Cranks in Shallows

[witter1631]

Anyone getting some walleyes at night shallow yet?

[jts]

caught some in 8-12 feet trolling number 5 jointed shad raps. nothing else worked but them. This was over a week ago when the water temp. was about 56 so not sure what's hot with all this cold weather hitting.

[PerchJerker]

Yep

Planning to get some tomorrow night too on a local lake, going to try to get to bed a little earlier this weekend.

[eyepatrol]

How about walleyes in the morning right through the middle of the afternoon? (rhetorical question there)

We had the Southcentral Fall get-together today and it was a pretty decent bite in some tougher conditions. Cranks and rattletraps in 2'-6' of water adjacent to and over gravel and rock ruled the roost today, both trolled and casted. Live bait was a dead issue. Got my first fall walleye ever today (nice 18.5" fish) on a red/black rattletrap (yet another first). Many FAT fish in the 18" - 22" range were caught with these techniques at these depths. LOADS of fun!

Water temp down here ranged from 42 - 49 degrees on the surface (which was warmer than the outside air!)

[wiz]

Had a blast last week in the evenings wading out on the beach area on Silver lake by Hawley, Minn. Caught and released many walleyes between 20" and 28" about 4 a nite between 7and 8 o'clock. Silver and black X-raps!

[Team Otter]

It's time!

[CNY Tim]

It's been awesome fishing here in NY for shore eyes on Oneida been using the Challenger Junior minnnows and they have been working quite well any color...

[Borch]

I've seen eyes in less than a foot of water fishing at night the past couple of weeks. Is that shallow enough?

It's been happening for weeks already. Fishing is very good!

[CNY Tim]

Borch - Jay hooked one about 6" from the bank in a few inches of water and couldn't finish the deal but he crashed it hard you could here it a 1/2 mile out. He had it for a few seconds and couldn't budge him. Interestingly enough 3 years back a 31" was caught in that area

[Borch]

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Borch - Jay hooked one about 6" from the bank in a few inches of water and couldn't finish the deal but he crashed it hard you could here it a 1/2 mile out. He had it for a few seconds and couldn't budge him. Interestingly enough 3 years back a 31" was caught in that area

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Definitely gets the blood pumping!!!!

[Northlander]

Biggest walleye I ever caught, 32", came from shore and out of less than a foot of water. 2 cranks on the reel and in the net. Kind of a bumber for a fish that big.

[CNY Tim]

32" that's a huge fish. Mine was 10lb's 30" on the button. One of these days I'll get a replica done when I have an extra 500 laying around.

The colder it gets the larger the cranks I throw, nothing like slow crawling a big smithwick super roque for big fish.

[Northlander]

CNYTIM I didnt pay that much for my 31.5" replica. You can do better than that and I can get ya info if needed.

[CNY Tim]

Thanks Northlander when I'm ready I'll contact ya