How Do You Catch Stubborn Walleye?

How do you get stubborn walleye to bite?

Slow, methodical lifts of a bucktail or twistertail will do the trick, and the addition of a minnow or worm may coax the inactive walleye to become more co-operative. If you are fishing a deep northern shield lake, then your best bet is to fish deeper, while keying in on productive structure areas.

Why can’t I catch walleye?

You’re cranking weed edges too slowly.
Walleyes relating to weedbeds often school tightly. To find them, quickly work a crankbait along the edges until you get a strike. You can pick that area apart slowly after you find the fish with a fast-moving lure.

What is the best bait for a walleye?

Minnows
Minnows are the most popular bait option for walleye anglers, I have found consistent success with shiner and flathead minnows. When targeting bigger fish, shiners in the 4-6″ range are the mainstay, these will weed through some of the smaller fish and get you on 25″+ Walleye.

Is it hard to catch walleye?

Walleye can be a challenging fish to target, but that’s what makes them so enticing. The challenge and their delicious fillets kick thousands of anglers into gear.

What do you use to troll for walleye?

For the uninitiated, trolling is the act of running a baited rig or lure behind a moving boat and towing it at slow speed until a fish grabs. For walleye, that’s most often done with diving crankbaits or spinner rigs behind some weight.

Do walleye feed at night in the winter?

Walleye feed most actively at night, with a peak in activity around dusk. The best walleye ice fishing is during the 30 minutes before and after sunset in winter.

What is the best month to catch walleye?

The summer months of June and July tend to be the best for walleye. By this time, the spawning season is over, and most fishing venues will have a glut of small baitfish and shads, all of which walleye love to eat.

What is the best water temperature for walleye fishing?

So is there a “real” best temperature to catch walleye at? The best water temperature to catch walleye at is between 65-70° but any temperature above 35° will yield walleye willing to bite.

What color lures do walleye like?

The most basic and most productive colors for targeting walleye are purple and green. These colors come in a variety of shades and can be used in a large range of depths. For sunny days, select bright or flashy purple or green, and for cloudy days try a solid, darker green or purple.

What size hooks for walleye?

The best all around hook size for walleye fishing is a size 2 to 6 single hook, or a size 8 to 10 treble hook. In some cases it’s better to use smaller hook sizes, since walleye can be shy biters in lakes with a lot of fishing pressure, and often respond better to smaller finesse presentations.

How do you catch walleye during the day?

Walleye can be caught during the day but you’ll need a boat to get out deep after them. Walleye will be hovering behind schools of bait down deep far from shore. If you can only fish during the day, you’ll need to fish deep.

Are walleye on the bottom?

Walleyes are basically bottom feeders, but don’t ignore those fish that suspend over drop-offs in deep lakes. Some of the best summer walleye fishing is provided by suspended fish.Big walleye are consistently taken from these holes.

How deep do you troll for walleye?

Depth. Crankbaits are an effective way to fish both in shallow areas and at depth. Deep running crankbaits for walleye go down to 12 feet or deeper. Smaller bills and shallow divers cover depths of zero to eight feet deep.

Should you troll with or against the current?

When in an area with current, troll crosscurrent as opposed to with and/or against the current. Going crosscurrent, you don’t have to worry about how the current is affecting your lure’s or bait’s speed through the water. Plus, fish generally swim into the current.

How much line should I let out for a troll?

Downriggers. Downriggers allow for extra long length between the downrigger ball and the lure. Let out 50 feet of line and clip into the release. If that’s not enough distance to prevent your lake’s wary walleyes from seeing the ball…then let out 150 feet of line!

Do walleye bite spoons?

“To me, time of day and population density of walleyes trump weather when spoon fishing for walleye,” he says. “Fronts can slow a bite, sure.During prime time I use a bigger spoon with a bigger hook to attract more fish and keep them around. “I go with a plain spoon with no rattle during midday.

Do spoons work for walleye?

Spoons run much faster than most other walleye baits, and allow you to fish higher speeds than most presentations. This does two things: cover water quickly, and pick out the most aggressive and active fish.Spoons work especially well when walleye are schooled up in tight groups feeding on minnow forage.

What depth do walleye like in winter?

Generally speaking walleye will hold to the same structure as they would during fall months during early ice. Slight drop-offs, sandy or rocky flats, green weed beds, and hard structure anywhere from 8 to 15 feet deep are great places to start.

How do you find big walleye?

3 Tactics for Catching Bigger Walleye in Summer

1. Slow Your Roll. As water temperatures warm and spring gives way to summer, walleye go on a tear, eating up to three per cent of their body weight daily.
2. Go For a Swim.
3. Hit the Beach.

What do walleye bite on in winter?

“During fronts and at other periods throughout winter, walleyes filter into soft-bottom basins to eat bloodworms,” Brosdahl says. “But they also feed on perch, crappies, troutperch, and other species in the vicinity. It’s an interesting bite, and one almost no one taps.”