2026 Eastern basin Walleye reports

[Aquaman]

How's the bite fellas?

 

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[Tiller]

Night bite has been off to a good start. 
5/6- flat lining sticks in 4-6fow good steady action boxed our 2man in less 2.5 hours.

 

5/8- launched at 2am solo run, not another boat on the lake. Took advantage of the space by spot lock and casting plastics. Had 6 in the box within the first hour, did some catch and release after and ended up landing about 15 more in the next couple hours till the sun peaked. Lost about 8 and missed several hits aswell. 5fow was best 

[Fishmaster196]

Awesome report and great catch tiller keep them coming.

[Aquaman]

Great pitch n jig.

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[Aquaman]

Great pitch n jig.

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Goby plastic would have never thought of that. I'd pitch sticks but your out of the box. Go tiller

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[Tiller]

1 hour ago, Fishmaster196 said:

Awesome report and great catch tiller keep them coming.

Thanks I really appreciate that 

[Tiller]

7 minutes ago, Aquaman said:

Goby plastic would have never thought of that. I'd pitch sticks but your out of the box. Go tiller

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Paddle tails, flukes any scented plastic of that nature works good. I use to wait for all the trollers to go home before starting to cast, don’t want to be in everyone’s way. Now I just head out after everyone left, bite remains strong till day light. Several years ago I landed eyes 17 casts in row that’s a record for me 

[Fishmaster196]

Thats awesome nothing like catching them casting.

[Tiller]

5/12- same program launched at 2am very cold and calm. Got right up in 4fow and immediately went to work, following the surfacers pounding them cast after cast. Several occasions hooking up 4-5 consecutive casts. Variety of paddle tails and flukes all colors worked but the star was a brown top grey body. The sun lit the sky and the bite faded. 
 

off to the perch grounds I went, first spot pure mud I booted out quick, next spot had some perch but the bite was tough, picked a few jumbos. Ran out to the fence in 62fow within 30 seconds coming off plane mega stack and they wanted to play. As fast as you could get it down mixed sizes from smalls to some tank jumbos. They started getting picky when I hit about 30, good enough and headed in about noon. Great way to celebrate my 28th birthday 

[Sbflomike]

2 questions ...

1 - When you are casting a fluke do you texas rig them or use a jig head?

2 - Where do people go when the wind and waves are a bit too much for trolling? And yes I mean besides the couch with beer and pizza lol.

[Tiller]

Jig head 1/8 or 1/4oz, gotta keep it up I just straight reel them no need to jig. Could try inside the break walls maybe? I just wait for premo conditions due to my proximity 

[Sbflomike]

Thanks Tiller!

When you are fishing that shallow at night, are you right out of SP?

Edited May 17 by Sbflomike

[Tiller]

I prefer going out of Hamburg for night eyes. Sp has some great spots aswell tho. I spot lock and fan cast the area for maximum of 5 minutes then make a small move to fan cast again, once you hit pound that area until they move. Hopefully getting the boat back this week from the shop, lake is a sheet of glass right now 

[Tiller]

Made it out yesterday afternoon, plan was to run the inshore 25-35 for eyes but following some intel that was sub par and considering the lake was exceptionally calm I had to take a crack at perch.

Ran out to the fence in 62  endless biomass of smelt was out there with eyes stacked concentrated 40 down but also spread throughout the rest of the column. First spot lock with a jigging rap hooked 3 eyes in less then 5 minutes but only landing 1 @27”.

Cruised around a little more but it looked bleak on the perch. Decided to switch to bbing harnesses, soon as the first rod got set landed a nice 25”. Blades in any combo of blue, silver and pink took 11 eyes all good size 23-25” post spawn hens with another 27” on a harness. Bb’s in 3 and 5oz. First good day bite of the year for me 

[Fishmaster196]

Way to go tiller nice report.