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How to Succeed in Fishing Walleye
By Jim Johannasen

It's a challenging task to catch a walleye. It's very hard to hook a walleye on a fishing line. Widely known as short strikers among fishermen, walleye fish have the courage and wits to take away your bait without getting hooked on the line. No other fish is so good at striking the bait without getting caught. You have to learn about their habitual patterns of living in order to catch a fish. It will be a plus to understand their escape once they strike the bait. A walleye's mouth is wide open when it is striking the bait. The water goes in and leaves through the gills of walleye fish. If you make any attempts to snag the fish too early, they will pull most of the water inside and to your misfortune, baited hook will slide through walleye's open mouth. Have a little patience to wait until the clever walleye takes the hook into their mouth. You should use a lightweight line for this purpose. It will also decrease the chances of dragging the fishing line out of the grasp of walleye fish.

You should also pay attention to the seasonal pattern of walleye fish. They like to stay in cold water and it is very difficult to find them in summers because they swim very deep. If the river or lake under consideration is shallow, you can expect to catch some of them. The best way to find them in deep waters during summers is to do fishing at night. Because of a temperature drop during the night hours, walleye fish comes a little upwards towards the surface. When you are fishing deep, there is no use of throwing any fish back. They cannot survive the temperature and pressure change. You shouldn't move the line too much. Walleye will not even bother to come and pick up something like your bait which is moving too much.

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