Gold eyes NSR

[Thundercatcher]

Can you catch gold eye in the North Sask. River near Edmonton? And what do you use to catch them?

[lifesaflyin]

yup. about a million of them under the quesnel bridge, just have to be there at the right time.

[Thundercatcher]

What do you use to catch them?

[e40water12]

worms, leeches, white maggits.

[Daceminnow]

What do you use to catch them?

sounds like you may be fairly new to the great sport of fishing. keep it simple. use a pickerel rig with worms or minnows. i prefer minnows in the nsr. they will catch everything that swims in the river. it's a great place to catch fish, have fun.

Dace

[lone wolf]

sounds like you may be fairly new to the great sport of fishing. keep it simple. use a pickerel rig with worms or minnows. i prefer minnows in the nsr. they will catch everything that swims in the river. it's a great place to catch fish, have fun.

Dace

X2 Hard to go wrong !!

[Thundercatcher]

Could you use small jigs tips with maggots like you would catch perch with? Is over by Devon a good place as well?

[Dust1n]

light jig heads with natural color bodys with sparkles.
let it drift and when you feel a tick lift the rod and they hook themselves

[Jwood 456]

If you fish for goldeye with a rod rated for 6lb test, it should be quite a fun battle reeling them in. When I was using 10lb line to fish for goldeye near the Lockports near Selkirk Manitoba, I would hook a 2lb goldeye and they would bend my 12lb rated rod right over!

[fishmania]

Could you use small jigs tips with maggots like you would catch perch with? Is over by Devon a good place as well?

I tried fishing Devon area last summer with very little luck
Stay away from the bridge area nothin there
Just what I found anyway

[alodar]

You can also use small spinners or spoons and devon area if u get tue roght spot jas some goldeye up stream or down stream when i fished there i always went down stream

[Dale S]

Do you eat them. They are'nt any good out of the South Sask. River.

[moosehunter3-0]

Use any silver bladed spinner. Use light line, the lighter the line the farther you will be able to cast a small spinner.

[Geezle]

Last year I did really well tossing small spinners and small spoons at the goldeye.

Another option is to drop a worm or half a minnow a foot or two under a bobber. They seem to cruise a little higher in the water column.

They're lots of fun on light gear :)

[Alberta Bigbore]

As a kid... I used to catch more Goldeye on a pickerel rig or a slip sinker rig baited with a frozen minnow ....than anything else. Rubber tail jigs, spoons, spinners, small rapalas have all taken their share.

Using a flyrod in the heat of summer is always pure enjoyment. My top pick for a dry fly is the elk hair caddis... It does really well around the Fort Saskatchewan stretch of the river

When using a pickerel rig though.. try replacing the cheap snelled hooked with small circle hooks, the fish will hook themselves and it wont be deep...most often in the corner of the mouth

[Alberta Bigbore]

Do you eat them. They are'nt any good out of the South Sask. River.

in Manitoba... Goldeye is a delicacy... and it is wonderful to eat if the fish is smoked properly.

....But more often than not... we dont bother with smoked goldeye... as it makes a hell of a good cut bait for channel catfish!!