Walleye!!!

[lakerhunter]

Hey all, Been up in the hills for a few days. Love all the feedback!! Just a thing or two (my own observations) If you look at picture two and five they are alive and well and were immediately released. I lean more toward release anymore on the big fish and for every one that i put under the knife i guarantee i have released six or eight. You only see pictures of the ones that are dead because for the most part i fish alone for walleye. These are all Utah fish. You can do your own research but most information leans towards bigger females being less fertile than the 4 to 7 pound females. True they carry more eggs but a smaller percentage are ever fertilized. And as far as a need for stocking not sure how i feel about that. I catch many, many fourteen to twenty inch walleye and in my favorite lakes i see them looking lean and slope backed about every three years. We call them hammer handles because that is the shape they take on. A strong indicator that there are to many fish in that range so they are starving. I have also found that when walleye break the twenty two or three inch mark they are no longer subject to these up and down cycles. Almost all the thirty inchers i have caught have weighed somewhere between 9.5 and eleven pounds. The first pic is of a thirty three inch fish that went thirteen and change. I don't share much on this board because for the most part i keep to myself. I found out a long time ago that luck has very little to do with catching big walleye. For me and my methods it boils down to time!! Maybe i am not the most proficient walleye fisherman so i make up for it with hours period end. Anyway best wishes to all on catching the fish you are after.
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