Getting close to 500 total inches of fish over the past week. Just fishing after work.

Tonights biggest, 30.5"

Nice fish/fishes.

Props.

Nice Pickerell Hutchy.
Not a lot of guys know the best fishing is in october,especially for the big ones.

Nice walleye Hutchy!

What its not Jan-Feb-March must be a Manitoba bite then.
nice ones

I've been taking limits of eaters(15-18") and been releasing many mid to high 20s walleye's in the past 2 weeks on my local river, in my area the fishing gets prime time right now but this year cool water came early. Hopefully I can keep going thru Thanksgiving.

Nice pic Hutchy

Darn nice walleye I finally caught one close to that size earlier this fall I released her I hope you did as well that's a good looking breeder for sure besides the world needs more walleye's ha ha !
Allan

Fish went back.


You mention eaters and keepers.....the mighty biologists have given us a slot limit. Anything between 16 and 22 inches has to go back. You can keep them over and under. Their reasoning is that the middle sized fish spawn, and the big ones don't.

Complete nonsense. You look at a a river spawning run and you see two things. Huge females and a billion small males. Exactly opposite their theory on slot limits.

The biologists haven't a clue

nice fish , hutchy

I totally agree with you down here on Fort Peck Lake a lot of fish that size can be caught in the fish traps our fish wildlife and parks biologists set those big girls are loaded down with eggs and as you said the small males are all over the place .

We're you pulling crank baits or pitching jigs ?

Are there any Bio's left or has Ford slashed those jobs as well.
They are finding the radio tracked big girls sometimes only spawn every second year in some of Manitoba's lakes.

We have goofy limits like that too. I can only keep 3 walleye and only 1 can be over 14". Seriously....14 inches!

Awesome fish

Nice fish

Nice big clean healthy looking fish! The shield area walleyes have such a distinct look and color to them.We get such a green color walleye from Lake Winnipeg/Red River. Gorgeous fish!

Awesome job Hutchy!

Very nice.

Jerkbaits after dark

Ya, ours is 16-22 go back, only one over 22.

Lol. 14 and 15" fish, may as well be perch fishing.

Good thing the smallmouth are easy to catch this time of year.

A few lakes near here have blue walleye in them

Hutchy,
Does everyone in your area call them walleye? The guys that I know in the Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario area all call them pickerel.

16- 20 inch are the best eatin.... i call em fryers !! over that gets tossed back

that 30 incher would go on the wall 27 is my best

pickeral are small northern pike in my country

That’s a good looking walleye Hutchy. Jerk baits at night are a fun way to catch them too.

Nice fish Hutchy.,I just got off the lake.I don't keep anything over 22".All the breeders go back in.Smacked the walleye and 11"-!3 " perch.Fish for supper tomorrow.30 degreese and snowing on us when we first got out,,but then turned to a nice balmy 40 degreese.Walleyes are comeing into shore big time at night now.Cast shallow divers from shore.Turn the head lamp on and all you can see is MARBLE EYES EVERYWHERE. Love it. Perch and Walleyes is all I fish.

Nice action!! Maybe I should go fishing this next week. Supposed to be a nice warm beginning to November...

No, everyone calls them pickerel and they are dead wrong.

Walleye belong to the same family as sauger, and pickerel resemble pike, and we don't have pickerel here.

Pickerel subspecies include chain pickerel, and grass pickerel and one more I can't recall.

Id love to keep the water size, 16-22" fish, but the biologists have determined those must go back lol.

I try for 23-24 for the freezer

I have one 32 1/2" Ion the wall that I got when i was 16.

Haven't beat it yet, but got close. Got a 31 1/2" last yr

Exactly right Hutchy. Walleye and sauger are in the perch family (percidae). Pike, pickerel and muskie are members of the Esocidae family. Is redfin pickerel the one you are trying to remember?

Pickerel is the Canadian name for Yellow Pickerel.
The American "walleye"name came from those catering to American tourists and the resulting articles in Magazines around the 1980's.
Real Canadians still call Yellow Pickerel- Pickerel.
The French also have it correct and call them Dore which translates to golden pickerel.

It’s okay Boco. You and the rest of the “real” Canadians just go ahead and keep calling various species of fish by you’re cute, colloquial names. The rest of us will continue to call them by their actual, proper names.

Listen up,numbnut.We aint gonna start calling God Allah just cause some foreigner thinks that right.
Just like We aint gonna start calling Pickerell Walleyes just cause some foreigner thinks its right.

If a carp is a minnow,
and walleyes are pickerel,
What's a pickerel then?

Nice one Hutch, the 500 inch thing bruised my brain cell lol.
My biggest is 28, Erie, mounted it in friends smoker.

The slots seem strange but the catchin looks fun.

Fishing is the only reason to go to Canada.

i dont buy that ratmasterson.You got plenty of fish down there.
Its because you love Canadian lifestyle once you get a taste of the solitude and freedom,even though you are too proud to admit it-but thats fine-I get that.

its really your women were after Rape pillage pilfer and burn !!!....lol

Nice Eyes Hutchy!

How deep are you catching them at night?

You might want to use some of that free health care and get some therapy to get over your penis envy, Boco.

Dont know what the H your talking about but you sound Gay for sure.

I think you do know what he’s talking about.

We pay taxes for our free health care services. And every one in the country is entitled to IT .And yes walleyes are yellow pickerel.

You must be one of those “real” Canadians that Boco talks about. Sorry Hutchy, you don’t make the grade.

I like visiting the U.S. It's nostalgic. Like a time machine going back 50 years.

4'-12'

Most here think the pickerel/ walleye thing is a canada vs us thing.

However its not a few foreigners telling us that they are called something else.

Science has a thing called taxonomic classification, and the name agreed upon is walleye.

Now, regional names are nicknames, and pickerel seems to have stuck around here. But me saying the real name is pickerel is like me telling people that the real name for a bufflehead is a butterball, just because that's what some call them as a nickname.

Or me arguing that pike are actually called jackfish, because some locals call them that.

I don't care if people call them that, we all know what fish they are talking about, let's just not pretend its the actual name of the fish in question.

Then hurry up and send me my honorary us citizenship so I can come chase tarpon in the Keys this March lol

Right-just like your new name for the wolf-lycaeon.
Yellow pickerel is the name.I dont pay attention to the pseudoscientists.

Boco, we all know that originated with anti clowns who couldn't tell the difference between a mutt and a separate subspecies.

But its just that. A subspecies.

That is like the difference between an actual chain pickerel and a grass pickerel.

But quite unlike the classification of walleye and pickerel, which has been established for some time.

Either way, its semantics. I don't even think we have true pickerel in Ontario, although I am not sure.

Its just another way the foreigners erode our culture,sad to see you fall for it.

It’s a regional nickname you “real” Canadians have for a fish that the rest of the world calls something else. Take a chill pill Bobo, a Canadian calling a walleye a walleye is not going to erode your culture. SMH

Back off Numbnuts or we'll keep you out longer.

Ha!

Thanks and nice fish. I know some guys that fish eyes at night in fact they don't even start till it's well dark. They catch nice fish and they catch them pretty shallow. That's why I was curious on the depth. I always wanted to do more night fishing.

Yup.Walleye are in the Perch Family,Pickerel are in the Pike Family.

Pakistanada

I can't believe no one has asked you to send fillets!!

It wont last in the mail...lol



Got 7 last night. Not one under 21".

up to 650 or so total inches. never kept track before. lol kind of fun

Got outfished tonight. Steph had three to my one.


24" and 25"

BEAUTIES!

Boco, don't you have a Canadian web site you can make a bass out of yourself.

VERY nice.!!!!!!!

Was out with a buddy of mine who also happens to be an accomplished trapper.

Best of the night, 29".

Ended up with six or seven.

Nice pickerel.

Where??

Man, those things are golden compared to our green and white ones around here.

I don't know if anyone has said it, but in lots of formal scientific journal articles, the common name(s) for a critter isn't even used. Its just the taxonomic name. For that fish, it would be Sander vitreus. I'm not a biologist, and in most of my articles where I've had to give a tree or critter name, they are usually lax enough to do both the scientific and most commonly accepted name, but in more strict biology journals often its only the scientific name.

You're degrading the Canuk culture again.

Nice FISH! LOL

Do you get scared fishing in the dark Hutchy?

I was fishing from a dock one night and couldn’t tell when my hook was coming close. Freaked me out every time it hit the tip of my rod lol.

Looks tasty!

This time if year I do everything in the dark. Pretty big water here, but all my trapline checks on this line happen after work and take four or five hours.

Only when snowshoeing miles out in the dark and the wolves start howling 200 yards away does the hair stand up on my neck a bit. But I usually just yell at them and tell em to shut up and they go away. Lol

Ya, these ones are real golden. Have a lake inland with some blue ones too.

This homo sapien thanks you for your comment.

(Normally i wouldn't identify as homo-anything, but I am making an exception)

Went out myself last night. Got 10. Biggest was 28". This was second biggest, just over 27"

Was tough to take pics at -5 and 20 mph wind. Lol

Good fishing tho. Nothing under 22"

Went out with a buddy. 10 fish, two double headers including these . 28.5 and a 30.5

They tangled and had to be netted together. Pretty fun!

Wicked man!!

Tangled up double header was the highlight of my season so far

I’d be like “stop flopping around! You’re gonna attract the alligators!” Lol

I love catching walleye. You guys are hauling them in!

Id say stop flopping around, you'll attract more people!

But then I realized its pitch black, and I am five miles from another living person lol.

16 last night

Best of the evening, a 29 incher

Amazing the quality of the fishery and your skills. The consistency of catching really trophy fish is something for sure. Big females must be feeding heavily getting ready for the energy to form eggs and spawn.

Bryce

If you kill a walleye over 24 inches in Washington or Oregon, you will be treated like a leper!! Guaranteed!!

We're OK here-they are pickerel.

Yeah, whatever!!

WOW!! I was planning on going today but to many ice chunks floating. I'm jealous. Lol

Here the only fish you can keep have to be over 22".

We always aim for 23, but put them back over 25.

I don't make the rules cat daddy, I just follow them. Lol.

You can also keep them under 16", but we never get them that small.

Some Huge Fish!!!

Good Job!

I keep one fish each time I go out.

Of the ones 22-24", slightly more than half are female. The rest male, obviously.

Beautiful walleyes!

Awesome H, keep em coming!

Stackin em up like cordwood.

Well, not necessarily now a days....you know......

Nice fish. Went and got some perch the other day after getting a few rats

Sadly, you are both right and wrong.

They might think they are something else, but I got bad news for them

You got their number for sure! Beautiful walleyes!