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Walleye Fishing
The lake is clear on the west side of the large body of Wawang lake with depths up to 120'. Here you will find rocky shores, sandbars and weed growth. Towards the east side the depth average to about 25' - 45' you will find many islands with a combination of rocky shoreline and sandbars providing some excellent opportunities for walleye to be caught. Around through the narrows (as we call it) and into the smaller section of the lake known as "Little Wawang" the water is a light amber stain with depths of 15' - 25' and here you will find many weed beds, rocky shoreline and peninsulas and small islands.
The large body of Wawang Lake
requires a more finesse presentation than the smaller section does, but
it's rewards are some VERY large fish. Sunrise and Sunset are the best
times to fish Wawang Lake in the spring and summer. Large fish will sit waiting for schools of smaller fish to migrate from the smaller lake into the large lake. Many trophies are caught in this area known as the "Narrows".
Fall time fishing can produce 15-20 fish per hour all day long once you find where they are stacked up, normally about 30' deep. Bring along some deep divers and reef runners. Silver with a blue back is an excellent color, however to ensure successful fishing for walleye bring a variety of colors.
What To Use
Wawang Lake provides open water opportunity for suspended walleye feeding on ciscoe (lake herring). Therefore, live bait is commonly the best for catching walleye. Some common lures to use with a minnow is:
Fishing off points, mid-lake reefs, weeds and shoreline structure provides for some fine walleye fishing. For the diehards, fishing well into the evening for the "Eyes" increases your chances for quantity and possibly catching that trophy fish.
Drifting or vertically fishing jigs tipped
with a live minnow, leech or
night-crawler is the most popular presentation
for
Other angling methods that produce well are trolling, trolling with bottom bouncers and spinner rigs or crank baits such as the Rapala husky jerk and shad rap or the Storm Thunder Stick. When it comes to finesse fishing, live bait rigs such as Lil' Joe Spinners, slip bobber or Lindy rigs works the best.
Light to medium action rods and spinning reels spooled with a clear line in the 6-10 lb test range is suitable for most walleye fishing methods. For trolling: spinner baits, bottom bouncers and cranks a medium action bait casting rod and reel works well.
Our lake policy for
keeping walleye is: Keep one - 18" to
21" the rest under 18".
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Walleye is a popular game fish in Wawang
Lake. Walleye season opener is always the third Saturday in May.
This large water
body of 5,000 acres has a healthy population of walleye with an average length of 15"-
22", although many 
Lil' Joe spinners with a longer
hook shank. Reflective Colors such as: Hammered copper,
brass & silver. Solid chartreuse, or chartreuse stripe with
alternate color. Any solid colors with a reflective silver
dot. Solid colors such as: green, chartreuse, white, pink,
black, blue and purple. Sinkers should be placed
approximately 18" from the hook. 1/4 oz. - 3/8 oz. keel
sinkers work the best with spinner rigs, they prevent the line from
twisting up. 
