Walleye 10/5/15

[dan hufferd]

Caught a limit of 4,  1 @ 15,   3 @ 16   18 - 24 FOW   The pink spinner strikes again !

[Kramr]

18 ft puts them just out of reach for my flicker shad and I don't use lead core. I have had good luck in the past with a 3 way and stick baits such as the rapala floating minnow when the walleye are actively feeding. The size of the 4 - 6 inch minnow tends to eliminate the smaller ones. You get less fish but they are more likely to be keepers. Will switch to worms if this doesn't work. I have been using slow death hooks with pretty good success.

[LoweSTX175]

I'm going to be on the lake Sunday after about a two week break.  Have the large amounts of shad sort of died off?  I was seeing huge groups on the downscan/finder with the larger fish underneath the group.  I figured trolling cranks underneath would have got more hits.  It didn't for me.  My philosophy was I was showing one hotwing at a huge buffet.  Every fish wanted to chomp on the prime rib and not the hotwing.

[Kramr]

Think it's too early for die-offs yet but with all the bait fish around, pickens has got to be pretty easy. Well, fortunately, I got a bunch of other stuff to try. Slow death, jig and minnow, drop shot, slip bobber, something should work. 

[LoweSTX175]

I'm going to try using a bottom bouncer on a floating jig head with a grub.  Run about a 2-2.5 leader off the BB.  Something I've been wanting to try but haven't yet.

[dan hufferd]

night crawler on a floating jighead works, but I have watch a suspended walleye go from 12' to 18' after a crawler spinner harness. it must be the vibration/flash.

[LoweSTX175]

I could slide a spinner and a bead on the leader to get the flash up against the jig head.  I'm just wondering if that would be too much weight causing the jig head to sink.  I could also put an additional floater on it I suppose.

[lmt out]

Still lots of shad and they r eating them too. A lot of them left in the live well at the end of the day. lol Fished last two days bottom bouncer with crawler harnesses 18 to 21 ' yesterday 2 0f us fished 21 walleye with 7 keepers today 3 of us 31 walleye with 7 keepers. I caught 16 today my self with only one keeper and it was barely 15". Unbelievable. lol

[Kramr]

  On 10/7/2015 at 10:17 PM, lmt out said:

Still lots of shad and they r eating them too. A lot of them left in the live well at the end of the day. lol Fished last two days bottom bouncer with crawler harnesses 18 to 21 ' yesterday 2 0f us fished 21 walleye with 7 keepers today 3 of us 31 walleye with 7 keepers. I caught 16 today my self with only one keeper and it was barely 15". Unbelievable. lol

Can't beat those numbers even if they were too small.

[packersooner]

  On 10/7/2015 at 3:11 PM, LoweSTX175 said:

I'm going to try using a bottom bouncer on a floating jig head with a grub.  Run about a 2-2.5 leader off the BB.  Something I've been wanting to try but haven't yet.

This is a good tactic. Try running the floating jig head/grub rod as a "dead stick" in a rod holder while fishing a crawler harness or slow death setup off the other side of the boat. I usually keep the dead stick rod 3-4 feet off the bottom to avoid hang-ups.