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Cooking up Walleyes on a Campfire

When I first started cooking up Walleyes on a Campfire, I would keep it really simple. Either; some butter, little bit of lawrys, some lemon pepper or lemon juice....and thats it. The last time I went camping. I had brought all my usaul seasonings I use for the potatoes. We had so many Crappies and Walleye for dinner that I decided to try something different with a few of them!! I put the exact same things I put on my potatoes! Starting with the grate, (one of the burger ones, two sided you put the food in between) Then I put some Lawrys season salt, a little extra cajun seasoning, some budweiser BBQ sauce, onions, green and red peppers, and a few sprinkles of chedder and pepperjack cheese!!! Yeah it sounds like I over did it and took away from the Fish flavor...but that was not the case!! It was some of the best Crappie and Walleye I had ever had. I think it had a lot to do with using the grate too, Im usto using tinfoil. I think with the grate we got more of the fire smokey flaver then wed get with tinfoil.

Topics: Cooking
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Ice fishing for crappie

Crappie have their eyes on top of their heads, and will see your bait and lures above them. If you have a sonar and can see crappie at a certain depth, try to keep your bait or lure just a little higher because crappie won't see anything below them. Crappie will often continue to follow your lure higher and higher until they strike, and when they hit your rod tip will actually go up instead of down because the fish is taking your lure higher. Make sure to set the hook when this happens.

Topics: crappie, technique, depth, lures, bait, sonar, ice fishing