Gone Fishing- Crawling Valley

Back out at Crawling Valley                        PHOTO GALLERY

It was opening day yesterday at Crawling Valley Reservoirand I was able to escape the city and try my luck at this excellent Walleye fishery. The drive out to Crawling Valley takes an hour and twenty minutes but is definitely worth the trip. Crawling Valley holds its fair share of large Walleye and also has some great Pike and Burbot fishing. Every spring I look forward to the excellent fishing this reservoir has to offer. The Walleye come out of the deeper water and move to shallower territory in search for food. This provides for some non-stop action here.

I prefer to use bait when fishing here and my first choice is always frozen minnows. I went to the tackle shop and saw a bag of colored minnows on the shelf. They came in two different colors, pink or florescent green and were reasonably priced at 11.00$ CDN. I opted to buy some and give them a try. Todd however stated he always had good luck fishing Walleye with worms, so we placed our bets and moved to the till. As we pulled into the reservoir there were already six people fishing and I said a friendly hello to one of them. We exchanged some words and I went over to my favorite spot along the shoreline, tied up and sat back and waited for the bite. Todd was the lucky one who had a bite with his proven worm trick; he patiently waited as the Walleye nibbled those irresistible worms. He set the hook abruptly and was into the first fish of the day. We snapped some photos and released the fish back into the reservoir. Looks like I’m buying dinner tonight, referring to the bet back at the tackle shop.

We stayed long enough for Todd to pull one more Walleye from the murky water on a spinner made by Blue Fox. I had a few good bites but never managed to land one fish. I made a note to myself to include worms in my selection of bait for the next trip here. It is wise for one to have a selection of different baits in case one type of bait is not working. All in all I enjoyed the trip and have a feeling I will return to the Valley very soon. Hopefully this time I will be the lucky one hauling in those nice big Walleye’s.