06/03/2026
SFRC - THE FISHING SOURCE
Wednesday’s Waypoint, June 3rd, 2026
THE WALLEYE 🐟💡
The spot you fished on opener is not fishing the same anymore.
It shouldn’t be. Three and a half weeks after the May 9 opener, the walleye that stacked on that rocky gravel point in the first cold days of the season have moved on.
The spawn is done. The fish have eaten, recovered, and settled into something closer to their summer routine - and that routine looks nothing like what you found on opening morning.
Post-spawn walleye in early June are structure fish. They are sitting on the transitions - the edges where hard bottom meets soft, where a sand flat drops into deeper water, where a w**d edge is just starting to establish in eight to twelve feet. The fish that were catchable in four feet of water on a jig three weeks ago are now suspending over fifteen feet or sitting tight to the base of a point where the bottom falls away. You need to go find them again, and the approach that put fish in the boat on May 9 is probably not the one that works tonight.
Trolling a Berkley Flicker Shad along a depth contour is one of the most efficient ways to locate fish that have scattered post-spawn. Set two rods at different depths and run the transition until you find the zone. Once you have a depth, slow down and work that contour methodically. In clearer water or when fish are finicky, a drop shot with an X Zone Finesse Slammer or a Swammer on a light jig head fished vertically over marked fish will often produce when trolling gets ignored.
Early morning and the last two hours of light are still the most productive windows. Mid-day walleye in June go deep and go quiet. If you are on the water at noon and not finding fish, you are not necessarily on the wrong lake - you are probably on the wrong depth. The same fish that showed at six-thirty in five feet of water over a gravel shoal may be sitting in twenty-five feet by ten o’clock. A Rapala Husky Jerk worked slowly along bottom in deeper water covers both possibilities.
The fish are there. They have just moved the furniture around.
Walleye gear in stock:
Berkley Flicker Shad 2 1/2", Firetiger - $6.79: theammosource.com/berkley-flicker-shad-crankbait-2-1-2-1-4-oz-firetiger/
Berkley Flicker Shad 2 1/2", Blk Silver - $6.79: theammosource.com/berkley-flicker-shad-crankbait--2-1/2---1/4-oz--blk-silver/
Berkley Flicker Shad 2 3/4", Firetiger - $9.95: theammosource.com/berkley-flicker-shad-crankbait-2-3-4-5-16-oz-firetiger/
Berkley Flicker Shad Pro Flash 2 3/4", Flashy Perch - $9.95: theammosource.com/berkley-flicker-shad-pro-flash-crankbait-2-3-4-5-16-oz-flashy-perch/
Rapala Husky Jerk 4", Silver - $11.49: theammosource.com/rapala-husky-jerk-4-3-8-oz-silver/
Rapala Husky Jerk 4", Live Smelt - $11.95: theammosource.com/rapala-husky-jerk-4-3-8-oz-live-smelt/
Rapala Original Floating 3 1/2", Live Walleye - $9.89: theammosource.com/rapala-original-floating-lure-3-1-2-3-16-oz-live-walleye/
X Zone Pro Series Mini Swammer 3.5", Tennessee Shad - $7.95: theammosource.com/x-zone-pro-series-mini-swammer-3-5-tennessee-shad-8-pk/
X Zone Pro Series Mini Swammer 3.5", Snow White - $6.95: theammosource.com/x-zone-pro-series-mini-swammer-3-5-snow-white-8-pk/
X Zone Pro Series Finesse Slammer 3.25", Perch - $6.95: theammosource.com/x-zone-3-25-pro-series-finesse-slammer-perch-10-pk/
X Zone Pro Series Finesse Slammer 3.25", Big Limit - $6.95: theammosource.com/x-zone-3-25-pro-series-finesse-slammer-big-limit-10-pk/
Keitech Tungsten Super Round Jig Head 1/8 oz, 3 Pk - $7.95: theammosource.com/keitech-tungsten-super-round-jig-head-1-8oz-gray-3-pk/
Berkley Fusion19 Drop Shot Hook #1/0, 7 Pk - $6.95: theammosource.com/berkley-fusion-19-drop-shot-hook-1-0-7-pk/
X Zone Pencil Drop Shot Weight 3/4 oz, 5 Pk - $4.79: theammosource.com/x-zone-pencil-drop-shot-weight-3-4-oz-5-pk/
Shop all walleye gear: thefishingsource.ca
