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ripalip
09-04-2005, 09:26 PM
Just moved to Washougal. In between salmon and steelhead jaunts, where would a guy pick up some walleye close? Love the darn things. :dance:
willie18
09-08-2005, 12:07 PM
Folks catch them from the 205 bridge up to Fishermans landing. This time of year you can pull plugs, worm harrnesses, or jig with blade baits or leadhead with a worm. Chasing Walleye is more hunting than fishing.
FastActionRodTip
09-08-2005, 12:45 PM
we've done reasonably well right up from the mouth of the Washougal on the Wa. side. Watch out for Ough reeffrom a little above the mouth to almost the end of the long dock up there past the marina. It is very rocky and shallow and eats lower units (don't ask me how I know this). If you start from the tip of the island above there and troll worm harnesses downstream just fast enough to rotate the spinner blade and keep the bottom walker ticking along the bottom you'll be doing it right. If the tide is slack, then you can free drift while vertical jigging right ON the bottom. Be sure to use a crawler. Also, any color as long as it's chartreuse. Fish don't get any tastier than those, good luck!
Hunt'nFish
09-08-2005, 03:41 PM
Randy,
What FastAction said. Ough is good for smallmouth as well.
That area gets pounded quite a bit, so you might also give the back side of Ackerman Island a try as well.
As a general rule you can pick up eyes 300-600yds below any can, red or green! The cans mark structure, so fish the edge of this structure on downstream.
Wind is not as much an issue as upriver, so try jigs tipped w/ crawler via stinger hook.
Walleye Tracker
shalom
09-09-2005, 01:40 PM
Walleye Tracker ,
I learned something new . That is to obvious . I should have figured that out by myself . Shame on me . I can't believe that i missed that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well , it is good to learn something new .
Thanks
FastActionRodTip
09-09-2005, 01:59 PM
good tip on the cans = structure