Night Time, Cold Water, Fox River Walleye

It’s that time of year when anglers that are still out angling on the Fox River have turned there attention to Ol’ Marble-eye. That’s right, it’s walleye time.

The air has cooled down and so has the water. Perfect conditions for these toothy critters.

All the experts will tell you that cool water, cool air and some of the worst conditions possible will increase your odds at tying into eyes.

Even better, if you can combine all those things and do it all in the dark, old waldo will bite even more.

Me? I’ll get out there just when the sun sets. Want to make sure those last rays of daylight are off the water.

I can go all night at this point. The deeper the darkness, the better the bite for these Susquehanna salmon.

Of course, I’ll go with what the experts recommend. Those Wally’s love their night crawlers, so night crawler rigs it is.

When that bite shuts down, I’ll switch to all kinds of plastic minnow baits.

Anything that shakes and shimmies and rattles and gets down to where those eyes are hiding out on the bottom of the river.

The heads of pools, the tailouts, current seams, you name it. Fish them all and fish them thorough to get them yellow pike to bite.

At night you got the whole river to yourself and you know what the experts say, why fight the day light crowds, Ol’ Waldo ain’t bitin’ then anyways.

But enough jabbering. I’ll let the pictures tell the story of those night time, cold water, Fox River walleye.