Weed Walleyes

[cherokee]

What is a good method to use when the walleyes are in the weeds, say milfoil edge from 5 to 10 fow. Slip bobber? Jig? Any tips appreciated.

[Wayne Ek]

Slip bobber will work with leeches if the panfish leave you alone. Deeper weed edges are good for drop-shot fishing. Or you can pitch a jig, like a weed weasle into the thicker edges. If the fish are active I would go with a jig as you can cover more ground with it. If you're on neutral or negative fish then the slip bobber or drop-shot.

[tunrevir]

Cast cranks along the weed edges and out into the flats towards evening. Slow roll the cranks and let them tick bottom every so often, toss light small spoons like a cleo and use a slow snap fall snap fall during the retrieve or the easiest of all run a 1/4th oz twister tail and spinner. Pitch weedless jig heads with sassy shads or twister tails into the weeds and let them fall to the bottom lightly wiggle then lift and repeat. I have also had fairly decent luck tossing smaller rattle raps(lipless cranks) and running them back at a fair clip to get reaction strikes. Good luck hope this helps.

Tunrevir~

[Rivernut]

tunrevir hit it, crankbaits and rattletraps are great for weed walleye's. Just hitting the tops of the weeds or the bottom can trigger bites. A lot of guy's don't fish the weed eye's, good summer spot. Hope this helps.

[cherokee]

Thanks for the replies. I've been able to catch one here and there using jig with fathead but was looking for something a little more consistant. I've never tried drop shotting. I'm assuming a leech, plastic or minnow would work on the hook.

http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/DropShot_Rig.html

The milfoil is pretty nasty and cranks may get caught up. It's worth a shot though.

Thanks

Dale

[Team Otter]

That covers it. Cranks would be my first choice.

[al jr]

dont forget about three way rigs- with a long enough dropper to keep you above the weeds

[Dances with Walleye]

I would find the weedline drop off... Troll it with a raps... Using a line counter.. Stay a foot or two above the weeds... If you hit weeds, bring it up a couple of feet until you're no longer making weed contact... Once you have that depth dialed in, just rinse and repeat...

Perch pattern is probably going to pay off the best, as that's what they're in those weeds chasing after in the first place.

If you're fishing in the day time, long lining a shallow rap is going to have a much higher hook up percentage than short lining a deep diver.

[palisade1kid]

I have a few spots were the cabbage meets the grass mats.

I'll troll that edge and do well with eyes on a jig&shad.