choice of bait/tackle combo for walleye

[mnfisher22]

whats everyone using to catch the 'eyes

[zamboni]

I think question was posted not too long ago- I prefer Swedish Pimples, tipped with a minnow. I also pull off the treble and replace it with a red hook.

[TrophyEyes]

I am a fan of the orange Northland Eye Dropper tip with a fathead head.

[Wallyeyes]

I like the Buckshot with glow orange, tipped with a fathead head for jigging, or a glow hook with fathead or shiner for deadsticking. I use 6 lb. fireline with a 6 to 14 inch leader of fireline or flouro attached by barrel swivel. I used the Buckshot to land the 24"er in my pic.

[lunker651]

I like northlander 1/8 or 1/4 jig n spoon, silver shiner or super glo rainbow. Tip with a minnow head and it's very deadly. I use the 1/16 tip with waxies for jumbo perches.

[Deitz Dittrich]

It really depends on the mood of the fish and how mobile I am trying to be. IF going mobile I try and use a fairly active lure like a Nills Master Jigging Shad. Sometimes I will even fish it without bait. Other times with just a minnow head. A JB Lures Rattle Varmit is also one of my go-to lures... a minnow head is all I use with that as well.. Once set in an area, I will keep up with an active lure and then also put down a dead stick, Jem-n-eye with a full lively minnow or something similar.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

For a dead stick, I like a Genz Fatboy jig with a minnow on it.

For jigging, I'll use about any spoon with a minnow head. Also like the raps and chubbies if hole hopping out side.

[mnfisher22]

thanks for the tips...is there a reason for only using the head of a minnow?

[Deitz Dittrich]

MNfisher- A whole minnow often will not allow the jig or spoon to work its best. While a head of a minnow gives off scent and flavor, yet doesnt harm the action of the lure.

[polarsusd81]

Argo, when you use the Fat boy tipped with a minnow, how do you hook it up? I prefer to just come into the side of the minnow right by the dorsal fin and t-bone the minnow, then drop it down the hole and wait. I think it lets the minnow swim pretty well like that and usually works.

[gopher_nation]

I use a Sweedish Pimple or Buckshot most of the time tipped with a minnow head. I have a bunch of jiggin Raps and a few Darters that I just haven't used a whole lot b/c the previous work better for me. Dead sticking I like a Gem-N-Eye underneath with a minnow hooked behind the dorsal fin. If I'm using a horizontal jig I will lip hook the minnow.

[storm_rider_1]

I like to use a floro green buckshot, tipped with a minnow head. That combo has got me a few on the ice this year already! And my other pole is bobber, with plain hook and a shiner or fathead.

[Lisa Almquist]

I've been partial to a Gold Kastmaster and a Forage Minnow tipped with a minnow head on my jigging rod on the lake by our house.

[TCon17]

My go to bait last year was a 2 3/4" rapala jiggin' rap in white chartruese. Pulled out 3 over 26" in an hour last year with it, then got it ripped off by a good size pike at the hole.

[mnfisher22]

thanks for all the tips...are there certain colors that you have found to work better?