A good fishing line is Suffix Super Braid because it allows you to feel the lightest strikes and can be paired with a suffix pound fluorocarbon leader.
A few spring walleye lures that work best on Green Bay are Rapala Rippin Raps, husky jerks and Vmc boxer jig heads with Keitech paddle tails. Anglers use a variety of techniques to catch trophy walleye, like snap jigging, slow-rolling plastics and trolling. Snap jigging as a fun way to catch trophy walleyes. When the water temperatures are really cold and fish are somewhat lethargic, slow-rolling plastics along the bottom is a great technique for catching trophy walleyes.
This covers a lot of water quickly, allowing you to find pods of walleye wherever they may be. Also, trolling along rocky shorelines in about feet where trophy walleyes like to cruise during sunrise and sunset periods is never a bad idea. In early April, when the air starts warming and sunny days bring river temperatures up, walleye start gravitating towards river mouths to find degree water for spawning.
When spring walleye fishing on the open water in Green Bay, the wind is a huge factor. You want one to three-foot chop. Keep adjusting boat speed until the line stays vertical. Another fine point: Experiment with the intensity of jigging action until the walleyes let you know what they want. But more often, subtle movements of only an inch or two will catch more fish.
Keep adapting the depth of the jig to the bottom contour. Toward the end of the pre-spawn period, when the water temperature rises to the mids, walleyes begin moving into their spawning areas.
Look for them along gravelly, rocky or riprap shorelines brushed by light to moderate current. Spawning areas that have a wide 4- to 8-foot-deep shelf protruding from shore hold more fish than those that slope sharply. More trophy-caliber river walleyes are caught toward the end of the pre-spawn period than at any other time of year. If I could fish for only one week in the year, the last week of the pre-spawn would definitely be it. Shallow lakes lose their ice cover before deeper lakes in the same area.
They also warm up more quickly, so the walleye bite starts sooner in the spring. In some northern states, however, early-season walleye fishing might not be an option because the season is closed. Be sure to check state regulations before wetting a line. As a rule, shallow walleye lakes are much easier to fish than deep lakes because locational patterns are far less complex. The walleyes are almost always oriented toward shorelines in early spring, so there is no need to explore deep structure or cover.
Because of their fertility, shallow lakes normally have discolored water; consequently, fish have a comfort zone of turbidity and might feed at depths of only a few feet throughout the day.
My strategy for locating walleyes in shallow lakes is simple: I run the shoreline, watching my depth finder carefully for shelves that extend well into the lake. A productive shelf could be the extended lip of an underwater point or just an extension from a straight shoreline. I seldom find walleyes on shelves more than 10 feet deep and the fish often hold at depths of less than 5 feet, especially when the shelf is buffeted by an onshore wind.
Once you find a shelf with some active feeders, toss out a marker and fan-cast the area thoroughly. If you catch a few fish on a crankbait but the action winds down, switch to a jig and minnow and try that rig before you move on. This year that happened March 8 at Red Banks. The walleyes "started" two days later, Caryl said. The river is running lower than normal this year and was completely within its banks in the stretch we fished. The water temperature was 45 degrees; walleye spawning was imminent, said Adam Nickel, Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists.
A mile-long stretch of its northern portion is a National Scenic River, one of only two the St. Croix River is the other with such designation in Wisconsin. Here, in the central basin, the Wolf slides through agricultural fields, stands of bottomland hardwoods and marshes. The stretch between Red Banks and Gills Landing is remarkable for its natural look and functionality. Tall stands of silver maples and willows line the river. The trees are like a tall gate marking the entrance to a key ecological feature of the region: the marshes.
The flood plain here is mostly intact and the marshes absorb high water in spring, just as nature intended. And in keeping with that natural theme, the marshes are the perfect site for walleye spawning.
The Winnebago system walleye population has benefited from dozens of projects, many funded by the conservation organizations Shadows on the Wolf and Walleyes For Tomorrow, that improved or restored access to spawning marshes.
Nickel said the system had several good year classes of walleyes. Most of the catch this year were hatched in and were now 14 to 17 inches in length, he said. The year class of walleyes had 9. The system also still has fish from other year classes, including The average young-of-the-year catch has been 4. The walleye run is deeply ingrained in the local culture. The Wolf has evolved unique fishing traditions, too, like the rafts, or floating fishing cabins , that line parts of the river near New London and between Red Banks and Gill's Landing.
The local culture is all created by the sleek, toothy fish with the white-tipped tail and the delicious flesh.
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