Phil Rolfe Walleyes Inc. Action packed adventures in walleye fishing on the internet. Click on the image to vote for this site. We hear so much about fishing points, inside and outside turns, underwater humps and rock piles that we tend to forget about one of the most productive areas in any given body of water and especially true on Canadian Shield lakes. I am not talking about an area that holds fish occasionally and should be checked once in awhile, but an area that is dynamite throughout the seasons and should be part of your strategy for taking walleye consistently. Flats, that's right, those mostly featureless and presumably barren stretches of lake bed that apparently offer nothing for the average angler to key in on.
Flats are the least interesting feature in a lake, reservoir, or river.
No major structure, just flat bottom. Here's the kicker, flats hold the most active walleyes during most of the yearly periods. Flats are the major food producing regions of most lakes. Flats are the home of walleyes. Flats teem with fish life, During the day, flats are home to schools of minnows and young gamefish that are feeding on plankton and insect larvae.