Anyone use flouro leaders for walleye action?

[shiltsy]

I do this all of the time for bass and love the results.... heading up to LOTW this weekend and thought it might make sense. Any thoughts?

[jBohmer]

Hmmm... I do not have any expierence with them, but I have a little LOTW expierence, very little, but I have plenty of family that fish it often. Here is what I have learned:

First, tie on a swedish pimple and drop the lure to about 12" off the bottom. Red or orange seems to be the best. I personally had a red and green and nothing would hit my green one the first day. The next day I used red and orange and was pulling eyes from both of my holes.

Second, crack open a cold one and start having a good time.

Third, pull fish out of the hole. Repeat as necessary.

Sorry about the "smart alec" response I could not resist. Watching my family fish last year with their simple gear compared to my combo reels, etc. and seeing them pulling in twice as many fish as me the first day was humbling and reminded me how simple fishing can be at times. I hope you enjoy yourself, the best fishing trips I have ever had were on LOTW.

Now if you pike fishing that may be a differnt story.

[Northlander]

Yes I would do so. I almost always do this when using superlines through the ice.

[Random guy]

I use them not so much for low visabilty but for pike. Floro holds up much better to the accidental pike or aggreesive rolling walleye. Way I see it you get less visability and a stronger link. Its a win win.

[shiltsy]

jbohmer - We sure do over complicate this whole thing sometimes, don't we!

[jBohmer]

True, it's nice to see another fellow Woodburian on HSO. There has to be more people here that fish. See you on the ice!

[shiltsy]

Yeah, it can be hard to stay true to my redneck roots in Woodbury, but I make do! ;-)

[jBohmer]

By the way, I am not sure if you should worry so much about using a leader for walleye. It my humble opinion if the fish are hungry they are going to bite no matter what your lure is tied to. I use a fairly heavy braided line (forgot what it is called) on my reels that I fish for WE with. I catch WE and pannies of all sizes with it. This is not just in the merkier metro lakes either. Just seems to me that the fish do not seem to care that much. Just my opinion but I am sure that some guys here that have time to be more diehard than me would know better. Altough if you have a big one on with some big teeth I really could see the benifit.

[uptracker]

Yup.....P-Line all the way. I guess it comes from my river steelhead fishing mentality. Once I switched, I saw twice the hook ups, so now, I always run fluro...no matter what kind of fishing I'm doing.