Your Biggest 'Eye?

[eyepatrol]

With the walleye opener only 8days, 0hrs, 36mins away (and counting), I just thought it would be interesting to hear what everyone's biggest walleye is? I'm sure there's been some dandy's caught and wondering if everyone would share?

To get this going, my biggest includes 2 - 29"ers and a 29.5" fish (avatar) which I caught on a small 200ac. lake. Never weighed any of the fish, but probably in the 8lb - 9lb range except for one 29"er which was skinny as a pike!

Still in search of that elusive 30"+ fish! I just know there's one with my name on it though!

[MuskyBug85]

my biggest was on opener 3 years ago and was 33" last year i got a couple of 31" waiting till i get one over 34" to get a replica made. last summer my boat had a string of 3 days were we put 4 fish over 30" in the boat and lost 2 others near the boat. Jonah

[Northlander]

Well Ill help this get momentum.

My personel best is a 32"er

Second is the 31.5 I have on the wall

Several others over 30"

Too many 28"-30"ers to count

I was out Crappie fishing the other day and got a monster 30" with a huge prespawn belly. In the 11# range Im guessing. Well over 10# Im sure. A blast on a light action rod.

1 thing I know is if you look for big fish you have to be on big fish waters at the best time of the year for those waters.

Im in search of a 33"er to mount next to the 31.5" on my wall now. Missed it threw the ice 3 years ago. Maybe she will be in the river waiting for me this opener.

Good luck this season and I hope everyone gets to better their PR's.

[Northlander]

Musky a 33"er? Wow thats a eye of my dreams! Any pics? I love big eye pics. If you could e-mail them to me that would be awesome.

[hanson]

Well...

My dad's biggest was this 28" on Lake of the Woods about 3 years ago through the ice. We caught a 25", 27", and that 28" that day within an hour & a half. That had to have been one of my best days on the ice ever.

And my buddy Briank landed this 27.5" accidentally 2 days ago while Cattin' on the Mississippi on a big chunk of cut sucker. You never know when fishin' the river.

Haven't hit 30" though!! Close many times but not the elusive 30".

[Team Otter]

29.25".

[picksbigwagon]

When I was living and teaching in NE Iowa, I caught a 29" walleye at the water discharge from the power plant, from shore no less. That was before I started, or knew about, catching and releasing the big fish, but she did feed 3 of us to almost capacity that night...

[ccarlson]

Two of them for me at 31.5" both weighing 11.6 pounds. I've caught quite a few between 30" and 31.5" (all released) but I can't seem to break 12 pounds yet. Like the other post said, the key to catching big walleye is to fish big walleye water (both finding a lake with big walleye present and also staying away from the numbers spots on those lakes and finding where the big ones are.)

Still some of my favorite fish have been the ones that others have caught with me like my 10 year old daughters 29.5", my dad's 32.25", and a couple that buddies caught, one weighing 12.12 pounds the othe 13.2 pounds. Of course they like to rub that in just a little.

Can't wait!

ccarlson

[Deitz Dittrich]

30.25"

[dirtking]

29" still waiting for 30

[markkstanley]

My avatar fish was shade over 30" weighed 13.3lbs Pool 4. Also have a 32" walleye from Rainy and another 31" from Minnetonka estimated weights around 11lb. All released. Lots of 28" and 29".

[Tyler Holm]

32.5" in the middle of the summer. It went 8.12.

I've also got 2 @ 28" (both over 8lbs)

I don't have any pictures of those monsters that I can post, but here's one for a month ago that went 27" (this was my first pre-spawn biggon)

[sunnyj]

I'll tell you on the 16th

Good luck everyone and be carefull.

[doser]

29 1/4" and probably about 10 26-27 inchers. The 29" was caught on Lake of the Woods two yrs ago.

[EXTREME]

My biggest was a 30.25" on the Rainy River in 2003. She was chunky...also caught my largest sturgeon that day too...that was 52 inches, plus it was my birthday. It doesn't get any better than that!!

[eyepatrol]

Boy, there are some real PIGS everyone has caught! That's awesome. I should mention that my dad last year caught the family's biggest (so far...until I beat him!)....it was a 30.5" fish on Rainy. I was rather surprised to some degree that he let it go, as I thought he would have mounted it. 10 years ago I'm certain he would have kept it. Looks like educating him about those big fish has paid off!

[Rost]

My biggest is only 28.5 inches. Still looking for that perfect 30! Other than that I have caught a bunch of 27's, and a boat load of fish in the 26 inch range.

I want a 30!!!

[Kab Dreamin]

I, too, am in search of the perfect 30" walleye. Maybe this fall while we're night fishing on the big pond. The one in my avatar is a 27 1/2" fish from Mille Lacs and is my biggest so far.

[DeBo101]

Caught two 30"ers in one week from Lake Thompson South Dakota when I was sixteen. The first one was in the 10.5 to 11# class and the second was skinnier only 9-9.5#. Got a 12# 31" walley from the Red River near selkirk. Biggest from 2 years of living and fishing in Minnesota is a 29" 9.7# on June 1st of last year.

Got my personal best bass jig walleye last weekend in SD. A pork chop 26.5" 7lb 14oz. That was a surprise casting wood cover.

I'll still never forget when my buddy's 13.7# came to the surface at the Red. ZOIKS!!!

[LEECH21]

Looks like I win the award for the SMALLEST biggest walleye at 24.5 inches I'd love to catch one bigger, but I don't fish walleye often enough.

[Sergeant Slabber]

28.5" through the ice 7 years ago

29.5" in open water 2 years ago

I hope the pattern continues so I can land a 30.5"er soon.

[Random guy]

Back in the days of lbs and not inches I caught a 8 1/2 lb walleye by accident fishing pike up in the reeds of a little hole in the wall lake. I never put a tape to the the fish, just weighed it and let go, how long should that thing have been?

[eyepatrol]

I'm not an expert, but I'd say if she was fat, maybe 27" - 27.5". If she was regular girth, 28.5" and if she was skinny, maybe 29" - 29.5".

[Bobby Bass]

My biggest was 10# 2oz what makes it special is that it was caught on 4# line and an ultra-light rod on the St Louis River

[riverrat56]

Jon, id say in the 28-29 range depending on time of year and girth.

My largest to date was a 25 in off my aunts dock, caught it on a deep diving crank. I think I've had around 11 23-24 inchers and numerous 20-23. Lost a piggy last year at the side of the boat, around 30, also caught a big sauger that night though........

Your not alone on a small biggest walleye Leech.