Deep Walleye

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I saw schools of bait over them extending from the surface down 15 feet or so. Loons and gulls were working the bait. I didn't see any signs that they were raising to the bait and at the time I wasn't even sure they were walleye because of the way they were just laying on the bottom. Now I'm beginning to think they really might be walleye (big walleye). It seems like the best strategy might be to just continue working over the area for a few hours in the mornings and see if I can get lucky and find them coming up. If there is enough wind I might even just keep working the area over casting and drifting with Erie Deeries and hope I can get something started. I suspect it might require a patient person but when there is 50 ft. between the marks on my "Bird" and my bait, it's going to seem like a long slow wait.

I know this sounds crazy but I wonder if I could chum these fish into raising off the bottom. I'm even considering taking a sabiki rig and catching a bunch of those bait fish and then chunking with them in an area just to see what happens.

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