Walleye lures

[chromedog]

Walleye season will be opening soon and I usually spend a few weekends trying to catch a few while I wait for Bass season to open.  Can anyone direct me to techniques and lures that I should look at?  I do a lot of Bass fishing and my tackle box is full of lures for them.  Usually my Walleye fishing consists of drifting and throwing Rapala jerkbaits, and throwing 3.5" Yamamoto single grubs.

[bear7625]

Soft 3"-5" swimbaits, fished unconventionally, with a 1/4-3/8 jig instead of weighted hook. Spinnerbaits like mimic minnow or beetle spins often work. I like Rapala X-raps and Husky-jerks. If you like fishing live bait, it's hard to beat a jig tipped with a minnow.

[roadwarrior]

LC Pointer 100

8-)

[chromedog]

Are you talking like a buck-tail jig or a normal silicone/rubber jig?

I actually have some of the Storm Wildeye paddletails that I thought about trying.  Actually, I have some Yum Money minnows I could try.  Are you just bouncing them along the bottom?

I just have to work something, I hate throwing a worm harness and just doing nothing, lol.  Don't ever get them that ways anyways.

[bear7625]

I'm talking about a lead head swim jig with a bait like the hollow belly. Get it down to the depth you want and fish with a steady retrieve. Experiment with a pause or twitch during the retrieve. The wildeye pre-rigged shad would work the same.

[Marty]

I've caught 100s of walleyes from the Erie Canal, which is not typical walleye habitat. I fished a variety of crankbaits and grubs on jigheads and they took them all. They took the so-called bass crankbaits just as readily as the so-called walleye crankbaits.

[MskSlyr]

I have found some of the bandit crankbaits such as the flat maxx to be very useful for varied depths for walleye.

[WanderLust]

I just caught a nice walleye from shore using a large Jointed rebel in gold.

Couple of my buddies are walleye fanatics and swear by Rapala Deep Tail Dancers in some pretty strange colors.

[Smiths.R]

Big Mepps lures (Aglia 4/5) work pretty well on Walleyes in the Potomac...really just about anything works on them there.  I catch them on tubes and senko's just like I catch bass.

[dmac14]

A simple twirl tail grub on 1/4oz jig head. Or use a gulp minnow on the jig.

[HuntFishAK]

Blade baits are very popular around here for 'eyes.  Trolling worm harnesses (ie. wedding rings or wally poppers) on a bottom bouncer is also effective. 

[bear7625]

Wolf River in Wisconsin has been producing walleyes for the last couple weeks. Having best luck with 1/16 once jig with nightcrawler.

[Gone_Phishin]

Try crossing over with some of your bass techniques and lures. Four inch worms on shaky heads, and wacky rigged Gulp nightcrawlers are good places to start.

My PR 'eye came on a Husky Jerk...I never leave the dock without Rouges as well.

[firefightn15]

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If you like fishing live bait, it's hard to beat a jig tipped with a minnow.

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A simple twirl tail grub (2" Mister Twister) on 1/4oz jig head.

There ya have it. 8-)

[chromedog]

Ok, with walleye opening tomorrow, I think I am set. My arsenal for the weekend will look like this:

Dropshot - Roboworms, Gulp Leeches, 3.5" Sencos

Darter head Jigs - GYCB 4" Single tail and double tail grubs, keitech swing 4"

Storm wildeye paddletails

Yum Money minnows 3.5"

Sebile soft

Rapala Xraps

LC Staysee 90

Various billed crankbaits

I hope this covers it.

[firefightn15]

Just in case you missed it, 2" twister tails on 3/16 or 1/4 oz. painted jig and minnows (live) hooked about 12" below a 3/16 oz sinker. 8-)

[timothy_spain]

jig w/live minnow or jig w/mr. twister 2'' worked for me last weekend off the saginaw river