I have fished BWCA walleye in the summer alot, and am confident with my techniques, but have never fished them in the fall. Doing a trip in a week, but looking for some general info. Bait, and deep or shallow. I allready have a lake, but haven't ever fished it. Thanks.

Usually May for me, but the couple times I tried in Fall it was husky jerk #12/14 and F11/13. Some big minnows next time if I can find them, and I always bring crawlers. 5-15' was my luck; so relatively shallow is my guess. I'm not a great wallie angler, but the above did me best. Hard for me to figure those waskawee waweye sor sure. I like deadline drift crawler for me. I'm a lazy fisherman most times. Hard to beat a big live minnow too........! and they should be easier to keep them alive this time of year.

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The few times I fished the BWCAW in the fall, the best bait for me were cranks deep divers trolled at about 20-24’ in 25-35’ of water near shallower points and reefs or the deeper drop offs near running water. I caught plenty on big minnows too but trolling cranks was 3 to 1 more effective and bigger fish.

So I like to start with bait and if they aren’t fast then I start moving and trolling.

T

We just got back from Canada (not quetico) we did best with crawler harnesses very slow, and jigging with jigs and jigging raps. We caught by far the most fish in 25-40 ft of water. Four of us caught over 300 walleye in the week but we had boats so could cover a lot of area. Trolling stick baits probably caught 20 walleye.

I just came out on the 8th and all of the fish are in the deepest part of the lake and nowhere else. Caught 1 smallmouth all week but my fishfinder went nuts whenever I could get to the deepest part of the lake. Just look at your map and only fish the deep parts. I used a jig and rubber worm jigging and drifting but it was like they were all in hibernation.

water temps are plummeting, you should be able to catch all you want on a jig twister combo on points in 12-20 fow

Kiwishiwi, Kowschong

Lotw: "water temps are plummeting, you should be able to catch all you want on a jig twister combo on points in 12-20 fow"

adding a jig spinner can be deadly

I was up there weekend of Sep 28-30 and we got into em at points with decent drop-offs and had the best luck around 12-14ft. By now, you would probably be safe hitting the 8-10ft range would be my guess. All our walleyes were caught either on a jig with a minnow or a slip bobber with minnow (rainbow chubs). Good luck.


Like you, this was my first fall trip. We had an unlucky weekend with lows in the 20's and let me tell you, it was COLD at night. We were not as prepared as we should be and got up around 3am to make a fire to stop shivering. Have a highly rated (0 degree preferably) mummy sleeping bag, great layers, lots of hand warmers and a big heavy sock to use for heating up a rock over the fire and putting it in the sock and in your sleeping bag.

CityFisher74: "I was up there weekend of Sep 28-30 and we got into em at points with decent drop-offs and had the best luck around 12-14ft. By now, you would probably be safe hitting the 8-10ft range would be my guess. All our walleyes were caught either on a jig with a minnow or a slip bobber with minnow (rainbow chubs). Good luck.



Like you, this was my first fall trip. We had an unlucky weekend with lows in the 20's and let me tell you, it was COLD at night. We were not as prepared as we should be and got up around 3am to make a fire to stop shivering. Have a highly rated (0 degree preferably) mummy sleeping bag, great layers, lots of hand warmers and a big heavy sock to use for heating up a rock over the fire and putting it in the sock and in your sleeping bag."

The south shore of erie seemed to fit the bill you describe on depths this week. We were either near shore in boat or wading bench reef off bank. We had HJ, crawlers, minnows. All did well enough. I wondered about BW area the whole time and when they put on the feedbag in the bdub. Wish I were there more often in the fall when they come up.