Message from Wayne and Lydia at NCL

[deetch]

i've been going to canyon lake for 5 years now and part of a group who's gone for 15+ years. my experience is theres always walleyes to be caught with a little effort. my reason to go to NCL is muskies and walleyes are only a snack. any newbies looking for a little help send a message and i can rattle off a few productive spots for walleyes. i'm always looking for a little more help with what works well for muskies.
if the walleys arent biting NCL has hegaman lake for a small price its a cool atv ride and even better walleye fishing.

[shmcbroom]

Deetch,
If you wouldn't mind sharing some spots for Walleyes I would appreciate it. We are fishing the lake for the first time. Our week vacation is from July 5-12.

We will do some musky fishing but my experience in the past has been we always catch more muskies when walleye fishing.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[goldeye]

Deetch,
I wouldn't mind some spots for Walleyes. We are fishing the lake for the first time. Our excursion starts June 6

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[BobC]

Deetch

Our first couple of years we had tons of follows from musky, we threw small
large and every thing we had. Last year we out at after dark and had great
luck, with 47" being the largest. If you can get by the first hour of bugs, try
large bucktails and jerk baits. We are at Canyon the third week of July, try after dark and see how it works. Don't forget to bring lights for your boat.

Bob

[deetch]

bobc
last year rigged up a tractor light to a 2x4 and bolted it to a rod holder works awsome. wondering if you had any luck with topwater seemed to be most productive for me. and by jerkbaits do you mean the jake.

thaks deetch

[BobC]

Deetch,

Jake or a Suick are a good choice. Also top water works fine, any thing thats make a lot of noise. A large bucktail like a cowgirl works the best got us.

Bob

[shmcbroom]

How is the fishing on Canyon lately? The countdown is on. We are heading up on July 5th.

[Russ]

What color of cowgirls did you use? I have great luck with topwater for musky, I love to see the water explode!!!!!!

[BobC]

Russ,

We used a silver and blue one last year. But I bought a new orange and black one that we are going to try this year. I agree I like the topwater the best. We will save some of the big ones for you late comers!

Bob

[Russ]

A cowgirl is a big bucktail (flashabou tail) made by Musky Mayhem Tackle. It's a big bait and it's been really "HOT" the last couple of years up in Canada. The one that has been the best from everything I've seen and heard is the double cowgirl, it has double #10 blades on it. You can get them from Rollie & Helen's Musky Shop or order on-line. They are rather exspensive, but cheaper in the States than in Canada.

[shmcbroom]

Does anyone have a report from this last week? Is there any particular jigs/lures to bring for fishing walleyes.
Only a couple weeks before my trip.

[Russ]

My wife and I were up at Canyon for approx. 26 days and the fishing was a lot better this year than last. We caught quite a few walleyes, biggest was 21" and many nice bass, biggest was 18". Our best fishing wasn't until the first week of Aug. but then again the first week we didn't fish a lot, just kicked back and relaxed. We caught our walleyes in anywhere from 11' of water to 21' and all on leeches or night crawlers and a lot of the time using a slip bobber. We caught very few fish around the beaver houses and other years they are good for both walleyes and bass. I did notice that when I cleaned some walleyes this year they were full of crayfish and I haven't seen that before and I don't know why with so many minnows in the lake. The best morning I had on walleyes I was in 21' of water and I caught 34 with out moving, I was anchored and I had a ball. That's 34 walleyes that I got in the boat not counting the ones I lost and I missed many. I also noticed that a lot of the old spots weren't paying off this year and I also caught fish were I have never fished before so if one spot doesnt' produce, keep tryin different ones, different depths until you find them.

[BarbaraTIX]

I was hoping Siegel Gallagher which runs Reef Point in Racine was going to take over Northpoint. Its tough to envision positives coming from anything in bed with the city of Chicago

[BethanyNeido]

Sounds like fun indeed

Im not sure we can come up with more than two maps since we dont have more than three "mappers" and one of them is inactive at the moment.
Ive got no problem with driving more maps during the scrim though.

That "No speccing"-rule is going to be hard to monitor.
I think it should be ok as long ask you ask first.

I spoke to Hecker about it and we agreed that it would be a good idea to start the scrim on a Friday and end it on Sunday the week after. That way its not too long and you still get two weekends of driving.
Some of us has a job you know...

[BarbaraTIX]

To add to Mark, yes it should be a block. Assuming from your boat number you got new, the block is supplied loose and needs fitting.

Paul