Flea fishing at crawling valley!!!

[laker taker2]

Holy fleas! Spent the day at CV. Fishing was good, lots of walleye out front of the islands in 12 to 20 ft of water and a few toothy dudes as well. Spinners behind bottom bouncer and slow death rigs worked well. Nothing on a crank bait at all. But the fleas.....oh my god. It was crazy. Clouds of them. There was zero wind so if you are out there, pray for a breeze or they will drive you nuts. No Mosquitos at least. Had to vacuum some of them out of the boat even after driving home to Calgary with the cover off. When I was loading up my boat I saw a guy catch a 6 lb walleye from shore in the marina. Maybe they are shallower than I was fishing today. The weeds aren't an issue yet.
I might head to badger on Monday. Are there actually walleye to be caught in there or just pike?

[marlin1]

mosquitos are bad in the cow fields today , really bad . thanks for the report

[diggerrigger]

Fleas or mayflys?
Fleas don't fly , do they? Mcgregor is covered in mayflys down the road or is this different?

[ULTRAlite]

Wouldn't be fleas

[laker taker2]

May flies makes sense but they sure are small. Millions of them. My garage floor is covered in dead ones that came out of my boat overnight. Yuk

[goldscud]

probably midges/chironomids

[Hooker]

They were Midges. We ran into them on Thursday. Every time the wind went down they were around the boat. They were hovering like smoke along the shore line.

[Moefoe]

Holy fleas! Spent the day at CV. Fishing was good, lots of walleye out front of the islands in 12 to 20 ft of water and a few toothy dudes as well. Spinners behind bottom bouncer and slow death rigs worked well. Nothing on a crank bait at all. But the fleas.....oh my god. It was crazy. Clouds of them. There was zero wind so if you are out there, pray for a breeze or they will drive you nuts. No Mosquitos at least. Had to vacuum some of them out of the boat even after driving home to Calgary with the cover off. When I was loading up my boat I saw a guy catch a 6 lb walleye from shore in the marina. Maybe they are shallower than I was fishing today. The weeds aren't an issue yet.
I might head to badger on Monday. Are there actually walleye to be caught in there or just pike?
Went out last week and hit the top end at CV...about 30 walleye and 20 or so pike, all on crankbaits in 3-5' of water...fun day!!

[kinwahkly]

They are midges, chionmids

[briverb]

Planning on going tomorrow. Was thinking about taking dog for her first trip in the boat. Hmmmmmm, wondering of all the bugs would drive her crazy. I am thinking now that the rain stopped, the bugs will be pretty bad tomorrow.

[TroutTracker]

Was out on Saturday with a lot of mayflies around, but the only thing bitting was the fish. Was site casting at walleye/pike in 4-8ft/o/w and had a great time...

[briverb]

Was out Saturday as well. Bugs were not an issue where I was. Caught some pike and walleye. :-)

Could have brought the dog, but thought the bugs were going to be bad. Next time she is coming with.