Quarter-ounce and half-ounce tipped with Berkley gulp and nightcrawlers is a great way to catch these staging fish, which include the smaller male and some big females As spring turns into summer, the walleye spread out throughout LPO and the Pend Oreille River
If you are going to troll them it pays to think about how they will be rigged to achieve the desired depth
(As an aside, acclaimed fly fishing guide and instructor Brant Oswald suggests purchasing a rod that comes in well below your rod budget, then applying the money you just saved to fly casting lessons.) At the end of the day, of course, theres one final question to consider
The BOC store in Ponca is stocked with several varieties of the topwater lures written about in this blog post
The heads and hooks come in many sizes, weights, and shapes with skirts mounted immediately behind the heads to camouflage the business end of the hook