How To Catch Walleye- While Others Aren,t !

It all starts when the water temperature gets to about 50 degree,s Walleyes will be on shallow flats around 7 ' or less, look for weeds that are starting to grow, gravel,stumps etc.. and these flats must be adjacent to spawning area,s like a rocky reef, a river entering the lake, the How To Catch Walleye is this

: get yourself some Lindy max gap jigs and some VMC Hot Skirt glow jigs and your going to tip them with 3-4" Berkley Gulp Alive minnows, now you have to no how to use themyou can pop jig them , you just cast out and jerk your rod tip parallell to the water from 3o,clock to 1o,clock,you can do this while trolling also.
another Deadlytechnique is to throw floating original Rapala,s after dark, when the water warms up your going to want to go to faster retrieves , get yourself some spinners and rig them on a 3-way swivel with the dropper weight about 2' down from the swivel ,troll these on the deep flats and the base of the fast breaking drop-offs and every now and then jerk your rod tip be erratic with all your retrieves fish love erratic it
Catches fish, tip these spinners with Gulp alive leeches or minnows try both there preference can change from hour to hour.

If you see fish 4' from the bottom adjust your dropper weight to 4' there level if its rocky use bottom bouncers instead of bell sinkers for a weight they wont get hung up in the rocks , when you get a hit drop the rod tip back to give the walleye time to get a good hold of your spinner and set the hook with a good jerk,

I want to go back and tell you a method for walleyes at about 60 degree,s between the warm water period and the post spawn, take a Lindy max gap jig and tip it with the leech or minnow Gulp Alive and simply troll the fast breaking drop-offs the pivot points where it starts to drop-off , these fish are active , the ones at the base of the drop-off are not active yet not until the water warms into the mid to upper 60,s then your going to use the spinners i just told you about now your learning!

Remember with any retrieve or even when your trolling be erratic, try trolling crank baits like the x-rap in a s pattern it makes the bait speed up and slow down and fish of all species love that"erratic", and be versatile try something different if it isn,t working if you were pop jigging the flats catching them now your not throw a Berkley Gulp Alive leech on there ,

If your spinners were working great at a fast speed slow down the key to success is Knowledge, Now you How To Catch Walleye

Deep walleyes another tactic other than spinner rigs, is simple you use a three way swivel like you did with the spinner rig with the 2' dropper EXCEPT this time im going to show you how to catch a walleye by putting on the other end of the three way swivel.

A Rapala J-5 minnow "the J is for jointed" these<,b> have tremendous erratic action , again backtroll the deep flats and the pivot points "the base of the drop-ffs"Walleye will slam these like they do the spinner rigs , Simple enough wait until you try it get various colors of both spinners and Rapalas color preference can change from one hour to the next J-5 minnows.

All im going to say about crankbaits is b>, this crankbait the X-rap has a very erratic swim to it plus it suspends when you stop trolling, or if your casting when you stop reeling , and thats when walleyes and all species of fish hit it Remember erratic!!vary speeds and lengths of line out .

the key to all these methods is Versatility, D+L+P= Success "that,s depth +Location+Presentation" One last killer presentation to show you how to catch alot of Walleyes, in the Fall you can use HEAVY jigs tipped with big minnows or chubs back on the shallow flats where we started the season just slow drag and stop retrieves work best , you can also slow roll crankbaits like the Rapala X-Rap, its a Fall bonanza, one more secret retrieve that works wonders when others aren,t catching walleyes especially in the Fall and Spring is finesse retrieving - simply cast lift the rod tip in a high 3-5' sweep this of course is for jigs , the information in this article is known by very few , but your on your way to being one of the few who know How To Catch Walleye or in this case Walleyes!