pickerel (walleye) fishing

[mike2355]

Hey guys, i finally got out on a boat for some pickerel (walleye) lately and i caught a bunch of fish. To start it off, i was in Quebec in the town St. Felicien for the past week with my family and my parents friends family visiting their sisters family. We fished quite a bit there on the river, two or three times on the boat and the rest of the time off their floating dock. We caught about 40 small walleye in that time, and actually caught quite a few just off the dock.

Yesterday i was invited to go fishing with a buddy. I caught a MONSTER 8lb + walleye which got me pretty tuckered out. (it didnt help that i just got back home that morning at 5am from a 20 hour drive from quebec, woke up at 7 to help pour gravel into the new pit blind we are making) so it was pretty hard to reel that pig in. We didn't have a scale, but it was ALOT bigger than the other fish we caught and the guys i was with said it was the biggest theyve seen all year. So when i got home i stepped on our home scale and then wish the fish in my hand and with the difference it was about 8-9lbs. Im not sure how accurate that is, so ill say it was 8lb+. We landed 24, threw back two because they were small so left with 22 nice fish. I only kept 4 while the rest of the group also took some home. The big one probably wont taste the best, but i wanted to make sure i could get a picture of it. The rest of the fish were roughly the same size, so i just grabbed 3 more, trying to grab smaller ones and went home and filleted em.

These are some pictures of a few of the fish i caught in quebec..
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/mike_2355/30-06-081525.jpg
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/mike_2355/30-06-081353.jpg
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/mike_2355/01-07-082115.jpg


And these are the pics from yesterdays outing.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/mike_2355/05-07-081926.jpg
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/mike_2355/100_3387.jpg

He was 28 inches from tip to tail (his tail is folded a bit into the sink which makes it look 27)
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/mike_2355/100_3388.jpg

[mallard stomper]

Nice stringer. Havent seen that go of Walleye in a while

[wbfowler777]

nice lookin fish

[lizard55033]

Nice. but some of those ones in the first pic are pretty small though...JMO

[BigR]

Nice Pics, but a Walleye and a Pickerel aren't even the same fish.......

http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/fish/walleye_small.gif


Chain Pickerel
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/howard.whiteman/field/fish/fishgallery/pickerel.jpg

Grass Pickerel

http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/howard.whiteman/field/fish/fishgallery/grasspickerel.jpg

[mike2355]

Nice. but some of those ones in the first pic are pretty small though...JMO
ya they were really small with the biggest in that bunch one being a small one for around here. They don't catch to many big ones up in that river i was fishing in quebec, but the action was good and they tasted great. I wish i could have got a pic of all the catch from yesterday but i could only get a picture of the 4 i kept to clean.


Nice Pics, but a Walleye and a Pickerel aren't even the same fish.......

http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/fish/walleye_small.gif


Chain Pickerel
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/howard.whiteman/field/fish/fishgallery/pickerel.jpg

Grass Pickerel

http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/howard.whiteman/field/fish/fishgallery/grasspickerel.jpg

Google a "yellow pickerel", thats the reason us canadians call them pickerel, however, i like to call them walleyes.

[BigR]

Wow, I feel like a big ol' dumb ass now :lol: I didn't realize there was a yellow pickerel, not to mention one looks like a Walleye :!: :D

Whatever they are, they look darn nice and really close to a Walleye nonetheless, could've fooled me! Oh wait, THEY DID!

[mike2355]

Wow, I feel like a big ol' dumb ass now :lol: I didn't realize there was a yellow pickerel, not to mention one looks like a Walleye :!: :D

Whatever they are, they look darn nice and really close to a Walleye nonetheless, could've fooled me! Oh wait, THEY DID!

lol it is a walleye, we just call them pickerel here. Dont ask me why but its the same fish. I guess its just a nickname http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~borfor/fish/walleye.htm

[Mallardman9]

They don't catch to many big ones up in that river i was fishing in quebec
Thats cause you keep the big guys (aka the spawning fish)...nice fish but you gotta throw those big guys back dude. Do you have regulations at all cause where I live you can only keep one over 18"

[KS Goose Killer]

Cannot beat good fishin!!

[mike2355]

They don't catch to many big ones up in that river i was fishing in quebec
Thats cause you keep the big guys (aka the spawning fish)...nice fish but you gotta throw those big guys back dude. Do you have regulations at all cause where I live you can only keep one over 18"
no size limit here :? Almost all of the fish are as big as the three above the 8lber. In the river in quebec, all the fish were small, i was only there for a week so you cant really blame me for their control on the population 8)

[KingsvilleGooseBand]

Canadians, atleast here in Ontario have always called Walleye, Pickerel. I have many buddies from Ohio and Michigan that call them Walleye which they are, but they are also Pickerel. Its just one of those goofy things, we even laugh about it when I fish with those guy's.
Oh yeah Mike if you can get out fishin with somebody out of Kingsville or Leamington in about 30-35 feet of water you will do well. My buddy and I have been hammering the Pickerel for the last two weeks. We have even been over to the Wheatley side Rainbow Trout (Steelhead for our American friends) fishing we limited out 4 times out of five. All big fish. I do quite a bit of fishing around here which you may as well. But if you need good tips for either Pickerel or Rainbow's around here I will help you out. I think its funny how out on the lake everybody tries to keep everything "top secret". Everybody should share good info !
The world should be a big trading post like it used too be.

[mike2355]

Canadians, atleast here in Ontario have always called Walleye, Pickerel. I have many buddies from Ohio and Michigan that call them Walleye which they are, but they are also Pickerel. Its just one of those goofy things, we even laugh about it when I fish with those guy's.
Oh yeah Mike if you can get out fishin with somebody out of Kingsville or Leamington in about 30-35 feet of water you will do well. My buddy and I have been hammering the Pickerel for the last two weeks. We have even been over to the Wheatley side Rainbow Trout (Steelhead for our American friends) fishing we limited out 4 times out of five. All big fish. I do quite a bit of fishing around here which you may as well. But if you need good tips for either Pickerel or Rainbow's around here I will help you out. I think its funny how out on the lake everybody tries to keep everything "top secret". Everybody should share good info !
The world should be a big trading post like it used too be.
ya man, thats how we were catching them, just off leamington in about 33-34 feet going 2.7-3.0 knots with dipsy divers and and spoons and deep divers and stuff. I guess they caught a rainbow the day before i went on the leamington side also which they said doesn't happen to much on this side, more on the wheatly side they catch the rainbows. You been catching lots of big pickerel lately?