I am heading to southeastern Montana next week.  Can anyone give me any advice for fishing for walleye and pike there?  I have neve fished for these fish before and I am not sure what to do.  Thanks.

JB

I'm taking a trip to Quebec next weekend for pike and walleye.  For the walleye, we'll be concentrating on the bottom, dragging spinner rigs/harnesses (featuring nightcrawlers) attached to 1/2 to 1 oz. bottom bouncers.  Good luck.

Try trolling crankbaits & spoons covering different depths. There are many baits out there that run 25 to 30 feet deep straight lining. Rapala deep tail dancer model TDD-11 & Reef runner 800 series will run 30 feet & 28 feet with 260-280 feet back on 10lb mono or 20-30 lb braid. Spoons will get down deeper with snap weights attached or with a jet diver or dipsie diver. Good luck. Your likely to have better sucess with the walleye than the pike because of water temps.

Around here we mostly use Lindy rigs and jigheads for walleye.  Usually use leeches on the end, but sometimes worms are the key.

I don't target pikes, so can't help you there.

Thank you for the advice guys.  I really do appreciate it.  I will probably focus on mainly bass, pan fish and walleye and maybe some catfish.  I have never caught a walleye before so I am pretty stoked about trying to catch one.  I am not looking to keep any, just to have some fun.

Look for the topic on here titled "General Walleye Advice"

I started it a couple weeks ago and got some pretty good feedback.

here's what worked for me on my pike/walleye trips.  For the pike, spinnerbaits killed em all day.  Nothing else seemed to work.  Ideal locations were in coves and around islands where there were tall weeds sticking from the water.  We threw the spinnerbaits right to the edge of the weeds, and if there was something in there you'll know!  The weeds would start bending in half as the pike came out.  great fish to catch!  

for the walleye we used nightcrawlers on jigs.  They are school fish, so when you find one, there's more.  Look for areas that are rocky, and they like to be fairly deep.  Our best spot was a rock that was sticking out of the water about 100 feet off shore, and they were probably about 20 or so feet deep.  The walleye were much less aggressive, seemed like they would bite and sit.  so if you feel ANYTHING set that hook!