Italo Labignan YouTube channel video, shows you how to catch fall Pike using twitch-baits in tough fishing conditions at the mouth of small rivers that flow into the Great Lakes.
Our good friend Gabor Horvat loves to explore southern Ontario reservoirs that have been created for flood control. One of his favorite species to target there is Walleye.
Early morning is one of the best times to target Walleye that cruise shallow shoreline weeds.
Gabor likes to cast crankbaits to Walleye that migrate out of the deeper water breaks and head to shoreline weed.
Walleye learn quickly that feeding is productive venturing into the shallows during low light.
He fishes crankbaits that dive down to 10′ and works them close to the weeds.
Most of Gabor’s reservoir Walleye average 2-5 lb.
Gabor tries to get our early in the day before the sun gets high and these cruising Walleye head back to deeper water.
Caution has to be taken when trying to remove two treble hooks from a thrashing Walleye in the net.
While most Largemouth Bass anglers like either casting spinner baits, fishing top-water in the weeds or fishing soft-plastics around weeds/cover. My wife Barb and I like to search out large weedbeds surrounded by open-water and cast crankbaits to Largemouth Bass that feed mostly on smaller fish and often are overlooked by other anglers.
Barb holds up a chunky 18″ Largemouth Bass that smashed her crankbait.
Our strategy is to find these large weedbeds out from shallower bays. I believe the Largemouth Bass will cruise into the shallower bays during low-light and at night to hunt and as the sun intensity gets higher they move to their deeper water weed-layers where they wait inbetween the edge of the weeds for passing fish. That’s were we work our crankbaits that dive from 4-7′ in depth right along the weeds. We normally find good size Largemouth Bass and often get other species to smack our crankbaits that include Pike, Walleye and even Channel Catfish.
One of my favorite fish species to target through the ice and during open water season is Walleye. One of my favorite presentations to catch them is casting crankbaits around open-water weeds where Walleye move in to feed aggressively on smaller fish.
The new Duckett Walleye series rods offer two medium–action spinning rod models that were produced specifically for this task. They come in a 6′ 8″ & 7′ model. Both have sensitive/soft tips for the first 18″ and then a solid backbone down to the grip. The sensitive tip gives anglers that split-second advantage for a Walleye to close his mouth on the crankbait and as the hook is set, the strong, stiffer shaft of the rod sets the hook past the barb. You can view the full Duckett Walleye series rods by going to their website, https://www.duckettfishing.com/walleye-series .