Walleye fishing a flat lake

[leotard]

most of the lakes where I fish are flat nothing to them and I have a heck of a time cathchin the walleyes. keepers especially. anyone got any tips. Thank you in advance.

[Team Otter]

If there are any transition areas to speak of, focus the start of your search there.

[leotard]

Like I stated they are litterally flat with no drop offs or any thing they are only between 5 to 7 feet deep. i have tried to get close to shore where I am in a shallower spot and drill some holes where it is deeper. then go back and forth it just doesnt work for me.

[slurpie]

where in the state are you from i fish lakes like this with great success.

[leotard]

South West. south of you about hour hour and a half

[hhguide]

I agree with Team otter those transition areas. What I think he means by that its sand to mud transitions, weeds to sand, weeds to mud, Rock or gravel to sand those type of transitions. Those will hold baitfish where they can hide thats what I would concentrate on. If their is any current (rivers, streams or creeks) you could look their also.

[leotard]

thank you and i will try when i find out where these are located at.

[riverrat56]

Finding transition areas is much easier in open water, take a slow troll acrossed the lake and look for changes in the bottom signal, then mark them on your GPS. In the winter, space holes out farther until you find something differnt and then drill inbetween the two until you find an edge. In those shallow lakes even a depth change of 6" can be a big differnce.

[Team Otter]

thank you and i will try when i find out where these are located at.

Yup, what Drake said. Thanks for clarifying.

[leotard]

Thank you guys very much. so I have done a little more research on this one lake that I would really like to fish and there is a sand streak. Also there is a place with the rocks that is about 50 feet long and 10 to 15 feet wide. my question is do you go right on top of either one or to the side. by the rocks it is deeper. quite shallow in the sand streak.

[zepman]

I fish alot of these type of lakes as well. You are getting some good advice in the previous posts. Only one other thing I would mention is to be very quiet on the ice and if you fish at night do not use much, if any, lighting. Also, I have been playing with the reel weeds this year for the first time. I believe it's giving me a little extra time to catch the fish when they come through. I'm a pretty tough sell but I do think that by using these it's upped my catch rate significantly this year. They WILL put the brakes on those roaming fish in these types of lakes.

[Team Otter]

Thank you guys very much. so I have done a little more research on this one lake that I would really like to fish and there is a sand streak. Also there is a place with the rocks that is about 50 feet long and 10 to 15 feet wide. my question is do you go right on top of either one or to the side. by the rocks it is deeper. quite shallow in the sand streak.

Fish on the side or tip of structure.

[leotard]

So when using the reel weeds around my 8x20 fish house how close would i put them and just along the sides? thank you all very much again.

[zepman]

Just along the sides and away from your holes enough so that the fish won't take you into them. Learned that lesson early on.

[leotard]

So i have got 14 strings of the weeds. you say that i should put em on the sides only. i have put them in for crappie fishin never tried with walleys. i usually go about every 2 feet then. but i go around 3 sides.

[slurpie]

if you can find a hole in this type of lake seems to be better than a hump.and the holes may not be very big either. the ones i have found hold walleyes first ice and alot of pannies at last ice. why this is i dont know but thats how it seems. And transistion areas are good but if you can find an inward curve would make the spot better. To me it seems the fish travel the length of the transistion and rarely stop its like they are just roamers in this type of lake. A calm summer day or alot of hole drilling is what your left with now.

[leotard]

So I went out to move my house today put it at the tip of the sand streak and i cought a small walleye almost right after i got my holes drilled. wish i could have stayed but the mrs. had other plans so oh well. just wanted to say thank you again for your suggestions.

[hhguide]

Good to hear. I hope you get the big one!