I mostly fish a flowage in Northern Wisconsin. Walleyes can be pretty spread out. One tactic that has worked well is dragging jigs, and hopping them off the bottom. We usually do this with crawlers. I have had good luck with Moxi’s for SMB near shore. Would you use Moxi’s or Pulse R for this technique? What color as well the lake is very stained.
Stained water I would use Moxies in Chart Pepper, Chart/Orange Core, Purple/Chart Tail and White. You never know with Pulse Rs until you try them. They’ve been my best producing bait this year on the river, but I haven’t tried them on a flowage yet. I can tell you that Moxies work on Petenwell though, which has similar tanic colored water.
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Stained water I would use Moxies in Chart Pepper, Chart/Orange Core, Purple/Chart Tail and White. You never know with Pulse Rs until you try them. They’ve been my best producing bait this year on the river, but I haven’t tried them on a flowage yet. I can tell you that Moxies work on Petenwell though, which has similar tanic colored water.
X2… another good stained water color would be catalpa/chart tail. We have caught numerous nice eyes from
stained water rivers and flowages in northern wisconsin and
Lake Michigan with them. 
I dont know what flowage you fish, but im going to the turtle flambeau flowage in may. I plan on using pulse-rs and i can give you a heads up.
My parents have a place on Holcombe. I have tried Moxi’s
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Stained water I would use Moxies in Chart Pepper, Chart/Orange Core, Purple/Chart Tail and White. You never know with Pulse Rs until you try them. They’ve been my best producing bait this year on the river, but I haven’t tried them on a flowage yet. I can tell you that Moxies work on Petenwell though, which has similar tanic colored water.
X2… another good stained water color would be catalpa/chart tail. We have caught numerous nice eyes from
stained water rivers and flowages in northern wisconsin and
Lake Michigan with them.
X3 – My standard plastics to use up there on flowages as well as every lake I fish around Boulder Junction. Pretty much haven’t found a body of water yet that they don’t work on.
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Stained water I would use Moxies in Chart Pepper, Chart/Orange Core, Purple/Chart Tail and White. You never know with Pulse Rs until you try them. They’ve been my best producing bait this year on the river, but I haven’t tried them on a flowage yet. I can tell you that Moxies work on Petenwell though, which has similar tanic colored water.
X2… another good stained water color would be catalpa/chart tail. We have caught numerous nice eyes from
stained water rivers and flowages in northern wisconsin and
Lake Michigan with them.
X3 – My standard plastics to use up there on flowages as well as every lake I fish around Boulder Junction. Pretty much haven’t found a body of water yet that they don’t work on.
Those colors all work well on Lake Wisconsin, which is fairly stained water. I would add chartreuse green core and gold cracker chartreuse tail as well. I find paddle tails and pulse-r’s to produce better for me early and late in the year, and moxies better in the warmer water, but that could just be because of my own personal preference on when I use them.
I have also used these said colors on darker water flowages like the dairyland in rusk county, also worked there lol. I dont mean to hijack here but anyone use these on clearer lakes up north WI or MN? What colors worked?
Don’t think of bfn plastics as something super special, they are awesome but they are no different than any other plastics when it comes to colors. For clear to stained I like to match the hatch. I fish what imitates what I think the fish are feeding on (both profile and color wise), be it shad, bluegills, shiners, crawfish, leeches, worms, etc. In muddy water, when there is runoff and the water looks like chocolate milk I just want to be seen. Brightest colors I have and lures with the most vibration.
Clear water, go for your light chartreuses and greens. Dark browns, watermelons, and smoke colors as well.
Stained water go for the standard walleye colors. Purple, browns, blues, chartreuses, whites, etc. And don’t forget BLACK. Solid black can be a killer color in partially stained water.
For muddy water go bright. Flo orange, flo chartreuse, hot pink, pearl, lime green, etc.
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I have also used these said colors on darker water flowages like the dairyland in rusk county, also worked there lol. I dont mean to hijack here but anyone use these on clearer lakes up north WI or MN? What colors worked?
I do fantastic on clear water like Big Arbor Vitae Lake with Electric Blue/pearl tail ringworms
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