kwackkillncrew wrote:some great scenery out that way. you guys must eat a pile of walleyes!
There's no freezer limit in ND a guy could turn his garage into a walk-in freezer and have 10,000 thirty-inch walleyes in there, or whatever size he likes (I'd personal rather filet & eat the small ones)......
....so I've got a freezer with a lot of walleyes in it. I've given some away, and also plan on doing a fish fry for a non-profit organization. My brother has a turkey fryer at work and regularly fries up fish at lunch for him and whoever wants some out of the twenty guys at his shop.
The walleye season has been slower than average. It's just really starting to pop due to a cold and rainy spring, plus more than average snowfall in the mountains caused the lake to be full of mud longer than usual = no bite. If you pull up Sakakawea on Google maps you can see how the lake clears itself of silt as it flows from West to East. As a result, we lost about a month on the West end due to mud. Normally it's a two week thing called the June rise, this year was six weeks.
The scenery is every bit as beautiful as the boundary waters....just very different....the high plains version. You'll see oil rigs but the shoreline is all public....you're more likely to see cattle on the shores than people. There's very few dwellings, and the ones there are....all pretty isolated and concentrated. The walleye fishing is better than anything in MN when it's on....the lake has some much biomass of baitfish and walleye.....walleye are by far the predominant species.
Nershi wrote:Crushing it!
Are those two mooneye?
Thanks! And yes, couple mooneyes that had the audacity to hit one of our cranks.....and wind up as frozen cut bait in the freezer for catfishing. Super oily and greasy....cats love 'em and can smell them from father away than a lot of cutbait.