Walleye
Sander vitreus
Named for its large, glassy, light-reflecting eyes that give it excellent low-light vision, the walleye is a highly prized table fish across the northern United States and Canada. It feeds most actively at dawn, dusk, and at night, often suspending over deep structure during the day.
Deep drop-offs, rocky reefs, and current breaks; most active low-light hours.
How to Catch Walleye
Whether you're new to targeting Walleye or refining your approach, success starts with matching your tactics to where the fish lives. Walleye (Sander vitreus) is typically found in lake water, river water, and reservoir water, so concentrate your effort where those conditions line up. Mature Walleye average around 18 inches, which helps you choose the right line, lure size, and tackle for the fight.
Where to Find Walleye in the USA & Canada
Walleye is recorded across a range of North American waters, including spots in Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Browse the linked water guides below to see the specific lakes, rivers, and coastal waters where anglers report catching Walleye, then plan a trip around the water closest to you.
Walleye Fishing Regulations & Limits
Fishing rules for Walleye vary by state and province. Before you head out, check the daily bag limits, minimum size limits, and open seasons that apply in your area. When FishFinder has matching records, the regulations link below takes you to the rules hub. Following local limits keeps Walleye populations healthy for future seasons.
Related Water Guides for Walleye
Explore these FishFinder water guides for places where Walleye is recorded:
- Lake Erie — Walleye fishing water
- Mississippi River — Walleye fishing water
- Yellowstone River — Walleye fishing water
- Columbia River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Winnipeg — Walleye fishing water
- Rideau Lakes — Walleye fishing water
- Lake of the Woods — Walleye fishing water
- Rainy Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Eagle Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Wabigoon Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Seul — Walleye fishing water
- Red Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Nipigon — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Nipissing — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Temagami — Walleye fishing water
- Lady Evelyn Lake — Walleye fishing water
- French River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Manitou — Walleye fishing water
- Georgian Bay — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Scugog — Walleye fishing water
- Pigeon Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Buckhorn Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Balsam Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Rice Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Long Point Bay — Walleye fishing water
- Lake St. Clair — Walleye fishing water
- Bay of Quinte — Walleye fishing water
- Niagara River — Walleye fishing water
- St. Lawrence River — Walleye fishing water
- Big Rideau Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Ottawa River — Walleye fishing water
- Athabasca River — Walleye fishing water
- Pembina River — Walleye fishing water
- Smoky River — Walleye fishing water
- Wapiti River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Newell — Walleye fishing water
- Milk River — Walleye fishing water
- St. Mary Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Crawling Valley Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Pigeon Lake (Alberta) — Walleye fishing water
- Gull Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Sylvan Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Buck Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Wabamun Lake — Walleye fishing water
- North Saskatchewan River — Walleye fishing water
- Red Deer River — Walleye fishing water
- Cold Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lac La Biche — Walleye fishing water
- Calling Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lesser Slave Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Baptiste Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Peace River (Alberta) — Walleye fishing water
- Wabasca Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Utikuma Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Athabasca — Walleye fishing water
- Slave River — Walleye fishing water
- Gregoire Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Christina Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Diefenbaker — Walleye fishing water
- Last Mountain Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Buffalo Pound Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Blackstrap Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Echo Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Katepwa Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Pasqua Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Fishing Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Good Spirit Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Greenwater Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Rafferty Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Boundary Dam Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- South Saskatchewan River — Walleye fishing water
- Qu'Appelle River — Walleye fishing water
- Ministikwan Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Chitek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Tobin Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Codette Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Candle Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Emma Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Jackfish Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Murray Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Delaronde Lake — Walleye fishing water
- East Trout Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Little Bear Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Dore Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Greig Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Amisk Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Deschambault Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Smoothstone Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lac la Ronge — Walleye fishing water
- Churchill River — Walleye fishing water
- Reindeer Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Wollaston Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cree Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Black Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Fond du Lac River — Walleye fishing water
- Red River — Walleye fishing water
- Assiniboine River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Manitoba — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Winnipegosis — Walleye fishing water
- Dauphin Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake of the Prairies — Walleye fishing water
- West Hawk Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Falcon Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Crowduck Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Winnipeg River — Walleye fishing water
- Shoal Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Wahtopanah — Walleye fishing water
- Pelican Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Stephenfield Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Wellman Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Child's Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Clearwater Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Reed Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Wekusko Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Kississing Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cormorant Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Rocky Lake — Walleye fishing water
- First Cranberry Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Setting Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Paint Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cross Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Sipiwesk Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Nelson River — Walleye fishing water
- Wuskwatim Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Threepoint Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Gods Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Gods River — Walleye fishing water
- Nueltin Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Island Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Molson Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Berens River — Walleye fishing water
- Fleuve Saint-Laurent — Walleye fishing water
- Lac des Deux Montagnes — Walleye fishing water
- Rivière des Outaouais — Walleye fishing water
- Rivière des Mille Îles — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Saint-François — Walleye fishing water
- Rivière Richelieu — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Saint-Pierre — Walleye fishing water
- Rivière Saint-Maurice — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Aylmer — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Memphrémagog — Walleye fishing water
- Grand lac Saint-François — Walleye fishing water
- Rivière Chaudière — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Archambault — Walleye fishing water
- Lac des Trente et Un Milles — Walleye fishing water
- Grand lac Nominingue — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Blue Sea — Walleye fishing water
- Rivière Gatineau — Walleye fishing water
- Réservoir Baskatong — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Kipawa — Walleye fishing water
- Réservoir Decelles — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Simard — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Abitibi — Walleye fishing water
- Réservoir Gouin — Walleye fishing water
- Réservoir Taureau — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Saint-Jean — Walleye fishing water
- Lac Kénogami — Walleye fishing water
- Great Slave Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Prelude Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Prosperous Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Kam Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Grace Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Johnston Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Yellowknife River — Walleye fishing water
- Mosquito Creek — Walleye fishing water
- Hay River — Walleye fishing water
- Little Buffalo River — Walleye fishing water
- Sandy Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Kakisa River — Walleye fishing water
- Tathlina Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Trout Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Moose River — Walleye fishing water
- Horn River — Walleye fishing water
- Mills Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Mackenzie River — Walleye fishing water
- Lac la Martre — Walleye fishing water
- Pickwick Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Powell — Walleye fishing water
- Apache Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Canyon Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Upper Lake Mary — Walleye fishing water
- Bull Shoals Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Beaver Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Greers Ferry Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Ouachita — Walleye fishing water
- DeGray Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Greeson — Walleye fishing water
- Chatfield Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Pueblo Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- John Martin Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Horsetooth Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Candlewood Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Lillinonah — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Zoar — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Lanier — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Blue Ridge — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Burton — Walleye fishing water
- American Falls Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Mississippi River (Illinois-Iowa Border) — Walleye fishing water
- Fox Chain O'Lakes — Walleye fishing water
- Heidecke Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Powerton Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Shelbyville — Walleye fishing water
- Carlyle Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Ohio River — Walleye fishing water
- Wabash River — Walleye fishing water
- Brookville Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Mississinewa Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Salamonie Lake — Walleye fishing water
- J. Edward Roush Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Wawasee — Walleye fishing water
- Geist Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- West Okoboji Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Spirit Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Clear Lake (Iowa) — Walleye fishing water
- Storm Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Big Creek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Pleasant Creek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Rathbun — Walleye fishing water
- Saylorville Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Red Rock — Walleye fishing water
- Coralville Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Mississippi River (Iowa Waters) — Walleye fishing water
- Missouri River — Walleye fishing water
- Big Sioux River — Walleye fishing water
- Cedar River — Walleye fishing water
- Des Moines River — Walleye fishing water
- Iowa River — Walleye fishing water
- Turkey River — Walleye fishing water
- Milford Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Wilson Reservoir (Kansas) — Walleye fishing water
- Cheney Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Clinton Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Perry Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- El Dorado Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Kanopolis Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Glen Elder Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Melvern Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Cedar Bluff Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Council Grove Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Marion Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Pomona Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Hillsdale Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Big Hill Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- John Redmond Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lovewell Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Kansas River — Walleye fishing water
- Arkansas River (Kansas) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Barkley — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Cumberland — Walleye fishing water
- Dale Hollow Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Barren River Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Nolin River Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Laurel River Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Fishtrap Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cumberland River — Walleye fishing water
- Kentucky River — Walleye fishing water
- Green River — Walleye fishing water
- Deep Creek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Youghiogheny River Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Youghiogheny River — Walleye fishing water
- Potomac River (Upper) — Walleye fishing water
- Conowingo Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Connecticut River (Massachusetts) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake St. Clair (Michigan) — Walleye fishing water
- St. Clair River — Walleye fishing water
- Detroit River — Walleye fishing water
- St. Marys River (Michigan) — Walleye fishing water
- Saginaw Bay — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Erie (Michigan) — Walleye fishing water
- Houghton Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Burt Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Mullett Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Black Lake (Michigan) — Walleye fishing water
- Thornapple Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Otsego Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Gogebic — Walleye fishing water
- Tahquamenon River — Walleye fishing water
- Mille Lacs Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Leech Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Vermilion — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Winnibigoshish — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Kabetogama — Walleye fishing water
- Gull Lake Chain — Walleye fishing water
- Upper Red Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Minnetonka — Walleye fishing water
- Whitefish Chain — Walleye fishing water
- Pelican Lake (St. Louis County) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Superior (Minnesota) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake of the Woods (Minnesota) — Walleye fishing water
- Rainy Lake (Minnesota) — Walleye fishing water
- Rainy River — Walleye fishing water
- Basswood Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Saganaga Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Namakan Lake — Walleye fishing water
- St. Croix River (Minnesota) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Pepin — Walleye fishing water
- St. Louis River Estuary — Walleye fishing water
- Red River of the North — Walleye fishing water
- Big Stone Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Choctaw Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Davis Lake (Chickasaw County) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Lamar Bruce — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Monroe — Walleye fishing water
- Table Rock Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Bull Shoals Lake (Missouri) — Walleye fishing water
- Norfork Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Stockton Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Smithville Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Wappapello Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Long Branch Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Current River — Walleye fishing water
- Eleven Point River (Missouri) — Walleye fishing water
- Gasconade River — Walleye fishing water
- Mississippi River (Pools 20-26) — Walleye fishing water
- Clark Fork River — Walleye fishing water
- Noxon Rapids Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Missouri River (Montana) — Walleye fishing water
- Canyon Ferry Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Hauser Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Holter Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Bighorn River — Walleye fishing water
- Bighorn Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Elwell (Tiber Reservoir) — Walleye fishing water
- Fort Peck Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Tongue River Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Musselshell River — Walleye fishing water
- Marias River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake McConaughy — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Ogallala — Walleye fishing water
- Merritt Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Calamus Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Harlan County Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Sherman Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Elwood Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Branched Oak Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Wanahoo — Walleye fishing water
- Lewis and Clark Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Missouri River (Nebraska Waters) — Walleye fishing water
- Box Butte Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Minatare — Walleye fishing water
- Zorinsky Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Red Willow Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Prairie Queen Recreation Area — Walleye fishing water
- Sutherland Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Johnson Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Maloney — Walleye fishing water
- Willow Creek Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lahontan Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Rye Patch Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Chimney Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Connecticut River (New Hampshire) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Hopatcong — Walleye fishing water
- Greenwood Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Monksville Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Delaware River (New Jersey) — Walleye fishing water
- Abiquiu Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cochiti Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Elephant Butte Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Caballo Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Conchas Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Ute Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Santa Rosa Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Sumner Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Brantley Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Clayton Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Erie (New York) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Ontario (New York) — Walleye fishing water
- St. Lawrence River (New York) — Walleye fishing water
- Upper Niagara River — Walleye fishing water
- Lower Niagara River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Champlain — Walleye fishing water
- Owasco Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Skaneateles Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Otisco Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Oneida Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Great Sacandaga Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Chautauqua Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Black Lake (New York) — Walleye fishing water
- Ashokan Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Whitney Point Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Delaware River (New York) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Chatuge — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Santeetlah — Walleye fishing water
- Fontana Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Nantahala Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake James — Walleye fishing water
- John H. Kerr Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Gaston — Walleye fishing water
- Roanoke Rapids Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- New River — Walleye fishing water
- Linville River — Walleye fishing water
- Apalachia Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Sakakawea — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Oahe — Walleye fishing water
- Missouri River (North Dakota) — Walleye fishing water
- Garrison Dam Tailrace — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Audubon — Walleye fishing water
- Heart Butte Reservoir (Lake Tschida) — Walleye fishing water
- Devils Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Stump Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Red River (North Dakota) — Walleye fishing water
- Bois de Sioux River — Walleye fishing water
- Jamestown Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Pipestem Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Buffalo Lake (Sargent County) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Elsie — Walleye fishing water
- Spiritwood Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Ashtabula — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Metigoshe — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Darling — Walleye fishing water
- Maumee River — Walleye fishing water
- Sandusky River — Walleye fishing water
- Ohio River (Ohio) — Walleye fishing water
- Pymatuning Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Alum Creek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Hoover Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Indian Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Buckeye Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Mosquito Creek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Berlin Lake — Walleye fishing water
- West Branch Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- LaDue Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Milton — Walleye fishing water
- C.J. Brown Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Salt Fork Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Caesar Creek Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Rocky Fork Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Piedmont Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Seneca Lake (Ohio) — Walleye fishing water
- Tappan Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Acton Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Sooner Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Thunderbird — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Carl Blackwell — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Hefner — Walleye fishing water
- Great Salt Plains Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lower Illinois River — Walleye fishing water
- Arkansas River (Oklahoma) — Walleye fishing water
- Delaware River (Pennsylvania) — Walleye fishing water
- Susquehanna River — Walleye fishing water
- Juniata River — Walleye fishing water
- Allegheny River — Walleye fishing water
- Youghiogheny River (Pennsylvania) — Walleye fishing water
- Raystown Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Wallenpaupack — Walleye fishing water
- Nockamixon Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Blue Marsh Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Shenango River Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Harveys Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Sharpe — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Francis Case — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Traverse — Walleye fishing water
- Waubay Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Bitter Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Enemy Swim Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Horseshoe Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Poinsett — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Thompson — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Kampeska — Walleye fishing water
- Roy Lake — Walleye fishing water
- James River (South Dakota) — Walleye fishing water
- Angostura Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Belle Fourche Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Shadehill Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Cheyenne River — Walleye fishing water
- Grand River (South Dakota) — Walleye fishing water
- Old Hickory Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cordell Hull Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Tims Ford Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Center Hill Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Chickamauga Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Nickajack Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Watts Bar Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Fort Loudoun Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Melton Hill Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Norris Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cherokee Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Douglas Lake — Walleye fishing water
- South Holston Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Watauga Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Caney Fork River — Walleye fishing water
- Flaming Gorge Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Deer Creek Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Utah Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Willard Bay Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Starvation Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Green River (Utah) — Walleye fishing water
- Yuba Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Claytor Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Flannagan Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Philpott Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Clinch River (Virginia) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Roosevelt — Walleye fishing water
- Banks Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Moses Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Potholes Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Rufus Woods Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Sprague Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Ohio River (West Virginia) — Walleye fishing water
- Kanawha River — Walleye fishing water
- New River (West Virginia) — Walleye fishing water
- Greenbrier River — Walleye fishing water
- Elk River (West Virginia) — Walleye fishing water
- Gauley River — Walleye fishing water
- Monongahela River — Walleye fishing water
- Summersville Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Cheat Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Bluestone Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Mount Storm Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Burnsville Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Stonecoal Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Winnebago — Walleye fishing water
- Wolf River (Wisconsin) — Walleye fishing water
- Green Bay — Walleye fishing water
- Lower Fox River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Michigan (Wisconsin Waters) — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Superior (Wisconsin Waters) — Walleye fishing water
- Mississippi River (Wisconsin-Minnesota Boundary) — Walleye fishing water
- St. Croix River (Wisconsin) — Walleye fishing water
- Menominee River — Walleye fishing water
- Chippewa Flowage — Walleye fishing water
- Turtle-Flambeau Flowage — Walleye fishing water
- Flambeau River — Walleye fishing water
- Namekagon River — Walleye fishing water
- Eagle River Chain of Lakes — Walleye fishing water
- Minocqua Chain — Walleye fishing water
- Wisconsin River — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Petenwell — Walleye fishing water
- Castle Rock Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Mendota — Walleye fishing water
- Lake Koshkonong — Walleye fishing water
- Geneva Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Big Green Lake — Walleye fishing water
- Buffalo Bill Reservoir (Wyoming) — Walleye fishing water
- Boysen Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Keyhole Reservoir (Wyoming) — Walleye fishing water
- Deaver Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Green River (Wyoming) — Walleye fishing water
- North Platte River (Wyoming) — Walleye fishing water
- Glendo Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Grayrocks Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Seminoe Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Pathfinder Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Alcova Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Ocean Lake (Wyoming) — Walleye fishing water
- Hawk Springs Reservoir — Walleye fishing water
- Wheatland Reservoir No. 3 — Walleye fishing water
Walleye Regulations
Review current FishFinder regulation records before targeting Walleye:
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of water is best for catching Walleye?
Walleye (Sander vitreus) is typically found in lake water, river water, and reservoir water. Focus your effort where those conditions line up to improve your chances.
How big does Walleye get?
Mature Walleye average around 18 inches, though individual fish can run larger. Matching your line, lure size, and tackle to that range makes for a better fight and landing rate.
Where can I catch Walleye in the USA and Canada?
Walleye is reported across North American waters, including spots in Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Check the locations listed on this page to find the lakes, rivers, and coastal waters closest to you.
Do I need a fishing license to catch Walleye?
A valid fishing license is required in most US states and Canadian provinces. Daily bag limits, minimum size limits, and open seasons for Walleye vary by region, so review the regulations on this page and with your local wildlife authority before heading out.