Trip to Deer Creek

[Freakyfisherman]

After the front and with the warming trend next week, the walleye should really start putting on the feed bag. I have been out a few times, in a tube and with a friend in his boat. I have caught a couple but it wasn't steady fishing. Some of the locals refer to the horse head that appears in the snow on the backside of Mount Timpanogos as a sign for the walleye madness to begin. Nice work.
Gabe

I bought a new boat last week and want to try it out this afternoon.  Thought I’d hit Deercreek this evening.  What’s the best walleye lure you troll in your opinion?  Is there a better way to catch walleye? Thanks for any tips you can provide

I catch the majority of my walleye jigging. I am limited as to how I chase them from a float tube. Get yourself a sensitive rod, some minnow looking plastics, and some 1/8 ounce and 1/4 ounce jigheads. I catch everything that swims in Deer creek jigging soft plastics. I haven't scored any of those mudcats in Deer creek that way, but both brown and rainbow trout, largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappie, carp, and of course walleye. You need to build some confidence in your jigging abilities, but once you do, you can catch lots of walleye that way. The most difficult part is discerning the strike. At times it can be as simple as your line hesitates, a tick, or you just feel some weight other than the jig you are using. It is almost like a sixth sense, but once you have it, you will know. Good luck in your quest, and if you see a guy in an orange and grey fat cat float tube, it might just be me out chasing the walleye.  Gabe