right underneath the mats of mayflies in the main basins of lakes with cranks behind boards.

[eyepatrol]

We occassionally run into that situation while on our Canada vacations in the past. Man, that can be tough fishing!!! I just keep at it and try many different locations. Otherwise, I fish for another specie like pike.

[Rost]

Try different depths in the water column. Walleyes will roam from top to bottom feeding on the larva rising up from the bottom. In fact, years ago, we got on a bite where we were casting jigs and ripping them through the top 2 feet of water in a 11 ft lake. Often times your jig would get hit before it would even get the chance to sink. We could see the walleyes swirling the surface around us once in awhile. It was crazy.

I've also heard of guys live baiting with the smallest hammered gold spinner you can buy. Suspended, of course.

[Northlander]

Rost you hit it on the head. In the BWCA this happened to us and all I could catch eyes on was a dime sized hammered copper spinner with a small shot a few feet above it. Casting it out seemed much better than trying to paddle threw the suspended eyes. I would think a small gold spin n glow would do the same.

Between the mayfly hatch and the Cottonwood bloom we had a tuff summer in the Bdub that year.

[beer batter]

small spinners with a couple red beads, single small hook and a piece of night crawler. Drag that right off the bottom and it looks like a larvae floating up out of the mud.

Maybe ask a fly fisherman what they'd use too.

[WigglinMyWorm]

I've done well with just a regular crappie jig with the feather tails......smaller the better......tie a small float about 36" up the line and keep popping the float to bring the jig up to the surface.....colors vary....but once you find the right color it's go time.

[slick814]

Flu-Flu.. SMALL flu-flu... drop it right down into the suspended 'Eyes that are looking for the larvae. I've had decent success with that, jigging something like a Ratso or Shrimpo in the middle of the frenzy, too. Matching the hatch is important in the case of the Mayfly hatch, I think.

I've also caught a few on spinner rigs (tipped with half of a half crawler ) trolled right on bottom, and a deep diving crankbait here and there. Guess once in a while they'll look for something a bit meatier than the mayflies?

[Tony Boshold]

I have experienced this a few times in MN and I agree with the feathers. I have had my luck using a white jig head and a black fuzzy grub with a the brown and black feathers and a minnow, sort of match the hatch. The fish we caught were down in sand grass from 17-24' and chowing. We had a great bite when ever we see the mayflys. In northern wisconsin we hit the mud flats with lindy rigs and long leaders tipped with leeches, classic mayfly bite.

One sure fire way to know your seeing mayflys is looking at the tree tops, they will look like they are smoking like a chimney with mayflys.

Anyway bugs hatch in the mud, and fish feed on bugs in the mud and emerging. Any thing on the mudline like sandgrass, rocks, gravel, sand that transitions into the mud can be holding points. I like a jig and fuzzy grub and minnow there. But, if they are spread on the mud flats then the lindy rigs and leeches come out.

[Cliff Wagenbach]

I have had a great bite during the mayfly hatches by using a lindy rig with a red or green size #4 baithook baited with around 2-1/2inches of crawler.

Fish this rig slowly right on the bottom among the hatching nymphs.

I have boated over 100 walleyes a day many time using this method!

Cliff

[DuluthGuy]

Well, I tie up a rig with a couple yellow and one larger green bead (I have also used just a gold bead or two) then bait of choice - like Cliff said a 1/2 piece of nike will work well.

Remember 'Match the Hatch'. Also, green jigs work great this time of year, if that what you have~

B2

[Northlander]

Butch would 1/2 of my size 14 nike work? What color? Hightop, 3/4 top or low top? Maybe something in a running nike? Would my green nike waffle trainers from 1884 do the trick?

[DuluthGuy]

Maybe your whole size 14 Nike(w/treble) - preferably dragged behind a 33' 1" Chris Craft Coho, down about 20-30' (this time of year) and a spinner to make it legal~

How long did David Blaine stay under water for?

I think you can beat it!

Smart Bass~

B2

[Cliff Wagenbach]

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Butch would 1/2 of my size 14 nike work?

What color? Hightop, 3/4 top or low top? Maybe something in a running nike? Would my green nike waffle trainers from 1884 do the trick?

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I would think that a nike sneaker from (1884) drug thru the water would be considered poisoning! You could get a large ticket for that one!

Cliff