Open water winter walleye

[WALLEYE WACKER]

3 shorts and one keeper this morning waiting for the night bite now. This sure has been the warmest one I've seen.

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[ctom]

Nice fish Mike.

We're setting records here right now with the winter weather we've seen thus far. As in no winter weather. I'm liking it. We tries the walleyes on Friday after the crappies crapped out on us but there was too much wind in the wrong direction for the walleye casting. I'm heading to Red Wing one day next week.

[WALLEYE WACKER]

Tom I just hope that the winter wheat the farmer's have isn't affected by the open winter. Have a great time in Red Wing.

[ctom]

Winter wheat.....I saw a field of it yesterday that appeared to still be growing. We don't see tons of winter wheat raised around here....maybe that's a wise decision on the part of the area farmers. I also saw farmers out digging and disking yesterday too.  Today we are wet. Real wet. And going to get much wetter.

[Muskygary]

Wacker, is that a river your fishing? Our walleye fishing here in Indiana is very limited. Wish I had some public spots to fish down here. Oh well, june will be here before long. Hopr to go to Cass lake this june!

[2XL]

Right on WW !   Wisconsin River at PDS ? 

I've been out every day this week with varying degrees of success on the keeper front. Yesterday I lost the three decent fish I had on. Those three and others came off as I was reeling them in. The hooks are razor sharp and I have no clue what the problem was. Still, I'm happy as a clam to have been able to get out. Looks like we will have a few more days to get out yet before winter shows up. Just hope we don't get too much rain = 2+" in the forecast. 62 degrees here today. Crazy weather.

[eyedo]

Awesome bite last nite. 19 caught 2 were 17 and 1 was 28  wow ,  and no Camera with.  Out of 13 that I have cleaned this week 9 of them were barren females.  Has anyone else seen this? 

[Do-It Corp.]

Good going fellas.

[WALLEYE WACKER]

Musky it's river below a dam as 2xl said Wisonsin river

[Mike J]

Nice fish! I'm loving this December walleye bite thus year.

[WALLEYE WACKER]

Caught 7 more from 4 pm until 6 pm  all short. The man upstairs sure gave me a great day even though it rained all day on and of the flow speed was just under 13000cfs.

[eyedo]

In past years it wasn,t unusual to catch a walleye without eggs or milt in maybe 1 out of 10 to 15 fish.   I always assumed it was a barren female.     Maybe I was wrong it could be a sterile male.   I tried to get answers on the web , but all I got was mumbo jumbo.   It was said they could get too old to spawn , but these fish are between 15 and 20 inches . plenty old and big enough.   Anyway out of the last 13 2 were females with eggs and 2 were males with milt and 9 had neither.  All they had were long thin empty tubes.  They were fat healthy looking fish as if they were eating to develop eggs.     
Nothing unusual about this year except the warm fall  and the abundance of dinks   2 ppl in a boat using minnows can easily catch 50 to 75 eyes in an outing. Maybe 1 or 2 keepers maybe none.            Do any of the walleye folks  know what's up?     Thanks.

[ctom]

In past years it wasn,t unusual to catch a walleye without eggs or milt in maybe 1 out of 10 to 15 fish.   I always assumed it was a barren female.     Maybe I was wrong it could be a sterile male.   I tried to get answers on the web , but all I got was mumbo jumbo.   It was said they could get too old to spawn , but these fish are between 15 and 20 inches . plenty old and big enough.   Anyway out of the last 13 2 were females with eggs and 2 were males with milt and 9 had neither.  All they had were long thin empty tubes.  They were fat healthy looking fish as if they were eating to develop eggs.     
Nothing unusual about this year except the warm fall  and the abundance of dinks   2 ppl in a boat using minnows can easily catch 50 to 75 eyes in an outing. Maybe 1 or 2 keepers maybe none.            Do any of the walleye folks  know what's up?     Thanks.

I don't know where you are at but its way to early yet for our fish to have much of any spawn other than the simple skeins inside. Nothing is near to maturity and won't be until we get closer to the end of February and water temps begin to rise. Spawn will start to develop some in another month but we're a long way away from thinking the fish are sterile. As for the males, they won't be shedding any milt for a long time yet.

[2XL]

All the walleyes/saugers I have cleaned this fall have been males ( I don't knowingly keep female walleyes) and they have all had milt in them. I have caught fish with neither eggs or milt in them this time of year in the past but not many.

[eyedo]

I fish the wi. River flowages in n. central wi. The walleye here start spawning around the end of march  and they have been for the last 50 years. The eggs and milt are over 50 percent developed. I only keep a few fish between 15 and 17 and 1/2  inches.    If I catch a fish that I think is a female she goes back.  They are starting to show now so its easier
To know    yeah I've heard the jokes about how to tell.  If she has her mouth open. Or buy her 3 drinks and she will follow you home etc.  As I said 1 out of 15 is normal but 9 of 13 is not.     By god I need to learn to post pics or just shut up.