Tweaking Big Lake Tactics for More Home Water Walleyes

With a little modification, the same techniques work wonders no matter where walleyes roam by Mitch Eeagan Walleyes are walleyes no matter where they wander. As a general rule, whether they reside in inland lakes, rivers, reservoirs or the Great Lakes, their year-round habits are shaped by two things: spawning and eating. With that said, you’d think the same techniques would work the same wonders for conjuring up strikes regardless of where you fish. Well, you know what? By and large, they do. But some big water tactics need a little tweaking to produce on you average sized natural lake. Take the trolling ploys used to catch walleyes on the Great Lakes and huge reservoirs of the West; they’ll also work wonders on small inland lakes. The size and depth of the watercourse, however, may restrict you from setting up as many lines before beaching on the opposite shore, or, using the exact same lures and line, not snagging in the shallows with every trolling pass. But it can be done. And oftentimes the tactics normally used on big water will out produce the tried and true ones generally associated with smaller lakes. Down and out My own experiences with fine-tuning big water tactics for ...

Snap Jigging Walleyes Early

When it comes to effective tactics, snap jigging walleyes early in the early summer period can be an eye opener. by Nathan Shore Snap jigging walleyes is a key technique in late spring and early summer. If you want to catch limits of big walleyes right now, take this guide's advice and start snapping them up. The jig slips into a world of minnows. It rises and drifts, pops and slides. Clearly different, somehow the same, it looks right at home but stands out. It's getting away, and now it's not. "Snap jigging walleyes means different things to different people," says Jeff Sundin, guide with the Early Bird Fishing Guide out of Deer River, Minn. "Some call it snap jigging, others 'rip jigging.' There's hopping, popping-it's never exactly all the same. Put 12 snap jiggers in the room and you'll get 12 different versions." Snap jigging walleyes is the act of "popping" a jig so it rapidly darts upward in the water column, then slowly descends back toward the bottom. The fast, escaping baitfish action gets the fish's attention because an easy meal is getting away, and the fish often strike on the drop. Usually the physical movement is a quick wrist move like ...

Slip Bobber Tactics for Walleye

Slip Bobber Tactics for Walleye ARE Extremely Effective When Done Correctly by Jason Mitchell For some anglers, the thought of using slip bobber tactics for walleye seems like a boring concept. Akin to watching paint dry on the side of the barn. Throw the bobber out, let the bobber sit and wait… and wait until a fish swims by. While you can just sit and stare, you can also fish slip bobbers with a much more aggressive mindset and if you fish slip bobbers correctly, you are hustling and adjusting the entire time until bobbers start getting dunked. Slip bobber tactics for walleye can be so incredibly effective because of the precision involved. You can stick or drift through the "X" for long periods of time and let good live bait do the work. A lively squirming leech or flashy shiner struggling in place is too much for most walleyes to resist. Especially early in the season before the water warms up, slip bobber presentations are one of the best techniques for triggering shallow fish. Video Explaining Techniques: Picking the Spot While ...

Slip Bobbering Weed Walleyes

Slip Bobbering Weed Walleyes by Nathan Shore Giant walleyes prowl through weeds all summer long, yet they're pretty safe from most fishermen. Sure, you can know they're in there, but getting them out is a challenge. Few anglers know more about getting big walleyes out of the weeds long-time guide and author of "Master The Art of Slip Bobbering," Greg Bohn. He's likely netted more 10-pound weed-holding walleyes than any other guide in the country. For him, slip bobbering weed walleyes is an art form. Bohn says that successful slip bobbering weed walleyes begins with using the right equipment to deliver baits to the correct depth. Keeping the boat positioned and moving at the right speed also are critical. "I want the boat 20 feet or so off the weedline at all times," Bohn said, "and moving at less than 1 mph." Fishing the right weedbeds is the final piece of the puzzle. During summer, Bohn focuses on main-lake weedlines surrounding the deepest basins in the lake. Prime spots are weedbeds on main-lake points, offshore humps and mid-lake bars. He says that the spot-within-the-spot often is the area where weeds get closest to deep water. "If you find one of those spots with some boulders nearby or ...

The Spring Bull Bluegill Formula

If you're looking for a powerful fishing technique here is the spring bull bluegill formula by Matt Johnson As anglers we find ourselves looking for a reason behind the decisions we make. We want to justify that the decisions we make will have a positive outcome on our day of fishing. Let’s face it; we don’t want to make decisions that result in a poor day of fishing. So we analyze the situation and make the best decision based on the given conditions. We start to build a pattern and then execute that pattern. Right or wrong, we tell ourselves—through our gut instincts—that these specific moves will help us catch more spring bull bluegill. Sometimes we turn towards our network of fishing buddies to help guide us, other times we just wing-it and hope for the best, but regardless of path we still try to use our best judgment to gain the desired outcome. With spring bull bluegill, we often over-analyze the situation and make the decisions tougher than they need to be. With panfish there are simple formulas for success, especially during the spring. Let temperature be your guide. If I had to pick one season where temperature plays the most ...

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Tweaking Big Lake Tactics for More Home Water Walleyes

Snap Jigging Walleyes Early

Slip Bobber Tactics for Walleye

Slip Bobbering Weed Walleyes

The Spring Bull Bluegill Formula

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