Walleye

Crankbaiting your way to summer walleye and bass success

An immediate, aggressive approach to fishing can produce more action quickly during a hot bite of mid-summer.

Fishing tip: Change your tactics to catch more spring walleyes

To put more fish in the boat this spring, use electronics and switch tactics until you identify a hot technique

Fishing expectations high, walleye bag limit up for 2018 on Lake Erie's Ohio waters

Currently, the walleye daily bag limit is four. But as a result of the 2018 quota allocation, the daily bag limit will be six walleye from May 1 through Feb. 28, 2019, with a minimum size limit of 15 inches.

Ice-fishing tip: Knowing when not to practice catch-and-release

Releasing fish helps protect the resource… except when it kills even more fish

Erie walleye fishing: The perfect (winter) storm?

Combination of first Erie December freeze-over since 2000 and a surging walleye population in the lake could make for a fishing season to remember. But with great ice-building weather comes First Day Hikes cancellations.

Ice fishing tip: Keep your lure moving and you’ll attract and catch more fish

Attract fish, then employ your sonar to determine the mood of the fish… and the presentation to prompt strikes.

Ice fishing tips: Go-to baits and jigging tactics for first ice walleyes

First ice is approaching fast. Much of the ice belt awaits walkable ice, though some northern lakes have capped over with enough hard water to venture out.

Fall fishing tip for walleyes and crappies: First find food, and the predatory gamefish will be nearby

Finding walleyes and crappies can be simple if you locate their primary food source in fall: schools of baitfish.

DNR: Lake Erie walleye, yellow perch hatches near annual average

Based upon results from the August trawl surveys, the 2017 yellow perch hatch was successful in Ohio waters of the western basin. The 2017 walleye hatch was near the 20-year average.

Six current, former Wisconsin DOC officials cited for poaching Lake Erie walleyes

Each reportedly caught their limit of walleyes, stashed the fish on shore and went out again, with each catching two to six walleyes the second time out.

From Pennsylvania brook trout to Wisconsin walleyes, warming waters to play havoc with fisheries

Walleyes may lose out to largemouth bass if lakes continue to get warmer

Open water fishing tips: Catch more walleyes with spinner rigs in shallow water

Troll spinner rigs farther away from the boat to hook more walleyes when fishing in clear, shallow water.

Ohioans dominate National Walleye Tour season opener on Erie

Ohio anglers win pro angler and co-angler titles and three of the top four in the pro division hail from the host state in last week's tournament.

High hopes for Lake Erie sport fishing in 2017

Lake Erie walleye and yellow perch fisheries are managed through an interagency quota system that involves Ontario, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.

Agency increases walleye, yellow perch catch for Lake Erie

The Lake Erie Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission agreed to a 20 percent increase in the total allowable catch for walleye and 13 percent for yellow perch.

Walleye river runs get early start in north Ohio

Anglers on the Maumee River have been landing walleyes since mid-February, a time more often associated with ice fishing in northern Ohio.

Fall fish stocking ups angling opportunities in Michigan

Includes 10 different species totaling more than 300,000 fish that weighed nearly 8 tons

Ice fishing tip: Catch more walleyes by ringing the dinner bell with call baits

Make contact with more hard-water walleyes via large, noisy baits to attract them.

Winter ice fishing Q&A: walleyes, glow, jigging spoons, and minnow heads

The ice formula guru, “Tackle” Terry Tuma answers the toughest angling questions from rank-and-file outdoorsmen for this winter’s hottest sport on hard water.

Ice fishing tips: important safety equipment for first ice ventures

Safety! Safety! Safety! Ensure that you’ll enjoy the great outdoors for years to come by taking proper hard-water precautions with this essential gear.