underwater currents!!!!!!!!

[Paul Gurgash]

How important do people here think underwater currents are to walleye location. I believe walleye are inherently river fish who have adapted to other environments....And so they therefore relate to whatever current they find.
I've read pros say if they find zebra mussels they find walleye out in the great expanses of open water trolling. Zebra mussels will only be where current brings them food.
I also think it could be reason why at times you seem to catch fish trolling in only one direction in a specific area. They are oriented and waiting for food according to direction of underwater current.
Just wondering if anyone else was wondering???

[Peanut]

We just fished a lake a couple weeks ago that had some moving water, and found that the beest numbers were actually at a confluence of two currents (we discovered this by accident when while trolling with a healthy wind and currenet, our boat suddenly got held in one position byh a competing current). While still-fishing this spot we always picked up fish.

I think you're right that walleye do relate to current, when there is some - probably just following in the bait fish.


derrek.

"It's the weaseling out of things that sets us apart from the animals.... Except the weasel."
- H.J. Simpson

[JLDII]

I think it has a huge influence on walleyes and their location.

I personally think walleyes are lazy hunters, in that they will go to places that will have food, and then position themselves in ambush spots, aka current breaks, and wait for the current to bring the food to them. I see it all the time on Mille Lacs. This lake almost always has a current in it. Not always the same direction, but almost always you will find current. As many of you know that have read my posts, I'm mostly a bobber fisherman. My number one rule about setting up on a spot is that you have to position your boat according to the wind, but you have to present your bait according to the current. If you have waves going from north to south, and you put your boober out, but the current is carrying it east to west, you better be fishing a spot for an east to west flow, or it will be a slow day. The fish seem to always set up according to the current, and not the waves.