For cranking walleyes out out of the weeds, Winchester likes a No. If the action slows, he’ll drift again until he locates another pod of fish. Any time I catch a fish, I hit the spot-lock function on my trolling motor, because I know I’m going to circle that area.” During a recent two-day tournament, he caught all his keeper fish from a 30-inch circle in a weed bed.

Cast the jig to the area and retrieve it along the bottom, or hover over the fish, let down the jig, and hold it right in front of their faces. A good option for that is a jig with live bait attached to it. A lot of times, they school up pretty tight, so you can rip the jig through them and locate that school. If you catch a walleye or two, it’s time to slow down and fish the area more thoroughly. Typically, when they’re buried in those weeds, they are active and want to eat. “You’ll feel it hang up, and as soon as you rip it free, those fish are on it,” he says. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews Fishing Planet > General Discussions > Topic Details. When trying to locate fish, he drifts across weed-covered areas and uses a rip-jigging technique with a ¼-ounce jig and a 3.5- to 4-inch plastic body. Let the handle of the reel spin like three times, then stop only for a second or two.Both pros like to fish the weeds with a paddle-tail swimbait on a 1/4 ounce jig. This just seems to be the hardest, most random fish to catch. I have tried Stop&Go, Lift&Drop, Slow Straight, Straight with combinations of narrow spoon, medium spoon and 3' purple worm.Ĭan anyone shed any light on this, preferably pointing me to a YouTube video that is revelvant? I have looked and tried techniques but nothing actually works or is from months ago and no longer works.

I have spent several hours trying to catch a single Walleye but nothing seems to actually work. Now it seems next to impossible to catch. Originally posted by mullsm0ke`:When I played this game several months ago, Walleye was easy enough to catch.

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