What is your favorite way to catch walleyes?

[Slabasaurus]

Favorite method would be tossin large cranks in the fall on the river just after sundown. Catching a big river walleye is a blast.

Most often, though, I'm a slip float guy.

[Mr.Seaguar]

Pulling spinners. Maybe because I tie my own spinners but we catch a lot of fish doing that also. I keep my spinner box in the boat so we can adjust to what the fish want in a hurry. I enjoy slip bobbers also, but we can use 2 rods so I slip bobber one and use a jigging spoon on the other. Its not a common technique but it kills walleyes and perch. You will catch most anything on jigging spoons midsummer. From blugills to muskie.

[Big_Musky]

Here is how I do it in the Summer (lindy rigs):

[gregg52]

pureinsanty

you got the right idea !!!!!

[PerchJerker]

My favorite way to catch them would be anything that doesn't use live bait

Casting (cranks or jigs) is my favorite way to catch fish. And I like vertical jigging and trolling more than I like dragging around a live bait rig. I still do some rigging every year ---- but I like it so much more when I catch walleyes without using live bait!

[fishinfey8]

I love catching them in shallow water. That could mean a bunch of methods like: slip bobber, casting cranks, weedless jigs, spinners and trolling.

[vman11]

Jigging a buckshot through the late season ice or watching my ice buster bobber disapear are my favorite ways to catch walleyes.

Throwing cranks into tree rows and rail road ditches, bouncing jigheads with Gulp! off of quansets or tying up to a tree with bobbers on Devils Lake is a close number two.

That place rules.

[Steak]

Lindy Rigging and vertical jigging in Fall...aaahhhhh.

[theiceman]

Anything that puts them in the boat.

[Northlander]

With out a doubt my favorite is jigging in current!

[james_walleye]

It's a tossup between rigging a big creek chub and lighted slip bobbers.

[slurpie]

pitching jigs in shallow water.

[OnAFly]

Shallow jigging all the way. Nothing beats an early walleye bite throwing jigs/minnows.

[gloomiseye]

Great replies so far guys.

[NoWiser]

Casting a 1/4 ounce jig and a leech to the tops of small, isolated reefs on my favorite Canadian lake. Hop it once or twice and you can feel it get picked up and see your line moving sideways slightly across the water. Set the hook and fish on! Is it heading for the surface? Nope, staying down, this isn't a smallie, its an eye, get the net!

I'm starting to get pumped for summer!

[reinhard1]

that is why the jig and minnow or leech combo makes it my favorite. it's that sudden thump or early in the year when you just feel resistance. i took my son in law and my soon to be son-in law to this small lake up north of duluth aways. well they wanted to know how to jig. it takes awhile to get that feel. i had the same pound test and the same jig and minnow at the time for all three of us. i cought ten walleys before they got their first. they got it down now. once they were golfers and now hunters and fishermen. good luck.

[JohnMickish]

I love the feel of a jig hit but I do the most damage with spinners w/crawlers and bottom bouncers. Oh wait, there is also the slow death hooks that have worked so well for me, then there are cranks on lead........

[eyehead]

Crankbaits......cant beat the sound of the linecounter screamin on a nice eye!

[jmg]

I think watching a slipbobber go under ANYtime of day is spectacular and is my favorite way of catching 'eyes, but jiggin', riggin' and crankin' are somtimes much more productive. Whatever works. Something "magical" about watching those bobbers go down, though.

[theiceman]

I put before, (any way that puts fish in the boat). But its not that I like all the different ways to catch walleyes I just get bored with doing the same thing all the time and need to switch it up.

[Stick in Mud]

One of the best parts of walleye fishing...or fishing for any species...is the variety of ways to catch fish. They're ALL great!

[KidMoe]

lighted slip bobbers in creek or channel mouths in the spring with good friends for sure! But i catch more lindy rigging in the summer time overall hands down.

[pulleye16]

Lindy riggin' 6-8' leader line with a red hook topped with a leech having the slight wind take my boat perfectly down the break so I don't have to turn my trolling motor on once. Perfect!

[Wookiee]

  PerchJerker said:

My favorite way to catch them would be anything that doesn't use live bait

Casting (cranks or jigs) is my favorite way to catch fish. And I like vertical jigging and trolling more than I like dragging around a live bait rig. I still do some rigging every year ---- but I like it so much more when I catch walleyes without using live bait!

+1

[TruthWalleyes]

My favorite is trolling with cranks...Love watching one (Two where legal) rods bend in half, drag screaming. Fun Fishing for me!