Not so for Doug Musser. He subdued this beautiful 28-3/4" walleye after she engulfed his 1/16oz crappie jig tipped with a waxworm using one of my St. Croix Premier Ultra Lites.
This fish hit his jig within a second or two after it landed in two feet of water covered in green algae.
This big walleye pretty much owned Doug for the first few minutes. She went deep on several hard runs under the boat while Doug hung on, but little by little, Doug started to get the upper hand and finally brought her to the net. Well done Doug!
We found crappies in all the usual places. Mostly in 10-15' of water. The best part was that in many cases, we found walleyes and saugers hanging around as well. It appears as though both the crappies and at least some of the walleyes and saugers are keying on the same food source.
It certainly makes for some excellent bonus fish while we are catching crappies!
We found walleyes and at least a few crappies as shallow as 2 feet but mostly they were down around that 10' zone. Even when we were fishing in deeper water, that 10-12' zone was more productive than right on the bottom.
The saugers also hammered the plain live bait rigs tipped with fathead minnows or "Dork rigs" as some of you have been calling it while almost all of the walleyes we caught have bit on a 1/16oz jig/plastic/waxworm combo fished on an ultra lite. Now that's the kind of bonus fish eveyone loves!
An average day crappie/walleye fishing outing this September has been getting anywhere from 25-60 or more keeper size crappies. (10-12" range) Throw in a few bonus walleyes and saugers which often go over 20" long along with some slabber crappies up to 15-1/2" long and you've got the makings of a fishing trip you won't soon forget.
Hope you all have a great fall fishing season!
Boog
