susqwahanna

Can anyone point me in the right direction to catch some walleye from the bank? What kinds of lures and technique is used?

cavdad45

I wish...

Best bet I know of is Eastern Washington, but by their very nature walleye love the deep water and that usually precludes any reasonable expectancy of shore fishing success.

chris61182

Best luck from the bank might be at night when they do go shallow.

Silverblade

It appears from reading up on them that they move into shallower water at night - so early evening/dusk may be worth a try. There are supposed to be Walleye now in the lower Willamette - I plan to hit Kelly Point a few times this year and try to fish the deep sturgeon hole area for Walleye at sundown. I think I'll wait for our April winter to end though first.

trollin4trout

Multnomah Channel is full of walleye and it is 10-20ft in most places. We anchored once straight across from the Gilbert River ramp in about 15ft of water. Fishing a whole nightcrawler on the bottom we hooked and lost two walleye in 20 minutes. No reason you couldn't catch one off the bank there.
Trolling worm harnesses or plugs will catch them also.

Silverblade

Where is Multnomah channel? Never mind - duh - used the internet & found it!

How is the bank access there? May have to take a drive up there and look around. I've heard that Sauvie Island had some panfish spots in lakes - could hit those too while on a recon...

joro79

Hi, there is plenty of bank fishing options on the Multnomah channel. I fished there last summer but I was very disappointed, I didint catch anything. There are many lakes on Souvie Island, the one that I really like is Hadelman Pond, it is stocked with trout , besides that I am not sure what kind of fish there is.
What kind of technique are you going to use to catch those Walleyes

Silverblade

I haven't a clue! I am going to read up on Walleye fishing and hopefully find something in my tackle box that will work. I'd So hate to have to go to Cabellas or fishermans wherhouse and buy more fishing gear (not, any excuse works for me!).
Last time (and the only time) I went to Kelly Point I'd just come from Hagg and had my 6lb line on. I was fishing nightcrawlers on the bottom and something hit and broke my line off like nothing. Next time I set the drag more carefully - felt pretty dumb. I have no idea what it was but it probably wasn't a Walleye - though they do get that big. All info I can find says that they feed almost exclusively on small fish, so I probably hooked up with a Sturgeon or a big Carp I'd guess. I want a rematch though >

susqwahanna

I'd like to bring this up again.

Any new info out there>??

FishSchooler

Just look for spots like channels, or warm water creeks. I think oswego creek in george rogers park on the willamette has some walleye in it, just not much.

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