Saugeye

[star1pup]

Anyone have any experience fishing for saugeye? I' m on a lake that has a lot of them, but I didn' t do too well this summer. I' m making plans for next year.

[mwchief]

We catch quite a few of them here on Pool 4 of the Mississippi.

[bigcat fhsu]

I live and fish in ks. We have them in some lakes and we catch them the exact same way we catch walleye. They even go to the rocks to spawn with the walleye even though they can not reproduce. Try anything you would do for walleye, live bait harnesses drifted across flats, crankbaits or rattletraps around any rocky cover or weed beds.

[young_gun]

most areas ive seen that have them say that you cant keep them?like by my dads house in mn.

[foofish]

I believe you may be talking about Sauger because saugeye' s are not very common i may be wrong but i believe this is true. I have fished the mississippi up and down and in 7 years of fishing for walleyes and saugers i have caught only 2 saugeyes. In general I have caught the saugers in shallower more sandy flats and the walleyes in the deeper more arated waters. I have also fished Mille Lacs which is considered by a lot of people to be the walleye capital of the world. We have had luck on lakes using slip bobbers running 8-10 feet with a minnow or a leech. We have also had luck trolling at night with deep running stick Yo-zuri lures, you got to have yo-zuri nothing compares trust me. Most of the times you will catch the fish off weed beds sand flats and rocky areas. we catch our fish in the early morning, at dusk and during the night. During the day we have found walleyes/saugers/saugeyes less active so we usually muskie or smallmouth fish during that time. Oh and its not illegal to keep Saugeyes in Minnesota i am positive of it.

[phishook]

Verry agressive jigging thruogh the ice or cold water for sauger

Live bate

A long stiff rod

Saugeye? got me, never heard of ' em.

[star1pup]

The saugeye is a hybrid cross between a sauger and a walleye. I have a cottage on a lake that is stocked with them, but I did not do well last summer. Plan to fish harder next year.

[Hiawatha]

we catch a few sauger in the saskatchewan river about 1 in every 15 we catch will be a sauger. We catch them the same way as walleye a snell and a bottom bouncer with a leech or a nightcrawler. I see no real big differences between the two except the sauger have spots on the dorsal fin and they tend to not grow as large as walleye

[marmax]

Try fishing for them in Feb.-March by the dams when the ice is breaking up. Usually they will bite fairly aggresive here in Ohio. Use some jig and minnows or jig and grub combo with chartrusse or black.
Always works for us

[nitro23]

we catch alot of them bass fishing with rattletraps anything bright it seems like firetiger works good and crome. They are good eating