What’s YOUR best counter-intuitive walleye technique?
Big, postspawn walleyes are lethargic and must be finessed with a jig-and-minnow to catch, right? WRONG! … In this video, In-Depth Outdoors Host James Holst and Paul Delaney of Late-Eyes Sportfishing Guide Service LLC demonstrate how to fish Rapala USA Rippin’ Raps for big, post-spawn walleye.
One of my favorite “unusual” post-spawn walleye techniques is snap jigging fairly heavy jigs tipped with plastics in shallow water. A 3/8th oz. jig with a 3″ Moxie jig trolled behind the boat and snapped / hopped above bottom is one technique that I really love using on post-spawn fish… both in rivers or lakes. And I now have to add fishing Rippin’ Raps for obvious reasons!
Is it a cop-out to say you “stole” mine???
For ice AND open-water finesse-times I love to fish big baits that rattle, clack, or vibrate in some shape or form. Last year I fished a size 7 or 8 Clackin’ Rap in jig-fishing situations on Rainy, Leech, and other smaller lakes with success for shallow early season eyes. Loud colors too with fire tiger being the best. The key was fishing it like a jig.
These bites are a blast, doing something that works which no one else is. It’s like you got let in on some top-secret info!
Joel
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One of my favorite “unusual” post-spawn walleye techniques is snap jigging fairly heavy jigs tipped with plastics in shallow water. A 3/8th oz. jig with a 3″ Moxie jig trolled behind the boat and snapped / hopped above bottom is one technique that I really love using on post-spawn fish… both in rivers or lakes. And I now have to add fishing Rippin’ Raps for obvious reasons!
I can say without a doubt, that you have single handedly made more money fly out of my wallet than any other outdoors personality haha. Love the shows, and the techniques you use. The moxies were a big hit during the spawn on Devils lake this year for me! Lots of big fish! 
Great video and info.
Have two trays full of these things from my “bass fishing” brother-in-law who quit fishing and gave me all his stuff. Now I have a perfect reason to go dig them out and try ’em on some real fish.
I am thinking I might go try that tomorrow on Lake Bemidji. Great video and great idea!
dd
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I am thinking I might go try that tomorrow on Lake Bemidji. Great video and great idea!
dd
Paul D. gets all the credit for the idea. Or at least he’s the guy that showed it to me. Once a guy sees it work and the size of the fish it produces expect to say “Uuuuummmm, DUH!” out loud at least a couple times.
I notice that most of your catches are out in the open water, do you have any tips for shore fishing. 
Not trying to be a pest 
Today I threw out everything I had in my tackle but no hits. 
Great video. Trolling Rapala’s rattle raps is a favorite of mine on the upper croix for opener. Put about a 100 feet of line out behind the boat and keep pumping the heck out of them. What is funny is that if you are quiet you can still hear the lure rattle that far out behind the boat even with the motor running.
Which knot are you guys using to add the fluoro?
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Great video. Trolling Rapala’s rattle raps is a favorite of mine on the upper croix for opener. Put about a 100 feet of line out behind the boat and keep pumping the heck out of them. What is funny is that if you are quiet you can still hear the lure rattle that far out behind the boat even with the motor running.
A long time ago me and a friend spent a week trolling for walleye. We knocked the snot out of them trolling #7 firetiger rattling rapalas. We had a little 14′ resort boat with a 9.9, no electronics, and just bass gear. We would let out almost all of our line and just drive around the lake. I think we caught every species that swims in that lake on those raps. Good lures for sure.
I catch a lot of bonus walleyes on Rapala Rippin’ Raps and green-pumpkin tubes while smallmouth fishing on Mille Lacs.
This one came on a Fire Tiger Rippin’ Rap that I was trolling behind the boat in between rock piles. Usually, I cast using the electric trolling motor between these two spots, but the wind was too heavy for the trolling motor, so I trolled as slow as the big motor would go and let out line until I could feel the Rippin’ Rap bouncing off the bottom. Hit like a ton of bricks! Lowrance indicated that we were moving at about 2 mph. She went just shy of 22″ on the sticker-measuring tape affixed to the passenger-side.
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