Walleye main diet sourse comes from small fish such as minnows, shad, and perch. They also are often caught on nightcrawler, grubs, leeches, snails, crawfish, insects, small and larval salamanders.

Walleye normally reach around 2lbs in 6-8 years in the north and half that in the south.

Early Spring thru Spawning

• Gravel shorelines at upper end of lake (spawning sites)
• Upper end of river channel (pre-spawn)
• Deep holes in streams (pre-spawn)
• Inlet streams with gravel/rock bottoms.
• Riprap shores.
• Note, Walleye are especially hard to catch on the spawn, pre and post are great times to fish. Some say night fishing with rattle traps at the rip rap are good way to catch if they are in the spawning stages.

Late Spring

• Edges of timbered flats at creek channels.
• Shallow gravel points near creeks.
• Mud flats.

Summer thru Fall

• Main lake points near deep water especially with brush or trees.
• Large humps near deep water.
• Timbered deep flats.
• Rocky main lake points.
• Shallow shelves with immediate deep water relief...
• Break lines with gradual deep water access.
• Weedy humps

Late Fall and Winter

• Steep points with timber or rock near river channel.
• Deep holes in main lake.
• Sharp sloping banks, bluffs, creek channels.

Walleye typically will start to move to spawning when the water starts reaching the upper 40's and spawn is in full swing when the water temperature start to reach around 49deg. Walleye prefer much cooler water temperatures than most other game fish are generally the most active when the water temperature is between 58deg and 71deg. Above 75deg, the activety starts to decrease. In late fall when the water temp dips below 40 the activety falls off. Then things are on again in the dead of winter when the lakes are frozen, time to get our the ice auger.

best thing for winter walleye,1 foot off bottom,riged with' very live' shinners not shad in 10-25 ft. Always fish the 3' sss ' . strcuture, shinny, sassy. and in day light shadows. best time for walleye fishing is at night.