What's your favorite way to catch walleye

[Jason Hamilton]

Hey folks, while day dreaming about getting on the ice after some walleye on Lake Winnipeg, I usually think about how I like to catch them most...aggressively ripping horizontal darter-style baits.

So lets hear it, on those days when the fish are hitting anything you drop down, what's your favorite way to ice 'eyes?

[Kevan Paul]

Last season I became a believer of ripping horizontal baits. There is nothing better than watching your line swing back to center and feeling that smack on the end of your line.

[Jim Hudson]

I like catching them anyway they want to bite that day! But, I do have to say, watching a red line fly to your bait on the Vexilar, and then having one of those vicious strikes is always the best!

[Jason Hamilton]

I hear you Jim, most days the fish will tell you what they want, but there are a few days each year it seems like you could drop a bare hook down and pull them up....these are the days to experiment and try new tactics.

[fishwater]

My favorite way to catch walleye is to hook them in the corner of the mouth...

I can't count the number of times I've asked my buddy about where, or how, he's getting them only to hear that as the answer..

Jigging raps in the corner of the mouth is my preferred method.

[Sifty]

Jigging Rap.

Sifty

[EBass]

I like watching the bobber go down when it's dark and there's a nice shiner minnow on. Oh and I'm watching this all on the Vexi.

[FisH_SLaYer24]

You gotta love watching a bid solid red mark swim up to your deadstick rod and watch closely as your bobber slowly begins to disappear below the ice, only to reveal itself when you pull that marble eye up the hole!

[Jarrid Houston]

Although there really is no "bad way" to hook into a gator, however, I like early ice tip up action! Also love jiggin raps, stop sign, and regular dead sticking ( using the vexilar of course )..

[Jason Hamilton]

Watching the bottom start moving up on the Vex is awesome! Cannot wait to get the FL22 out for some shallow water trout. The wide beam is great at picking up fish circling just out of sight.

[luv2fish]

Mine is watching my 8 and 10 year old son jig them up with the Rattlin' Flyer and setting the hook!!!! The excitement on their face is priceless.... every time!

[MikeRaetz]

I like using darters alot but I love custom jigs and spins slender spoon in 1/8 oz and 1/4 oz. Favorite colors are gold with glow tape, gold with green tape and polished in glow tape. They work amazing in the water. I keep my bait around 4 feet off bottom and rip it 5 to 6 feet to the top. The way it flutters down has giving me many strikes from walleye and I have never had a fish walk away from it without biting. It is my favorite spoon to use.

[Hoey]

In the lip.

[Stick in Mud]

I'll take the fish that come through only 10 or 15 ft down when I'm fishing in 30 feet of water....guaranteed bite every time, and they're always big.

[Charlie Mason]

It might sounds like I graduated in the 1950's or something, but I am a spooner diehard 70% of the time. If you dont get the spooner joke, go find Happy Days on netflix or something lol. When I am not using spoons, in river situations where a Jiggin Rap works best to cut the current, something like the Fire-ball jig to pound the bottom and on inland lakes where finesse sometimes dictates your action for you with a small jig and a big minnow put more fish on the ice

[mainbutter]

With my bare hands

[Chad Peterson]

Finesse jigging with a fire ball jig or with a sppon.

[Gary Parsons]

Believe it or not, I like teasing em up off the bottom with small jigs and plastics, just like crappie fishing. Walleyes find that offering just as hard to resist as the flat speckled fish, but the satisfying weight on the end of the line says it all!

[randybfishin]

Going to an area lake in my neck of the woods, not a predominant lake for eyes, not knowing where the eye traffic is, ripping a Salamo Zipper a few times, and then let it flutter, have a fish smoke it, about 3 ft of slack line reeling in, like it was bit off, to have the rod tip bob up and down and bring in a nice eye.

randy

[engfish]

Buckshot Rattlin' spoon

[bassNspear]

jiggin with my FL22 baby!!

[Fred_Bear]

Don't get me wrong, I love when it's easy and the bait gets pounded but there's something to be said for finesse bite as well. To me this is the attraction of walleye fishing in general. They aren't hard fighting (lakers, pike) and generally the bites aren't plentiful (panfish), but it's the "mystique", if you will, of walleyes that makes them as popular of a game fish as they are.

It's a feeling of accomplishment when you work a fish on the flasher up and down for several minutes and FINALLY you get that fish to commit... set the hook and reel up the gold prize. To me, that's what makes walleye fishing what it is.

It's the fact that the majority of the fish do the same dance and never commit that gets frustrating and makes me enjoy fishing other species more often haha.