Walleye: Your favorite Tactic

[RedSkullz]

What type of lure/bait is your favorite when it comes to catching walleye? I guess different lakes, require different tactics. My favorite in Georgian Bay is drifting using large cranks like j-13 rapalas. Some of the small back lakes i fish, I prefer to drift with spinner worm harnesses tipped with a crawler or a leech. Night fishing with topwater Hula Poppers is great fun with explosive action from both walleye and bass.
All in all i have to go with topwater night fishing as my all time favorite tactic.

 

[a.cortellessa]

I've never fished topwater for walleye but Rapala Taildancer's are up there for me.

 

[reefrunner]

Been recently getting into drop shotting for them with 3inch Gulp Alive leaches, my percentages went up drastically. Up North, the ol's jig n' minnow is the ticket. But I realize these tactics, while productive, may be low on the action scale.

As mentioned, jointed rapalas over weedbeds provide for some great action. In shallower lakes, like say particular Kawartha Lakes, I find slow rolling spinner baits along the deep edge of a weed bed provides good action.

But nothing beats catchin' em when you least expect it:

This big girl was taken, then released, just before midnight on a zara spook on the Upper French River. Thought she was a pike until I had her in the boat. 27 inches

This hawg was caught trolling for musky in Balsam Lake. It ate a 9inch jointed believer in perch, trolled at 3.5mph! Had a little fight to it too. 28inches.

 

[ec1]

Nice fish reef! You been fishing at your cottage as of late?

I find that my favourite tactic will have to be cranking for them. It's just amazing that these guys hit and completely stop your bait in its tracks. My favourite cranks are the Cotton Cordell Wally Divers, and Xrap deep in the smallest size. Floating Jointed and some others are slowly working their way into my confidence baits.

 

[reefrunner]

In all honesty, I haven't been up to the cottage much this year and everytime I have been thus far my time has been dedicated to some project. This summer has been really busy at work and lots of travel to boot. Really takes out of the fishing time, planning on heading up soon for a couple days just to relax and, more importantly, fish.

Speaking of baits for walleye, the cotton cordel ripplin' redfin is a great action lure that I have some good confidence in. I use wally divers too, but the funny thing is, I've never caught a walleye off them - it seems I catch alot of bass and my PB musky is off a wally diver lol go figure

 

[dvigs16]

Love the cotton cordel also for fishing walleye and bass, little guy seems to always land something. For just walleye Like throwing on the erie derie with a crawler off the back, worm harnesses of course are a favourite. Pink and white twisters are nice to knock off the bottom along shallow, sand bottom, shore lines. Crankbaits are always fun to throw on once you find the packs.