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Looks like your dialed in never fished for Walleye! Thanks for sharing Kurt

Looks like a nice summer evening.

Do you pull 'em through the ice too?

Not nearly as well as I do in the summer, but I get a few. Pictured fish is 8 pounds.

Nice RAS! We catch them on Middle Island Creek. Tough chore at times. Excellent eaters. Been awhile since I’ve been.

Never fished them with a fly rod, but I sometimes hook into them as bycatch in pretty shallow water (2-3') on rivers when I'm after carp and redhorse, so I imagine it's well within the realm of doing fly fishing.

Spent many happy hours in the UP. Mother in law grew up in the Stonington Peninsula, the eastern side of Little Bay de Noc. Used to tell about walking across on the ice to sell butter and eggs in Escanaba, and taking the trip by boat in the summer. A neighbor went through the ice with his sleigh and horses.

Mother in laws family came from Sweden when she was two, in 1904. That was wild country in those days. Her father died when she was still a little girl, and her mother was left with three daughters and a little farm to make a life on. My wife has the little notebook where the gifts from the neighbors are listed when her father passed. Fifty cents from Ole Knutson, Twenty-five cents from so and so, and five dollars from Skaugg Brothers, the general store and lumber operators. Five dollars was a lot of cash in those days, several days pay for the men working in the woods. Typically, the lumberjacks would work out of camps in the UP and northern Wisconsin, but in Stonington the farms were close enough to the timber areas that the men and big boys could stay at home and work in the woods. Much more of the pay made it home that way.

I always thought about moving to the UP when I retired, but the wife, who had the connections up there indicated I would be moving alone. It's no place to live if you don't have someone to warm your feet on at night!

We have a few lakes the state stock here in CT, one I fish gave up this fella. 28", 8lbs. I've caught quite a few walleyes, have to dig out the pics. This guy towed my 14 foot boat around before landing him. I'm not a fish eater but walleye is DELICIOUS. I either fry it without batter, or wrap it in foil with butter and garlic on the grill.

Good story Dave.

About the same time (1904) in Northern WI the "first cutting" was complete and the "second cutting" hadn't started. So the economy shifted from timber to mining (this is the origin of pasties here).
Guessing a similar cycle to the East in UP. ??

Was talking with an older gentleman from Minneapolis some years ago at the Port Wing WI fish boil. On the shore of Lake Superior.
It was a home coming for him. Grew up nearby during the second cutting. With the cutting complete, no cutting, mines were done, no work so he left for MN.
Interesting time and life.

Must be a new sport--walleye hunting. Which Savage did you use?