![]() If you are doing a steady slow retrieve, try jerking the bait erratically. If different baits don’t work, try to vary your presentation. ![]() If night crawlers aren’t working, try leeches or minnows. Give them a little bit of everything you got. Now it’s time to offer them the food buffet. So now you’ve found some potential hot spots, but the fish aren’t biting. When there was no structure or cover in the tank, the minnows huddled in the inside corners. Remember what happened in our tub experiment. One of the best places to find walleyes are on the points, but don’t neglect other places, like inside corners. Now if you get anything from reading this, it’s that you want to fish where there is structure and cover, because that’s what concentrates the minnows, so that’s where the walleyes are going to be. The combination of structure and cover concentrates fish. You are going to find them hiding in, behind, or under all the items in the tank. You can pick up some fake plants up at your local pet store. Next, put in some sand or gravel, and put some plants in there. What do you think will happen? The minnows will start to hide under or near the rock. Now take a large rock and put it right in the center of the tank. Where do you think the minnows will congregate? Most likely you will see them huddled in the corner. Fill it with water and dump in a handful of minnows from the bait store. Take a large rubbermaid tote, or a large aquarium, if you have one. Cover is anything that grows or lays on top of the structure like, weeds or a dock. Structure is the stuff on the bottom, like rocks, sand and gravel. Where is their food? It’s in the stuff you get snagged on. If you were a walleye, what would you be thinking about most of the day? That’s right, food! Walleye really have nothing better to do than to sit around thinking about what to eat next. Changing out baits and trying different speeds won’t do you much good if you didn’t find where they are hiding out first. If there are no fish where you are at, you will not catch fish! So the most important thing to consider when fishing walleye, is to find where they are. Now you should be set at the right angle. Then release the line and when it hits bottom again, click your bail shut. The bouncer should lift off the bottom again. Put your finger on the line to stop it from going out. Now to initially set up your line, first get your boat moving at around 1 to 1.5 mph, then release your line until it hits bottom. If you got the opposite problem of too large of an angle, then speed up or use a lighter weight. If your angle is less than 45 degrees, this means you are either going too fast, or you need a heavier weight.
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