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Best Jig/Rig for walleyes.


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I was just wondering what people like to use for walleyes that seems to increase there chance at catching more walleyes?

ive heard a lot about the chubby darter and i have a couple and they dont really work too well for me. maybe thats just me though.

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I tried a chubby darter and it was fine. I much prefer the action on the jigging Rapalas, especially the jigging Shad Raps. They cost less than half as much too.

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yea thats what i have been trying. do you tip it with anything like a head of a minnow or like a whole body of one?

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I like my green Angel Eye jigging spoon, but I'm a terrible walleye fisherman, so take that with a spoonfull of salt. But the 'eyes I have caught over the years have come on the Angel.

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I have been using a buckshot rattle spoon with a fathead hooked through the tail and the walleyes litterally come running. I have had some fast and furious action in the metro this year incuding 6 tonight to 25". JMHO

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I may have to try that cfollow. I have always just used a minnow head on my rattle spoon for jigging. But if you think about a fathead swimming around with that tail shaking the spoon..... well it sounds good anyway. Thanks for the info.

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hey cfollow are you referring to a live fathead and jiggin the spoon occasionally but having a bobber set up on it as well to keep it suspended? Sounds like a decent idea

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My secret is to jig a buckshot spoon with a minnowhead and have another pole close by with a minnow under a bobber. They come in to see what the noise is all about and then slam the minnow/bobber rig. Works like magic.

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i have used the dropper buckshot with a shiner on it, it shakes the heck out of the rattles but i havent caught anything on it yet..haha dorsal hooked.

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I love the smaller hot perch chubby darter tiped with a minnow. It seems to really attract fish thats when the second pole with a minnow and boober does the trick.

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honda4life, buck-shot spoon 3/8 oz. tipped with a live fathead hooked through the tail end and constantly jigged. Once you call the eyes in let them tell you what they want some want it deadsticked others want it doing the shimmy the whole time. I let the camera show me what they want. They also love to hit it on the rise, I have yet to see an 'eye take it on even the slowest of drops.

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I tried that chubby darter all weekend and it produced me one little perch thats it. so then i switched to a sweedish pimple with a 3" leader and a trebble hook with a minnow and they loved it! i have tried that chubby darter too many times and it hasnt produced for me...

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