Travers Advice/?

[trouty]

thinking on heading out this weekend. Last time i tried close to the McGregor spillway and no walleye.

Any advice on finding walter? depth? tactics?

thanks.

[niwrek]

Good luckgetting a answer to that!!!. I am going out tomorrow too. I have been going there 3 times a week and have caught 1 pickeral that might of weighed 2lbs.
But I will find them ............someday!!!!

[MoFugger21]

Your best bet would be to start with this:
http://www.srd.alberta.ca/MapsPhotos...ts/travers.pdf

Then zoom in to see the structure of the bottom of the lake. Typically walleye will hang out around some sort structure in the lake- whether it be a point, drop off, hump, etc- and typically move from deeper to shallower water to feed. Typically.... That's not always the case.

I haven't spent a whole lot of time down there this year, so I can't comment on what's been working and what hasn't been. But you usually can't go wrong with a jig tipped with a minnow or shiner, or a jigging spoon w/ or w/o bait, or lures that rattle, etc. You just have to spend a little time seeing what is working or what isn't. And don't be afraid to move around to different structures within the lake to try and find/get on them. The walleye in Travers, especially in the winter, can be a pain in the azz sometimes.

[WayneChristie]

Might find some in the river, but last time I was there it was like fishing in sasquatch milk. used jig and minnows

[perchie15]

Originally Posted by WayneChristie

Might find some in the river, but last time I was there it was like fishing in sasquatch milk. used jig and minnows

mnhmmm sasquatch milk

[WayneChristie]

Originally Posted by perchie15

mnhmmm sasquatch milk

smells as bad as they look. hard to get them to sit still long enough to fill a bucket too!

[Rememe]

anyone caught any white in travers recently? interested in lake whites, but got none lately.

[WayneChristie]

Originally Posted by Rememe

anyone caught any white in travers recently? interested in lake whites, but got none lately.

try Badger instead, lots of whites in there at the north end

[Dan Foss]

Originally Posted by niwrek

Good luckgetting a answer to that!!!. I am going out tomorrow too. I have been going there 3 times a week and have caught 1 pickeral that might of weighed 2lbs.
But I will find them ............someday!!!!

you caught a pickerel in there!!!!! I hope you kept it because you'd probably be the first person to ever catch a pickerel in an alberta lake......

If you are walleye fishing in travers however, Ice walleyes in that lake are hard to find and hard to get. This year the water level is so drastically lower as well very few people know "the keys" to finding walleye in that lake over the winter and even they sometimes walk away with nothing on the day. The fish in a res move alot from day to day so any advise you get is probably no more than a guess.

Print a bath map. Choose a couple places on some structure and go attack them. give it some time and I am sure you will track a couple down.

Sorry about the pickerel comment. It has just been soooooo long since whe have had that conversation that i figured id stir the pot

[BeeGuy]

Hehe, maybe if we started calling them alberta walleyes, pickeral, the fishery would be half as good as, MB, SK, ON, QC etc etc

Won't be long before the Columbia River in BC starts to out produce AB with respect to wallickeral.