Popped in last night to fish from shore, The docks are in at Youngs Point. I cought a few pike with one being a decent size. I spoke with a few guys and they said they can't keep the pike off. Spring fishing is officially here!

Clark

Nice! I was hoping to maybe swing the spey rod for some pike from the shore today.

But it is to windy for that.

oh well maybe another day.

Went to Sturgeon Wednesday and today, mostly jack, a few walleye and my first Burbot.  Surprised the heck out of me!

Real windy today, had the best luck by sandy bay but the trip home was brutal. 

What were you using from the dock? I was just off to the right of the dock and all I caught was a cold! I think I needed to be a little further out.

Eating the Burbot as I type this, good lord they are good!  I highly recomend "Uncle Bucks Hot + Spicy" from Bass Pro.

How do you target these fish not by accident? I'm going to need another!

  Letting your jig sit and wait or deadlining with bait works the best in the rivers up here.  Use the smelliest bait you can find and they'll pick up on the scent.  Did you cut out the strip of meat that runs down the spine along the ribs.  It akes a bit of time to cut out, but is the best part of the fish.  Pretty much a fish tenderloin.  If you can hit a river try deep holes or confluences.  The big ones will be hanging out while the walleye are spawning. 

  I just hammered them last week on the Peace.  There were a stupid amount of Burbot there.  I've never caught that many in that short amount of time before.

Man, I'm drooling. Might have to go try the lower Peace.

Was out at Sturgeon today. No action around the Young Point's dock but lots of action in the middle of the Narrows. We hauled in about 20 in total. One very nice pike and 3 nice Walleye. Remainder would have been on the smaller size.  

Went to Sturgeon again today with the wife and kids, fishing was pretty good.  Lost a couple big jack at the boat that I have blamed on my net being to small...

A few decent  Walleye as well, good day!

White + pink was the colour of the day for us, red + yellow came in second

Still a little early for the walleyes / just right for pike...  Hopefully in three weeks the walleyes will be out in full force...

was there today..three nice walleye off wildeye walleye body baits...the wife got some tiny pike off perch body bait with a smal lip and a bb in it lol they would swim right up to the boat...wheres the good spots in sturgeon i got the depth map but it didnt do all that well for me best fishing was by the docks.

Braved the wind again yesterday, my face feels like an old cowboy boot.  Weather calmed down a bit by 9 or so for a nice end to the evening, it was jackfish city yesterday.

Any one see the fire roaring to the south of the lake?  Almost looked like it was out by swan.

Camping out there this weekend, should get lots of fishing in regardless of the weather.

Yah, I heard that swan lake is closed to the public right now cause they are taking water from the lake to fight the fire!!!

The smoke near Swan on Wednesday

hey i have a lot at a campsigt near the cove at the farthest point away from yungs point and we were out all weekend there was 3 of us and we cought our limit every day in waleye in the narrows me and my father whould fish and we whould get a pike on our line and its humungus the only problume is that its so big it swims around 2 and goes under the bout and snap the line and we have been telling our friends about it and the didnt belive it until they came out with us this weekend and saw it but this isnt the first time we have hooked it last year we were hooking it every 3-4 times we whould go out on the lake and the funny part is that the last time i saw it was when i caught a 2.5 pound walleye and it can and bit it in the middle and swam off with it stupid fish haha if you have had a expierence like this you should mesedge me

hey guys i was out on sturgeon between 7 and 10 on saturday night, and we were just hammering the walleye. we only caught 1 that was under the size limit out of 30 or so, and it was only 1 cm under. we decided to troll back to the dock and all of a sudden boom! fish on! i knew this one was much better than the rest of them, it felt like it had some weight. after a quick little 5 minute fight my buddy netted my 8 pound 58 cm walleye. i was so excited, this being my first time out there this year... hope to see you guys out there this year.

Kelsey Helm at May 17, 2010 at 5:28 PM

hey guys i was out on sturgeon between 7 and 10 on saturday night, and we were just hammering the walleye. we only caught 1 that was under the size limit out of 30 or so, and it was only 1 cm under. we decided to troll back to the dock and all of a sudden boom! fish on! i knew this one was much better than the rest of them, it felt like it had some weight. after a quick little 5 minute fight my buddy netted my 8 pound 58 cm walleye. i was so excited, this being my first time out there this year... hope to see you guys out there this year.

Thats Wicked. I didn't even believe there were walleye that big in Sturgeon. I'm just learning how to fish the lakes. What do you find works best out there? I hear a tipped jig is fool proof but does anyone have any luck with Dead Bait Rigs or SlowD fishing? One other question: Is night fishing any good and do the walleye actually come in to the shallow's?

A 58 cm walleye on Sturgeon is a reasonably common catch as there is a large year class of such fish.  Almost all such fish are females.  Your estimation of size is a little off however.  The fish would likely push the scales close to 4 pounds.  In the early 90's we tagged over 2000 walleye on Sturgeon with the largest being 64 cm and slightly over 5 pounds and it was a ripe female.  My largest walleye on Sturgeon after over 30 years of fishing was in 2009 and was a 68 cm fish.  Good luck fishing.  There are many good tables you can use to estimate the weight of fish accurately.  Another interesting fact is that the walleye on Sturgeon do weigh slightly more than there counter parts in lakes such as Lesser Slave.

Or you could use a weigh scale. Most walleye weight estimator's use only length not girth, which is rediculous because I've seen some fat walleye and some really skinny walleye.