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How far behind the boat should a bottom bouncer be?
Set your trolling speed first and maintain a consistent speed while fishing. Select a bottom bouncer heavy enough to easily fish at about a 45° angle behind the boat. Use big and lively nightcrawlers for bait and replace the crawler if a short strike rips the tail off.
Can you cast walleye spinners?
Typically, a spinner harness is fished by trolling, often using a bottom bouncer or three-way setup, but can also be used as a drifting, jigging or casting rig.
Do steel leaders spook walleye?
Steel Leaders Give Your Lure an Unnatural Action As the walleye is such a careful and picky hunter, chances are that it will avoid a lure that swims and moves in an unnatural way that does not resemble the walleye’s usual prey.
Should I use braid for walleye?
Although you can potentially use any of the 3 types of fishing line for walleye jigging (braid, monofilament, or fluorocarbon), braided line stands out as the clear winner, and in our experience it is used by the majority of walleye anglers for this purpose.
How to drift fish for walleye?
How Do You Catch Flathead Catfish?
What bait do you use to catch walleye?
Minnows
How do you catch walleye?
VERTICAL FISHING: Start by moving to likely spots around rocks or weed beds and vertical fish.
Where to catch walleye?
– Gear/equipment sanitised between use – Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas – Guides required to regularly wash hands