The anglers must be read a lure of ductch fishing before the trips.In the Netherlands, the walleye is a commercial fish. Locally, it is known as the schnook Barsch or pike perch. In Germany, it is the Zander. The North American walleye is a perch or percidae; its scientific name is Strizostedion vitreum. The Zander, also a percidae, is known by the scientific name Strizostedion lucioperca.

The Zander is a somewhat larger walleye and is adapted to the murkier waters of Central and Northern Europe. But whatever you call it, it is still a walleye: It fights hard, tastes great and is right here in our back yard.
Fishing in Europe you can be a daunting experience for those who cannot speak the language and are unaware of local laws, rules and regulations. In the Netherlands, as in North America, the axiom of 90 percent of the fish is in 10 percent of the water remains very true. As a result, I decided to seek out some local expertise in my walleye hunt. I hired a guide.

Catching walleye is not as easy . First you have to be where they are and then you have to use the right bait or lure. Heading down to the river just won’t cut it, especially if the river is in a different country with specific laws, rules and regulations for fishing.

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The are many anglers call crappies Public Pan fish No. 1, but this certainly isn’t the only moniker attached to the species. Other colourfull nicknames abound. Throughout the south, the name is pronounced just as it is spelled. But north of the Mason-Dixon Line, the name is pronounced crappie.In various locales, they also are referred to as specks, paper mouth, silver sides, bachelor perch, speckled perch, chinquapin, and lamplighters. Still other regional names include strawberry bass, calico bass, white perch, ban lick, tin mouth in reference to their succulent white flesh.

However at still other times crappies are called names that cannot be printed here, which is usually the case during the torrid days of summer when the fish are exasperatingly difficult to find.

After their spring spawning ritual has been completed, crappies move out of the shallows and begin their well-planned journey back to deeper water, entirely abandoning all but the deepest coves and creek arms in favour of main lake areas. By mid-summer, they usually can be found associating with stump fields and standing timber on steep shoreline drop-offs or along the edges of the old river bed winding across the lake floor.

Look at now, depth levels of 12 to 30 feet. Moreover, since weeds generally do not grow at these depths, the fish predictably like to associate with standing timber, deep stump fields, fallen logs and tree crowns on the bottom. Now is when astute crappie angler’s switch gears by putting away the pin fish poles they used for live-bait fishing during the spring spawning weeks, in favour of lightweight spinning tackle. And the technique which has been popularized in the last several decades is known as stump-jumping; in other words, briefly fishing jigs in the vicinity of such bottom cover described above and then, if no strikes are received, quickly moving on to the next likely looking place, and then the next. Many anglers make so-called milk runs in which the entire day is devoted exclusively to motoring their boats along the shoreline and stopping to fish at each stump or loggerhead protruding above the surface.

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