Thanksgiving's Eve Walleyes

[fishin_musician]

I got out yesterday. I almost went in to work when I heard the wind howling Wednesday night. But knowing how willing the fish are this time of year... as they say, "a windy day fishing beats a day in the office". I opted to cleanse my soul in the soothing waters of the Susquehanna. lmao. The fishing was spectacular, epic, I needed the film crew to get it on tape. That good! I lost lots more than I landed due to the wind making everything difficult. Snapped off and major walleye, released all the smallies and about 6 just legal eyes. I kept 5 to fillet and will be having walleye for supper on Saturday. I had a sort of epiphany regarding the event and will try to get that written down later toinght. It was my once a year Susky Madness outing for sure.

[Norm]

Great catch!!!!

[swamp donkey]

Good catch of fish. I ventured out yesterday myself and had a skunker of a day. I must have been doing something wrong. I usually catch something on the river. My wifes step dad didnt even catch anything. Guess I'm gonna have to find a pro  to show me how its done. LMAO!!!!!

[zziipp]

nice catch and pics.your locked in on them eyes this year.the rain and river levels are making some good conditions for them.

[steelie1]

I got out yesterday. I almost went in to work when I heard the wind howling Wednesday night. But knowing how willing the fish are this time of year... as they say, "a windy day fishing beats a day in the office". I opted to cleanse my soul in the soothing waters of the Susquehanna. lmao. The fishing was spectacular, epic, I needed the film crew to get it on tape. That good! I lost lots more than I landed due to the wind making everything difficult. Snapped off and major walleye, released all the smallies and about 6 just legal eyes. I kept 5 to fillet and will be having walleye for supper on Saturday. I had a sort of epiphany regarding the event and will try to get that written down later toinght. It was my once a year Susky Madness outing for sure.

I saw you parked there and walked down to say hello but you looked involved so i did'nt want to bother you....awesome catch!!!!

[fishin_musician]

Once or twice I thought I heard vehicles but looked and didn't see anything. You probably would have scared the tilt outta me. I was envolved.

[HenryDavid]

"cleanse my soul in the soothing waters of the Susquehanna"  did Apallonia show up?
Okay, where's the hot spot?

[Zib]

Great job! 

[chumfoam]

 

between last evening and this evening I'v lost about a dozen fish. I landed one dink eye that measured about 7 inches. All the fish were hooked on shiners beneath a bobber. Two of them looked like bass. There was not a single tooth mark. I'm stumped. Are they eye's hitting short or bass hitting short-which I've never seen before.
I tried a stinger-no luck. I tried floating jig heads tipped with shiners-not a single strike( last week I took all my fish on the floaters tipped with shiners). Any tips I'd like to hear them.

[fishin_musician]

Sounds like you were on a bunch of small walleyes to me.

[HenryDavid]

Bass in general will start to slow down now, I remember a mid-late November outing on a bass lake which we always do very well on.  I was working a top water jitterbug and hula popper.
The bass were still hitting topwater, but a foot or more away from the plugs.  Occasionally a bass would even hit twice but miss the plug again, then give up.

Their metabolism is slowing down now.  They won't expend as much energy chasing baits.

[swamp donkey]

Well tried another day on the suskie.Took my nine yr old out about 3pm today. We fished till dark. Not even a bite. He asked if it was too cold for the fish to bite or if we were doing something wrong. I told him we were probably doing something wrong. He said we just need to throw in the towel and quit fishing. I told him I would never stop fishing, we r just doing something wrong  in trying to catch a walleye. I told him that I probably wasn't deston to catch one. Guess I'll have to stick to trout , bass and most of all deer hunting. Can't figure it out for the life of me what I am doing wrong. I have used every tactic in the book , but still no walleye. But on the other hand it was a nice evening on the river.

[chumfoam]

  We've got some walleye after dark on rapala x-raps, the last few days.
  Today all I could get were very large creek chubs for bait. I started fishing at 2:30 and hooked 4 and landed one.
  An old timer I used to fish with took two weeks off starting the first day of deer season. Once he got a buck, he switched to walleye. He claimed that in December walleye fishing is best about 2:00 PM!!!! There's a fellow that fishes a spot near Whitney point from 10AM to 2PM almost every day.
  From now on the bait seem to work a little better in the warm part of the day, and plugs toward dark.
I never take my 10 y.o. grandson for walleye-he needs more action. It takes a dyed in the wool masochist to fish walleye in this cold water.

[gee-dub]

Well tried another day on the suskie.Took my nine yr old out about 3pm today. We fished till dark. Not even a bite. He asked if it was too cold for the fish to bite or if we were doing something wrong. I told him we were probably doing something wrong. He said we just need to throw in the towel and quit fishing. I told him I would never stop fishing, we r just doing something wrong  in trying to catch a walleye. I told him that I probably wasn't deston to catch one. Guess I'll have to stick to trout , bass and most of all deer hunting. Can't figure it out for the life of me what I am doing wrong. I have used every tactic in the book , but still no walleye. But on the other hand it was a nice evening on the river.

i feel your pain SD, cold water walleye fishing tries one's patience like none other.  my issue is that they just don't bite like other fish, at least on jigs.  the difference between a walleye and a smallie is like night and day.  i think i agree with chumfoam, i'm not sure i'd take someone that young.  i took my father-in-law out on a cold rainy day, he's stopped taking my phone calls lol.

[swamp donkey]

Yep tried it all. I even tried the method  uses with  the jig baited with a lively shiner. I tried the twitching method , the lift and pause ,and i even casted up stream and drifted down letting the current and shiner do the work. Guess I need a pro to show me a few times then maybe i will get the hang of it. lol