08-19-2019, 03:34 PM
Randy, I had never caught a walleye until I got my first boat here in Utah. Then, as Pat has so accurately described, it was by accident. Was slow trolling rat-l-traps around Willard. Line went tight, drag clicked out about 10 or 15 yards, then nothing. Figured I had been snagged, so brought that line in. As it got closer to the boat, I noticed something kinda just "surfing" on the end of my line. At the boat and into the net a walleye about 18", nice and fat. Was a good dinner that night.
Tried a few times after that to "TARGET" walleye, never, ever, have caught one since when I was looking for them specifically. But have caught several up on the upper Bear river above Benson, a couple out of Utah lake while trolling for white bass on the way to a catfish area, more by accident at Willard, and earlier this year a pretty nice one out of the Bear River in the Bird Refuge on a large chunk of cut carp.
So, do I actively target "eyes" ? Nope. For me that's a sure way to get skunked. But I do appreciate the ones that volunteer randomly to jump into my net from the end of a line set up for something else. [laugh]
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Tried a few times after that to "TARGET" walleye, never, ever, have caught one since when I was looking for them specifically. But have caught several up on the upper Bear river above Benson, a couple out of Utah lake while trolling for white bass on the way to a catfish area, more by accident at Willard, and earlier this year a pretty nice one out of the Bear River in the Bird Refuge on a large chunk of cut carp.
So, do I actively target "eyes" ? Nope. For me that's a sure way to get skunked. But I do appreciate the ones that volunteer randomly to jump into my net from the end of a line set up for something else. [laugh]
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