Just wondering what “oddball” or non-traditional rigging you guys have run for walleyes in the past with success. Methods beyond jigs/cranks/rigs, or even just methods to present those standard presentations in a non-standard way.
Just thought we might get a few interesting techniques on this post…??
Mike
In the spring, up on the St Louis river there is a shoal with fast current, just down from the Hwy 23 bridge that is about 6 feet deep on average. We ran Down Deep Husky Jerks off line counters in rod rolders right next to the boat with about 8 – 11 feet of line out, we managed about 30 walleyes in a couple of hours doing it.
Odd? Perhaps not, but I have never seen anyone else do it up there.
Pulling walleyes out of 2′ of water with mid to high 70 degree water temps in August every year on Mille Lacs. (Bobber fishing).
I’ve also tied up some weird spinner combos that have put fish in the boat. Sometimes my fishing buddy just shakes his head…The latest was 5 – #1 gold and silver spinners with bobber stops and lindy floats seperating them. Then an 18″ mono lead back to a number 5 floating Rapala. Sort of a mini cowbell (like trout fisherman use). Takes forever to tie up though!!!
Adam
I stumbled on some eyes suspended in submerged tree tops one summer in July on Oahe. We had been pulling cranks over the fish and getting a few here and there. Decided to tie on some jigs and go vertical with a half crawler. Don’t know how many 24″ fish we caught that afternoon, but it was a blast. Considering we normally put the jig rods away for the summer.
We did something similar to that on the Red Cedar river over in Wisconsin years ago. We ran out of crawlers, so I rigged up a 3-way swivel with a big bell sinker and then a 2 foot leader out to a floating jointed Rapala. I’d chuck it into a hole and let the current make the Rap work. If nothing happened after a while I’d just pick up the rod tip and let the current swing it back deeper into the hole. It seemed silly but it worked!
Rootski
Rootski,
Make that sinker a heavy jig and you have a Dubuque rig. Very good presentation to fish holes like that and also wing dam faces.
On the last day of a Boundary Waters trip my brother and I ran out of crawlers. We did happen to have quite a few hotdogs left, ended up cutting them up and hooking them to spinners. We caught about 20 walleyes before we ran out of hotdogs. Haven’t tried it since but it did work quite well. 
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Make that sinker a heavy jig and you have a Dubuque rig. Very good presentation to fish holes like that and also wing dam faces.
I’ve heard abut this and it sounds like a great idea….however I’m pretty sure it’s illegal in Minnesota.
You can use this setup on border waters, SINCE THEY ALLOW TWO + LINES. 
Sorry Steve, not yelling you. 
Jeremy, we did great with bologna up on LOW! Really! Ran out of bait, but still had a cooler full of sandwiches and did not want to go in quite yet. We were just messing around at first, then we started fighting over who ate what and who still had a sandwich in the cooler. This was after the first eye came in the boat on Oscar Meyer (now I’m singing the darn song in my head…)
CZ
i guess its not a pattern but have caught a few walleyes on pounder bulldawgs
opening weekend on the pond, north sand, not catching a thing, my goofy brother is in the back wrestling with something on the end of his line, comes up with a very solid walleye, then I saw what he was using, a big Swedish Pimple and half a crawler, just casting out and dragg’n it across the bottom. By the time he had boated 3 or 4, most of us had switched over. 
It wasn’t walleyes but…..When my father was still in the air force we lived on the base in Wyoming. We were ice fishing one of the trout ponds on the back of the base and my brother decided to tip a spoon with a gummi worm. As my dad and I were razzing him about wasting perfectly good candy…..he was busy catching fish. 
Caught a few eyes on a texas rigged plastic worms.
Running up stream in the spring pulling blade baits on three ways with 2-4 oz. of lead. Try it you’ll like it
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Running up stream in the spring pulling blade baits on three ways with 2-4 oz. of lead. Try it you’ll like it
Jeff,
This sounds like a great idea! Were you going REALY slow?
FDR
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Running up stream in the spring pulling blade baits on three ways with 2-4 oz. of lead. Try it you’ll like it
Jeff,
This sounds like a great idea! Were you going REALY slow?
FDR
Backtrolling or running the bowmount at a snails pace. Helps to work a school you know is there. Had my best luck on a 2ft. dropper (6lb. mono) with a 5-7ft. main leader (8-10lb.flouro or mono)
Braid for the main line makes it all possible for the best feel. Usually 8lb. power pro. Works good shallower on a jig- long line combo also(Dubuque rig)
Thanks for the specifics Jeff!
FDR
I had a good leadcore bite a couple falls ago but lost my favorite stick bait on a big fish that day. I was only running about 1mph, so I tied up a two hook snell and put on a ringworm in the same basic colors and trolled that and it outfished my cranks all day long.
The title of this thread – …Rigging’
Dork rigs on the Wabasha wing dams. Thanks Jarrad Fluekiger. Nice lesson Grasshopper….
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Pulling walleyes out of 2′ of water with mid to high 70 degree water temps in August every year on Mille Lacs. (Bobber fishing).
Adam,
What years were you doing this? I had a lot of good luck doing that in the 1980s but not much since.
gt
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The title of this thread – …Rigging’
Dork rigs on the Wabasha wing dams. Thanks Jarrad Fluekiger. Nice lesson Grasshopper….
Sorry, didn’t really mean “Rig” rigging specifically… more along the lines of what oddities have you caught walleyes on… Any unusual method.
Mike
Casting very deep diving crankbaits to shallow rocks. The deep dive curve and long bill keep the hooks clear of the rocks. When the bill sticks, a pause to float back up, quite often followed by a WHACK, FISH ON!
Great idea for a post whittsend.
drop shot and gobies
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Casting very deep diving crankbaits to shallow rocks. The deep dive curve and long bill keep the hooks clear of the rocks. When the bill sticks, a pause to float back up, quite often followed by a WHACK, FISH ON!
Great idea for a post whittsend.
Couldn’t agree more John. Casting the Tail dancer deep to shallow rock then covering everything back to the boat is deadly…….good point
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