Another get-together has come and gone, we had a few new anglers out for a fish on Mississippi Lake and many of the regulars from the last outing. A few boats had nice walleye to weigh in at the end of the evening and a few went home empty handed – but that is walleye fishing. Seems like walleye had taken most every bait, from slow death plastics, spinners and crawlers to trolling crank-baits.
The next ORWL outing is planned for the evening of Wednesday August 20th.
July 31st, 2008 by sheldon
The fishing on Mississippi Lake has started to heat up with the larger walleye taking cranks. The best crank has been the Berkley Flicker Shad. The best tip for this time of the season is to try and pick it up a notch when trolling. I have been catching a majority of my fish when trolling around 2.5 to 3.5 mph. Remember to fine tune your cranks as they will run out to the side and also not reach their maximum diving depth at these quick speeds. You can view an article I did on my guiding site at: Cranky Cranks
July 27th, 2008 by sheldon
Here is an image of me holding up a guiding clients fish caught this week while trolling cranks on Mississippi Lake. The fish was a chunky one and measured around 26″. It was released to be caught another day.
With the warm surface temps (78 F ) do not be afraid to pick the speed up when pulling cranks, this allows you to cover water and also add some crazy action to the cranks.
Those that like to pull spinners and crawlers should be looking at switching to willow leaf blades so you can keep your speed above 1.5mph during the summer on Mississippi Lake.
July 23rd, 2008 by sheldon
This is open to anyone with or without a boat that wants to get out and fish walleye or has an interest in walleye fishing. The idea started to promote, support and generate interest in walleye fishing in the Ottawa region during the summer months when the fishing is amazing. The region is littered with bass clubs and tournament organizations for bass, therefore a little walleye group was in desperate need.
We have set the dates for the remaining get-together. All will take place on Mississippi Lake out of the 9A Grass Hopper Point and/or the Carleton Place Town launch. We will also plan some winter gatherings to talk walleye fishing and maybe an ice fishing outing or two.
Wednesday July 30 (evening)
Wednesday Aug 20 (evening)
Monday Sept 1st Labour Day (all day)
See you all on the water…
July 22nd, 2008 by sheldon
The spinner and spoon bite has been hot the past couple of weeks and many of my clients when guiding have been asking where I get my supply of blades and attractor spoons. The quick answer is the hot colours and designs are all custom painted by me. I have decided to release the colours for sale later this summer in mid August in spoon, blade and pre-tied harness designs. I will be offering a base colour system for 2008 that produces walleye, these will be available via an online store at ezelo.com.
July 16th, 2008 by sheldon
The PWT CAN-AM Super Pro event in Dryden Ontario is a little over a month away. This will be the first major professional walleye event that is ‘Artificial Bait Only’. Most of spring and summer I have spent fishing with Berkley GULP and GULP Alive and very happy with the results. So far on most every day the artificial bait has out fished live bait. With the warm water temperature season in full swing the bite is getting real hot with the artificial bait behind open water spinners. No mess or fuss trying to keep leaches or crawlers alive in the heat and humidity, and in the end it is also a money saver with the high cost of live bait.
July 8th, 2008 by sheldon
