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BEH Wrote:
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> A fishing pole and bait usually does the trick.
Nah, the best way to catch 'em is through noodling. You need to get in the water upstream of the falls and wade out into the current. Reach down around the rocks with your hands and you will be able to catch them easily.
OP, just hire yourself a coupla' brown savage mud people. They'll pull all the walleye out of Great Falls you could ever want. Of course, you need to be sure to "murder them at the end of the job to avoid paying them and then dump the bodies where they can be seen by the FCPD helicopter".
Not fishermen on FFXU Wrote:
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> Yikes... do you people even know what Walleye are
> or are you the typical go to the grocery store and
> by the frozen "fish product" types.
>
> Jesus
Any walleye caught around here for most people are going to be incidental. Most aren't targeting them. We caught some 'back in the day' when we tried but haven't been for a long time. The fishing for them generally seems to have gotten better over the years.
Best times are in late Fall and early Spring about when it's just cold enough to be a little uncomfortable out there. Late this month would be a good time to try. Same lures you'd use anywhere else. Your options fishing from shore are going to be limited to where you can get. You'll find those spots easy since that's where everyone else goes and there are well worn paths. Fisherman's Eddy and the little beach there where the creek comes in just below the observation decks are OK places to try. Throw to where you see pools or other protected spots where fish can hang out of the main current. Down around Little Falls too.
Stubblefields, just downstream from Carderock usually holds some Walleyes.
I kayak up to it when the water is low enough. If you can eddy out, throw spinnerbaits or anything chartreuse and the 'eyes will bite.
496 Wrote:
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> Stubblefields, just downstream from Carderock
> usually holds some Walleyes.
> I kayak up to it when the water is low enough. If
> you can eddy out, throw spinnerbaits or anything
> chartreuse and the 'eyes will bite
You are wrong. Walley hang out in the deep holes and you have to jig for them and they dont hit off spinner bates. Do yourself a favor and dont bull shit people.
wanna know Wrote:
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> 496 Wrote:
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> > Stubblefields, just downstream from Carderock
> > usually holds some Walleyes.
> > I kayak up to it when the water is low enough.
> If
> > you can eddy out, throw spinnerbaits or
> anything
> > chartreuse and the 'eyes will bite
>
> You are wrong. Walley hang out in the deep holes
> and you have to jig for them and they dont hit off
> spinner bates. Do yourself a favor and dont bull
> shit people.
WRONG. I've been catching them on the Potomac for years with these lures. You just have to know where to throw. And learn how to spell, jackass.
I'm telling you guys. Noodling is the way to do it. Ignore all of those no swimming and danger signs. Just wade out into the water above the falls and start feeling around in the rocks.
Hunter H Wrote:
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> I just want to know what bait to use. Thanks for
> all your feedback though!
Chartreuse hooks with live minnow attached. Standard setup for Walleye in Canada and northern States. They hangout in holes near fast currents. Best size for eating is 18 to 22 inches. Through the others back, please.
The asshole in the phot should have taken a photo and released.
My uncle has a wall-eye. He's quite shy, and only comes out to catch hitchhikers and take them to his basement, where he does brain experiments on them and tries to make them his friends
Used to catch them on white grubtails on a 1/4 oz jighead, bounced on the bottom. Try the mouth of Difficult Run, and any area in Great Falls Park you can access the river. November - March was the best time. I used to fish around Difficult Run a lot, and caught a pretty good number of them, enough to target at certain times of the year.
The walleye in question is to large to consume. Walleyes over 26 inches taste like shit. 16 to 22 inches are ideal for eating. Poster was right, catch, photograph and release. 8x11 photo is less expensive than destroying life for ego fulfillment. I have caught a 52 inch walleye. Pictured, kissed and released in northern Canada.