Walleye Fishing Gear - What You Need

Walleye fishing gear does not have to cost you an arm and a leg! You can get started for a minimal amount. I like ugly sticks. My Walleye set up is an ultra-lite Ugly Stick and a Penn ultra-lite reel loaded with 6lb. line. I also use a medium action Ugly Stick with 10lb. line sometimes but I usually stick to the lighter gear. My choice of lures is jigs about 1/4 oz. tipped with minnows, or worm harnesses. My ultra-lite Ugly Stick cost about $25.00 and my medium action cost about $30.00 My Penn Ultra-lite reel cost about $50.00 and you can get a decent set up for less than that. For my medium action reel I use Pfluger Tison reels. They are very reasonable priced and sturdy reels. As far as a boat goes you don't need one. I have caught plenty from shore. I do have a boat which makes it better when trying to locate walleye.

With a boat I point the back of the boat into the waves with the motor running and try to keep it this way by putting it in reverse for 10 to 15 seconds and steering a little. this is called back trolling basically you have spotted walleyes on the depthfinder and you are trying to keep the boat in one spot over the fish without dropping an anchor. It is a little hard to explain and kind of hard to do at the same time as fishing. It is not to bad in calm waters but when I learned how to do it I was in Canada and it was very rough. Once you get the hang of it, it is pretty easy. Basically you drop the jig to the bottom and rise the jig up and let it fall when you feel a slight resistance when you rise it up or a light tap set the hook cause that's a walleye hit. Sometimes they hammer it but usually they hit pretty lite.

Another method is to be in 10 to 12 feet of water and use a slip bobber. Set it so it is just off the bottom with a minnow. Slow trolling, back trolling or drifting a worm harness with a night crawler is very effective. You can also just drift with a jig or a 3 way set up. Keep an eye on the depth finder and when you pick up a fish go around and drift over the area again. Try to stay in 10 to 15 feet of water.

Trolling a good sized minnow bait ( 5 inches or better ) along drop offs in the evening works well. I fished a cove on Castlerock Lake in central Wisconsin with a 4 inch Rapala that floated, it had a black back and a white belly. The cove was about 4 feet deep and I was casting from shore and I cleaned up on Walleye. It was pitch dark outside and the mosquito's were biting but so were the walleye!

As you can see walleye fishing gear does not have to be expensive and you can use many different methods to catch them and no walleye article would be complete without mentioning how they are to eat. They are great. so go out there and catch a a mess of walleye with your new found knowledge and have a fish fry!

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