Outfitter Doug Komrosky, PO Box 1057, Havre, MT 59501
Home: (406) 262-2195, Cell: (406) 390-6892
Email: Hi-Line Charter Fishing
Fishing tips
Doug and Carol's Tip #2
Use the two S's in cold water - slow and small
It's been my experience that two main concepts come into play when fishing for walleye in the spring and early summer while the water temperatures are still rather cool. Those concepts are geared around slow movement of the boat and small bait presentations.
When the water is cool, say in the 50 to 60 degree range in the spring, predator fish such as walleye are not aggresively feeding. They feed in a slow methodical manner. If you are cruising over them at Mach 1 speed, you are undoubtedly not giving yourself the best cance for success. I try to keep the boat moving as slow as possible, keeping my jig and bait as vertical to the bottom as possibe. At times when the wind is blowing, I may resort to using the electric trolling motor, one drift sock, two drift socks, the kicker motor or a combination of any or all of these. The key is to get the boat to move as SLOW as possible, giving the fish the chance to move up to the bait.
So what do I mean when I say use a small bait. During the time of year we are talking about here, the size of forage fish the predator fish are used to is small, young of the year forage. They don't see many Moby Dick minnows during the Spring. What they do see alot of (and feed on) are smaller minnows such as fat heads. I don't know how many times I have taken fishermen to the lake to have them second guess my choice of bait size. Many of them initially think a 3-4 inch minnow is required to catch fish and anything smaller is pointless.
For this reason I usually take a dozen or so of the larger shiner or sucker minnows to let the angler compare the difference in success using each size bait. Their thinking is soon changed when we start whacking fish with those little fathead minnows and the larger minnows are all but drowned while waiting to be eaten by a walleye.
Give yourself a fighting chance----slow and small!!
Good luck in your fishing. -- Doug and Carol
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Outfitter Doug Komrosky
PO Box 1057, 6820 Hiway 2 East
Havre, MT 59501
Home Phone (406) 262-2195
Cell Phone (406) 390-6892
Email: Hi-Line Charter Fishing
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Doug Komrosky
is a Licensed
Montana Outfitter.
License No. 7375.
Doug is also Licensed
by the
U.S. Coast Guard.
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