Regardless if you are fishing with lead head jigs, floating jigs, spinners or vibrating lures, fluorescent colors will out produce standard colors in cold water that is turbid. One factor that can result in poor fishing even though the lake is teeming with walleyes is a lack of fish holding structure. This structure will hold fish on barriers or give a resting place out of current. You need to be on a lake that has a variety of depressions, rocks, holes, weedbeds, stumps and logs. This is the type of structure that fish relate to.
Walleyes prefer hard bottom, preferably gravel or rubble.
If you can locate a gravel or rubble area in a basin that is other wise all muck or silt, chances are you ve located the walleye hangout. If you have a depth finder rigged up for sounding at high speeds you can check out a lot of bottom conditions. Especially, with a little practice, you will be able to differentiate the weak signal produced by soft bottom types from the stronger, sharper signal produced by hard bottoms. To sum it up, cold water walleyes can be extremely frustrating because of the tremendous variables that in some way affect the walleyes behavior. Join Walleyes Inc .