Trying New Things: Starvation

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I haven’t been out there for a long time, since both my kids and the perch were smaller.  I’m lost with all this weird weather, they drained my favorite panfish lake, and I want to catch some walleye before whichever apocalypse gets to the front of the line.  So, check my plan. .

I’m thinking car-camping at Knights Hollow, 4/10-4/11, with my old beater kayaks and tubes. Trying to get out of the midday wind, if terrain can help me?  I will have an 80 year old guy with me, who is sometimes sketched out by small craft, wind and waves.  He might stay on shore.

I have only been by the bridge, and up Rabbit Gullch.  Will be camping in a hot tent with a little wood stove, but wouldnt mind a marshmallowtoasting fire.

My sonar is limited to a little handheld unit, but last time I was there the perch and smallies were wherever there were big rocks, rocky slopes, etc, and could be reached from shore.  I imagine the warm unseasonably weather will pull perch and walleye off the flats and bottoms, but I usually just prospect from shallow to deep.

I haver all kinds of gear, but nothing specialized for the lake, or for walleye. Thought about bouncing my ice- jigging spoons with a half-crawler trailing, regular curlytail jigs, 2-3", little cranks, dropshotting Gulp minnows, dropper loops and worms, and all the regular stuff for SMB.

Does my companion have any chance from shore?

Ideas, guidance, critiques, and suggestions, please?  If this looks like a poor plan, I will wait another couple of weeks, and make the longer drive to Sand Hollow, or similar.

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Not sure this will help your shore angling friend but check out this video on fishing Starvation:

https://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1106665

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Yeah, I saw that the other day, thanks!

I wondered how fast conditions change in an early warming spring.

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I think if you are offshore and moving around, you have a good chance of being successful, especially if you have any sort of electronics, fishing from shore is a different matter. Wish I could be of more help, I hope someone will reply that has better info.

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If I were fishing from shore, I’d be throwing a slip-float rig with a combined jig and drop shot. Jig on the bottom with either a half crawler or plastic, and a drop shot hook tied in a foot or so above it with plastic. That would be attractive to both wallies and smallies.

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That helps, though!  Thanks1

Appreciate that input.   He’d be happy catching trout, which he has before and probably could, from shore.

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Do what RR2 described, if anything will work, that will work.