How To Catch Walleye While Canoe Fishing

Catching walleye from a canoe can be fun, exciting and productive when you have a few simple tips to help you out. As you may already know the walleye can be a very challenging species. They will put up a fight that you won't soon forget.

However, it's for this reason that fishing from a canoe can also be a challenge in itself. Walleye can grow to some fairly nice sizes. Combine this with the struggle they can put up and you may find yourself tipping over into the water much of the time instead of reeling in a nice catch. Of course, a lot will depend on the type of canoe you use and the amount of experience you have.

The walleye is sought after by many anglers for both the thrill of reeling them in and because they taste delicious. The canoe is one of the favorite vessels for many anglers because of all the benefits they offer. However, it's suggested that you follow all safety rules when fishing from a canoe.

Tips for Catching Walleye

The walleye can be caught anytime but they do feed more aggressively at night. Their eyes reflect light allowing them to see much better in low light conditions than many of the other species. This also gives them an advantage over their prey. They can be found in both shallow and deep water but they do tend to avoid bright sunlight. So, fishing during the middle of hot sunny days may not be very productive. Cloudy and even windy days are a great time to go fishing for walleye although; you may not want to take a canoe out on choppy waters.

Still-fishing, jigging and casting are the most popular methods to use when fishing from a canoe. This is partly because they don't require a lot of moving around that could result in flipping the canoe over. The walleye usually begin spawning season during the early part of spring. This is an excellent time to go fishing because they are hungry and plentiful. This is a great combination.

Bucktail and marabou jigs are great choices to use during the spawning season and pink and chartreuse are the best colors to use. When the walleye are being picky, many anglers turn to minnows or night crawlers. Live minnows are preferred but artificial ones will normally get some pretty good results as well. Crankbaits are great to use when casting and spinner baits are used quite often for catching walleye as well.

Canoe Benefits and Safety

Using a canoe to fish is a great idea that offers many benefits. You can get into places that larger vessels won't go and areas that you can't reach by foot. This gives you an advantage because you can reach places where the walleye are plentiful and where many other anglers can't go.