Big Alkali Lake near Valentine, NE

​Cloudy then sunny day trip with relatives to Big Alkali Lake fishing from the boat! My sister, brother-in-law, and I rolled crankbaits covering miles of shoreline, catching only 1 Saugeye trolling. We then moved to drifting Lindy rigs with crawlers and leeches which landed us  a 14” Channel Catfish drifting into 3 ft of water. Last method, most productive catching fish we anchored up in 8’ of water and casted lindy rigs and we vertically jigged over the side of the boat.  Catfish bite was good as we caught 20+ fish while fishing for the Saugeye. We picked up 3 Saugeye 13-17” on the live bait, leeches and Euro. and Can. crawlers. We cleaned the one legal Saugeye and 2 fiddler Catfish that were hooked deep while jigging. Overall a fun trip to Big Alkali lake SW of Valentine.