Hey I always troll or drag/jig and never tried blade baits just wondering whats the best way to retreive when pitching blades? I am gonna give it a try this weekend have a couple spots that should produce since the water is rising and the walleye should be starting to shallow up
You missed out on 2 great seminars that explain exactly how to fish blades. I am no expert so I cant say but from what I know it takes alot of time and practice, practice, practice.
Kinda like pitching jigs but more methodically and keep the line tight 
I like to vertical jig them rappidly, then put a pause in the pattern. This is usually when I get the hit is at the pause. Most of the time I am in current, sometime quite fast water. I rarely have casted these, but the package states to use a pumping action when retriving. I would think they may get snagged if casting.
Come on third reply, and no mention of the video? Check out the video section there is at least one good video with http://www.idofishing.com/videos/viewvid.php/Number/631540/big-river-prespawn-walleyes . No only the how, but the where.
Best bet is to wait for a really cold,windy,rainy day and take a ride to Everts and sit and have coffee and cookies with Dean. 
Hey thanks everyone I need all the help I can get HAHA! I’m going to give it a try sunday hope I can atleast get a start on it but hard because I know I can always to back to pitching ringworms and hit ’em. Have to see how it goes atleast try and get a start on it. I’m going to be fishing down in lacrosse area so wish me luck! 
Good Luck!
I’m no blade bait guru; in fact I’m really not very good at fishing them in general.
The biggest thing I struggle with when pitching blade are overworking them and moving them too fast. From what I’ve been told, a very light lift of the wrist is more than enough.
You will want to find sand to practice on. If you can find a sandy shallow area just out of the current, that’s where I’d start. You want to cast it pretty much just like you would your plastics (quartering upstream of your target area). Let the current move your blade downstream with about a 2-3″ lift of the rod tip. Keep your line tight.
You want to just feel the blade vibrate up that 2-3″. You want to feel the blade flutter back down to the bottom then repeat. Pitching them requires much more finesse than vertically working them. I caught a lot of fish last spring near on pool 8 pitching blades.
I even caught one or two up on pool 4 that way.
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