curleytail - 8/27/2009 10:13 PM

Here's an update. I dropped my camera down in the area where I found that "filamentous algae." WALLEYES!!!!!!! I've never seen so many walleyes. My Lowrance was solid yellow from three feet off the bottom to the bottom. There weren't a ton of them actually over the weeds, but a lot a few yards out from the weed. I had at least 5 on the camera screen the whole time. Had to be hundreds, maybe thousands down there. Didn't catch any muskies off the spot, but there was lots of musky food. Must be something to that weed. I looked around a lot more, in a lot more places, and only saw one smallie on the screen. Something about those weeds was holding a lot of walleyes.

I also dredged up this new weed with my camera. THIS, I'm pretty sure is chara/sandgrass. It felt crispy, and I noticed the smell as soon as it cleared the water. Unfortunately, in quite a bit of looking, I only found this one stalk...and I ripped it off the bottom, lol. How do you guys find this stuff? I trolled for about two hours in 18-30 feet of water, and didn't find anything that looked too promising for either that algae stuff, or actual chara. I also spent quite a bit of time peering into the camera, and only found that one stalk that way too.

I'd like to find a few fishable sized areas of both/either that algae, or the chara. Looks like it might take lots of time idling around the lake. This lake I'm studying is Grindstone in Sawyer county by the way. If anybody needs a really good walleye spot, I know where you can find one...for a price.

Here's a picture of what I'm pretty sure is chara.

curleytail