Thought I'd share a few pics of a walleye that I helped my friend pull from the Red Deer River, downstream of the Tolman Bridge this past weekend. May have altered the ecosystem in the area with this monster gone! My friend used a bait ball lure.
Thought I'd share a few pics of a walleye that I helped my friend pull from the Red Deer River, downstream of the Tolman Bridge this past weekend. May have altered the ecosystem in the area with this monster gone! My friend used a bait ball lure.
13.38lbs/6.07kg
32"/83cm
Cheers.
Looks like the guy weighing is standing on the rope.
I'll find out what kind of lure it was. Oddly enough there was no epic battle, the treble hooks hooked it's tail,got wrapped around some heavy branches in the water and was stuck with its massive fin sticking out. Landing it meant wading out to retrieve it. So no bragging rights on the battle!
Mounting did cross our minds but none of the fishing spots had any good contacts and we were dealing with a fish we were eager to get weighed and measured before it spoils.
Delicious though, very difficult to cleanly fillet such a massive fish, didn't have a long enough knife and with such a thick spine it was hard to get all of it. Should've just paid those guys and t&t in hindsight !
I'll find out what kind of lure it was. Oddly enough there was no epic battle, the treble hooks hooked it's tail,got wrapped around some heavy branches in the water and was stuck with its massive fin sticking out. Landing it meant wading out to retrieve it. So no bragging rights on the battle!
Mounting did cross our minds but none of the fishing spots had any good contacts and we were dealing with a fish we were eager to get weighed and measured before it spoils.
Delicious though, very difficult to cleanly fillet such a massive fish, didn't have a long enough knife and with such a thick spine it was hard to get all of it. Should've just paid those guys and t&t in hindsight !
Snagged?
Read your general PROVINCE WIDE sport fishing regulations much?
Sounds more like a foul hook than a snag fishing technique. I've fouled hook fish in the tail before and they fight like crazy. I thought it was a monster but ended up disappointed to see a small fish.
Sounds more like a foul hook than a snag fishing technique. I've fouled hook fish in the tail before and they fight like crazy. I thought it was a monster but ended up disappointed to see a small fish.
Nice walleye!
Had trout on the flyrod hooked by the tail, think you're playing a monster.
Thanks for helping to clear the air on the difference between snagging and foul hooking. I plead ignorance to not knowing what snag fishing is, and to be clear the walleye did foul hook itself on the tail by accident. Didn't realize until it was manually retrieved and inspected on shore.
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Originally Posted by reelhooker
it seems like someone is under a bridge...
Not sure if trolling... disclosed location to be clear it was from an area where walleye above 50cm could be kept. but thanks
Last edited by 403gl; 09-28-2016 at 02:59 PM.
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Fish was foul hooked, not snagged unless he was deliberately attempting to snag the fish, which it doesn't sound like he was doing from the description.
And yes, it's legal to keep fish that are foul hooked if you're allowed to keep that fish (i.e. part of your regular limit).
Awesome beast of a fish. Glad you kept it and ate it.
Snagged is snagged.period., there is no defintion of foul hooking, it is illegal to pocess a fish taken by snagging (accidental or not.).
But maybe you know something that i don't?
Anyways Gotta go,fish on!!
The may flies are hatching and the waters popping!
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Nice fish. The OP mentions problems with filleting the big fish... if a person has a big fish like this they don't always have to fillet them. The big fish can also be cut into nice 2 inch thick steaks too.
Meat anglers should always carry a cooler with ice to put the fish on. Frozen 2 liter pop bottles in the cooler are useful and no mess.
Curious on how much the fishes stomach contents weighed? It might have had 2 or 3 one pound perch or a 2 pound whitefish in its gut.
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Nice fish. The OP mentions problems with filleting the big fish... if a person has a big fish like this they don't always have to fillet them. The big fish can also be cut into nice 2 inch thick steaks too.
Meat anglers should always carry a cooler with ice to put the fish on. Frozen 2 liter pop bottles in the cooler are useful and no mess.
Curious on how much the fishes stomach contents weighed? It might have had 2 or 3 one pound perch or a 2 pound whitefish in its gut.
Great tip on packing a cooler with bottles. I wish I wasn't so tired/wasn't so late when I got around to the fish. Steaks definitely would have been the best way to process it in hindsight, almost embarrassed by how much was left behind!
There was just a single partially digested goldeye in the stomach. Never gutted such a large fish so it was really cool to see that instead of the typical insects found in goldeye etc.
Another way to fillet a big fish like this or pretty much any regular fish. Take the knife, go vertically in the side behind the gill plate, till you get to the spine, turn 90 degrees and go out towards the tail, with your hand on the body. Do the same on the other side, then take out the pin bones, and rib cage remaining on the fillet and any fins, then remove the skin from the meat (or leave it on). On the first fillet cut, (after the gill plate cut), cut a slit along the belly to the anus for a cleaner job.
If you bleed the fish first, as well as getting whiter meat, you get little mess and less slime during the filleting.
I switched to this method and it's much faster. Different groups of fish have slightly different pin bone direction (to the top or bottom of the fish), but it's a generic method that works for pretty much every fish.
This is how I fillet 95% of the time as well. I normally don't even gut the fish with this method - you just end up with two fillets and the head,spine and entrails all stay in tact.
This is how I fillet 95% of the time as well. I normally don't even gut the fish with this method - you just end up with two fillets and the head,spine and entrails all stay in tact.
Is that what they call butterfly filleting?
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No, different. It's just straight down turn the blade 90 and out across the spine in one cut.
Essentially (excluding trimming, skinning and pin bone removal), it's 2 cuts, one for each fillet (with a 90 degree direction change mid cut). To do it a bit more cleanly, it's 4 cuts (i.e. slitting the belly after the cut behind the gill plate to the spine), the 4 cut just gives you a better straight line on the bottom of the fillet.
I did a quick search for videos on it, couldn't find any, but there should be something out there.
But bleeding is a good idea, otherwise it's easy to end with blood everywhere.
The only AB fish I'd do different would be Burbot (skin with pliers).
Another tip, if you don't have a filleting table with rubber mat / water supply, then newspaper is king, stack a few sheets, it soaks up the slime and keeps everything contained, and you can peel sheets off with entrails on etc. and dump as you work through the the filleting process.
Scalable, universal, fast and you get a non-mauled result.
X2 on using newspaper. Tryed that trick last weekend and it worked very well for keeping fish fresh till I got home, no slime and the meat was still firm.
MONSTER Walleye Landed Last Weekend
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