favorite walleye fishin techniques ?

[big walleye]

[ Trolling or drifting with a spinner rig. favourite baits are crawlers and leeches. I also love lindy rigging.

[Otter]

After this evening, I bow to the husky jerk and praise...I couldn't reel any slower against the current.  I was probably going about a mm per second against current when the 26" eye crushed the 6" husky jerk.  It made my day!

[USMC130FE]

Nice looking fish in your posts Otter!!!  Hope to catch some like that someday!  Keep up the good "work"

Steve

[Otter]

Thanks Steve!

[grumpymoe]

tough question....thought about it for awhile and concluded its the lindy rig overall. you can fish aggressively with it, or simply sit back either on shore or in the boat, and wait for the hit. either way, its probably one of the most effective setups used. grump

[vancouvercanuck]

I like alot of previous posting styles, but one left out is a three way swivel with a egg weight with a 2 foot leader, and on the other end a floating rapala with a 3 foot leader and drift the rig in about 10-15 mph wind.

I'm going to have to try this this summer. Sounds neat. On the floating rapala line do you use a steel leader at all?, or do you just tie it directly to some mono? What pound test do you use on this setup?

[Cider]

Actually, the April issue of field and stream has an article on river fishing for spring walleyes and they mention this set-up.  They call it the Martin rig I think, or maybe Skarlis.  It looks like a great way to bottom bounce some floating rapala's in swift water or high wind.  VC - they were just using mono, no steel leaders.  They say for every one foot of dropper leader rigged to your sinker you should have three to four feet of trailing leader rigged to your stick bait, floating jighead, or whatever you like to use.

If the bottom is clear of snags use a bell sinker, if not then go with a lindy no-snag or use a pencil shaped trolling sinker

[buzzbomb]

I anchor the canoe at the end of a submerged point where I can cast all around and rip jig with one of old Ralph's homemade 3/8 oz barracuda jigs (yellow) and an inline swivel 20" up the line.  I rip jig  pretty fast (I think the jig's mostly about 14" or so off the bottom) and bait just seems to interfere with the process.   It works surprisingly well.