Walleye Spinner Rig

[bfishn]

You can turn your own eyes with some needlenose easy enough.

[Dutch]

You can turn your own eyes with some needlenose easy enough.

Yes to some extent. I have some molds that I have to change the bend but 90° on the eyes is quite a bit.

[minnowhooker]

Dutch I bought #1 sickle hooks and bent them with needle nose into slow death style. The shank is thick enough that they don't break. When I do get hung up which is often I usually loose BB and rig when it's stuck good. All that depends on the strength and kind of the hook.

[rps]

From several responses I gather I have not made myself clear. I apologize.

You can see pictures of my rigs in the article I wrote for Phil to post:

http://www.ozarkanglers.com/white-river-walleye-on-worm-harness/

In that article, the hooks shown are Owner down shot hooks I have snelled to the tag end of the line. Nowdays I use regular round bend offset J hooks and a Palomar knot. If you look at the pictures you will note a bobber stop. I thread enough of the worm on the hook before I Texas rig it to cover the line between the eye and the bobber stop. That way the hook is in the middle of the worm. I use a 1/0 but a size 1 would work nicely.

I realize I am not doing things the way they do in Canada, but I am not fishing there where they have sand flats and rock reefs. I fish Table Rock where all structure has brush, trees, old automobiles, and trot lines. Those hazards are also the reason I use float beads instead of the traditional plastic beads.

BTW I tie harnesses with 10 or 12 pound and my main line is Power Pro Depthunter 10/2, which would probably test out at 20 pound. When I break off, it is at the harness knots. However, quite often I merely bend the hook open, allowing me to recover the goodies.

Hope that helps.

[bfishn]

Thanks for the refresher, I hadn't noticed the hardware/stop/gap/hook detail before. I've caught too many 'eyes on the back hook of a 3 hook (2/4/6) rig to go with a single right behind the blade, but the delayed single sure makes sense. Do you have to reset the stop often?

I think the closest I've ever come to your rig is a single #2 with a #6 treble stinger about 6" out, which I still use for open water. It'll even grab a tiny shad if you bust a school, baiting itself at just the right time.

[Dutch]

Thanks again. The floating bead idea sounds good. Where might one buy those?

[powerdive]

Dutch -- some friendly advice. Keep it simple. The solution is not the harness--they ALL work--it's learning to fish it.

Don't get swept up in all the possible modifications to a basic rig until your experience dictates it. Go fishing a few times, understand how everything works, then start fine-tuning. Success will come.

[SmallyWally]

Bingo !