We’ll just state the obvious. Fishing for walleye is just plain fun. Thrilling and fast-paced, catching walleye means an angler has to be quick-thinking when it comes to fishing this predator. That’s why we asked walleye expert, Dale Gilbert, to share his extensive walleye knowledge with us. A walleye master, Dale, has fished walleye from Arkansas to Canada and Michigan to Montana, and he doesn’t disappoint.

Walleye don’t like a lot of current. So, where to find walleye, depends. Walleye migrate and move a lot. In this link, walleye expert, Dale Gilbert, explains how to look for the bubbles and how to find walleye in the seam.

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Where to Find Walleye

Walleyes migrate. They move a lot, so it kind of depends. And what we're dealing with here right now is that we're basically fishing a river system, the upper end of Noxon Reservoir. So, what I look for right now is exactly what we're seeing right here is you can see these bubbles coming off right there. And you see that current out there? And you see those bubbles where it's actually creating a seam right along that whole thing right there? Walleyes don't like a lot of current. So, typically you're gonna find Walleyes relating to that seam, that edge right there. And they would just kind of wait for something to wash by and then they feed on it. Just slip out there and grab it and eat it when they get a chance.

Reservoirs, you know, then it depends more where you find the ... When it's the springtime of the year, like right now 'cause we got 45 degree water temperature, we're right at that point where fish are gonna be spawning. So, right now those those are headed for their spawning areas. They like to spawn on rock and rubble. Fairly shallow water, generally like the rock and rubble that you see right behind us here on that shore.

They could spawn here, but for the most part here they'll spawn up stream from us where we are a little bit. But like if I'm fishing the river here right now what I'm looking for is basically is this, kind of, a hole in the ten and a half foot of water here right now on the front of the boat. We got this really nice current seam right here. So, those fish that come up here are just gonna hold up in a little spot like this. And then they're gonna move on when they get washed up a little bit. They're gonna move on to where they like to spawn.

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