They're hybrids from the male sauger and the female walleye.Mean lil critters and are active in ice.They grow quicker than a walleye. Here's one of our catches the other week.This is still early in the season for them.

Here's a pic of todays catch despite rough waves and rain from all these storms ripping through west central ohio. Largest saugeye went 19.5" and caught 15 yds from an island bank.Smallest went 15 1/4 and other 3 around 16". All these storms has been wrecking havoc on the saugeye.

well done mate - looks like your having a great time

Actually those are poor results,but decent catches for our horrendous weather.Ohio is a place where you can have the heat on,1 day later air conditioner on,and then a few days of heat,back to turning the heat on again due to coldfronts.

My part of ohio is being battered with thunderstorms, a few tornados,and flooding.It's disrupted the spawning whitebass 3 times now.Lake temp dropped 20 degrees in a 5 day span.Just now started to hit mid 70's and thursday it was down to 66.

5 hrs of fishing in the rain yielded 4 eyes for both us today. A couple 3 whitebass and a catfish that my buddy.Those catfish love crankbaits.

Howdy, i am in No Arkansas, we have Walleye in our lakes down here, my cousin lives in Marysville area, where are these caught and let us know what you use for line and bait so i can let him and his kids learn, when i cooked a walleye i caught for breakfast when they visited ,they enjoyed the flavor. Keep your lines Tight, Aj

These saugeye can pretty much be caught on anything.Bank fishing,just tightline a floating jighead tipped with minnow and a sliding sinker.They'll even eat cut shad if you're using that instead of minnows. They do love nightcrawlers,so worm harness's work well.Leadhead jigs with twistertails.Pretty much anything a bass will hit,a saugeye will hit.

I troll for them using 20#-30# rated spiderwire,line counter reels,and the siderods are 8.5'-9' super sensitive salmon rods.I can feel the slightest vibration of the bottom,weeds,or even a 1" minnow on those combos.The planerboards rods are the basic trolling rods or broken tipped salmon rods. Bomber Model A in the 02 size and Bandit 100 series has been taking all the eyes.

For the avg guy using mono,they'd be better off using mini rattletraps,shadrap ssr7's,or any other bait that dives 3'-5'. The object is to occasionally bump the bottom. Those saugeye hide in any little nook and cranny on the bottom.They rarely come up to get a bait.You have to put it on their nose.If you can't feel the bottom,you're not going to catch much.

Make sure he has a lure retriever.It's not unusual for me to lose 2 crankbaits in 1 trip.I can't stop when the planerboards are released.That lake is plum full of snags,but a ton of saugeye.

Hey THanks for all the info you left for us and my Cousins in Ohio, it was very detailed and appreciated the time you took to carefully describe all, this info will be used by more folks than us. Best Regards, AJ

I fish the Ohio river below mcalpine dam when they are running about 4 to 8 total feet of dam from 4 gates. I get close and into the fast faoamy water and troll mostly model a bombers with great success catching sauger, saugeye, and some walleye. I also catch some stripers, hybrids, and drum doing this trolling.
Takes a good pole and baitcasting reel and just get the lures to beat the bottom.

we just had a teenager catch a record walleye in Rockford Illinois couple weeks ago ........

"Nick Tassoni caught a 14-pound, 12-ounce walleye Saturday to break the longest-standing gamefish record in Illinois.

The 15-year-old freshman at Rockford Auburn was fishing the Pecatonica River with his father when he latched into the walleye."


The female walleye was 31 inches long with a girth of 20 1/4 inches.

The Solar Lunar Gods are out there !!!

wonder if article mentioned what kind of gear , lures-bait, this lucky Newbee was fishing with ??

The lure, a Rapala firetiger No. 7 Minnow Rap, Tassoni had bought. The rod was a Carolina Lizard Dragger by Falcon his dad had bought at a garage sale. The reel, an old Ambassador 5000, came from his late paternal grandfather Jerry. The line, Trilene 10-pound Big Game

there is another walleye record in illinois ................

ROCKFORD, IL – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) Division of Fisheries has officially certified the catch of a new state-record walleye – the second time the state record has been established this year.

On Sunday, March 11, 52 year old James Zimmerman of Beloit, Wisconsin caught a 15.08 pound walleye on the Pecatonica River in Winnebago County. The fish was measured at 31 and 1/2 inches with a girth of 20 and 3/8 inches. IDNR Division of Fisheries Regional Administrator Dan Sallee certified the new record walleye on March 12. IDNR Conservation Police Officer Dennis Frichtl assisted in the weigh-in and certification.

Zimmerman caught the fish on a 1/8 ounce Northland Fire-Ball jig

The big one is 25" the smaller in is a smidgen over 15"

I'm still hammering the saugeye.Pulled out 90 each of the last 2 year. That 2012 season was a barn burner.We still pulled out 2 man limits clear thru the end of july and 92° water temps.

Something odd about that 2012 season was the keeper % was sky high. Very few dinks. Well we payed for it the last 2 seasons because fewer dinks in 2012 meant fewer 15"-16" keepers for 2013 and 2014. On the plus side was the quality. Averaged over 18" per keeper those two years plus we're pulling in the dinks. The ODNR stocking was 1/2 for 2009 and 2010 because the female walleye in the maumee is where they get the eggs from.Those walleye eggs contained a virus and the odnr had to use the eggs of walleye from inland lakes which meant a lower yield. 2011 they figured out a way to treat the eggs for that virus and now back to getting the fat hawgs of the maumee river.

I got an early start in the 2015 season in early may.1st trip out and limit.That dink # was sky high but managed to pull out quite a few limits.Bad part is the keepers are mostly under 18",but I had to sort out the dinks to get them. The only 2 man limit that I had this year,we caught 75 saugeye to get 12 that were legal size. the next day ,1 limit of 6 saugeye out of 50 total saugeye. I'm sitting on 111 so far this season.Major flooding and weekly coldfronts. Our lake hasn't even made it to 80° yet.That's when the hawgs hit. Probably tossed back 700+ saugeye dinks and 200 channelcats. That low 2009 and 2010 stocking season is the reason I'm not getting many 19"-21" eyes now. Hopefully this last flood didn't take any of those eye dinks away.Saugeye love to go over spillways during flooding and that's why a lot of lakes can't hold them. From the size of these dinks,2018 is going to be a banner year.

Last season and this season,the eyes have been hammering berkley flickershads.Last year it was chrome clown,blue tiger,purple tiger.This season it's party perch,black lime bully,pink lemonade. 6 cm last year and 5 cm this year.They're under $4 and they catch anything. Tally up a 36" flattie that went 21 lbs a couple weeks ago. Crappie,saugeye,perch,channelcats,white bass.People catching walleye with them too.The most snag resistant crank that I have found and I troll shallow snag infested waters for a living!!