Haley and I did awesome from shore at lewis and clark tonight. They seem to be switching to crawlers, Haley did well on a plain hook while I caught all of mine on the green and silver rattletrap. Bite was best 30min before to sunset.
It has been awhile since I have posted anything so I need to record an update of what has happened.
Went out a few times on the lake since last post and did pretty good late summer for walleyes all around the west end here using crawler haulers or trolling raps.
First thing, walleyes do indeed move up into the river in fall. I have been out to the confluence and managed some walleyes (actually sawger) using a three way swivel rig or bottom bouncer pulling a floating jig head with a minnow or slow rolling rattletraps. This was during the month of October mostly.
Second thing, I went out to Kota-Ray today (11-1-2015) in a boat. Yes on the first of November! The water temp was 43 degrees and the air temp was mid 50s with a West/Northwest wind at about 15 mph. It was really hard to find any perch. We found a few small ones sitting in about 6 feet of water across from the second pier on the west end of the lake. They were hitting worms on a double hook ocean rig. Also managed two good sized Large Mouth bass using a Jighead with spinner and a small minnow bait on the end. They seemed to be hold up right on the edge of the weeds in the 8 foot of water zone. Jigged slow and paused in some spots seemed to do the trick.
Well went out again to catch some more Yellow Perch because they are just so tasty but wasnt able to get very many, or really any big ones. I was using minnows and I thin minnow are over and I should have used worms. Managed five keepers. Also some smaller perch were doing some really odd things on the surface of the water, may be a sign of when the fishing turns off. I heard that others were having a tough time catching them too.
Other news, the lake is still muddy but is clearing up, I hear that the walleyes are starting to bite again on this end on spinners and WORMS so it would seem around 65 degree water temp the switch from minnows to worms happens.
That is all for now.