suspending walleye

Just wondering how many of you catch/target walleye up off the bottom. I fished last Sun. (Fathers day) and had a limit for two in a few hours, went this morning and never caught an eye. I did mark fish off the bottom but was reluctant to spend much time there.

Lake Erie 'eyes LOVE to suspend.  Don't be reluctant, target them. 
 
Most of the time when the fish near the trench, they are nowhere near the bottom.  Very common to catch 'eyes 30' down over 60 fow.
 
 

out deep.....

Why they have them fins....they swim...talked to a buddy who did well out in 61'...heard from another buddy who got 30 in 20-30ft...go figure...lol

forgot to add, another buddy in small boat took 18 tossing erie dearies on a 10 count in the same area, fun tactic to use when the fish are  that high and that active

Well, we covered a lot of water from 25-40 feet.  There is no way all those fish avoided the fishfinder.  They simply were not there.  I bet we marked a total of 5 fish on the thing.  Pretty sad.

Saturday, at least the a.m., was an OFF day to be sure Slay.  I was out myself and we STRUGGLED to boat 3 '03 clones between 6am and 11am and I covered the bottom half of the water column with everything but the kitchen sink, delivered in every fashion imaginable, at down speeds from 1.7 to 2.4 very little seen on the screen in tight (18 to 28 fow)  Covered a range of depths from 18 fow out to 40 fow.  Didn't find a decent picture until we hit 38 fow and there were scattered "wads" of fish.  We managed 1 of our 3 in that 35 to 40 and TONS of junk mixed in with them.  Even then, the marks were all within 10 feet of the bottom.  I have never seen walleyes in CLEAR Lake Erie water hold in the top 20 feet of the water column inside 50-55 foot overall depths.  Out deeper and/or in "green" water, yes, I have seen them taken in the top 20.
 
Not really sure why they would want to be that tall in the column when I had 69 surface temp, 68.5 -68.7 down 15 feet and 67.7 to 68.2 down 35 feet.  Those are all comfy walleye temps.  To bet that tall, there needs to be a reason, and all that boat traffic that was out Saturday should have forced them down as well.   

Hmmm....Alright, sounds reasonable.  I suppose the cone is way smaller than what we were used to.  We were fishing the bottom.  I will vary depths next time instead of lowering the riggers down when the the bottom gets deeper.

I manage a few fish in 62 fow out of geneva on saturday. Once we found them, we more or less trolled the same spot.

My buddy lost a rod (St. croix premier) and reel ( Garcia ) when something hit and dragged it out of the rodholder. Ouch!!! Then we stopped and tried to troll for the rod but could not find it.  Lesson to be learned, show passengers on your  boat how to lock the rod holder and do not take their experience for granted.  It would  be something if some one caught that fish and PMed me about returning the rod.