Sometimes the simplest things make walleye fishing a little easier.
Competing in the FLW Walleye League event last week on Leech Lake made me dependent on my 60″ Drift Control Wave Tamer to slow my Skeeter WX 1880 to a reasonable presentation speed in 20-30 mph winds and 3-4′ waves. Under these conditions, my 60″ Wave Tamer would slow the Skeeter down to a very nice 0.7-0.9 mph. Several days of drifting shallow flats so we could jig or rig meant lots of deployments and retrievals of my Drift Control drift sock.
One thing that I did to make my life easier (and easier on my co-angler partner on game day) was to make the spill line for my Drift Control a different color from the main line. You can see in the photo below that the main line to the bag is white, but the spill line is black. With two different color lines, you remove the guesswork from figuring out which line will spill the bag. In my case, black to spill, white to retrieve. With a little forethought, walleye fishing can be as easy as black and white.
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Sometimes the little things are the ones that make the most difference during a long day of fishing. Thanks for the tip!