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] Good to hear from you Me and My Boy!
Oneida Narrows does have walleye and I have caught a few and saw a few caught before in there.
I have a good friend and he and I used to do a little fishing there in his boat before he moved to Spokane Valley Washington.
He and I ice fished one year by lantern light and he pulled a three pounder out thru the ice using a jigging spoon with night crawler I believed.
On another occasion ice headed up to Oneida when I saw a storm headed that way. Fished the first rock cliffs jutting into the reservoir with a silver crocodile spoon. I had read that wave action from storms have a tendency to push bait minnows against lake side where the waves are pounding against the shore. I'd cast the silver crocodile spoon out and slowly real it in. BAM I caught five walleye within an hour, the biggest abount a lb.
The third occasion I saw two guys in their 20's float tubing with depth finders attached to their float tubes. Seems they would move along and when they saw a school of fish that might be walleys, they would drop a hook baited with a whole night crawler and jig it up and down in the school of fish. They each had four or five walleye on their stringers.
If I fish for walleye again I think I will float tube and use the jigging night crawler tactic.
The Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game stocked several hundred thousand walleye fry at least every other year in Oneida Narrows Reservoir. I believe they truck them up from Kansas if my memory serves me right. Some years they survive well, other years the fry don't survive well. I have fished for walleye in Keyhole Reservoir, Wyoming with a friend and had a great time. The eating was great too, white sweet flaky meat. Just like a large perch which they are a cousin to. Good luck fishing for walleye. Study up on fishing techniques for them, they are a tougher fish to catch.
DeeCee
I ice fish not because I like the cold, but because it is the only time of year I can impress my wife, by walking on water.
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