Walleye

[Gilly]

My buddies are down this week from Omaha. They were on the water yesterday, north end, and had a blast. Probably a top ten day, beautiful water, caught a little bit of everything. They're enroute to the south end, probably Mutton Creek, to give that area a try. Good luck boys! Enjoy the lake and the area!

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[Zac Seale]

Walleyed Mike,

Do you use any blades with your slow death rigs? I use them once before i sold my old boat, but it wouldn't idle slow enought to use the effectivly. I am however going with a friend on saturday and thought i would pull them back out as he has a much nicer boat than i had. Before i just used the hook, BB, and about 1/2 a nightcrawler, and tried to drag it along as slow as possible.

[powerdive]

Zac, your old rigging will work fine. Spinner blades will work fine. A jig will work fine. Anything you can get into 15-20 feet of water with a crawler on it will work fine. If you can't slow down enough, troll deep cranks and hang an inch of crawler off the front belly hook. It'll...you guessed it, work fine.

Evidently, judging by the size of the walleyes being caught, the recent high water years have resulted in successful natural spawns. We don't have the size gaps that usually occur due to the every-other-year stocking schedule. Lots of fish in the lake right now, and they're eating.

[watermen]

Due to good reports I left Rolla at 7 launched and on 3rd point I caught a fish threw a marker and in an hour I sorted through 13-15 seegars for a limit with the biggest being 17 and change. Fished a b/b and spinner with a crawler. Caught bluegill, whitebass, and a couple of little smallies. If the rains hold off friday I'll drive back and give a report, but they are definately easy to catch right now.

[Walleyedmike]

Walleyed Mike,

Do you use any blades with your slow death rigs? I use them once before i sold my old boat, but it wouldn't idle slow enought to use the effectivly. I am however going with a friend on saturday and thought i would pull them back out as he has a much nicer boat than i had. Before i just used the hook, BB, and about 1/2 a nightcrawler, and tried to drag it along as slow as possible.

Zach, I don't put any blade on my slow death rigs. PD is right (as usual), what you have should work fine. In fact like he said, use whatever method you have the most confidence in, add a crawler, get down 15-20' and have at it! As far as speed, I always use my trolling motor for the slow death presentation. I just got a Terrova with i-pilot, so speed control is real easy now. Best of luck Saturday!

WM

[kwall]

WM, thinking of get'in one of those troll'in motors for my Lund

"Ka' ching" Are they a good investment? Right now I have a 55 wireless Motorguide that works pretty well,but always having to constantly mess with it to stay in the zone,heard those motors free you up so you can keep your mind on fishing

[minnowhooker]

Zac, if you guys put in at Mutton or Ruark Bluff and head north one of those points is going to hold wally unless this rain really fouls things up....but I doubt it. PD said it, nightcrawler is the key hang it on something and you will catch fish.

[watermen]

Zac, If you have too much horsepower try putting the boat in reverse and backtrolling. It will usually slow you down considerably and allows you more finesse control of the boat. Backtrolling was the preferred method before trolling motors. If you are still going to fast hang a trolling sock or even a bucket off the bow and this will help you control the boat and go even slower. It's a poor mans trolling motor, but it works if you need to slow down. I still backtroll alot especially using lindy rigs, which I think are the same as a slow death rig. I don't know for sure though. I tie my own leaders and put a float halfway down the leader and use corkies sometimes. They are biting right now which is the best part. good luck!

[Boobie]

Hey Walleyedmike, you said my buddy would spend a couple of bucks on walleye tackle.Well------------ he just caled to tell me he just ordered 8 packs of 25#1 slow deaths and 2 packs of 25#2!!!!!!! im telling you he had a great time at stockton. What do you think?

[Walleyedmike]

WM, thinking of get'in one of those troll'in motors for my Lund

"Ka' ching" Are they a good investment? Right now I have a 55 wireless Motorguide that works pretty well,but always having to constantly mess with it to stay in the zone,heard those motors free you up so you can keep your mind on fishing

Are they a good investment??? Well, no (don't tell my wife this). The terrova with i-pilot is a way expensive trolling motor. I saved money for a year to get mine. But, I love it. Saving a track is awesome. I use the spot lock feature all the time, it works awesome. You can tell the speed of your boat from the remote, which is awesome. I haven't used it enough to try out many of the other features yet, but they will all be awesome, I'm sure. So to answer your question, good investment, probably not. But neither was my boat, my hundreds of crankbaits, my 3/4 ton tow rig, and on and on and on. Would I buy another one? You bet I would. For your boat, I would consider bumping up to an 80 pound terrova if you have the battery room. My boat is a 21' glass boat with an 80 lb terrova. Have gone five hours with plenty of battery to spare. Will see how it holds up for eight to ten hours at Devils Lake in July. Heck, it's only money buy one kwall...you deserve it!

WM