08-15-2019, 03:26 PM
Okay everyone I guess I am in a Walleye rutt using the same things trip after trip. I need some new ideas for catching Walleye or more important bigger Walleye.
I generally start my day trolling cranks and do generally catch my bigger fish doing that. After the sun comes up I visit breaks that usually hold fish and try different tactics jigging, bottom bouncing, dragging spinners and jigging with jigging raps. I notice with the majority of these tactics I catch fish but the size of fish seem to run small. Now in my mind there could be a couple of different factors that is causing this to happen, one Starvation has a lot of small Walleye, two possibly the bigger fish are in deeper water during daylight hours or of course three I don't know what I am doing. I really hope it's not the latter.
I am for sure missing something, I have always thought that I should not leave fish to find fish but I have had a change of heart. I think tomorrow morning on Starvation I am going to change things up a little while I am going to start my day out the same trolling cranks because I have had success with that and my fish run noticeably bigger. Then when the sun comes up I am going to hit the usual honey holes and put some eaters in the basket. After that, that's when I am going to head a different direction and change things up a bit. I think I will take my cast net and get some bait ( I will make sure they are dead before I use them) and do a few different things. First off I will try a slip bobber and second I think a perch fligg with a 1/4 oz weight in much deeper water (25 to 35 fow). I plan on also using a #9 jigging Rap in the deeper water and possibly a Lindy Rigg with a 4 oz walking sinker with a 4ft leader and a fligg. I hope I get some different results especially on size of fish but only time will tell.
For those of you that are fellow Walleye enthusiast I would love your feedback because I feel the need for BIGGER FISH!!
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I generally start my day trolling cranks and do generally catch my bigger fish doing that. After the sun comes up I visit breaks that usually hold fish and try different tactics jigging, bottom bouncing, dragging spinners and jigging with jigging raps. I notice with the majority of these tactics I catch fish but the size of fish seem to run small. Now in my mind there could be a couple of different factors that is causing this to happen, one Starvation has a lot of small Walleye, two possibly the bigger fish are in deeper water during daylight hours or of course three I don't know what I am doing. I really hope it's not the latter.
I am for sure missing something, I have always thought that I should not leave fish to find fish but I have had a change of heart. I think tomorrow morning on Starvation I am going to change things up a little while I am going to start my day out the same trolling cranks because I have had success with that and my fish run noticeably bigger. Then when the sun comes up I am going to hit the usual honey holes and put some eaters in the basket. After that, that's when I am going to head a different direction and change things up a bit. I think I will take my cast net and get some bait ( I will make sure they are dead before I use them) and do a few different things. First off I will try a slip bobber and second I think a perch fligg with a 1/4 oz weight in much deeper water (25 to 35 fow). I plan on also using a #9 jigging Rap in the deeper water and possibly a Lindy Rigg with a 4 oz walking sinker with a 4ft leader and a fligg. I hope I get some different results especially on size of fish but only time will tell.
For those of you that are fellow Walleye enthusiast I would love your feedback because I feel the need for BIGGER FISH!!
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