You mentioned having trouble catching walleye near your own home. I grew up in Minnesota catching them at night. We used "Lindy Rigs" which is a long leader with a sliding weight with a hook and worm on the end. Blow the worm full of air (worm blower bottle) so it floats. Throw out the lindy rig into shallow water (1-4 feet) and just let it sit there. Walleyes seem to work together and come shallow at night so as to push the baitfish into the shore (where it is harder for them to get away). Walleyes see exceptionally well at night... their prey does not. They hunt at night. You can too. Give it a try.
Great information, Tyler. The 2023 Fall Walleye Index Netting report on Moses Lake will be available soon. Lots of nice walleye all over the lake. FYI, Sprague Lake was rehabbed in order to get rid of walleye and reboot the warmwater fishery. The plan was to stock trout as a transitional fishery until the warmwater fishery became established through stocking of bass, bluegill and crappie. That has proven to be difficult due to a few factors. Carp and bullhead are still abundant.
Thank you so much for all of this helpful information. I live in Richland WA. If you ever want to do a Walleye and Sturgeon combo day around McNary or Boardman, you have an open invite. I have learned so much from your channel and would like to say thanks. You would have to jump in my 22 ft center console. I don't Kayak fish....I am not a great walleye fisherman, probably a little below average.
Cominco Mines in Trail, British Columbia is one major culprit. They have been dumping tailing directly into the river for decades. That may have stopped more recently? The Spokane river mouth at the Columbia has fish consumer restrictions?
Two days in a row on the Columbia near irrigon and no walleyes!!! We tried jigged deep and jigging shallow , bottom walkers… what should I be looking for in the water? Flats? Jigging around points?
Went to Bank for the first time, 6/8 and also fishing walleye for the first time, was trolling with bottom walkers, had a quick hookup, in the flats, but then nothing went to the other side behind the rock with the crowd and it seemed no one was hooking up, we ended up with 3, total and called it a day at 1pm. ? 's are is the best time already passed? are they boat motor shy? Unfortunately there was a bass tournament and those guys were zipping around every where at full throttle. Wish it was closer to us. Was there a reason you left out potholes? Thanks so much for your content!
@@spiltmilt When we first started we were in the barker flats it was about 20 then got to about 14 feet. When we moved behind Steamboat rock the crowd seemed to be in 25-30. The two we ended up catching were in 35-40 late morning. Really have no clue what I am doing but at least we didnt get skunked and ate the 2- 19 inchers for dinner the next night.
I've been wondering if you have been following news stories about the drawdown of Green Peter and Lookout Point reservoirs to help salmon smolt outmigration. Barotrauma kokanee deaths floating in Foster and heavy silt coming out of both as water levels get low. My guess is Dexter is getting an influx of walleye, bass, crappie, etc.
As usual, listening before commenting would have been smart, but too late now. I also have concerns about any downstream redds from this year's spawners getting silted to death. Tastiest wet sock on the planet. Follow for more recipes. 😊
This is the closest information I’ve seen to walleye fishing in Georgia. Walleye are stocked in our deep mountain reservoirs here. The difference is we have blueback herring… yeah lol bluebacks suck but without them we wouldn’t have walleye here
@@no_regerts5176 our state record is 14lbs. From the research I’ve seen they tend to grow much more rapidly here in our lakes but don’t live quite as long as the ones up north. Our average size fish is very respectable though. 23” 5lbs is what you’ll catch pretty much daily. They eat TONS of bluebacks. Usually when I catch them they spit up dozens
Hey boss I don't know what you been catching but these walleye put up a pretty good battle!! maybe the ones you catch are lake lazy but the ones below the dam in the river are warriors
Sorry but I’ve caught walleye from Portland to Canada on the Columbia they are not warriors. Chinook are warriors. Steelhead are warriors. Smallmouth bass are warriors. Walleye not so much
You mentioned having trouble catching walleye near your own home. I grew up in Minnesota catching them at night. We used "Lindy Rigs" which is a long leader with a sliding weight with a hook and worm on the end. Blow the worm full of air (worm blower bottle) so it floats. Throw out the lindy rig into shallow water (1-4 feet) and just let it sit there. Walleyes seem to work together and come shallow at night so as to push the baitfish into the shore (where it is harder for them to get away). Walleyes see exceptionally well at night... their prey does not. They hunt at night. You can too. Give it a try.
Again, fantastic content for us western guys, thank you !
Great information, Tyler. The 2023 Fall Walleye Index Netting report on Moses Lake will be available soon. Lots of nice walleye all over the lake. FYI, Sprague Lake was rehabbed in order to get rid of walleye and reboot the warmwater fishery. The plan was to stock trout as a transitional fishery until the warmwater fishery became established through stocking of bass, bluegill and crappie. That has proven to be difficult due to a few factors. Carp and bullhead are still abundant.
Thanks for the updates. How well did the crappie restocking go in Sprague?
@@spiltmilt It went well. We've stocked several thousand adult white crappie from Silver Lake in Cowlitz County.
They have established in lake Washington - I’ve caught several over the years including gravid females
Thank you so much for all of this helpful information. I live in Richland WA. If you ever want to do a Walleye and Sturgeon combo day around McNary or Boardman, you have an open invite. I have learned so much from your channel and would like to say thanks. You would have to jump in my 22 ft center console. I don't Kayak fish....I am not a great walleye fisherman, probably a little below average.
Love this, thank you very much for the hard work you put in
Awesome content as always thanks Tyler!
Cominco Mines in Trail, British Columbia is one major culprit. They have been dumping tailing directly into the river for decades. That may have stopped more recently? The Spokane river mouth at the Columbia has fish consumer restrictions?
Argh! How did I miss this?
Dang im always working when your live. I have so many questions.
I was thinking of using the bottom bouncing technique.
They work!
Im here trying to figure out how to fish them only caught a dink looking for a bigger one to land
Great video, Tyler. Will you make the slide deck available to the general public or your patrons?
I'll set something up for community members and patrons
I’m gonna to try Dexter for walleye next week when I get my boat back, more to follow
There should be a bunch that got washed into there.
How did you do at dexter
I’ve been fishing in lookout recently, didn’t catch anything,but the are catching lots of walleye just below Dexter dam
that would make sense with all the fish getting flushed down
This is Killer, I've seen some nice ones come out of liberty btw. I know guys that target them at night
This was some years back though, to be clear
Two days in a row on the Columbia near irrigon and no walleyes!!! We tried jigged deep and jigging shallow , bottom walkers… what should I be looking for in the water? Flats? Jigging around points?
I look for current seams where the drift speed is 1.0 to 1.2 mph.
Great info Thanks
What has your experience been in Idaho on Pend Oreille River/Lake
When I was there I found most of my Walleye on the flats around the Clark Fork and a few fish off the bridge at Sandpoint.
WDFW added Walleyes to a bunch of lakes in the regs this year, including several in W Wa. You might want to check into that?
Nothing to it, just part of their rules language structure. Opportunity to harvest doesn't exist unless specified even if the fish dont exist there
Went to Bank for the first time, 6/8 and also fishing walleye for the first time, was trolling with bottom walkers, had a quick hookup, in the flats, but then nothing went to the other side behind the rock with the crowd and it seemed no one was hooking up, we ended up with 3, total and called it a day at 1pm. ? 's are is the best time already passed? are they boat motor shy? Unfortunately there was a bass tournament and those guys were zipping around every where at full throttle. Wish it was closer to us. Was there a reason you left out potholes? Thanks so much for your content!
Walleye bite pretty much year round on Banks and I've not found them to be motor shy. How deep were you fishing?
@@spiltmilt When we first started we were in the barker flats it was about 20 then got to about 14 feet. When we moved behind Steamboat rock the crowd seemed to be in 25-30. The two we ended up catching were in 35-40 late morning. Really have no clue what I am doing but at least we didnt get skunked and ate the 2- 19 inchers for dinner the next night.
When the shallow bite goes dead I always go deeper. I commonly catch troll in 40-60' of water at Banks
@@spiltmilt Thanks I better get some heavier bottom walkers, 3 oz was the heaviest we had.
Hi Tyler, have you fished for walleye in the spring canyon area on lake Roosevelt?
I've found them in Swawilla Basin but not in great numbers
I've been wondering if you have been following news stories about the drawdown of Green Peter and Lookout Point reservoirs to help salmon smolt outmigration. Barotrauma kokanee deaths floating in Foster and heavy silt coming out of both as water levels get low. My guess is Dexter is getting an influx of walleye, bass, crappie, etc.
As usual, listening before commenting would have been smart, but too late now. I also have concerns about any downstream redds from this year's spawners getting silted to death.
Tastiest wet sock on the planet. Follow for more recipes. 😊
I like to catch and eat walleye way more than trout.
Do you know if there is a boat launch near Miller Island? I saw peach beach, but says it’s temporarily closed.
There is a launch at the mouth of the Deschutes
@@spiltmilt Heck yeah thank you!
I launched at Washougal, starting from there .Would you go upstream or down.
The Ough reef is upstream but around Government Island is supposed to be decent as well downstream from there.
This is the closest information I’ve seen to walleye fishing in Georgia. Walleye are stocked in our deep mountain reservoirs here. The difference is we have blueback herring… yeah lol bluebacks suck but without them we wouldn’t have walleye here
How big do your fish get? Walleyes here are getting pretty big on average, but I would think bluebacks would be a great food source.
@@no_regerts5176 our state record is 14lbs. From the research I’ve seen they tend to grow much more rapidly here in our lakes but don’t live quite as long as the ones up north. Our average size fish is very respectable though. 23” 5lbs is what you’ll catch pretty much daily. They eat TONS of bluebacks. Usually when I catch them they spit up dozens
Hey boss I don't know what you been catching but these walleye put up a pretty good battle!! maybe the ones you catch are lake lazy but the ones below the dam in the river are warriors
Sorry but I’ve caught walleye from Portland to Canada on the Columbia they are not warriors. Chinook are warriors. Steelhead are warriors. Smallmouth bass are warriors. Walleye not so much
I’ve caught walleye close to 30 inches with a medium/light spinning rod and 8# test…and never felt under-gunned. Shad fight way harder.