Need input about BfishN Tackle

Thanks in advance to everyone who replies with help!!

I don’t claim to be an expert on catching walleyes, but I am always looking to pickup the latest and greatest info. In a world where most of the fishing I do is riggin with a crawler because thats what works where I know, that leaves me not as experienced in other areas as tackle and presentation tech. I am planning to hit Rainy River as soon as it opens for the pre-spawn rush again this year, last year the hot items seemed to be berkeley Gulp 4 inch minnows untipped (at least it worked well for us)
I hear a lot of great things about BFT’s Stuff, and was hoping for some input on which colors might be best in muddy water, both jigheads and tails, should they be tipped? Presentation will be vertical jigging.
I stay pretty busy and don’t get as much time for fishing as I used to, and would like to make all my outings as successful as possible.

Thanks alot

Brad Guck

Brad,
Try doing a search in the Mississippi River forum. That forum is the best for the info that you are looking for.
Thats the best info that I can give you.

Ron

I can offer some advice and I am sure others will chime in as well.
First, do not tip the BFT tackle. The bait impedes the action of the plastics. Plus, you will be surprised at how well they work without bait.
Muddy water for me calls for brighter colors. In ringworms I would go with Catalpa Orange,Bubblegum,Chart. Pepper. For the jig head colors, I would go with Black, unpainted, or possibly the Orange Chart.
But I am also surprised at how well the Oystershell and Pro Blue work in stained to muddy water at times. That is what I can think of off the top of my head.

Pretty much the same for any of the styles available??
Or which is your favorites?? K-Grubs? ringworms? Superdoos?

Just got my hands on the new firecracker and wine&roses colors.HOT!!!!! Think the yellow/orange precision head and either one of these colors in a K-Grub would kick some butt up there. Might also try catalpa. this water is stained, not muddy. and DONT tip the plastics with a worm!
And remember to rig with the fliptail curling down!

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Pretty much the same for any of the styles available??
Or which is your favorites?? K-Grubs? ringworms? Superdoos?

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All of them!!! And don’t forget about paddletails. Some days they rock when the others just catch lots of fish.

Give the Nuckleball jigs from Fin-Tech (jigfish.com) with the plastics suggested above from BFT !! Youre on-’em. ( My my two cents: Gulp is WAY over rated, I dont like it as much as “powerbait” anyway. – ($marketing$)

If I’m fishing vertically in current, I would go with a ringworm or padddle tail. I used to have have a theroy on bright day & clear waters colors vs. dingy water and overcast days. It is a good way to start but that theory has been blown up to many days in the past to have it hold constant. Start with one color and keep changing until the fish tell you what they want. I have had clear water and sunny skies and the fish wer ejust hammering bright colors. The next day same conditions and they wanted a more natural color. If i had to pick only a few colors for all conditions it would be: Fire Cracker, Chartuese Pepper, Bleeding Chartuese, Cotton Candy, Chartuese with Orange Core and Electric Blue with Pearl Tail. Good luck

PS: I would also refrain from tipping it with anything. Perhaps as a last resort but I would try my array of colors and styles first. It does intefere with the action of the plastic.

Ringworms have lonfg been a favorite of mine for jigging. Paddletails have really worked well for me this spring vertically.
I would definitely start with the old faithful colors: chartruese pepper, chartruese orange core, fire and ice, firecracker, oystershell, cotton candy, and pro blue.
As Lip Ripper said it is important to keep changing colors until a pattern emerges.

Here is a picture from last year on rainy river….check out the ringworm in the mouth of this 4# walleye…

I used either ringworms or gulp last year…Both plastics outfished salted minnow 4 to 1!
One thing to remember about these plastics is not to jig them….let the current do the work and hold onto your rod!!
Remember these walleyes are on a feeding frenzy when running up river to spawn. I think no matter what you put in front of there face you will get bit!!!!

Good luck and hope to see you on Rainy in the next couple weeks!!!

I really can’t add too much to the colors mentioned above…you’ve got that covered well!
I give the H20 jigs the nod for pitching and the Nuckleballs for dragging.
I wont get to Pool #4 for a couple weeks but recent reports support a pretty good “drag” bite. Just slowly slip the current allowing the jig/plastic to drag along just ticking the bottom. Last year FireFlick and I did this midday with rods in the holders and the Eyes and Saugers just slammmed those Ringies…it was wild!