main attack

[fishkid]

Since the opener in 9 days its time to start planning how your going to fish for them. so i was wondering how you plan to go for the walleyes. will u bobber fish all night, troll,jig, lindy rig.

[danfall]

I will start with a light lindy 1/4 oz rig with a floating jig head and a crappie minnow. If it gets some action, I'll adapt from that. If it doesn't, I'll jig over some fish. If that doesn't work, troll.

[koWALLEYEski]

prolly hit up a local river with a jig/twister tail, maybe with a minnow.

[shae1986]

My personal favorite is too bobber fish the walleyes as they come into the weeds and shallows at night to eat. This is best done early in the season because the bass and sunfish will run you right out of bait. Good luck to everyone on the opener.

[musky hunter]

I'll be staging a two fold attack. Trolling with bottom bouncers and minnows, and pitching jigs and minnows. I'll be fishing the St. Louis where it's legal to use two rods. And if that works well and I catch lots, then I'm going to change tacktics completely and start trolling channel edges and deeper water with cranks in search of the bigger open water fish fish.

[eyepatrol]

Depends on the lake I go to. But, on one lake the walleye forage on the abundant small sunnies, so I'll use a 1/8oz fuzzy grub (orange and yellow color) with a fathead. If a go to the other lake which doesn't have a high population of sunnies or perch, I'll use my make-shift lindy rig (red hook), 6' snell, tipped with a fathead. Red/black fuzzy grub works well too on this lake.

[Surface Tension]

I'll use a slip bobber when the circumstances are right. Thats usually in mid summer while working heavy weed pockets.

Thats not to say a slip bob won't work other times but theres a more active and productive way to boat eyes and thats with a jig. Not only that but you cover some much more water with a jig and when the eyes are moving you need to know where they are and were they are going. You can't do that when soaking a bobber. Lets look at fishing structure, with a jig you can cover that bottom on your whole retrieve.

If your using a bobber you have to set the depth according to the structure and when the bobber drifts your either on the bottom or suspended way above bottom. Mid summer eyes might lift off the bottom for a bobber thats set to far off the bottom but early eyes won't give it a second look.