While fishing on Devils Lake recently with a very good friend of mine. I learned something from the way he had his electronics setup.

He had Fish ID enabled! Fish ID puts a little fish icon on the screen instead of arches. I was going to suggest that maybe he should turn that option off. Nobody really uses that and many experts suggest not using it at all.

Well I learned to disagree with that thought. I had to adjust my thought and opinion on it as well because it frankly came in very handy!

While we were cruising an old road bed and adjacent humps, those little fish icons kept popping up ding! ding! ding! ding! ding! ding! and I'm thinking we need to shut that Fish ID off! But the dinging didn't stop and it hit me that fish ID is telling us there are small fish swimming all over these two humps and I realized if there are small fish feeding here. There must be bait fish here, which means there are certainly walleye feeding here. Even the grebes agreed because they were making noise and getting full.

Anyway, we worked that area for 2 days, brought home 15 fish for the freezer and released many more. We had a blast. We had two great days of fishing and we never left Graham's Island!

Devil's Lake gave up some huge walleye during the National Walleye Tour Championship, but it also filled the freezer. Consider using Fish ID to find feeding fish. You may go home with a meal.