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Walleyes in the St.Lawrence - 6/14/07
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 The Dam |
It was decided that the following morning we would head over to the St.Lawrence River for the first time this season for walleyes. 3am came and it was out to prep the boat, put the batteries back in after charging over night and taking the night crawlers out of the crawler fridge located in the garage. By 4:15 we were underway in the darkness with fog hanging low from the temp dropping and cooling down the night before.
A little after 5am found us entering the Lisbon Beach area that sports a great public boat launch for all to use. Guess we weren't the only ones with walleye on our minds, two other groups were pulling in and headed to the same location.
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By 5:15 we had the boat in the water and gear stowed for the 15 minute trip downstream to a set of locks and a dam that stretched across the St.Lawrence River. My son Robert started rigging the poles with a 1 oz bottom bouncer and a 27 to 36 inch worm harness. Here is the trick if you want to fish this location, you need to position the boat up under the doors located in the above picture and have everyone cast upstream. Once the cast is out, the driver needs to hit full reverse with the boat until you reach the outside of the concrete pillars. If your boating skills are anything less than experienced, don't try this method. The swift current and undertow will toss you into the pillars in a fraction of a second. Just have everyone cast toward the pillars and drift downstream.
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We both had a large number of hits that couldn't connect but still came away with lunch with Rob catching a 23 inch walleye and myself with a 19 inch one. If you plan on doing any fishing in this neck of the woods for walleyes, get an early start. Most of the feeding activities tend to slow down by 9am. I have yet tried it but I would be willing to bet on overcast days, and evening fishing would show the same results. Next trip we will be jigging outcroppings and weed beds as we marked a lot of fish on the humps and outcroppings.
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Fishing isn't the only things going on at the St.Lawrence. We watched two large ships navigate by us as well as a flock of ducks swim right up to our boat
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