12-27-2005, 08:24 AM
ok, sounds like walleye teritory.
if you can out there with a boat, ancor in the center up river of a hole, I am sure there are holes there even if they are only a foot deep. but no matter if you cant find a hole, center or near a shelf is where you want to be.
place a slip bullet or egg sinker to get your line down but not enough to make it sink to the bottom you want it to stay up just off the bottom but you dont want it to rise to the top
or a tip sinker with a wire that will stand up and hold your leeder up off the bottom of the river.
here you will want a single hook leader, one with beeds and spinner blades will enhance your hits. you can use soft plastics, live bait works best on the walleye, using walleye sized shiners on a single hook harnes and maybe a stinger hook for you if you are a late hook setter.
depending on the current speed you will want different leader lenths. slower speeds you want shorter leaders faster speeds longer leaders work better.
when you ancor and you put your line streight down and it goes out to a 30 to 45 degree angle before you hit bottom you are in optimal conditions. so take different weights sizes.
other wise tie on a large sinker to a three foot leader below a large swivel snap cast it out and place your rod in your holder. now take your harness and atach it to a smaller swivel snap and clip it on to your line and drop it down, it will hit the prefered depth of three feet and sit there and spin for you.
you will pull up any bass and walleye that pass though.
for blue gill and crappie you need to get near the bottom, I am sure you are past first ice so they are no longer hitting on top of the water, if by chance they still are fly rod is the way to go. get away from the river and use small jigs and fish straight down over the side of your boat. you will need to find structure of some kind, even if it is a dead weed bed, the fish will remember where it is and come back all year to feed and hide there.
the gills only want a mouth full, so again small jigs tipped with a gurb from your local bait shop. they will ocationaly when they put on the feed bag go after minnows. size #8 hooks on your jigs, This method produces bass as well
Crappie you want to do the same over the side of your boat, you can use larger jig or plain arbordeen hook size #6 hook. use your favorite single minnow set up. This method produces bass as well.
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if you can out there with a boat, ancor in the center up river of a hole, I am sure there are holes there even if they are only a foot deep. but no matter if you cant find a hole, center or near a shelf is where you want to be.
place a slip bullet or egg sinker to get your line down but not enough to make it sink to the bottom you want it to stay up just off the bottom but you dont want it to rise to the top
or a tip sinker with a wire that will stand up and hold your leeder up off the bottom of the river.
here you will want a single hook leader, one with beeds and spinner blades will enhance your hits. you can use soft plastics, live bait works best on the walleye, using walleye sized shiners on a single hook harnes and maybe a stinger hook for you if you are a late hook setter.
depending on the current speed you will want different leader lenths. slower speeds you want shorter leaders faster speeds longer leaders work better.
when you ancor and you put your line streight down and it goes out to a 30 to 45 degree angle before you hit bottom you are in optimal conditions. so take different weights sizes.
other wise tie on a large sinker to a three foot leader below a large swivel snap cast it out and place your rod in your holder. now take your harness and atach it to a smaller swivel snap and clip it on to your line and drop it down, it will hit the prefered depth of three feet and sit there and spin for you.
you will pull up any bass and walleye that pass though.
for blue gill and crappie you need to get near the bottom, I am sure you are past first ice so they are no longer hitting on top of the water, if by chance they still are fly rod is the way to go. get away from the river and use small jigs and fish straight down over the side of your boat. you will need to find structure of some kind, even if it is a dead weed bed, the fish will remember where it is and come back all year to feed and hide there.
the gills only want a mouth full, so again small jigs tipped with a gurb from your local bait shop. they will ocationaly when they put on the feed bag go after minnows. size #8 hooks on your jigs, This method produces bass as well
Crappie you want to do the same over the side of your boat, you can use larger jig or plain arbordeen hook size #6 hook. use your favorite single minnow set up. This method produces bass as well.
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