Help fishing this resevoir

[spillway]

http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_mari...whitresmap.pdf
Please help me fish this resevoir. I have been using boucners and spinners in the river channel with very limited success. It is loaded with walleyes but they are uncooperative right now. I am a salmon and trout fisherman trying to change over to walleyes. They taste much better! Any tactics or help would be appreciated. I have boards,down riggers,cranks, spoons, pretty much everything. Water temp is 80 degrees right now with a big algae bloom. Might just be the time of year, but i am pulling my hair out {good thing there is a grocery store down the road}. Thanks

[PTShad]

If there are any weeds present I would check them out. Hit the edges with spinners or cranks and pitch jigs to the pockets. Don't rule out shallow water completely, its been in the 100s for 3 weeks here in KS and I'm hearing of some guys catching keepers in as shallow as 5ft on main lake points. There's a good chance the fish are following around the bait. Find the bait, mark fish underneath, hope they are the right species.

Just a few of my thoughts. Otherwise keep working the channel bends. GOOD LUCK!

[B1g Daddy of 4]

man just keep it simple with slip bobbers and jigs with leeches and crawlers on the edges and right over the tops of the weeds.

[Steeleyes]

According to this, there is very little plant life in the reservoir. So as already stated, hit up what weeds you can find. http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/40284.html

I would also focus on areas with rapid depth changes or drop offs. Also fish around the brush piles and other added structures.
If I were fishing this for the first time I would drift fish it with jigs & crawlers. Keeping the jigs at the bottom. Maybe put out a presentation that keeps the crawler a foot or two off bottom. If the winds prevent me from drifting I would slow troll it with crawler harnesses at or near the bottom.

Well I would troll mid lake first 1.5 - 2.0 mph cranks(12ft) and spinners in the 10-15ft depth range and keep a close eye on the finder for fish marks and places that are fishy. If nothing then I would still concentrate on deeper water mid day using slow death, hook and bead type stuff unless you have stained water in the shallows. Dusk and early morning I'd run all spinners off boards along the break line covering the 3-10ft area mid lake.

That's just me, if there's some older fisherman types hanging out, most of those guys can tell you some spots, it's up to you to figure out what they want.

Hook em and cook em!

[npauls]

I would troll around and cover some water until you start marking a bunch of fish on the sonar. Check a bunch of depths until you start putting a pattern together or where the fish are hanging out. After finding the fish I would start to try different colors and baits on spinner rigs and if that isn't working I would start slowing it down a bit until you get it all figured out.

If the fish are really shallow it will be tough to mark anything and you will most likely have to just explore the fishy areas until you start getting fish.

You could troll planer boards with cranks or spinner rigs in the shallow stuff or as mentioned before you could pitch jigs or slip bobbers and see what you can come up with.

[octanehi5]

Walleye can be a very hard fish to catch,they get very picky,in warmer water. were you caught them today does not mean they will be there the next. If what you are doing does not catch any in a half hour you need to change what you are doing. We have a lake here in Ct. that has alot of big walleye's in it, its loaded with alwifes,there are fish that are over 12lbs, There are days on there when you may as well be fishing the dead sea. lock jaw,We have found if you cover, trolling bottom boncers with worm harness, near the weed line it will usualy produce fish. But if you do this for two hrs . and no fish its time to leave the lake. Walleye's will be walleye were ever you fish for them.