Jigging Upper Columbia River Walleye

After a hiatus I am bringing back my YouTube channel and the Cascadia Kayak Angler series. I am "re-kickstarting" the series with upper Columbia Walleye.

Great video. I've never fished for Walleye from the kayak, but I do know they are fantastic eating fish.  How far up the Columbia do you have to go to catch Walleye like the ones you were catching?

Thanks for sharing the video!!

Great video. I've never fished for Walleye from the kayak, but I do know they are fantastic eating fish.  How far up the Columbia do you have to go to catch Walleye like the ones you were catching?

Thanks for sharing the video!!

Walleye are distributed throughout the Columbia River system from the Canadian border to as far down as Cathlamet. They are more common from The Dalles upstream than below it. Some good areas to target them include the mouth of the Deschutes, Rufus area, Umatilla, Rufus Woods, and Lake Roosevelt. This video was produced on Rufus Woods.

I've never fished for walleye, and Have no idea how to fish for them, but they are on my list of things to do.  What kinds of depths, current, and bottom structure are good places to look for walleye?

I've never fished for walleye, and Have no idea how to fish for them, but they are on my list of things to do.  What kinds of depths, current, and bottom structure are good places to look for walleye?

Current breaks, reefs, and shelfs are you best bets. I like areas with large cobble. As for depths that will vary greatly depending on season and lakes. For example in the spring 10-20' is where I find them and by fall and winter they have moved to over 50' deep in Rufus Woods whereas in Lake Roosevelt they hang out at 100-150' deep.

I've never fished for walleye, and Have no idea how to fish for them, but they are on my list of things to do.  What kinds of depths, current, and bottom structure are good places to look for walleye?

Current breaks, reefs, and shelfs are you best bets. I like areas with large cobble. As for depths that will vary greatly depending on season and lakes. For example in the spring 10-20' is where I find them and by fall and winter they have moved to over 50' deep in Rufus Woods whereas in Lake Roosevelt they hang out at 100-150' deep.

Can you ever see the walleye on your fish finder?  Or do you just keep jigging at different depths and near different structure until you start catching them?

I've never fished for walleye, and Have no idea how to fish for them, but they are on my list of things to do.  What kinds of depths, current, and bottom structure are good places to look for walleye?

Current breaks, reefs, and shelfs are you best bets. I like areas with large cobble. As for depths that will vary greatly depending on season and lakes. For example in the spring 10-20' is where I find them and by fall and winter they have moved to over 50' deep in Rufus Woods whereas in Lake Roosevelt they hang out at 100-150' deep.

Can you ever see the walleye on your fish finder?  Or do you just keep jigging at different depths and near different structure until you start catching them?

I very rarely see them. They sit in the interstitial space between the boulders on the bottom.

Fun video, Tyler - thanks! Looking forward to more.