Willow Flowage, Oneida County (all postings)

Went out Saturday evening in south bay off the dykes. To my surprise we didn't catch a single northern. The daughters and I brought home three walleyes 16, 17, and 22 inches long. We also released 5 others between 15 and 16 inches, along with a huge smallmouth. Seven out of the eight walters were caught on a jig and a minnow, with the remaining walter and the smallie caught on a slip bobber with a leach. Everything was caught relatively close to shore, 3-5 feet of water

LATE REPORT - Fished 5-13 thru 5-16 on the north end. Managed 3 dozen walters (didn't keep any as most were too small for supper), a few snakes and a smallie. Everything on jig and fathead. Fished the wood, rocks, mid-bays and drops. Always found fish on windward shores. I think with the late spring the fish are as confused as the fishermen.

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what is the walleye limit?

Tight Lines

Fished Friday 75degrees NO wind !!! managed a 2 Man limit. Sat a whole new day . WIND,Rain,Snow,Sleet,Sun and More WIND>>>> But we managed to catch our 4. 4'-5'FOW low to mid 50's water temp and Light jigs and minnows were the key factors.

Still the dead sea! Thought yesterday might be a good one--nope!

Ice is out. Boats are out. Only thing I caught on saturday was a severe case of windburn.

Is the ice out and are people fishing on boats yet hows the bite with pike and walleye someone please message me and let me no thanks

Thanks for the information. I like trying different lakes and I my try going after some large Pike the last day.

RBel - There's a few lakes around Tomahawk (30 minute drive) to the South that may be worth trying. Lakes Nokomis, Mohawksin, Alice, and the Jersey City Flowage are all known as decent walleye waters, and all are relatively large lakes. However, I will say these lakes are inconsistent. Nokomis has large numbers of walleye but it is speared very heavily (I believe around the top 10 most speared lakes in the state) so that doesn't help. I have never fished the Willow so I'm not sure how it compares to these lakes, but I know it's a great walleye lake. Have fished Nokomis (the Willow flows directly into Nokomis through the Tomahawk River) and the Jersey City Flowage my whole life, sometimes you go home happy, sometimes you go home skunked on these lakes. If you fish for a few days then you should be able to get at least a few legals. Jersey also has some trophy pike and muskies swimming in it. There's plenty of launches in the area on all of these lakes. If you don't want to fish in the boat then just fishing below all of the dams in the area should yield success. There may be better lakes to the North but if you're looking for close proximity to Willow and waters known as decent for walleye, the Tomahawk area may be a good bet.

Heading up this weekend. Are there any lakes close by the flowage that are good to fish? I plan on fishing the flowage Fri, Sat and Sunday but with the limit on Walleye, I would like to check out another lake. Or I could do a lot of pike fishing, any areas better as the flowage is very large? I am bringing my father up the following weekend and want him to enjoy the catch.

How is the bite going? Any luck with Walleye, Bluegills or perch yet? Thanks for any Info. Going up Memorial Day Weekend! Thanks and Good Luck!!

it snowed last night here

Don't know how many they speared. Their quota for 2013 is 998 walleye. Headed out tomorrow to try my luck again. To bad there is a Willow Walleye tournament scheduled for tomorrow also. I wonder who had the bright idea to schedule a tournament on one of the busiest fishing weekends of the year? As if there won't be enough boats on the lake! Oh well, if they are tourney fishermen it shouldn't take them long to catch two fish.

You can pretty much say the snow is gone just piles where people plowed pic 05/08/13