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Originally Posted by simmered
I was out fishing last night on Cold Lake and my buddy and I had noticed lots of fish jumping. Looked to be walleye after seeing a couple gold flashes as they came out of the water.
I'm wondering what would they be eating? the best we could figure was either mayfly's or minnows right at the surface. Has anybody else seen walleye do this?
We tried so many different things including floating some flies on surface to see if they would take those.
Does any body have an techniques that would work on walleye's jumping around like that?
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I have never seen walleye actually break the surface but a few years while fishing LSA, my son noticed small schools of fish 4-5 just under the surface. The water was like glass and you could see them easily, at first he thought they were whites, but soon realized they were walleye.
We were only in about 8 ft of water, we run out the side planers, with a fairly long lead from the planers. Tried flies, spinner rigs, spoons, and cranks, they would not hit any of them.
The assent to the surface is predominately a vertical motion, which may have been the problem to. Much easier meal on basically a stationary target than a moving one, and although mayflies do not all hatch at the same time when they do there would have been thousands of them.
Probably to much and the wrong movement in the presentation. I was thinking a fly rod with a hopper dropper, or a sink tip with a slow retrieve may have worked but did have the fly rod along. Basically a case of not matching the hatch.
Nice day on the water, we switched to bouncers and went a bit deeper, and had a good day.