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Locating

Walleyes During

Early Ice

By Kyle Lynn

As the last of the leaves
are blown away and the
first real mid 20’s temps
last longer than a few

hours during the early
morning our minds start
to wonder from sitting in
our deer stands to sitting
on a bucket staring down
an ice hole. The need to
scratch the itch sets in as

we pull out the old
trusted sonar and rod bag
and begin to rig rods and
charge batteries. We start
dreaming of hot coffee and hooksets while cooking some hot dogs over the old sunflower heater our
grandpa’s used and now passed down to us. First ice is just around the corner.

If you are like me then it

is really hard to not get
excited about searching
for walleyes on our
favorite reef or break.
Drilling holes and
dropping your sonar

down and looking for
those red arcs hovering
just on the bottom of
the lake lurking in the
shallows for a meal that
will momentarily satisfy
its hunger. But the
question that stands

with even the most