walleye express
12-28-2005, 11:42 AM
This was a question posted on another board that I answered, and thought I'd share it with everybody here as well.
What are the best techniques for catching walleye from shore?
Often just finding a suitable spot that gives you the best and correct angle to properly present your offerings is the toughest part. This comes with time and practice in learning where walleyes prefer to lay in a system. And learning this, can be a big part of your success or failure that day. Standing at the uppermost part of a hole or run, and being able to cast just behind, in front of or along side of log jams, wing dams or rock rubble is a good position and good starting point to place yourself in. Working your way through the hole to its bottom is a good idea as well, if you have the room. Hold your rod tip high and hop and drop the offering as it sweeps back with the current. At the end of the drift, and if the current allows, hop it back towards you until you loose touch with the bottom, reel in and start over. Depending on the mood, water condition and positioning of the walleyes in the hole, one of these moves should get them to hit.
Lift the rod tip using just your wrist. This insures your not hopping it to high or fast. Fallow every drop of your line with your rod tip. In other words, don't let the line get to slack when dropping the rod tip. If you drag your Jig Heads, they will catch a lot more snags and debris. Use a Jig Head that's just heavy enough to allow it to hit bottom when you drop your rod tip. To heavy, and your back to where dragging got you. The hits will be subtle at best when fishing in cold water. As much like a perch tap as anything. Set the hook immediately, because the next tap you feel will be the walleye spitting it back out. Casting crankbaits of many types and kinds using this same technique can also work in the same conditons as described, when obstacles allow. These are general rules that work and might be altered or refined during certain water conditions and circumstances. Good luck.
What are the best techniques for catching walleye from shore?
Often just finding a suitable spot that gives you the best and correct angle to properly present your offerings is the toughest part. This comes with time and practice in learning where walleyes prefer to lay in a system. And learning this, can be a big part of your success or failure that day. Standing at the uppermost part of a hole or run, and being able to cast just behind, in front of or along side of log jams, wing dams or rock rubble is a good position and good starting point to place yourself in. Working your way through the hole to its bottom is a good idea as well, if you have the room. Hold your rod tip high and hop and drop the offering as it sweeps back with the current. At the end of the drift, and if the current allows, hop it back towards you until you loose touch with the bottom, reel in and start over. Depending on the mood, water condition and positioning of the walleyes in the hole, one of these moves should get them to hit.
Lift the rod tip using just your wrist. This insures your not hopping it to high or fast. Fallow every drop of your line with your rod tip. In other words, don't let the line get to slack when dropping the rod tip. If you drag your Jig Heads, they will catch a lot more snags and debris. Use a Jig Head that's just heavy enough to allow it to hit bottom when you drop your rod tip. To heavy, and your back to where dragging got you. The hits will be subtle at best when fishing in cold water. As much like a perch tap as anything. Set the hook immediately, because the next tap you feel will be the walleye spitting it back out. Casting crankbaits of many types and kinds using this same technique can also work in the same conditons as described, when obstacles allow. These are general rules that work and might be altered or refined during certain water conditions and circumstances. Good luck.